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YouTube trialling live video streaming today

YouTube trialling live video streaming today

The move has been rumored for years. While the company has offered live broadcasts of individual events in the past, the video streaming technology has been supplied by third parties such as CDN Akamai, whereas the new service will use its own content delivery network.
“This new platform integrates live streaming directly into YouTube channels; all [...]

Gizmodo not invited to WWDC keynote. Why, oh, why?

Gizmodo not invited to WWDC keynote. Why, oh, why?

Maybe it’s because they’d seen the future and they didn’t feel like they were going to need shades.
Alas, poor Gizmodo! We read it, Stevie J: a site
of infinite posts, of most baudy colors: it hath
kept us-eth from work a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in Jobsian circles it is! [...]

Nokia and Yahoo to advertise big new partnership

Nokia and Yahoo to advertise big new partnership

Nokia and Yahoo, two assertive companies that accept been blindsighted by arising technologies about them, are allegedly alive on something big.
All Things Digital has appear that Yahoo will be captivation a columnist appointment on Monday to advertise a new way of “providing all-around consumers with affluent online and adaptable experiences, and [...]

NBC streamed 4.4 actor hours of Olympic video

NBC streamed 4.4 actor hours of Olympic video

I am ashamed to have to write this up because, I am disgusted by NBC’s decision to cancel Law & Order at the end of its 20th season. One more and the show would have beaten Gunsmoke. Would it have killed you Zucker to have kept it on for one more season, you [...]

Microsoft aims to take on Gmail with major Hotmail revamp

Microsoft aims to take on Gmail with major Hotmail revamp

Microsoft’s announced a new version of Hotmail, adding information management features that are in many cases similar to those found in Gmail.
“You now have a convenient and concise summary of the most important mail in your inbox – new email from friends and contacts, social network updates, shipping notices, appointments, [...]

Pet Tube

Pet Tube

Pet Tube is currently the hottest new video sharing site around, offering the funniest animal videos from around the world. In addition to videos, there’s also a forum and even groups. More information. Continue reading to watch one of the most popular pet videos on YouTube currently.

Pirate Bay’s ISP receives Hollywood injunction

Pirate Bay’s ISP receives Hollywood injunction

The Motion Picture Association of American has obtained a preliminary injunction from a German court for CyberBunker, the ISP responsible for hosting Swedish website The Pirate Bay.
According to Torrent Freak the injunction, taken out against CyberBunker’s trading company – the strangely named CB3ROB Ltd and its boss Sven Olaf [...]

Twitter fixes embarrassing security glitch

Twitter fixes embarrassing security glitch

Twitter is back to normal after fixing a rather embarrassing security glitch that allowed users to forcibly add celebrity members of the popular social networking site to their “followers” list.
A number of publications – including Gizmodo – posted step-by-step guides on how to exploit the glitch before Twitter fixed the bug [...]

Yahoo CEO Takes Google Home Page At Face Value

Yahoo CEO Takes Google Home Page At Face Value

In an interview with the BBC, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had some words of advice for those simplistic up-and-comers at Google: diversify! That sound you hear? It’s everyone on the internet scratching their heads at the same time.
The interview elicited a few weirdly confident remarks from Yahoo’s CEO, in which she [...]

Microsoft axes vaporware Courier tablet

Microsoft axes vaporware Courier tablet

Microsoft has unceremoniously cancelled development of its folding, two-screen prototype tablet known as Courier.
“We’re told that on Wednesday, Microsoft execs informed the internal team that had been working on the tablet device the project would no longer be supported,” reported Gizmodo’s Joel Johnson.
Microsoft Corporate VP of Communications Frank Shaw appeared to [...]

Determining civil and criminal liability for the lost iPhone

Determining civil and criminal liability for the lost iPhone

Editor’s Note: One of the advantages of having an attorney on the TUAW team is the opportunity for this sort of deep-dive legal analysis. We asked Lauren to dig into the circumstances and statutes around the case of the mystery iPhone, and she obliged.
While Lauren is a real lawyer, [...]

Microsoft touts Windows 7 Touch Pack

Microsoft touts Windows 7 Touch Pack

Microsoft has debuted its Windows 7 Touch Pack for the eager PC masses.
The pack was first introduced last May as a series of 6 applications designed to showcase Windows 7 Touch and help people learn corresponding gestures.
It includes three casual games, as well as three Microsoft Surface applications created specifically for [...]

What the Facebook F8 announcements mean for you

What the Facebook F8 announcements mean for you

The day of 21st April 2010 was Facebook’s F8 developer conference. As a result, we’ve all since been wading through swamps of new articles on announcements that Zuckerberg and his buddies made on subjects such as the Open Graph, APIs and plug-ins. Now that’s all very well if you happen to [...]

The Tale of Apple’s Next iPhone

The Tale of Apple’s Next iPhone

We’ve taken a close look at Apple’s next iPhone and you can catch up on the saga here:

All the details about the next iPhone including a dissection
How Apple lost the next iPhone
How Apple missed chances to get the device back
Conspiracy theorists: Why Apple didn’t leak the iPhone to us
Why [...]

Apple demands Gizmodo return “lost” iPhone 4G

Apple demands Gizmodo return “lost” iPhone 4G

Apple has demanded the return of a next-gen iPhone (4G) that was reportedly found in a Redwood City bar.
According to Gizmodo, the iPhone was left behind by a rather tipsy Apple Software Engineer known as Gray Powell and subsequently obtained/torn-down by the publication.
Unsurprisingly, Gizmodo has agreed to comply with Club [...]

Apple making RAM affordable? Really?

Apple making RAM affordable? Really?

PlayStation Network Updates Move to Tuesdays

PlayStation Network Updates Move to Tuesdays

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