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YouTube Works to Enhance Tech for the Disabled
Everyone who uses the social, video-sharing site YouTube may now be familiar with the automatic closed-captioning system—and mostly they know it by how funny it can be. For most of us, the automated closed-captioning is just a gimmick, something silly that cropped up on videos a year ago. We tried it once, and then promptly ...
Former Falconstor CEO Resigns from Another Gig
It looks like ReiJane Huai will be moving on again after he resigned from SeaChange of Acton, Massachusetts. Their Board of Directors accepted his resignation after his extremely short stint with them. No news yet if the video content delivery company will be seeking a replacement. This action follows ReiJane’s recent resignation as CEO, President ...
U.S. Falling Behind World in Broadband Adoption, FCC Fears
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed all comers to the Web 2.0 Summit with some dire news: the United States doesn’t seem to be doing too well with broadband adoption. The harsh criticism of current policies comes after the release of a study last year by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation that shows the U.S. ...
Google Ads Coming to Verizon FiOS TV
“Fiber all the way,” reads the motto of the Verizon FiOS roll-out, touting the fastest Internet in the United States, the clearest phone calls, and the highest resolution TV. It looks like Verizon will be handing one more thing to their eager FiOS customers: Google TV Ads. According to TechCrunch, the two companies are set ...
Hacking the Kinect Leads to Very Cool Things
Recently, Microsoft launched the Kinect for Xbox. A stereographic camera set capable of detecting and tracking movement in the room—something to help combat the extreme popularity of the Wii as a motion-sensing controller device. The Kinect has exploded onto the scene with a giant number of titles, but really where it’s shining today is how ...
Google Docs Now Going Mobile
Looks like Google Docs just got better: they’re rolling out a mobile editing platform for people on-the-go. The web platform will enable mobile devices to read and modify Google Docs on the fly. Good for anyone who happens to own a smartphone or tablet who sometimes gets the itch to fix something up and they’re ...
Comcast Defends NBC Universal Merger Against Senatorial Criticism
In a statement Tuesday, Comcast responded to criticism from Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont-I) about their upcoming takeover of NBC Universal. The senator sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to block the merger on the grounds that it would be too close to a monopoly and that this would limit diversity and increase ...
Google Android Rolling Out Near-Field Communications
Yesterday, in some coverage of the Web 2.0 Summit, we spoke about Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned the upcoming Android OS, Gingerbread—one element of this new OS will be an API for a new wireless-wallet concept called Near-Field Communications (NFC). In part, this technology has applications beyond financial transactions, but the driving force behind it ...
Web 2.0 Summit Brings Gingerbread, Patience for Chrome OS, and Adobe
Google must have a lot up their sleeve these days with lots of products—mostly on the software front for Web 2.0—to titillate the audience with. They cover, most importantly, developments in the Google Android operating system and the much awaited Chrome OS. Just in time for Thanksgiving and not missing out on Halloween, the next ...
Palm Pre Developer Starved, Killed by Sprint
Once released by Sprint with much fanfare, the Palm Pre heralded what Palm thought would be their best effort to unseat iPhone as preeminent smartphone—but now it has fallen so far behind that Sprint is axing the line and removing it from their stores. Speculation as to the reason why the device eventually failed surmise ...