YouTube has installed a new vuvuzela button in honor of the World Cup. Oh dear God, Why?
Press on the tiny soccer ball located on the bottom right corner of any YouTube video and you’ll be greeted with the sound of the vuvuzelas, and possibly prompted to bang your head against the surface of your desk. What is it about these annoying …
Today, the court found in favor of YouTube in regard to its spat with Viacom over claims of copyright infringement.
In March 2007, Viacom slapped YouTube with a $1 billion lawsuit claiming that YouTube had made 160,000 unauthorized clips available to the public as well as encouraging its users to commit copyright infringement. YouTube …
Google’s web-based communications platform, Google Voice, is now available for everyone and anyone after a year’s worth of testing and tweaking. If you’re unfamiliar with what GV is and what it does, fret not; Google has a video for that. In a nutshell: a Google Voice number rings all your linked phones, has voicemail that looks …
If you’ve opened up the App Store on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad recently, you were likely prompted to accept Apple’s new terms and conditions policy before being able to download anything. It happened to me yesterday and, acting like a true consumer, I accepted the policy without reading all 45+ pages of it on my phone’s tiny …
Twitter is an unusual tool. We’re able to read and reply to our friends’ quips in real time. It’s a news hub, a land of hilarious viral videos, social activism and Roger Ebert.
So, imagine if you will, the stark contrast that hit me when a friend retweeted Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, moments after he’d given word to have …
Rumors of a Google-backed music service aren’t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing “multiple music industry sources” as saying “Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.”
The search engine giant has several things …
Free at last. Today, Starbucks announced its plan to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access beginning July 1.
After seeing its first increase in customers in 13 quarters, the Seattle-based coffee company will offer free Wi-Fi through AT&T at 6,700 locations nation-wide, a decision that came just six months after McDonalds began offering …
Two months ago, Jessamyn West noticed something about the Google Maps location of her small town, Randolph, VT. Instead of being tucked somewhere in central Vermont, Google had moved the official location of Randolph into the middle of a lake.
(More on Techland: Little Old Lady Calls To Have Google Pac-Man Disabled)
“I was having …
Come on Internet world, was Google’s photo background really worth that groupthink meltdown that went on this morning?
Did it seem like a bit of Bing rip-off? Sure. But Google has always been experimental with its homepage, not everything’s going to work, right? Just get through the day and everything will be back to normal. Yeah. …
Back in 2005, a useful communications service called GrandCentral was launched. With it, you could get yourself a single phone number that got forwarded to any or all of your other phone numbers and featured some cool bells and whistles such as different voicemail greetings depending upon who was calling you—friends, family, …
Google has ramped up the speed with which it’s able to return new web content with “a new web indexing system called Caffeine,” according to a recent company blog post.
Google is promising “50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index,” which would basically re-scour the web continuously, a process …
It’s too funny not to laugh.
This old lady calls tech support asking the lucky computer nerd to disable the Google Pac-Man game because she didn’t like it. Hilarity ensues. Just listen. For the love of Pete(r Ha), just listen.
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