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Archive for June, 2010

MTV Networks launches video hub for gay community

30 Jun 2010

“This is the kind of content that has only been available at art houses,” Sherman said. “But the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) audience, can now check out content that has never been available to them nationally.”

Logo launched a new video hub on Wednesday that Lisa Sherman, Logo’s general manager, said will feature 3,000 [...]

eBay halts inauguration ticket sales

28 Jun 2010

Tickets to the January 20 event have been listed on eBay and sites like StubHub, an eBay subsidiary, for tens of thousands of dollars. The home page of InauguralTickets.com reads, “Our prices reflect the difficulty in obtaining hard-to-find, quality tickets.”

House and Senate members for the 111th Congress are distributing tickets for free, but the tickets [...]

Social application builds possible electoral map

23 Jun 2010

The application asks each player to give their state and to choose a campaign slogan. For the uninspired, it has a handful of generic slogans it offers up like, “Preparing for the future” and “Tomorrow is looking great.” It then asks you to answer whether you will be voting for John McCain or Barack Obama, [...]

Videophlow tries to enliven YouTube

22 Jun 2010

“You’ll even be able to throw a tomato at the screen for everyone to see,” Neil Berkman, founder of Oortle, said in an interview at the Web 2.0 Expo here, where he is scheduled to demonstrate the technology.

While Videophlow is still undergoing closed testing, Photophlow has been groaning under the weight of its membership, with [...]

Verizon Wireless agrees to pay $21 million over te

18 Jun 2010

But with the Verizon Wireless settlement, it looks like the plaintiffs’ case may have had some legal merit. A Sprint spokesman declined to comment on what Verizon’s settlement might mean for Sprint. But he said the company is confident that no matter what happens it won’t be asked to pay damages since a jury already [...]

Terrorism hits India’s high-tech hub

16 Jun 2010

Whatever the motivations were for the apparent terrorists who exploded a series of small bombs in India’s high-tech hub Bangalore earlier Friday, one thing they’re not likely to succeed in doing is slowing that city’s progress.
Bangalore, of course, is of particular interest to the tech industry. In addition to the large Indian outsourcing companies and [...]

YouTube to host live-streamed event in SF

13 Jun 2010

An event like YouTube Live would indicate that live streaming is indeed still on track–though the company has not yet said anything about further live-video plans or whether the streaming will be handled through a partnership with one of the many start-ups that specialize in it.
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen announced earlier this year that live [...]

Get nine free e-books for your phone, PDA, or PC

04 Jun 2010

I’ve made no secret of my love of e-books. I read ‘em on airplanes, in bed at night, in line at the post office, and so on. But I do have a complaint: They’re not priced substantially lower than their dead-tree counterparts.
Update: Users of the Stanza iPhone/iPod Touch app can download this same batch of [...]