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It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend …
YouTube and CBS said today they have struck a content and advertising deal through which CBS and sibling cable operations Showtime and College Sports TV Networks will provide daily short-form news, sports and entertainment clips to the Internet video distributor. This marks the first distribution agreement between the YouTube and a major broadcast network. YouTube …
The latest prize in the great Internet land grab, online-video company YouTube Inc., could soon be snapped up by Google Inc. Web-search giant Google is in talks to acquire YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion, a person familiar with the matter says. An acquisition of the closely held company would catapult Google to the lead spot …
Apple posted a downloadable QuickTime movie of the new iPod Nano ad on their website. You’ve probably already seen the ads on TV. If not, it’s a slight departure from Apple’s standard black silhouette dancer ads. Although these ads still feature a silhouette dancer, their focus is more on the new colors of the iPod …
The Flybar Pogo Stick is an extreme Pogo stick that sends you up to 5 feet (1.52 meters) into the air.
The Philips HD3600 PerfectDraft is a clever home keg system that allows you to pull the perfect pint of draught lager at home.
The iPod is a huge success for Apple. But is it actually helping to drive sales of Apple computers?
For a while, cell phones and computers got smaller and smaller. Much like Nicole Ritchie, they have whittled away until they were razor-thin and hardly larger than a book of matches. Soon, phones couldn’t get any smaller without disappearing or getting lost in everyone’s comparatively enormous pants pockets. So, instead of pushing the miniature envelope, …
Rock any room with the Klipsch iGroove HG all-in-one iPod speaker, a dynamic shelf system that works with iPods and other MP3 players.
Planning on attending Apple Expo Paris? Looks like it might be a hot ticket this year. According to ThinkSecret, Apple will use a September 12 media event for Apple Expo Paris to introduce the 2G (second-generation) iPod nano, an updated 5G iPod, movies in the iTunes Store and an upgraded wall-mountable iMac. Although the “media …
Purchased iTunes files can only be authorized on 5 computers at a time. But don't worry, there's an easy way to deauthorize computers on iTunes.
Free music downloads? Is this good news for music lovers!? What’s the catch? Universal Music, the world’s largest music company, has shaken up the record industry by announcing that it will make its song catalogue available as free internet downloads. Unlike Napster and other competing online music retailers, could this service actually pose a challenge …
Unfortunately Dell isn't the only company plagued by exploding defective Sony batteries. On Thursday afternoon Apple announced that they will recall 1.8 million lithium-ion notebook batteries after nine devices overheated. Two people have even reportedly suffered minor burns due to these battery malfunctions.
Entertainment Network (India) Ltd. plans to raise its advertising rates by 25 percent for 7 of its radio stations from September 1, a company official said on Thursday. The company’s 7 stations are in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Indore and Ahmedabad. Advertising rates would also be increased by 10 percent at its three new …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, chances are you know about the new Verizon Wireless LG Chocolate Phone. From billboards to magazine ads to flyers in the mail, buzz about Verizon’s new phone is everywhere, and cell phone fanatics are licking their lips at the thought of it. Dubbed “one sweet …
YouTube, the current darling of the online video world, is making “significant revenue” right now. So said its CEO Chad Hurley in an appearance at a digital media conference in San Jose on Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting. The site, Hurley reportedly said, is looking at new ways to offer advertising, trying to …
Are you one of the digital music trailblazers who owns a classic iPod 1G? It’s hard to believe, but Apple first unveiled the iPod back in October 2001. Today, the iPod amounts to almost 50% of Apple’s quarterly income – but back then few could have predicted that the iPod would become such a major …
