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Study: Children Under 5 Are Spending More Time Online

Samia Perkins, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Of the children under 5 in the United States who use the Internet, 80% use it on a weekly basis, according to a new report by the non-profit Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop. The report, titled "Always Connected", put together data from seven recent studies, and shows that small children are using all types of digital media, often using more than one type of media at once. Read The Full Story

YouTube In Talks With NBA To Broadcast Live Games

Rue Liu, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [2]

Google is really ramping up content offerings for its subsidiary YouTube. Earlier this week we heard they were investing $100 million into celebrity channels and now we learn they're in talks with NBA to broadcast sports shows. Read The Full Story

Google To Invest Millions On Celebrity Youtube Channels

Rue Liu, Feb 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

The recent boom of YouTube stars may get pushed aside by established Hollywood stars. Google is looking to entice established celebrities with $5 million dollars for their own YouTube channel of original content. The money would cover salaries, production values, and the celebrity would get full ownership of the show. Google hopes to get twenty celebrity channels, which equals to a $100 million investment. They can afford the price tag by making it back quickly with the premium advertising they plan to run on the channels. The move mirrors what AOL and Yahoo are doing with personal celebrity channels, but YouTube has a much larger footprint and distribution network. Read The Full Story

BlueDot YouTube Box Releasing in Japan

Samia Perkins, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Not that there is any shortage of set top boxes, or internet connected TVs, but here is another one, dedicated to YouTube. BlueDot is introducing its first YouTube box in Japan, the YouTube XL BTC-10. It connects to your TV via an HDMI cable, and to the internet via an ethernet connection so that you can connect to YouTube directly from your TV. Read The Full Story

Google Updates Social Search, Your Friends Opinions May Now Affect Your Search Results

Rue Liu, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google announced today an update to their Google Social Search feature that will more fully integrate the social search results into normal search results. Now when you view a search results page, you might also see little annotations under the results that have either been shared or liked by your friends. In fact, your friends' sharing and linking activities may actually affect your search results. Read The Full Story

Google Closing In On Next New Networks

Rue Liu, Feb 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

Google is getting close to acquiring Next New Networks (NNN), an online video studio and home to popular web shows such as Barely Political, Channel Frederator, and Fast Lane Daily. The acquisition would help Google create more professional content on their Youtube subsidiary. Read The Full Story

The Today Show Talks About New Fangled Contraption Called The “Internet” in 1994

Rue Liu, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

“That little mark with the “a” and the ring around it.” Those were Bryan Gumbel’s words as he tried to figure out the “@” symbol in e-mail addresses in 1994. His co-anchor Katie Couric, sporting an awesome 90’s hair style, thought it meant “around or about”. Read The Full Story

IBM Presents Centennial Short Film, 100 Years of Achievements That’ve Changed the World

Chris Burns, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [2]

IBM has released a short film that almost went directly under our radar. It was released relatively quietly a few days ago, and tells an engaging story about their history and how through the 100 years they've been active, they've achieved many things that have changed the world. This film tells the history of IBM with one hundred ladies and gentlemen who were born along IBM's timeline, each of them 1 year younger than the last. Behold 13 minutes of tale telling. Read The Full Story

Google Unleashes Android 3.0 Honeycomb Video, Showcases Features [Video]

Evan Selleck, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [6]

Rumors about whether or not Android 2.4 or 3.0 would be known as Honeycomb have been swirling around for awhile now, but over the last couple of days it's been pretty much confirmed that 3.0 is Honeycomb. And now Google has put the stake in the heart of the rumor, squashing any idea that 2.4 could, and would, be what the Android team chose for the version number. Thanks to the Android YouTube page, we can now safely say that Android 3.0 is Honeycomb, and yes, it is indeed built specifically for tablet devices. Read The Full Story

Paul Allen patent suit refiled: App Store, iTunes, Gmail & more all cited

Chris Davies, Dec 29th 2010 Discuss [2]

As expected, Paul Allen and his legal team have resubmitted a revised legal suit in its broad-ranging patent infringement case, after a judge threw the previous version out of court for being insufficiently detailed. Allen claims Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Netflix, OfficeMax and Staples all impinge on patented tech developed at short-lived investment Interval Research Corp.; the new submission details specific products and services each defendant offers that the lawyers believe impinges on the patents. In Apple's case, that includes item-comparison functionality in iTunes, Apple TV, the App Store and the Dashboard. Read The Full Story

Samsung Ready to Unveil World’s Thinnest 3D Blu-ray Player

Evan Selleck, Dec 28th 2010 Discuss [4]

Despite the fact that Samsung may be ready to show off the brand new, world's thinnest 3D Blu-ray player, we'll have to wait a bit longer before we get an official announcement from the company, plus our own eyes-on with the device. Samsung has made it known that they plan on showing off the new 3D Blu-ray player at CES 2011, at the beginning of January. Read The Full Story

New Right-Click Menu item for YouTube Allows Instant Time Link

Chris Burns, Dec 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Did you know that you can link directly to a certain point inside a YouTube video instead of just playing from the beginning? All it's taken at this point is a simple manual addition to the end of the address like so: "#t=31m08s" and bam! Whenever someone clicks your YouTube link, they'll be sent not only to the video, but to that exact point in its timeline. NOW what YouTube has going on is the ability to access this functionality simply by pausing a video where you'd like, right clicking, and selecting "Copy Video URL at Current Time." Simple, right? Read The Full Story