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Ellen, Demi Lovato, and others getting shows on YouTube ahead of site's big redesign

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 05 May 2017 05:28:01 +0000

Just as YouTube is preparing to launch a website redesign with flatter elements and a "dark mode", the company also unveiled some upcoming shows with Hollywood stars and famous artists. Read more...

Apple announces new Apple TV with 'tvOS', universal apps, improved remote, Siri, and more

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:09:26 +0000

Apple has finally announced its new TV box. Currently devoid of the company's own streaming service, it aims to attract developers with new SDKs, the App Store, integration with Siri and a new remote. Read more...

Microsoft's MSN Video Player is now live, streaming TV shows

Tom Warren — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:50:41 +0000

As promised, Microsoft has now launched MSN Video Player, its latest venture into the video on demand market. MSN Video Player is now available as a free online beta to those in the UK.... Read more...

Netflix not slowing down, shows growth

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:44:15 +0000

Unlike most companies during the recession, Netflix has shown growth with its recent additions to the movie rental company. Netflix grew 26% over the last year with 9,390,000 subscribers at the end of 2008.... Read more...

Microsoft shows off RC1 of IE 8

Brad Sams — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:37:48 +0000

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead with its newest browser IE 8. In a world once dominated by IE, Microsoft is now finding stiff competition. Firefox and now Chrome are starting to take a... Read more...

Microsoft shows off Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:30:13 +0000

Yesterday at the VoiceCon trade show in Amsterdam, before an audience of telecommunication and IT professionals, Microsoft representatives demonstrated the new version of their unified communications package dubbed Office Communications Server 2007 R2, which delivers... Read more...

Microsoft shows off new developer tools

Tom Warren — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:41:05 +0000

Microsoft is offering the first look at the company's latest .Net and Visual Studio releases. The company has announced the newest versions of both developer tools, known as .Net Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.... Read more...

Office 2007 Design Team Shows Off Ribbon Prototypes

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:21:09 +0000

Jensen Harris from the Office 2007 design team gave a very rare presentation at Microsoft's MIX08 event yesterday about not what the Office 2007 Fluent (Ribbon) interface is about, but instead how it came to... Read more...

Vodafone Shows Image Search for Mobile Phones

Tom Warren — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:46 +0000

Search isn't just about text anymore. At the Cebit trade show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating Otello, a search engine that uses images as input. Instead of entering a word or phrase users send pictures... Read more...

BBC sells shows through iTunes

Tom Warren — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:27:10 +0000

BBC Worldwide has struck a deal with iTunes to sell its programming through the popular online shop in the UK. Titles will appear on iTunes after they've had their seven day run on the iPlayer,... Read more...

Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites

Steven Parker — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:12:31 +0000

It was only a matter of time.. Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to... Read more...

HBO Putting Shows Online, at No Additional Charge

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:42:20 +0000

HBO, cable’s most popular premium channel, is carefully entering the arena of Internet video. The channel, a subsidiary of Time Warner, will introduce HBO on Broadband starting this week to subscribers in Green Bay and... Read more...

CES2008: Bug Labs Shows Off BUG

Doug Bemis — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:54:33 +0000

Tucked away near the edge of the show was a booth with a rather innovative item. Bug Labs was showing off their BUGbase and BUGmodules. What could be better than building your own... Read more...

Gibson Shows Self-Tuning Guitar

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:30:01 +0000

Musicians of the world are getting a new kind of artistic freedom with technology that eliminates the challenging chore of tuning. "Powertune," a robotics technology developed by German company Tronical Gmbh in partnership with Gibson... Read more...

C|Net shows no love for Vista yet

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:15:50 +0000

Oh dear! It seems that there are no allies at CNet when it comes to Windows Vista. I can only imagine that their IT department is still firmly attached to Windows XP on all their... Read more...

Channel 10's Max Zuckerman shows off AMD Spider chipset

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:58:39 +0000

AMD, however, has not given up... not by a longshot. While we all have waited to see the results of their ATi acquisition, today I had the chance to check it out firsthand. ... Read more...

ABC to Offer Free Shows Online Via AOL

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:00:09 +0000

Last year, ABC decided to offer free primetime TV content from its website and now, the network will be offering its prime time content on AOL Video, paid for with embedded advertisements. ABC is owned... Read more...

Mozilla Shows Mock-up of Firefox 3.0's Places

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:00:22 +0000

Mozilla Corp. has posted mock-ups of Places, one of the most-awaited new features in the upcoming Firefox 3.0., on its Web site. As part of the weekly Firefox 3.0 status update that Mozilla posts to... Read more...

NBC to End iTunes Sales of Its Shows

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:27:19 +0000

NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes. The media conglomerate — which is the... Read more...

id Software Shows Some 'Rage'

Christopher Vendemio — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:22:55 +0000

The creator of classic computer game "Doom," id Software, unveiled on Friday its eagerly anticipated next game, "Rage," in which players fight an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world. The new game will be released... Read more...

Three-year study shows phone masts 'safe'

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:57:59 +0000

A three-year study into the possible short-term health effects of mobile base stations has found that base stations are not associated with ill health. Some people have claimed that mobile phone masts cause symptoms like... Read more...

id Software Shows Off New Game Engine

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:43:14 +0000

At Apple's worldwide developer conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, California, John Carmack, the chief technology officer of id Software, a well-known game developer, has demonstrated the company's new game engine, which, it claims already works... Read more...

AMD shows sunny side of Barcelona

Mon, 21 May 2007 23:38:49 +0000

Randy Allen, corporate vice president for server and workstations at AMD, announced the company is on track to ship its Barcelona quad-core server chip in production volumes sometime around the middle of this year. Server... Read more...

EA shows off new Simpsons game, coming next year

Todd Tanner — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:12:59 +0000

The newly announced Simpsons game may be the 22nd title based on the long-running animated Fox sitcom, but in developer Electronic Arts' opinion, you might as well think of it as the first. Simpsons games... Read more...

Myth crushed as hacker shows Mac break-in

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:29:45 +0000

Right after Apple's release of a patch for 25 vulnerabilities in OS X, a hacker managed to break into a Mac by exposing a hole in Apple's browser Safari, winning a $10,000 prize as part... Read more...

AMD Shows Motherboard Design for Small, Quiet PCs

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:50:41 +0000

AMD is pushing a new motherboard format called DTX, which it says will allow system assemblers to build smaller PCs that are quieter and more energy efficient. The DTX spec is intended to bolster the... Read more...

Errata Security Shows Laptops Are Chattering

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:34:52 +0000

Throughout the Black Hat conference hall, laptops babbled incessantly about their users. Errata Security's Robert Graham and David Maynor just sat back and sipped from the data firehose. Except, that is, when they jumped to... Read more...

Leaked Letter shows RIAA pressuring ISPs

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:52:46 +0000

The RIAA is asking for additional cooperation from ISPs in getting customers targeted by the RIAA's file-sharing sting to cooperate, according to a letter recently leaked to P2P attorney Ray Beckerman. In it, the RIAA... Read more...

Creative Technology Shows Off Audio Card for PCI Express

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:40:39 +0000

Creative Technology, a maker of digital media players and various multimedia devices, showcased its first audio card for modern PCI Express bus at the Consumer Electronics Show 2007. Specs of the product are unclear, but... Read more...

Corsair shows off PC2-10000 memory

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:17:48 +0000

OUR REVIEW of Corsair's Dominator PC-9136C5D modules, caused some enthusiast forums and colleagues to question the results achieved running two very happy and overclockable modules. Indeed, we were surprised to see 2.38V modules running at... Read more...

Samsung Shows 70" HD LCD Panel

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:53:55 +0000

Samsung Electronics has unveiled a 70in LCD (liquid crystal display) panel that it hopes will help boost the competitiveness of LCD technology in the big-screen TV sector. The panel refreshes the picture 120... Read more...

CEATEC Shows Large Scale Paper-Thin Display

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:00:25 +0000

Fujitsu has made progress in the development of flexible, paper-thin displays that consume very little power. The company unveiled its latest prototype on Tuesday, a 7.8in panel that can display up to 4,096 colours.... Read more...

AMD shows off quad core roadmap

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:04:25 +0000

STABILITY WAS the attribute which AMD seemed most keen to project at its recent Dresden press conference. While simultaneously outlining its policy of sticking to the same core, AMD also promised to be only one... Read more...

LG shows off 32in 3D display

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:56:09 +0000

3D displays have been long coming, but the models so far have been fairly small in size and have been fairly unimpressive. However, LG showed of a 32in 3D display at IFA in Berlin which... Read more...

Microsoft shows off improved search

Steven Parker — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:20:42 +0000

Microsoft scientists have some new thoughts when it comes to search ranking and retrieval accuracy. New techniques for analyzing search relevance--the way users browse and click through specific content--can improve the algorithms used to rank... Read more...

Apple Adds More TV Shows to iTunes Inventory

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:15:23 +0000

Episodes of "Friends," the sci-fi epic "Babylon 5," "The Jetsons" and "The Flintstones" are among the latest content from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group that Apple has recently added to iTunes, its online music and... Read more...

MTV to Join List of Channels Selling Shows on iTunes

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:23:23 +0000

MTV are set to join the growing list of TV channels who are now offering their shows for download over Apple's popular music download service, iTunes. Original programs from the channel can now be downloaded... Read more...

Microsoft shows off UAC changes coming to Vista RC1

Steven Parker — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:27:03 +0000

At TechEd Ben Fathi, the new Vice President of security at Microsoft, and some of his team members highlighted improvements to User Account Control that we can expect to see in the product by... Read more...

Microsoft Shows Off New 'Windows Live Search'

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:56:37 +0000

Microsoft has released a preview version of what willeventually become the flagship search engine for the Redmond Washingtonbased software giant. Windows Live Search is the cornerstone of Microsoft's new"Live" campaign, which aims to unite all... Read more...

Apple iTunes to Sell Monthly Subscription to Shows

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:35:23 +0000

Apple Computer's iTunes music and video store on Wednesday took its first step toward a monthly subscription model with a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy TV shows on a monthly basis, Reuters... Read more...