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YouTube Begins Streaming Full-Length Shows from CBS
In another move towards earning more revenue from its huge audience, YouTube has started streaming full-length TV shows that will include advertising. The content, which includes Star Trek, The Young & The Restless, and Beverley Hills 90210 comes through a deal with CBS. Advertising will include familiar formats like pre, mid, and post-roll.
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Apple Confirms New MacBook Pro
Apple has more or less confirmed word that new MacBook Pros will be rolling out, after accidentally publishing a support document in PDF format on its site which was specifically meant for the ‘MacBook/MacBook Pro (Late 2008)’ models. There is no word on what the document is about, although chances are it is a service [...]
YouTube goes live after all [Online Video]
On November 22nd, YouTube will host a two-hour event in San Francisco, ‘a celebration of the site’s vast user communities.’ Looks like we can expect performances from Akon, Soulja Boy, will.i.am and a bunch of online video-powered Weblebrities. And it will be broadcast live over the Internet. So, it turns out that Steve Chen was [...]
Make Skype Calls with Fring on Your iPhone
iPhone 2.0 only: Free application Fring puts popular chat applications on your iPhone, including Skype—and the ability to make Skype voice over IP calls when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. Fring puts all your chat buddies from AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, and Skype on your iPhone, and lets you [...]
Switched On: With friends like Google, does Apple need Microsoft?
In the 1999 geek classic, ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’, an Apple employee watching the famous ‘1984′ commercial with Steve Jobs points to the Big Brother character — intended to represent IBM — and then points to Bill Gates of Microsoft, whom Jobs has just introduced as part of Apple’s family. The silent message is that [...]
Digsby Integrates LinkedIn and Improves Performance
Digsby, the universal instant messenger, email and social network aggregator, has announced some very good news regarding their desktop application. After countless complaints from users about the application being a resource hog, Digsby spent the last few months improving the memory management capabilities of their product. So much so that they proudly claim that they [...]
How to go back to the old Facebook
Some 500,000 Facebook users who don’t like the site’s new design have found a loophole leading back to the old one. The trick is to sign up as a Facebook application developer — and you don’t have to even write a line of code! Facebook allows developers to use the old Facebook design if they [...]
DIY Beer Speaker
Beer, also known as the nectar of the gods, is worth downing after a long hard day at the office. I believe it tastes even better when you have your favorite music playing in the background. If you happen to have a decent amount of DIY knowledge, why not conjure this 20-watt Heineken Draught Keg [...]
