Mobile video is getting more mainstream, with smartphones appearing that can record HD video. Tuxera has developed the exFAT file system which can handle large HD video files with ease. The company has released a version of the system that is compatible with Android and Linux. Read more »
Before Google Buzz came along and stole its thunder, Google Wave was the hot new social networking tool from the world’s largest search company. Now Google has launched the ‘Wave This’ feature, in the hope that it will help spark some attention for the social service. Read more »
The iPhone 4 has been officially outed, its specs shared. Having just purchased the Sprint EVO 4G, however, I am happier about my purchase than before the latest device from Apple was announced. Here’s how the two phones stack up against one another. Read more »
This week, Google bought an ad-buying platform called Invite Media, but the purchase has raised concern about two different aspects of the deal: One is the control that it gives Google over what had previously been an open ad exchange, and the other is the company’s ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Phones with video chat capability have been out in Europe for years, but getting the ability on two of the biggest smartphone platforms will expose the feature to millions who have no idea such video calls are possible. A new comprehensive report details this upcoming boom. Read more »
Printing to a remote device from a handset or laptop can be a challenge if you can’t locate a web-connected printer. As is often the case, the simplest solution the best and HP thinks it has it — new printers with dedicated, simple email addresses. Read more »
The underlying connectivity costs to send data from New York to London are up to eight times lower than if you wanted to send that data via the Pacific, according to Telegeography. But new cables will lower prices, which is good for bandwidth buyers like Google. Read more »
At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in January, the home electronics industry was all abuzz about 3DTV. While this was certainly an important topic, most of the press and analysts in attendance missed the much bigger story about television: video chat. As two-way, real-time video comes to a broad range of devices from TVs to mobile phones, video chat will account for 11 billion calls worldwide by 2015. This report is a comprehensive analysis of the video communications and chat market across the TV, mobile and computer markets. It examines key market players, such as Skype, Google, Cisco, Apple and others, and includes comprehensive subscriber, usage and revenue forecasts through 2015. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
I snagged the Sprint EVO 4G yesterday, and have been testing free apps to make the Android experience even better. Here are the top five free apps I have settled on so far. Leave your own picks in the comments; the more apps the better. Read more »
Google first introduced its WebM Project a few weeks ago at its I/O developers conference, launching the royalty free, open source video format with support from Firefox and Opera web browsers. But notably missing from the list of supporting applications was Google’s own Chrome browser. Read more »
According to several news reports, the Turkish government appears to have blocked access to some or all of Google’s services in that country. The blockage seems to be related to the government’s ongoing blockade of YouTube due to its hosting of videos critical of Turkey’s founder. Read more »
Video chat is one of those technologies that seemed to take forever to get a foothold in enterprise settings. There’s now a rush of mobile phones and tablets on the horizon that will put the ability for such chatting right in the user’s pocket. Read more »
Proposition 16, championed by PG&E, would kill the ability of local jurisdictions in California to take charge of where they get their electricity and how fast a clean tech revolution can occur. IT companies should be speaking out against Prop 16 — but they are not. Read more »
Google has acquired Invite Media, a young startup that helps display advertisers optimize how they spend their money across different exchanges and platforms in real-time. Invite Media in a way completes Google’s advertising suite, but it also poses questions about lock-in given existing DoubleClick products. Read more »
YouTube’s You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit, announced today, will allow any politician to apply for a Politician Channel, engage with voters via the Moderator platform and use paid campaign tools “to reach viewers with political ads, just like on TV,” according to Google’s blog. Read more »
Apple, met with limited success of the Apple TV, has called its device “a hobby” but Google, with its Google TV, is forging ahead with what it believes could revolutionize the industry. So how do they compare? Read more »
Yahoo is rolling out new social features integrated into its email, similar to the features Google launched earlier this year with Google Buzz. Yahoo says it is being careful with users’ information, but can it avoid the kind of privacy backlash suffered by Google and Facebook? Read more »
Amid the furor over Facebook’s handling of privacy settings on the social network, it’s easy to forget that the social network is still growing rapidly as a business. The company says the number of advertisers it is working with has quadrupled since the beginning of 2009. Read more »
In the same way that Apple’s iPad gained consumer acceptance where other tablet devices failed, Google TV may finally be coming to market at a time when the user mindset — and the supporting online services — might actually be ready for such a product. Read more »
It’s becoming clear that Apple needs to improve MobileMe. Obviously, Android is now Apple’s biggest threat in the mobile space and Google’s innovation wheel isn’t slowing down. To fully understand just how bad Apple is at running Internet services, let’s take a trip back in time. Read more »
Google is expanding its Ontario, Canada-based engineering operation, which has either developed or worked on most of the company’s recent mobile offerings, including Gmail for the iPad. Steven Woods, the unit’s director, said that his staff are currently focusing on ideas related to HTML5. Read more »
The smart grid may indeed become an opportunity that’s bigger than the Internet, but like the Internet, it won’t be without its stumbling blocks. Fortunately for us, some web pioneers are unwittingly providing utilities and energy management firms with an education on privacy, one of the ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Intel could add Google’s WebM to the list of video formats that have hardware acceleration built into its processors for consumer electronics devices. But that support won’t come in time for the first generation of Google TV products to leverage it. Read more »
Apple’s iPhone production is ramping up to levels that suggest it’s “increasingly becoming carrier-agnostic” and could mean we’ll see a Verizon iPhone sooner than expected, according to one analyst. If such a deal is inked by year’s end, he sees quarterly sales rising to 17 million. Read more »
The smart grid may indeed become an opportunity that’s bigger than the Internet, but like the Internet, it won’t be without its stumbling blocks. Fortunately for us, web pioneers are unwittingly providing utilities and energy management firms with an education on privacy. Read more »
Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Epix and Nickelodeon are just a few of the video publishers that have created Flash-enabled websites that are optimized for viewing on Google Android devices, according to an Adobe Mobile Showcase page that has since been taken down. Read more »
The end of another week is upon us and that means it is time to share my week in Mobile Tech Manor with you. This week saw gadgets littering every surface in the Manor and I spent hours playing with them, er, evaluating them. Read more »
When open web champion Tantek Celik announced he was joining the Mozilla Foundation, not everyone was happy about the news, since he marked the third open web proponent who has joined a large corporate entity. Can open web advocates still be effective if they aren’t independent? Read more »
Google is adding a new User Experience Director for Android and it’s none other than Matias Duarte, the designer behind Palm’s beautiful webOS interface. But this isn’t the first time Duarte has worked with Andy Rubin — before Google, these two collaborated on the Danger Sidekick. Read more »
Google Buzz, which stumbled out of the gate due to privacy concerns, has made up for lost time by adding an average of a feature every week, says product manager Todd Jackson. The newest feature to be rolled out is a “reshare” button for the service. Read more »
In a case that is increasingly starting to look like a battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, eBay, Facebook, IAC and Yahoo an amicus brief in support of YouTube in its case against Viacom, arguing that a decision in favor of Viacom could stifle web innovation. Read more »
As Google tries to extricate itself from the privacy furor over personal data collected from Wi-Fi networks by its Street View cars, the company says it has hit a roadblock that prevents it from complying with authorities who want the data turned over to them. Read more »
Google unveiled Google TV at its I/O conference on May 20, promising to revolutionize the TV ecosystem by giving people “the power to experience what they love on TV and on the web on a single screen,” while turning the living room “into a new platform for innovation.”
It’s a promise made by others (including no-less formidable innovators such as Microsoft and Apple) but never delivered on. Much has changed since Microsoft failed with Web TV, however, and even since Apple introduced (and has since largely ignored) its Apple TV. The amount of premium video content available on the Internet has grown exponentially, while faster broadband connections have made delivering high-quality video over IP networks feasible. In this research note, we look at why the time is ripe for Google’s offering to succeed, what it si, and its potential impacts on the TV ecosystem, including users, hardware providers, app stores, content providers, distributors, and competitors (including Apple, Microsoft, and independent IP video platforms). Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google exec Nikesh Arora says video on the web will drive a huge shift in advertising dollars over the next five years, but that the industry still has a long way to go to figure out how best to monetize those video on the web. Read more »
After working with Keynote on the iPad for the last month, I’ve come up with five presentation tips I want to share with you. Used properly, and in a situation that allows it to play its strengths, the iPad can be an effective presentation tool. Read more »
Given its history, Sony’s early involvement with Google TV can only be seen as a major departure for the company. Not only does it suggest a new willingness to work collaboratively with other technology providers, it marks a rare embrace by Sony of a technology platform ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
According to Google, the company’s search and advertising businesses helped generate an estimated $54 billion in economic value for the U.S. last year, an estimate that’s clearly an attempt to promote the company’s value at a time when it’s coming under fire from legislators. Read more »
An inteview with lead engineer Andy Rubin at Google answered some questions about patents, fragmentation and other hot topics in the Android world. His answers make sense but make it clear that Google may be playing with fire given the fast development rate with Android. Read more »
Google dominated the technology conversation last week with its annual developer conference, Google I/O, the focus of the which was the Android OS and the mobile ecosystem it’s spawned. Chrome, meanwhile, appeared to have become little more than an afterthought for the company. Read more »
The recent launch of a series of new products and services shows that Google clearly wants to be the champion of the “open” model and defend it against proprietary offerings. For the most part, that means going head-to-head with ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
