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By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews It
was an impressive demonstration, once they got it working:...
H.264 video streaming wirelessly (and slowly, at least during the caching sequence) using Microsoft's Silverlight video streaming, to an Apple iPhone. ...
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Microsoft 'worked with Apple' for Silverlight on iPhone, ...
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By Chris Maxcer, TechNewsWorld
Let's put this simply: If you want to stream free, professional videos online, Clicker makes finding the video easier than most other solutions I've seen. In fact, it's one of the few online television and video search guides that I've felt compelled to create ...
Online
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
Over the last five years, Microsoft has undergone a gradual, but significant, shift in its public image, a shift toward interoperability and a willingness to play more fairly in competitive markets. At the same time, it remains a commercial software producer ...
Online
Microsoft
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
In October, Mac US retail desktop PC revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies combined command so much more market share, while competing for the same ...
Hardware
Apple
PC
Mac
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
Download a 14-day trial of Notion 3 music composer, plus 10-day trials of IK Multimedia plug-ins, from Fileforum now. On the surface, this is a review of a music composition product entitled Notion 3, from Notion Software, priced at $249 suggested ...
Software
Office 2010
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Today, Amazon announced that an automatic update to its popular Kindle 2 e-reader will extend the device's battery life by 85% and add a native PDF reader to its repertoire of functions. The Kindle 2 could previously stay on for four days with wireless ...
Gadgets
Kindle
Amazon
By Paul Hartsock, MacNewsWorld
If you search for "browser" in the App Store, you'll get dozens of applications, each purporting to be an alternative to the iPhone and iPod touch's built-in Safari browser. In a sense, they are alternatives, since they look different and might have a few unique ...
Online
Safari
iPhone
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
It was a principal element of the Day 2 keynote at Microsoft's PDC 2009 conference last week in Los Angeles: an early demonstration of code being worked into Internet Explorer 9 that replaces the browser's outdated reliance upon the (very) old GDI rendering ...
Online
Firefox
Mozilla
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Microsoft's Xbox 360 is no longer compatible with the first -- and only -- third party memory card, Datel's Max Memory, after the distribution of a Dashboard software update. In response, Datel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. "Microsoft has taken ...
Gaming
Microsoft
Xbox 360
By Carmi Levy , Betanews
I'm the last person who would ever come out in support of smoking. It's a noxious, nasty habit that according to the US Centers for Disease Control kills 443,000 Americans every year. The CDC says smoking is the root cause of over 30% of all cancer-related deaths, 80% ...
Online
Apple
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
The new, much maligned "Aol." logo has upped its failworthiness. Newest buzz: A 27-year-old with no marketing expertise was the driving force behind AOL becoming Aol.; that has many people wondering what the company was thinking. Age isn't so much concern as lack of ...
Online
AOL
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Not since AT&T; gobbled up Cingular and rebranded as at&t; with that ugly Death Star-like logo has a company erred so far from sensibility. The new AOL brand, Aol., is coming soon to frighten you. AOL's attempt to be hip is anything but. Not that AOL, distributor of a ...
Online
AOL
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
Last week at Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference, Betanews had the honor of being invited to join a small cadre of reporters -- including noted blogger Long Zheng; TechCrunch's Steve Gillmor; and our good friend from SD Times and Technologizer, ...
Online
Silverlight
Microsoft
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Gartner is just full of bad news that will suck Windows PC manufacturers' thanks out of American Thanksgiving -- and Christmas along with it. Ho Ho Ho Ba Humbug. Today, the analyst firm predicted that based on fourth-quarter PC shipment estimates, for 2009, the market ...
Hardware
PC
Windows 7
By Jack M. Germain, TechNewsWorld
Microsoft announced at its Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday the release of version 4.0 under the Apache 2.0 license. The license transfer makes good on a longstanding promise from Redmond that it would make the popular .NET code base available as ...
Other
Microsoft
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
Let's be absolutely honest and straightforward about this right up front: Google Chrome OS is not an operating system . It's a device, like the iPhone, only that Google wants to license its specifications to OEMs. Any OEM that builds it is making a Chrome ...
Online
Chrome
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped into my head -- like a ...
Online
Microsoft
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Black Friday is just a week away and the demand for ebook readers looks to already be too great. Earlier this week, Sony said its 3G-connected Daily Edition Reader may not arrive in time for the holidays. Preorders for the device began on Wednesday, but it will ...
Gadgets
Kindle
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Sony yesterday discussed its plans to open a download shop similar to iTunes or Amazon Digital Downloads. Reportedly given the tentative name "Sony Online Service," the online store would make the many different types of Sony digital content available in a single ...
Hardware
Sony
By Carmi Levy , Betanews
I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks at renderings of Apple's long-rumored tablet - or iTablet, or whatever name the faithful have assigned to it this week - and wishes the FedEx truck would pull up to my door with an early demo in time for the holiday season. I'm ...

