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Douglas Adams’s fictitious invention, the Babel fish organism, from his best-selling novel The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , fits into the ear so that the listener can understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines’ iLingual iPhone app doesn’t realize his ...
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Music is too expensive to be free and too free to be expensive on a song-by-song basis, because on-demand music licensing rates are becoming too high for advertising to cover — as shown once again by imeem’s recent sale to MySpace at a heavy discount. This could be a boost to playlist ...
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News Corp has rattled its saber in Google’s direction for months, as chairman Rupert Murdoch accused the company of “stealing stories” by posting links and short article excerpts on its search engine. Now, he appears ready to strike, by pulling his company’s news ...
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Syabas's Popcorn Hour devices like this C-200 can no longer play YouTube videos, due to the absence of a deal between Syabas and Google/YouTube.
YouTube is set to become a regular feature of televisions, but only through its partners’ hardware. So far one company been blocked from ...
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Each song on this Twitter-able album is represented by no more than 140 characters of code.
Anyone with half a brain can put a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter ...
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Each song on this Twitter-able album is represented by 140 characters of code at most
Anyone with half a brain can paste a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter ...
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BARCELONA (Reuters) — French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google’s Android platform.
Android has won attention in the mobile industry lately, with Motorola and ...
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Google’s new playable music search feature was just a hint at the future of Google’s musical ambitions, if its new concept demonstration video of next year’s Chrome OS netbooks — featuring an embedded Lala music playback app — is any indication.
About 40 ...
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News Corp’s MySpace purchased streaming music competitor imeem for a bargain price reported to be in the ballpark of $8 to $10 million, but the lion’s share of the purchase price isn’t for the service itself — it’s for key staff to guide MySpace’s transformation ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.
Other events singled out by the New York-based ...
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AT&T may have the iPhone, but Verizon claims
its network offer five times the 3G coverage –
a stinging accusation considering that even the best phone in the world can be hobbled by a slow or non-existent data connection. After ...
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AOL plans to shed 1/3 of its employees after it is spun off from Time Warner on Dec. 9, according to an SEC filing . That’s about 2,300 staff.
If it’s any consolation to the nearly departed, CEO Tim Armstrong has decided to forgo his 2009 bonus, which could have totaled $4 ...
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Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to its citizens. We’re not talking about wiretapping. Rather, he wants to solicit expert opinions on scientific matters through the social network belonging to the ...
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Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to citizens – not through wiretapping , but by soliciting expertise on scientific matters through the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Expert ...
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Celemony's Melodyne Editor separates various audio elements of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night, letting producers treat audio files as if they were MIDI files (click to expand).
When Celemony posted a demonstration last summer its lead developer Peter Neubäcker dissecting chords and ...
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The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," the first music video played on MTV, applies as well to online streaming services now as it did to radio in the '80s.
MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with ...
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Google and a coalition of authors and publishers are hoping a second draft of a legal settlement will clear the way through a thicket of copyright laws to let Google to build the library of the future. The second version, filed close to midnight Friday night in federal court, needs to placate ...
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Ebay stills rules as the online garage sale site, but auction upstart Glyde thinks it knows a better way to resell used books, CDs, DVDs and videogames. The company claims “anyone can sell in ten seconds” on Glyde, which makes it simple to list an item, suggests a price based on ...
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Spanish-language media giant Univision has said “Bueno!” to Google’s YouTube, agreeing to make its television programming watchable on the popular video sharing site, the companies announced Monday.
That marks the first time these shows will have been available for online ...
