Technology

YouTube Debuts Movie Rentals

February 17, 2010
YouTube

SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube’s coming attractions now include movie rentals. The Internet’s most popular video channel will make its debut as a rental outlet Friday to help promote some of the movies that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It’s part of a test that YouTube hopes will [...]

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ESPN to Launch 3D TV Channels

January 8, 2010
University of Southern California fans watched a USC-Ohio State college football game in 3D this past September in Los Angeles.

Sports broadcasting will enter a new dimension in 2010 … the third dimension, as ESPN will unveil the industry’s first 3-D network. ESPN 3D will showcase a minimum of 85 live sporting events during its first year, beginning June 11 with the first 2010 FIFA World Cup match, featuring South Africa versus Mexico, ESPN and [...]

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Verizon Droid & Storm 2 Release Oct 28th?

October 26, 2009
VerizonDroid

The momentum around Droidbeing launched by Verizon is growing. Here’s a round-up ofDroid news. Droid must be desirable because with 4 days left on auction the only un-locked Droid available is on eBay with the has the current highest bid $1,125.00. Industry insiders  revealed that Droid is not just the name for one Android handset [...]

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Facebook Steals Twitter’s Swag WIth @ Tags

September 16, 2009
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Today, Facebook is rolling out a new feature that has a ton of people contemplating the future of Twitter: Facebook @mentions. If you’re a twitter user, you’re familiar with the @reply feature used to signal a response to another twitter user. You already have similar functionality, better known as tagging, in Facebook for uploads …

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Some iPhone Users Get MMS Early

September 14, 2009

The Internet is buzzing about early iPhone access to MMS on AT&T despite official AT&T statements that multimedia messaging would not be available until September 25. Reports began cropping up Sunday on Twitter and later in a ZDNet article stating that some users are now able to use MMS on their iPhones. According to those [...]

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Facebook Version 3 For iPhone Coming!

August 17, 2009
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Facebook has submitted v. 3.0 of their iPhone application to Apple, Joe Hewitt says via Twitter: “Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :) ” Hewitt also says he’ll post screen shots and more detais on this Facebook page for the iPhone app next week, and that he’s looking forward to [...]

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Facebook ‘Lite’ Coming Soon – Twitter Like

August 14, 2009
facebook-lite

Facebook, it appears, was not about to let Google get this week’s award for shadowy new projects. On Tuesday night, a number of users–including Mashable blogger Ben Parr–received notifications that they were beta testers for something called “Facebook Lite.” The notifications, as well as the site hosted on the subdomain lite.facebook.com, disappeared within minutes. It [...]

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Personal Solar Panel? Sanyo Says Yes!

August 5, 2009
SolarPanel

On the go or lost in the middle of nowhere but desperately in need of a power outlet to finish a game on a DSi or any other portable game device? Guess what, the hardcore green geeks over at Sanyo have THE solution. The Eneloop Portable Solar is your very personal solar panel for charging [...]

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Netflix Meets The iPhone & Wii

August 5, 2009
Netflix

Netflix, ahead of pay-TV providers, continues extending its own “TV Everywhere” strategy to more devices. Next up: The company will soon offer the Watch Instantly video-streaming feature on Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices and the Nintendo Wii gaming console, according to an industry executive familiar with Netflix’s plans. (Netflix wouldn’t confirm the info, with [...]

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How Good Are You in the Sack? iPhone Passion App

August 3, 2009
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Ever wonder how good you are in the sack?  How you mount up against others and if ‘being passionate’ was an Olympic sport, how you’d measure up on the scoreboard?  Well guess what… yep, there’s an app for that!  The Apple App Store has an application called Passion. The Passion App is designed so that [...]

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