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Sometimes the best way to “see” a product or service is to do exactly that — see it. Here you’ll find screencasts, hands-on time with devices and unboxings of the latest gadgets.

E2T Video: PG&E CEO Paints the Future of Utilities

The CEO of California utility PG&E, Peter Darbee, recently caught our attention in a big way when he said that he’d like to use PG&E’s deep pockets to buy and own solar thermal plants. Turns out that’s just the beginning of the things he’d … Read More »

More on Accessibility: “Captioning Sucks”

Closed captioning is a technology that’s been around for a few decades, but it’s changed very little since then. The techniques and processes behind the scenes are even still roughly the same as they were in the beginning. Some Canadians have been complaining that the quality … Read More »

Vid-Biz: Hulu, Hilfiger, Comcast

Hulu Heading for Mobile? During NAB keynote, CEO Jason Kilar says mobile phones are “ripe for the Hulu experience”; also says Arrested Development is the site’s top show. (Broadcasting & Cable) Tommy Hilfiger Finds Fit With Online Video; TommyTV will blend fashion and live music performances. … Read More »

MicroISVs, software developers who have fired their bosses and clients to start their own software companies, work on the bleeding edge of online technology. They are the earliest of adopters, among the fastest to jump on a new tool, idea, process or site that let’s … Read More »

Apple releases Final Cut Server

Today Apple announced the release of the much anticipated Final Cut Server, “a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation”. Final Cut Server is meant to be used in conjunction with Apple’s Final Cut Studio as a seamless way to manage all … Read More »

C4[1] Videos Available

Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch, the well-dressed gent who puts on the C4[1] conference for indie mac developers, has put online all the videos from this past year’s conference. There is some great stuff here, especially Cabel Sasser’s talk about the history of Panic and some … Read More »

TubeTV – A Handy Little App for Saving Your Videos

Chimoosoft created this fantastic little donationware app called TubeTv. With this app, you can save video files from YouTube and other sites and make them playable on your Mac, iPod, or Apple TV. There are of course other ways to do the same thing, but … Read More »

More Must Reads

I will be the first to admit I love my iPod Touch but am already up against the 16 GB of memory mine has.  I cannot even put all of the videos I’d like to carry with me because I’m up against the memory limit.  The … Read More »

Coming on the heels of a full week of hand-wringing over who Lorne Michaels would pick to play Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live (and the debate was not just confined to the web –– I overheard two hipsters arguing about candidates for … Read More »

When it comes to harnessing your Mac’s power for video encoding, you’re left with two choices: digital or physical. Digital Handbrake is the go to source for creating digital copies of your video. With Handbrake you can pop in a DVD and select the appropriate preset. You … Read More »

Raghav ‘Rags’ Gupta, a partner at Brightcove, and a Gigaom contributor, put up a thoughtful post Sunday called 5 Trends & Themes for the Year Ahead. Rags moves beyond a few super-exposed stories (clean tech and the 700 megahertz wireless auction), and he … Read More »

Although they not be the “best” videos of the year, or even the most culturally significant, below are the videos [in no particular order] that I had the most fun watching and thinking/writing about for NewTeeVee in 2007. Next to Heaven Then: “I’ve watched about ten Next … Read More »

Here’s a simple little app which works a treat if you need to view and/or import video from a firewire DV device onto your Mac without firing-up a fully fledged FinalCut style application…it’s called Vidi. Vidi has a number of extra facilities, all relating to … Read More »

Today Apple announced the release of Final Cut Express 4. New features include: iMovie ’08 Importing Over 50 new FxPlug effects and filters Mixing of hi-def and standard video on the same timeline Support for AVCHD cameras What’s even more interesting with this release is that Apple has … Read More »

Slower subscriber growth, worries about competition from phone companies and a management crazy enough to make a bold move — all this has Wall Street worried about Comcast (CMCSA), the Philadelphia-based broadband and cable provider. The Nervous Nellies of Manhattan’s nether regions have pushed the stock … Read More »

Trevor Stafford is the Editor of Red Canary, a terrific community site for software professionals and entrepreneurs in Canada. (“Red” canaries are a hybrid species that require careful nurturing and very hard work — like software startups.) Trevor is also an experienced magazine journalist … Read More »

Macs having the reputation they do for creative endeavors, there are as many (or more) video and audio encoding tools for OS X as their are file formats in which to encode your media. Some of the tools available are free and open-source, but many of … Read More »

They say, any exit is a good exit. So from that perspective the investors of Yipes, a managed Ethernet services provider based in San Francisco must be feeling really good. They invested $100 million in the new Yipes, a company with a tumultuous history, … Read More »

While this won’t help with e-mail indexing on the Google servers, it will provide a small modicum of privacy on your GMail communications. UneasySILENCE points out the Greasemonkey script called … Read More »

Update: LinkedIn is heading towards an IPO, hires ex-TiVo CFO as its CFO. Different strokes for different social networking folks… while Facebook and LinkedIn are going the API route, trying to become platforms for others to build applications, Xing, a Hamburg, Germany-based business social … Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/WazA77xcf0A OK, maybe not ‘ever’, but it has to be up there. Words simply can’t describe this spoof video about Microsoft’s new ofone. Enjoy, but don’t get dizzy. Read More »

The whole Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) moniker has been confusing since the launch of the handheld devices, especially since the decision was made somewhere to drop the Origami codename.  Since Ultra Mobile PC is a generic term people have been calling any small handheld a UMPC, … Read More »

Mike brings to attention that India is grappling with a unique set of problems when it comes to their 3G direction – whether to give away new licenses for free to existing license owners or charge carriers for it. This has everyone in an … Read More »

Following up on my last October’s cover story, The New Road to Riches, many more people are coming around and embracing the build-it-flip-it model. Good to know that Jeff is on board. He writes, “What is interesting is that Topix is the yet another … Read More »

With all the buzz around China and Korea, many tend to overlook that India is turning into one of the hottest telecom markets on the planet. While visiting India I saw many US venture capitalists were out pitching their companies to Indian telecom giants, recognizing that … Read More »

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