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DivX hammers another nail into Flash’s coffin

Sep 6, 2010 Software

DivX HiQ offers smoother YouTube playback

Poor old Flash.

It's endured a torrid time as of late. First up...

Tags: Default Player, Desktop Media, Flash 3d, Flash Html, Google, H 264, Hardware Acceleration, Hiq, Mov Files, Playback Quality, Player Divx, Pocket Lint, Software Divx, Tag Support, Third Dimension, Torrid Time, Video Platform, Video Playback, Vimeo, Web Player

Buzz lawsuit to cost Google $8.5m

Sep 6, 2010 General

Google proposes settling a lawsuit over its Buzz social network, whilst regulators launch a review of the firm's US search practices.

Tags: Buzz, Google, Regulators, Search Practices

App Week: Angry Birds on Android, Shazam upgraded

Sep 4, 2010 Hardware & Gadgets

APP NEWS:

Twitter comes to the iPad The wait is finally over for iPad owners and the official Twitter app is now available for download on the App Store, and it's much more than your average app. Fe...

Tags: Absolute Winner, App News, Discovery Service, Google, Handy Addition, Ipad Owners, Iphone, Itunes, Menages, Microsoft Search, Multitasking, Music Discovery, Panes, Photo Manipulation, Powerboss, Search Google, Shazam, Twitter, Which Allows Users, Youtube

Google teases Sept. 8 event with possible image search hooks

Sep 3, 2010 Hardware & Gadgets

Google sparked curiosity on Friday by sending out an invitation to Electronista and other members of the press for a special event on September 8. The invite is brief and teases a showing off of Google's "latest technological innovation" and an "inside look at the evolution of Goo...

Tags: Curiosity, Electronista, Evolution, Google, Google Search, Image Search, Invitation, Key Software, Moma, Museum Of Modern Art, Museum Of Modern Art Moma, Quot, San Francisco, Search Google, Search Search Engines, Software Companies, Software Engineers, Teases, Technological Innovation, Vp

Android web use closes gap with iOS in the US for August

Sep 3, 2010 Hardware & Gadgets

Android has significantly closed the gap with Apple in web traffic in the US, Quantcast said on Friday. Use of Google's mobile OS has climbed 17 percent from the start of the year until August, giving it exactly a quarter of traffic. Apple's iOS, meanwhile, has lost 11 percent over the same eig...

Tags: Apple Iphone, Eight Months, Gap, Google, Handhelds, Ios, Iphone, Lost, Mobile Os, Quantcast, Web Traffic

Rabid Consumer Watchdog Attacks Google CEO

Sep 3, 2010 General IT

Consumer Watchdog, a privacy advocacy group, is running a 15-second spot on a 540-square foot digital display in Times Square to promote a longer video the group made highlighting what it perceives to be Google's intrusion...

Tags: Advocacy Group, Caricature, Ceo, Consumer Advocacy, Consumer Privacy, Consumer Watchdog, Eric Schmidt, Free Ice Cream, Full Body Scans, Google, Intrusions, Parents, Privacy Advocacy, Times Square, Video Feature

Apple optimizes Movie Trailers page for HTML5

Sep 3, 2010 Hardware & Gadgets

Apple has expanded its Movie Trailers page with new features based on iOS-friendly HTML5 standards. The portal now includes a Showtimes page that provides a variety of information regarding closest theaters and movie schedules. Users can input a zip code and pick a theater, or allow the site to d...

Tags: Apple Help, Apple Trailers, Closest Theaters, Google, Iphone, Movie Schedules, Movie Trailers, New Features, Portal, Zip Code

Angry Birds Lite released for Android phones

Sep 3, 2010 Hardware & Gadgets

Android users get your thumb ready to tap that Market icon as Angry Birds has finally made the leap from iPhone to phones packing Google's open-source operating system.

The game, which has been downloaded over 5 million times on the iPhone, has arrived as a Beta version o...

Tags: 5 Million, Best Game, Beta Version, Birds, Chris Smith, Developers, Downloaders, Finished Version, Flying Creatures, Gameplay, Google, Iphone, Leap, Million Times, Nintendo, Open Source Operating System, Revelation, Sony Ps3, T3, Thumb