Search giant Google has announced a new labs feature for their Gmail web-based email client called “video chat enhancements.” As Google explains: “Visit the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, turn on “Video chat enhancements,” and right away, you’ll see higher resolution video and a bigger video chat window.The higher resolution video uses a new playback mechanism [...]
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Is Facebook Developing their Own Mobile Smartphone?
October 9th, 2010 
admin Facebook is working on their own mobile handset. The reports claim that Facebook’s Joe Hewitt and Eric Tseng (previous Facebook iPhone app developer and previous Senior Product Manager for Android at Google) are heading up the project. Business Insider, however, is saying that the scope of the project is more of a mobile-OS project in nature. They’re rumored [...]
Twitter Redesiged
October 9th, 2010 admin Twitter has announced that its official website will be getting a heavy renovation. Aside from a cleaner, two-column layout, the new looks will also pack new functions, including Media. Now, it’s easy to see embedded photos and videos directly on Twitter, thanks to partnerships with DailyBooth, DeviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, [...]
YouTube will Offer Live Streaming
October 9th, 2010 admin Google announced that their streaming-video company YouTube would begin a limited trial of a new live streaming platform in conjunction with four of their partners: Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. The press release explains like this: “This new platform integrates live streaming directly into YouTube channels; all broadcasters need is a webcam or external USB/FireWire [...]
Amazon Debuts 99-Cent TV Shows
October 9th, 2010 admin It was just last week that Apple introduced TV episodes that could be rented for $0.99. Amazon, in lue of Apple’s announcement offering TV episodes for $0.99, has now rolled out their own $0.99 TV episodes, except theirs can be downloaded or streamed for the lifetime of the show’s availability. Looking at both companies’ offerings, [...]
BidHere.com Battles Scammers and gives eBay & CraigsList Run for their Money
October 9th, 2010 admin As anyone who has ever been in the market for new, highly sought after electronics can attest, deals that seem to be too good to be true normally are just that. Yet every day consumers shopping on Craigslist, eBay and various other sites are successfully baited by scammers. As such, BidHere.com, a recently launched pay-per-bid [...]
Google Announces ‘Instant’- Predictive Search Results as you Type
October 7th, 2010 admin Google announced a new search service titled Google Instant. Google details that over one billion users use the company’s search service each week. Those billions and billions of users, on average, take nine seconds to type a search query and an additional fifteen seconds selecting the appropriate returned result. Google is banking on reducing both [...]
OnStar Getting Facebook Button, In-Vehicle Social Networking
October 7th, 2010 admin General Motors’ in-car safety system OnStar is receiving a software update to allow Facebook integration as early as this month. Sources detail that the system would offer a speech-to-text function that would allow you to post and comment to Facebook without typing. Analysts are claiming the OnStar “social upgrade” is an attempt to keep up [...]
Google Music by Christmas
October 7th, 2010 admin Reuters is reporting that Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin, has been conducting talks with record labels in an attempt to launch an online music service before Christmas. Although record industry insiders are excited about the possibility of Apple and Google clashing on the digital music front, Google has yet to sign deals with any [...]
New Security Study Reveals Riskiest & Safest Places to Surf the Web Globally
October 7th, 2010 admin A recent study conducted by AVG Technologies identifies the riskiest and safest countries to surf the web. It’s based on data from 127 million computers that have AVG software installed across 144 countries. The study found users in the Caucasus region (Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan – the top four!) are all likely to face online [...]