One month ago, Google put the word out that it was looking to build and test its own fiber-to-the-home networks in a couple of cities. The speeds would be up to 1 Gbps and the reach would initially be about 50,000 homes.
Immediately, hundreds of cities began making pitches to attract Google’s attention, some earnest, some [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained a copy of Apple’s iPhone developer license agreement and posted the document on its Web site.
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YouTube is adding captions to millions of Internet videos.
The feature unveiled Thursday expands upon speech-recognition technology that YouTube began using to make captions available on a limited number of videos late last year.
YouTube’s audience will be able to request captions at the press of a button. Video producers will also be able to download the [...]
Jamie Welch unboxes and gives his first impressions of the Samsung Alias2 from Verizon Wireless.
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Every few months, Digiarty Software gives away one of its premium titles. From now until March 15, you can score WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe absolutely free. Regular price: 50 dollars.
This utility can convert just about any video format to just about any other video format, and it has built-in profiles for everything from BlackBerry [...]
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has issued a permanent injunction that bars RealNetworks from selling RealDVD, the DVD-copying software that Hollywood claimed in a lawsuit violated copyright law.
Listen to this NPR story which delves more into the process used by CereProc to create these more acurate voices and some examples of their results.
Apple alleged numerous patent violations in lawsuits against HTC Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smart phones.
Soon TAT will introduce a gesture powered 3-D home screen for Android phones that combines UI technology with remarkable design elements.
Last week Apple began banning so-called “blue” iPhone apps containing “overtly sexual content.”
MacHeist is at it again. They are about to offer a new bundle on March 2nd. Details are not announced but in the meantime they are offering a “teaser” software,Squeeze, for free to tide us over.
In a landmark case today, the Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations saying that they did not act quickly enough to remove an online video that showed sadistic teen bullies pummeling and mocking an autistic boy.
In a very closely monitored case around the world, because of it’s implications for Internet privacy and [...]
By now we have all heard the story about Harriton High School in Lower Merion Township, PA giving their students laptops to use in school and then remotely switching on the web cams to purportedly “locate missing computers” which remain the property of the school. However, a student was approached by an assistant principal who [...]
Microsoft, the company largley accredited for starting the mainstream adoption of home PCs, has now announced their latest initiative – Windows Phone 7.
Facebook is now allowing you to connect with iChat. Some of my students were asking “how do you do that?”. It is really quite simple. Here are the steps in order to add a Facebook chat account to your iChat.
In iChat, open Preferences, and go to the Accounts tab. Click the plus sign at [...]
Bloom Energy will be revealing to the world its potentially revolutionary new fuel cell system-The Bloom Box. Why revolutionary?
Facebook users have been complaining about problems at the social media site.
Users in the U.S. and other countries reported problems beginning Saturday morning.
Some could not log in, and the site was unusually slow and glitchy for others. Users in London, Bangkok and Mexico City reported problems. Many used Twitter to complain.
Facebook spokesman Matt Hicks said [...]
Skype and Verizon announced a partnership Tuesday to bring the Internet-calling technology to a number of 3G BlackBerry and Android phones starting in March.
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