They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Or at least that’s what they used to say.
Well before I came to my first SXSW Interactive Festival this year, I knew that most high-tech innovation was happening in the pacific time zone. As the world has flocked to The Social Network over the past year, that line of …
Say goodbye to Google Mobile, and say hello to Google Search. Google’s revamped its app, giving it a whole new look and feel. It just wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t change the name too.
The revamped iPhone app is a nice update, making ithe previous version seem clunky and old. Along with voice search, the search feature …
There’s a lot to be said for the ease of one-click checkout systems, but Amazon, Apple and PayPal may learn to regret their early adoption thanks to lawsuits brought against all three companies by a little-known Washington software company called Cordance Corp.
Cordance is claiming that the three companies, along with Victoria’s …
What a difference a month makes. Just a day after the Verizon iPhone was available to customers, three percent of iPhone users made the switch. One month later, Verizon has managed to grab 12.7 percent of that market. So, one in 8 iPhone users can probably hear each other now.
Apple wasn’t at all surprised when people began making …
Google has purchased Green Parrot, an Irish video technology company whose software can do amazing things with moving pictures.
Just take a look at the example video above to see what we mean. The shaky, juddering original footage is smoothed out into something much more pleasant to watch. And that’s just one of Green Parrot’s …
First Google did it, then Facebook, and now Twitter’s following suit, adding an option to permanently shore up your account’s defenses courtesy the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, commonly abbreviated HTTPS.
Normally you type ‘http’ into your URL bar to conjure a website, but if you’ve ever used a service like online banking, you …
The winners of the 14th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards were unveiled Tuesday night in Austin, and it will surely come as no surprise that Groupon cleaned up the People’s Choice award (voting had been open since February, after the festival’s finalists were first revealed). I’ll be writing a whole lot more about Groupon’s presence at this …
From the International Space Station to the snowy stretches of central Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts have safely returned to earth.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly and Russians Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri touched down today (March 16), a few minutes before 0800 GMT, bringing to …
Lots of wartime atrocities happen in Homefront: Mass graves, the brutal immolation of enemies and allies and the slaughter of innocents.
But a real-world atrocity hit publisher THQ’s stock yesterday in the wake of lukewarm reviews for its new first-person shooter. The company’s share price went from $5.94 to $4.69, a drop of more than …
Be careful if you’re typing something on your Facebook wall today: the social network has made a tiny change to how things work.
As detailed by the Next Web, Facebook’s “Comment” button has disappeared. Now you just need to hit the Enter or Return key to post your comment. If you want a paragraph break in the comment, you have to
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Google upgrades YouTube with Irish video company purchase
Google has bought Irish video technology company Green Parrot, in the hope it can use their code to sharpen, straighten, and generally tidy up a lot of the video content that gets uploaded to YouTube. What you see is no longer what you got. Look out for more on this story later
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Netflix isn’t just a video-streaming service where you can watch all of your shows on-demand: the company is looking to possibly acquire an original television show. According to web reports, Kevin Spacey might now appear on your screen under a Netflix-owned production.
It’s rumored that Netflix is looking to buy “House of …
