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AMD's RV635, to Feature the New DisplayPort Interface

There have been a lot of rumors and suppositions about AMD's RV635 XT board, the world's first graphics card to provide the new digital display interface, dubbed DisplayPort by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The new interface is alleged to replace the old and not-so-efficient DVI and VG...

7 December 2007
08:53 GMT

How to Send a Sexy Video Holiday Card, Courtesy of YouTube

A couple of days ago, or was it just yesterday, I was merrily browsing through YouTube, wondering just how many clicks I'd need to get to a sexy clip starting from one with a screaming cat. Not too many, it seemed, five were enough, but in the process I've discovered something really interesting. The YouTu...

6 December 2007
05:45 GMT

YouTube's Winners Announced

It is a touching story about "shenanigans" and about why everything is so important in life. It's the rendition of "Ghost", but with parenting love at its core. It's the winning video of YouTube's Project Direct.While feeling for those who did not win, I must congratulate those who found their work re...

6 December 2007
03:57 GMT

YouTube Seven Times Better than Competition

The latest Video Metrix report saw digital analyst comScore.com revealing that YouTube still dominates the online video market. And it's not hard to do that when you have Google covering your back, but that's not all that important now.According to wikipedia.org, YouTube is a video sharing website where use...

5 December 2007
09:34 GMT

Yahoo Spreading Out to Finance Videos

The first time the idea lit the electrical bulb above someone in the Yahoo staff was about 7 or 8 years ago, back in 2000, but it feels like it was a century ago. Finance Vision was launched in March of the same year, but it was closed down just two years later, in June 2002. After the same period since Yahoo has be...

5 December 2007
04:43 GMT

SayHeyHey, I Say Ney

'Hey, my name is Suzy, I'm 21 and I have a funny story about a party, me and some of my girls went out and had one drink too many and then I went home and my best friend came with me and my boyfriend at the time didn't like that we were drunk so we got into an argument so I tackled him and we started f...

4 December 2007
06:12 GMT

Nvidia Is Working to Roll Out Their GeForce 9 Series

Nvidia is working on a revision to their mid-range GeForce 8 series that will see the shelves until Christmas. Rumor has it that the company would surely like to harvest some more revenue to justify the money pumped in researching and developing it.There will not be any sign of the GeForce 9 series, so move on in cas...

30 November 2007
11:23 GMT

YouTube Looking Pretty

The way that the YouTube dev team has structured the videos on the site's pages is annoying, there's no doubt about it. With the continuous changes going on and all the categories being removed and added, re-branded and downgraded, it's pretty much a mess out there, but it is all presented in a seemin...

30 November 2007
06:31 GMT

All South Park Clips Free and Online

Did y'all know that Kyle's a Jew? I guess you did or else you wouldn't have been thrilled by the opportunity that the great MTV has offered the public, that of viewing the cult-show online anywhere, in an attempt to reach consumers everywhere.The strategy was designed after seeing the huge success that...

29 November 2007
10:35 GMT

YouTube to Bring Real Cuffs to Fake Bomber's Wrists

In a long continuous string of "things that people who have done something bad and consider themselves untouchable because they didn't get caught doing it" happenings, here's the latest: yesterday an AIDS fundraiser was cancelled and a huge part of a street was blocked after a bomb was spotted. It turned ou...

29 November 2007
10:01 GMT

YouTube Optimizes Its Monetization Program

After the survey data released at the middle of November that had YouTube portrayed as a good and reliable advertising media, for only a fifth of the total number of all the advertisers that tried it, Google decided that it wanted its buck back at a much faster rate.Although only rarely spotted and that after a loooo...

27 November 2007
08:23 GMT

To the Beat Y'all! To the Censoring Beat!

The above is paraphrasing a song from System of a Down, "Toxicity". And with that out of the way…You do like the happy Asian people that seem to always be wherever some karaoke event is bound is happen, don't you? Well you're in for a treat with this YouTube video, as middle-aged executives are seen moving ...

26 November 2007
10:39 GMT

YouTube Fame within Reach

A most unusual guest post was featured on TechCrunch, that of Dan Ackerman Greenberg who literarily gave away the keys to turning a video of your baby crying into a "viral video" that has a lot of hits and is up there in the search results page.Step one: give it a fake title. Who's going to click on a link to "M...

23 November 2007
06:15 GMT

Games and Porn Pirates Finally Arrested

Two males, aged 33 and 28, and a woman, 22-year-old, were caught by the Welsh police being accused of distribution of pirated content such as music, movies, games and pornography. The authorities expect an important decrease in the pirated market after the arrest of the three pirates as they were the top providers of...

22 November 2007
09:29 GMT

YouTube Will Lead to the Internet's Downfall

What would the world look like if there were no Internet? It's not a hypothetical question, it's the not-so-distant future if nothing gets done pronto about the capacity of the Internet.In case you thought that was a tad vague you might just be interested in some further details about this horrid perspectiv...

22 November 2007
09:16 GMT

Google Changes Its Mind About Video

How many of you remember Froogle? Come on, don't be shy, by a raise of hands, let me see who still remembers the old price comparison service from Google. Not so many, I see. Or at least not as many as I had hoped. Anyway, it's back on the homepage under its changed name, "Google Product Search." Doesn'...

22 November 2007
07:02 GMT

Not the Best Cook? It's YouTube to the Rescue!

For those of us not born in the US, the idea of a day off just to give thanks seems rather strange and, why not, welcome. I mean… "what, just stay at home, kick back, grab a beer and watch the game while somebody's cooking turkey in the kitchen?" I think I could get accustomed to that. No, I KNOW I could grow to...

22 November 2007
04:28 GMT

IOGear USB 2.0 External Video Card - Get as Many Desktops as You Want

Every once in a while, the average computer user decides that it's time of an upgrade. Adding another memory card or a second hard drive has become a real habit. Yet, few people decide that it's time to add a second display on their desktop, and even fewer are the ones that really do it.Working with multipl...

21 November 2007
10:18 GMT

YouTube Video Shows Incredible Highway Patrol Trooper's Behavior

Monday saw the posting on YouTube of a video related to a September the 14th incident between a Utah Highway Patrol trooper and a driver that was stopped for speeding.Filmed from the dashboard camera of UHP trooper John Gardner's car, the video shows the whole sequence that started with him pulling over 28-year-...

21 November 2007
06:39 GMT

Yahoo Hot on Google's Heels…

The good side of it all is that Yahoo! finally realized the importance and popularity of computer-user created videos, which often include copyrighted content. The downside is that it did that one year after Google and that it is still trailing in almost every domain the Mountain View based whale.Today is the day tha...

20 November 2007
09:57 GMT

AOL Brings Video Ticker Ads

A recent survey by TNS Research revealed that 78% of respondents agree that online video ads provide as good as -- if not more -- of an opportunity to learn about an advertiser than TV. And 64% said that they have taken some action after seeing an online video ad. In addition, 41% of those surveyed stated that after ...

20 November 2007
03:38 GMT

YouTube Downloader for iPod and Mobile Phone

What do you do when you are away from your computer but want to see some good, entertaining videos? Erm… tough one. There's nothing much you can do about it but that's only at first glance. Because YoutubeGet V3 is here and you are instructed to have no fear. As long as you do what you are told nothing will...

19 November 2007
10:41 GMT

AMD Gets Back in the Ring with the ATI Radeon HD 3800 GPU Series

Advanced processing performances at affordable price points seems to be the latest trend among the most important video card chipset manufacturers, as the competition on the market is increasingly tougher and high-end, uber-expensive models are not exactly very successful. And following this trend, AMD has just revea...

15 November 2007
14:56 GMT

YouTube High-Quality Videos En Route

The surprise (not!) announcement came from YouTube co-founder Steve Chen at the NewTeeVee Live conference today where he was invited to give a speech.What do you know? It turns out that the videos uploaded this far by the users are actually stored in the original format and size. That's good news indeed, once th...

15 November 2007
09:27 GMT

That's One Damn Ugly PMP!

There is nothing new about the fact that the Chinese media players have gone wild recently, revealing a lot of design concepts that you wouldn't even dare to think about. This is one damn ugly PMP, which makes me wonder why on Earth it features video playback, since its screen display is one to be proud of.This ...

14 November 2007
04:06 GMT

First Leaked Video of Nokia N82

After tons of leaked images, the first video of Nokia N82 has just surfaced over the Internet. Symbian-Freak got the chance of testing the phone and even shooting some captures of it, which also led to the release of this video.As it usually happens with most mobile phones that are highly expected for a release on th...

12 November 2007
10:37 GMT

YouTubed Massacre in Finland

Tuusula, Finland was the place of a tragic happening yesterday morning that made the whole world bow in woe. The results of it all were seven dead children and the head teacher of the school where the shooting took place. An 18-year old coming gun in hand towards you is a scary sight and that is exactly what 8th grad...

8 November 2007
08:38 GMT

Bob Dylan Asks YouTube Fans for Help

Dylan decided that 42 is the number of renewal and dare I say, innovation for him. As such, 42 years after the original release of what has been dubbed his greatest work, "Like a Rolling Stone", the pop artist has invited his fans to appear in a video of his 1965 hit.Cahal Milmo of The New Zealand Herald notes that "...

6 November 2007
08:08 GMT

NVIDIA Unveils the Mighty (Yet Affordable) GeForce 8800 GT GPU

Upgrading one's computer in order to be able to cope with the requirements of the latest-gen games (DirectX 10) is on every gamer's mind these days. However, there aren't too many users out there who can actually afford spending a hefty amount of money on a top-range graphics card, and this is the reas...

30 October 2007
12:51 GMT

YouTube Starts Filtering The Content

Bloomberg announced today that Google Inc.'s YouTube has struck a deal with a group that collects and distributes royalties and can legally begin to post copyrighted Japanese songs on its web site as early as next week.The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, or JASRAC, last week agr...

30 October 2007
10:15 GMT

YouTube Killer Out In The Wild

Hulu, the online video sharing service that is supposed to represent the most powerful rival for YouTube, is now available as a private beta. Last week, it was rumored that Hulu's developers plan to launch the private testing stage of the service this week in order to meet the October deadline first announced a ...

29 October 2007
09:06 GMT

YouTube's Killer Killed by Its Own Videos

Hulu is supposed to be the new YouTube killer, but it seems that this new threat for Google's video sharing service might face a pretty important problem. Hulu's videos are available on other similar services such as AOL, MSN and MySpace, obviously with the approval of the copyright holders. In case you mis...

29 October 2007
04:57 GMT

Google Scared, Yahoo Launches Its Own YouTube

It's a well-known fact that almost every Internet company wants to create a YouTube-like technology which would be able to compete with the famous Google video sharing service. Until now a lot of firms have done so but none of them have managed to represent a real threat for the Mountain View company. Yahoo tri...

25 October 2007
09:24 GMT

YouTube Gets Major Facelift

Do you remember the beta YouTube interface released in June which brought several new attractive elements for the fans of the online video sharing service? The beta appearance came with lots of interface and functionality improvements, being accessible through a 'Try the Beta interface'-like button. Today, ...

24 October 2007
04:15 GMT

YouTube Stylish Bar to Improve Your Website's Appearance

Many of you who own a website or at least a blog embed YouTube clips very often in order to make the content more attractive for the visitors. Because of that, the video sharing service released a new function which enables you to create YouTube bars and place them on your website to invite users to view certain clip...

19 October 2007
14:31 GMT

World's Ugliest PMP. And The Winner Is: Newsmy Mini All VX-1000!!

These guys probably want to win the prize for the ugliest media player on the market. Strangely, the fellows from Newsmy have a bunch of decent media players that we have already written about. This time, they probably wanted to get the geek, but...they got the freak!After intense debates, they decided to name the pl...

19 October 2007
03:37 GMT

Live Video Chatting Supported By YouTube's Parents

TokBox is one of the services which aim to become famous but instead of a brilliant idea, I'm not sure if it has all it takes to challenge the web rivals. Generally, TokBox is a live video chatting technology which enables the registered members to communicate on the web using their camera and microphone without...

16 October 2007
14:21 GMT

MPlayer 1.0 RC2 Released: Are We There Yet?

You know, I was just thinking the other day about MPlayer 1.0 final and whether (when it will be released) it will have a different (better) GUI. Will it support more of the new technologies regarding video and audio streams? Well, the answer is about to be revealed, as last night, MPlayer 1.0 RC2 was released and it...

8 October 2007
04:13 GMT

Convert Movies (with subtitles) for Your PSP on Ubuntu

For this task, you will need Avidemux 2.4 Preview 2. Why? Simply because it has improved support for H.264 videos, that means most of today's HR (High Resolution) movies and HDTV content. Let's say for example that you've recorded a TV show from your favorite HDTV channel and you don't have time t...

7 October 2007
08:52 GMT

Eau de Pregnancy - the New Christina Aguillera Perfume

Christina Aguillera has just released a new perfume. What a surprise. I was never a fan of celebrity perfumes, but I must say, this is getting a bit too much for some of our sensitive noses - pun intended. But the perfume madness has gotten so big lately that I'm starting to wonder what really lies behind every ...

3 October 2007
05:56 GMT

Even Britney Hates Chrissy Crocker

Turns out it doesn't pay to achieve instant fame as the world's most infamous Britaloony. Yes, that's right, I'm talking about that walking mess that sometimes goes by the name of Chris(sy) Croker. Most of us used to find him sort of creepy-funny, meaning that we'd watch his videos, go '...

3 October 2007
04:15 GMT

Rivalry or Not, Yahoo Now Working With YouTube!

Today, Yahoo rolled out one of the most impressive updates ever released which is supposed to lure more users to its search engine. Yahoo Search received all kinds of updates, from new features to interface updates so I guess the Sunnyvale super giant really wants to challenge Google and its famous search engine. But...

2 October 2007
15:06 GMT

Hackers to Target Media Players

Internet Criminals are always thinking of new ways to scam users or hack their machines. And what concerns them the most is mass efficiency. Having a method that could work in a situation or two is not something efficient, cyber-crooks are looking for magic bullets. They're trying to deploy tactics that will ena...

2 October 2007
09:53 GMT

Video Games Make Women's Brain Function Like Men's

Men and women come from different planets. That's a scientifically proven fact: male brain is better when it comes to navigational and spatial skills (like reading a map in a car or visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths and diagrams, mentally rotating objects, judging line angles and dis...

29 September 2007
05:26 GMT

This Is The Funniest YouTube Clip Ever!

Nowadays, millions of Internet consumers are fighting for the YouTube popularity which can bring them on the main page or even on the top of the category of the online video sharing service. But when you manage to reach the first position of the comedy category and record approximately 6 million views, this is someth...

28 September 2007
17:06 GMT

Google Smashed by Complaints Over Freeware Full-Length Movies

Google has always had problems with the copyright infringement videos published on its page but this time, the matter might be a little bit more serious than everyone expected. The National Legal and Policy Center created an impressive list with no less than 300 movies, all of them published on Google Video and which...

27 September 2007
09:02 GMT

Today's Hot Feature: YouTube Remixer!

In case you have a video which you plan to upload on YouTube but it needs some extra editing to be more attractive, it is not always a good idea to install a professional application with very complex functions. First of all, you don't know how to use it. Secondly, the editing process might be very complex and i...

26 September 2007
15:31 GMT

Get Your Free YouTube Desktop Now!

In case you're a YouTube fan, this is probably the best you can get from a web-based technology able to work with Google's video sharing platform. YouTube Desktop is an interesting solution which is able to replace the main page of YouTube, offering all you need just like a downloadable solution for your co...

24 September 2007
09:33 GMT

'Desperate Housewives' and 'Lost' Fight Against YouTube

YouTube is continuously threatened by its competitors which struggle to bring attractive content to their pages in order to challenge the Google video sharing platform. AOL Video is the last technology that started a campaign against YouTube and signed a deal with ABC, the owners of popular TV series such as Desperat...

21 September 2007
08:27 GMT

Crisis Core Secret Ending Hints At FF VII PS3 Remake

We've been waiting for a Final Fantasy VII remake for 10 years now, as the title's graphics do no justice to the superb storyline and characters. It seems that we'll see a revamped FF VII coming up on the PS3 or perhaps the PSP. The secret ending of Crisis Core hints at a future remake of Square-Enix&...

20 September 2007
03:32 GMT




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