Steady, as she goes: better video processing with Green Parrot Pictures
At YouTube, we see 35 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute from people all over the world. Some videos are beautifully shot by professionals or aspiring filmmakers using the very latest i...
Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS
Today, we're taking an important step to make it easier to manage the security of your Twitter experience - we are adding a user setting that lets you always use HTTPS when accessing Twitter.com. Usi...
Verizon grabs 12% of U.S. iPhone market in just one month
Mobile analytics company Chitika has been keeping a running tally of just how many iPhones are running on both AT&T and Verizon. Using the data flowing across its ad network, the company has calculat...
TouchPad set for a June release, priced from $499; 7-inch coming in September?
HP was and has remained mum on the pricing and release timeframe (planned for “summer") for their TouchPad tablet, but we've got a few more details on that matter. A major US retailer is getting thei...
Google Search app for iPhone—a new name and a new look
a new name and a new look — If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it's now faster and easier when you use our redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App. If yo...
Feature: The most modern browser there is: Internet Explorer 9 reviewed
When Microsoft first introduced Internet Explorer 9 at PDC in November 2009, it didn't show much. A few benchmarks, some talk about the technologies that the browser would use, and a little informati...
The Sidekick is Dead. Long Live the Sidekick. T-Mobile Aims to Reinvent the Original Smartphone
Just a couple weeks after announcing plans to kill-off the old Danger-based Sidekick service, T-Mobile is ready with some details on its first Android-based model.
Google's the Largest Torrent Search Engine, isoHunt Tells Court
Last month search giant Google got involved in a BitTorrent case for the first time in its history. The company took interest in the ongoing court case between isoHunt and the MPAA, fearing that the ...
AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down
Earlier this week I interviewed Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW, at the press junket for their movie The Source Code. While the film doesn't have a huge tech angle other than the title, I th...
Colleges Discriminate Against the Blind With Google Apps, Advocates Say
Many colleges find Google's free e-mail and word-processing services irresistible. — Blind professors and students find them to be something else: inaccessible. — That's the accusation of a civil-...
Facebook Launching Local Deals Subscription Service
Facebook is showing a special story in the news feed urging users to subscribe to updates about its Deals location-based check-in rewards program, and to invite their friends to subscribe too. A link...
What has Twitter become?
At O'Reilly, we've long believed that one criterion for long-term success is creating more value than you capture. When you do so, you create the possibility for an ecosystem that's larger than you a...
Facebook Takes Another Swing At Web Video: Live Streaming Major League Baseball
Last week, you could rent a movie on Facebook. Today, you can watch a live pro baseball game on the site. — Still think Facebook can't be a big player in Web video? — You can watch the game …
Apple opens iPad to iAds
Apple's iPad is now open for business. The first iAd—an ad created on Apple's mobile-advertising platform—showed up on the device today, with more on the way.The first company to put out an iAd is Un...
IE9 Release Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses
The final, consumer-ready Internet Explorer 9 is available for download starting at 9:00 PM PDT at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 39 languages. With this set of browser releases, the best experience of th...
iPad 2 shortages continue: now shipping in 4-5 weeks from Apple's online store
This is already becoming insane: the iPad 2 is now shipping in 4-5 weeks from the Apple online store. That means if you order an iPad 2 from the online store right now it won't show up at your door s...
Apple handcuffs ‘open’ web apps on iPhone home screen
Three ‘bug’ App Store ‘conspiracy’ — Exclusive Apple's iOS mobile operating system is running web applications at significantly slower speeds when they're launched from the iPhone or iPad home scree...
On Leaving Flickr
So uh, yeah... I know these sorts of personal departure posts are a bit trite, and I certainly have mixed feelings about posting one. However, as Yahoo-bashing is apparently quite de rigueur in the t...
Google Is Said to Plan Payment Test in New York, San Francisco
Google Inc. (GOOG) plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, two people famili...
Google Relaunches Street View Website
Google is revealing more about its sometimes controversial Street View product with an expanded web site that just launched today. — The new site continues to show where Street View vehicles are cur...
Report: Piracy a “global pricing problem” with only one solution
A major new report from a consortium of academic researchers concludes that media piracy can't be stopped through “three strikes” Internet disconnections, Web censorship, more police powers, higher st...
Facebook Is Not Happy With The Poking Inventor Action Figure
We're the big fans of the man who makes the world more open and connected. So we introduced the “Poking Inventor” action figure. Everyone likes the social network, but we never thought Mr. Mark Zuck...
As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date
Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don't tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost. — The value of this magically convenient library boo...
A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking
You've been able to use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to construct a secure bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud using an encrypted VPN connection. All communication be...
Apple Creating a Magazine Publishing Tool for Developers?
Since the iPad was announced over a year ago, one of the uses that seemed to be natural for it was that of a Magazine and Newspaper reader. Real life results, unfortunately have been mixed. Many mag...
Feature: Ars reviews the iPad 2: big performance gains in a slimmer package
Apple's original iPad has taken off to levels none of us anticipated when it was launched one year ago. Though it has very recently gotten some competition in the tablet space, the iPad still dominat...
Former Myspacers Build Link Curator ‘Tagging Robot’
Former VP of Product at Myspace Todd Leeloy and Myspace Product Manager Joe Munoz have launched a semantic tagging network and link curation service today called Tagging Robot. Tagging Robot currentl...