Archive for July, 2007

Wireless, On-Demand On The Take Over

Over the past couple of days, we’ve seen the next wave of video and audio content delivery pick up steam. Wireless on-demand services for portable devices such as mobile phones and portable gaming devices like the PSP are now becoming a reality. Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe and SKY teamed up to [...]

YouTube Copyright Filtering by September

A Google lawyer announced on Friday that they will apply video fingerprinting technology to YouTube by September.
This comes as great news to countless of video content producers, that are now seeing their copyright videos on YouTube without their permission.
The video screening technology will consist of a computer system which will automatically scan all videos uploaded [...]

Torrents on your mobile phone

A quick post from something interesting I spotted in Pete Cashmore’s Mashable blog (and then a few other places). The post is about uTorrent, a BitTorrent client that is designed to work on your mobile phone. To date, there have been apps that let you access your P2P activity remotely (i.e. so you can set [...]

Be Your Own Boss- Be a Blogger!

Blogging as we know it today is a relatively new idea and one that has taken the internet by storm. Simply put… Blogs are the newest and best ways for getting any and all news. And for good reason; blogs give anyone with a computer and the internet the opportunity to express thoughts and spread [...]

Checkers, anyone?

Think you’re pretty good at checkers? Well, if you played Chinook, a computer opponent developed by Canadian researchers, the best you can do is force a draw.

Not exactly world-changing, as even the researchers themselves note, but still pretty cool. See the whole article HERE on CNN.com. I found this line particularly interesting -
“Every combination of [...]

Be in Grand Theft Auto 4!

Here’s your chance to vent some stress and be in one of the most popular video game franchises ever!
Rockstar Games is currently giving anyone who calls their “WKTT Radio Hotline” a chance to express their feelings about whats wrong with their health, the world, America, or themselves.
This is such a great idea… It gives fans [...]

How not to handle social media

There have been some recent revelations (see article) on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey (aka “rahodeb”) who, from 1999 to 2006, made several anonymous postings on financial forums and sites putting down his company’s rival competitor Wild Oats. Among other postings, Mackey wrote that Wild Oates’ management “clearly doesn’t know what it is doing” and [...]

Don’t Forget Your Mobile SEO!

As of right now mobile web is not very popular, but as more and more attractive phones start to populate our cell phone selection and data plan prices start to drop, things will surely change.
Therefore, I must ask: why wait any longer to properly secure your site a home in future mobile search results?  
So, what are [...]

New ‘Thin’ PSP a Hit at E3

In the dawn of the new, more lean E3, comes the news of Sony’s new, more lean PSP. Actually, Sony has developed a thin PSP system with a variety of colors to match customer personalities (as seen below).

These new PSPs will be 33% lighter, 19% slimmer and have a more efficient battery. The most amazing [...]

30 Million “Active” FaceBook Users… OK, We Believe You…

Since Facebook officially launched the “Facebook Platform” in May, it has become more popular than ever. In fact, InsideFacebook.com has reported 65 million apps added by users in the first month alone.
The added functionality has no doubt been a shot of life for Facebook. So much that just the other day Facebook reported hitting thirty million active [...]