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Google Video Shutdown On Hold, Transition Eased by YouTUBE Export
The Google Vidapocalypse has been postponed when the search giant came out to tell its expectant users that they won’t need to worry about their video content, stored on their Video service. The shut down of Google Video is no longer planned for April 29th. With it goes the fears that users would lose all ...
Nintendo’s Revenue Drops as Annual Profits Tumble 66%
In yet another blow to the video game giant, Nintendo has listed their second straight year of falling annual profits. The company announced on Monday that its net profit from the fiscal year that ended on March 31st fell 66 percent to $947 million and released sales revenue figures of $12.31 billion representing a 29 ...
Amazon Reassures Public that Skynet was Not Involved in EC2 Outage
As a consummate geek and science fiction writer, I’m pretty well versed in the world of sci-fi geekery. So people might have noticed that Skynet, the supercomputer intelligence that declares war on the entire world in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts its genocidal rampage on April 21st, 2011. And, guess what, the Amazon EC2 ...
The $1 Billion Deal between Microsoft and Nokia Jumps to at least $2 Billion
The big news today is that the Microsoft-Nokia collaboration agreement has finally met with agreement. The two technology giants revealed many of the broad strokes of the contract’s ink on paper back in February when we reported that Microsoft would subsidize Nokia with at least $1 billion to get Windows Phone 7 onto the Finnish ...
eBay Gets More Local with WHERE
Online auction company eBay has just announced its deal to acquire location-based service WHERE. Details on the deal are currently under wraps, but it will certainly fill out their portfolio. The deal is expected to close later this quarter. “As a first step, we plan to integrate PayPal into the WHERE mobile app to make ...
Researchers Catch iOS 4 Secretly Recording Everywhere You Go (Again)
Our smartphones know a lot more about what’s going on and what we’re doing than we’re entirely aware. In fact, the more services that we enable the higher the chances that the information gathered could fall into the wrong hands. As users of a multitude of social networking services we already spin off huge emissions ...
Google Seeks Crowdsourcing of “Citizen Cartographers” for U.S. Maps
Is there any place in the world that you know better than your own neighborhood or haunt? How would you like to aid Google in making their knowledge of the area smarter? That’s what’s happening right now as Google is inviting its own users to help them curate their vast maps of United States neighborhoods ...
Latest Developments in Kinect Human Technology Interface: Triage Simulation, “Self-Portrait” Statues, and Painting with Light
Latest Developments in Kinect Human Technology Interface: Triage Simulation, “Self-Portrait” Statues, Painting with Light, and Triage Simulation The Microsoft Kinect has become something of a cult thriller amid a multitude of tech savvy communities. It’s become the center of attention for human computer interfaces from training people in American Sign Language to playing video games. ...
Verizon Bundles to Lower High Speed Internet Pricing with Reduced Contract Concerns
In a move that puts their high speed Internet offerings alongside cable networks using the concept of bundles to combine multiple services into one with reduced costs for all. In a press release on PRNewswire, Verizon pretty much markets their new idea to provide both Internet and voice together over their copper for less—but the ...
HP’s webOS 3.0 Aids Leap into the Personal Cloud with Music, Movies
The new Hewlett-Packard TouchPad—and thus it’s webOS 3.0 on that device—will reportedly include apps to connect it to a service that will deliver movies and music to customers. According to the website, PreCentral, HP has released a PowerPoint presentation to subscribers of e-mail notices about the HP Touchpad that includes some interesting revelations on what ...
