Tag: videos
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The Guardian news app hits Android Market
Read all about it! – Following the successful transition of popular ‘serious’ newspaper The Guardian into an app for iOS-based gadgets, the British institution will touch down on the Android Market from today. 190 years after the first printed edition of “The Manchester Guardian” as it was originally known, the newspaper now shifts an average…
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Google videos update bring movie rentals to Android 2.2 Froyo
As promised Google’s Android Videos rental service which was previously launched only on 3.1 Honeycomb – has been updated today to include versions 2.2 Froyo and 3.0 Gingerbread, meaning the G’s movies on mobiles are now possible. Titles such as The King’s Speech and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 aided the May launch…
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YouTube pulls plug on Lady Gaga in copyright row
YouTube has (offensively) suspended Lady Gaga’s official channel on the video sharing network due to a copyright row with a Japanese media company. This outrage follows the Poker-faced singer’s appearance on the “SMAP X SMAP” weekly television show, where she performed several of her hit songs to promote the new album release “Born This Way”.…
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Google News will receive major changes – starting with US
The face of Google News will be getting some work done when some major changes to the service come into effect – initially rolling out in the US with the rest of the world set to follow. The Google News service is widely used all across the globe as a news hub, and the changes…
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Popular news network hits Android and Blackberry mobiles – Al Jazeera app now free for download
If you enjoy your world affairs, you’ll be very aware of Al Jazeera – the popular english-speaking satellite news channel coming straight out of Qatar – now broadcasting to your pocket via Android and Blackberry mobile gadgets. Via the Al Jazeera app, now hitting the Android Market and Blackberry App World, streaming news is delivered to…
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Youtube launches Youtube Live, for streaming live videos
Youtube have just announced the roll out of a new live video streaming service, Youtube Live. Currently the service is in Beta, meaning it is the first trial run of the new service. At present there isn’t a huge amount of live content available, and changes may be made by Youtube as it goes along.…
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Adobe release Flash to HTML5 conversion tool – Flash finally on iOS?
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Adobe have released an experimental tool which converts Flash content (FLA files) to HTML5, via its Adobe Labs website. The tool is strangely named ‘Wallaby’ and can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe Labs website. The main advantage to such a tool is that Flash content can now be made iOS compatible, as…