Did you hear that? It sounded like angels and choir bells to me. The white iPhone lands today.
Just to make sure guests aren’t going to be a pain in the royal you know what, Prince William and Kate Middleton will be jamming cellphones in the church when they exchange their vows. Nothing like a Rebecca Black ringtone going off at the moment of “I do.”
While Apple’s Facetime languishes with no new features, and Google’s Android continues to lack a native video chat app, Fring has gone ahead and added four-way video calls to its iPhone and Android apps.
Last Thursday’s Amazon SC2 cloud outage made life on the Internet more difficult than usual (what do you do? #1stworldproblems), and as the dust begins to clear we’re finally getting a better survey of the damage done.
It’s YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley to the rescue, snapping up social bookmarking website Delicious.com from Yahoo and underwriting its future. The site had been marked for “sunsetting” by Yahoo per a leaked slide last December, prompting much indignation from Delicious buffs. Yahoo reacted by releasing a FAQ denying the site was shuttering, [...]
Despite reports to the contrary, Vevo is not in talks to buy MySpace from News Corp. So says the one person who ought to know: Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff.
Sounds like DirecTV has a bit of Netflix envy.
Yes, it was just a few weeks back that AOL was laying off writers and publicly grappling with class action lawsuits filed against it for exploitation of unpaid bloggers, but such concerns are apparently a thing of the past. Now, it’s all about growth – and trying to recruit as many as 8,000 new bloggers over [...]
Well we can’t say we didn’t see this coming: the first (of presumably many) class action lawsuits was just filed by a California law firm seeking “remedy for over 70 millon consumers arising out of one of the largest data breaches in the history of the Internet.”
Video on Demand isn’t just here to stay, it’s changing the way that movie studios make deals, according to industry experts taking part in a panel called “Digital by Design” at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Aliens of the galaxy, your attention please!
