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Wednesday, 24 December '08 - 12:42:22 AM -0400
A lighting strike that close would make anyone's butt hole pucker.
Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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Picasa, the popular free photo management software made by Google, has finally made its way to the Mac. The application has long been noticeably absent on the Macintosh - especially given the fact that it has been available for Linux (which typically lags behind Macs and Windows) since 2006. It's also a direct competitor to Apple's long running iPhoto product, which has come with all new Macs for years.
China has launched a major crackdown on a number of websites, including Google and leading Chinese search engine Baidu, for failing to stop the spread of pornography.
Google has figured out that it can save money by getting product ideas from users rather than engineers.
A small networking services company was recently granted a patent covering the use of representational icons in an operating system. The company turned around and sued Microsoft, Apple, and even Google, just in time for the holidays.
As expected, Apple's iPhone will go on sale at Walmart (WMT) stores this coming Sunday, Dec. 28. Walmart will sell the 8 GB iPhone for $197, a 1% discount from its $199 retail price; and the 16 GB iPhone for $297, a 0.7% Discount from its $299 retail price. This is great news for Apple: It adds another 2, 500 distribution points for the iPhone, and makes sure that smartphone competitors like the Google G1 aren't the only ones Walmart shoppers are exposed to.
In a sign of the times, Google will be giving their employees a G1 Android smartphone this year as a Christmas bonus instead of the usual $1,000 (450BP) cash gift.
Looks like WMATA has backed off and is going to be more open. The decision came after lot of local criticism at the action to not give Google access to the data. It is still not clear if the data is going to be shared for free or if Google would have to.
Negotiations between Warner and YouTube over renewing the licensing agreement for music videos broke down Fri. Early Sat., Warner, the 3rd largest record label, removed videos from the Google-owned site. The impasse comes at a time when all 4 major labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music and EMI, are renegotiating their licensing.
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be the second largest search engine after Google. More searches are done through YouTube than through Yahoo, which has been the case for the past few months.
A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers demanded Friday that the US Internet search giant Google scrap its "Street View" service in Japan, saying it violates people's privacy.
YouTube is introducing an expanded high definition video section today. It's an obvious move, improving the viewing experience and the ability to target advertising; until now HD content was mixed in with videos encoded at YouTube's regular resolution. YouTube has been offering a limited selection of HD videos over the past few weeks, with links indicating.
An Egyptian student attending a Florida university was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for making a YouTube video showing would-be terrorists how to turn a remote-control toy into a bomb detonator.
For many Web 2.0 start-ups, build-it-to-flip-it has been a mantra of sorts, with most hoping to get big payouts when Google, Yahoo or AOL cuts them a big check. Unfortunately, the credit crisis has turned those dreams into layaway plans. The 451 Group, a research firm, released an M&A report this morning that should.
A New York man on Thursday admitted he repeatedly posted videos of himself on YouTube claiming he caused millions of jars of baby food to be poisoned.
Yahoo upped the ante when it comes to protecting search engine users' privacy, announcing a new data retention policy providing for anonymization of search queries as well as page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks after 90 days. This announcement comes on the heels of Google's announcement in September that it would be anonymizing its logs after 9 months.