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HBO heads to the iPad with their own streaming HBO Go service
Posted on 18. Aug, 2010 by zevmo.
HBO has over 800 hours of Movies and HBO TV available online through its own HBO Go streaming web service. And yes, that includes the “Taxicab Confessions” type programming as well. Somehow I think that will be among the most popular watched shows. At the moment, content is only provided to subscribers on Verizon Fios [...]
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Microsoft Research Demos Their Translating Telephone Project
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by zevmo.
There are many translating devices and services that primarily take written text in a chat window, and attempt to translate it into different languages. For example, one I use is VoxOx. What if there was a way to have a near-real-time phone conversation, while the whole thing was being transcribed and translated? Microsoft Research is [...]
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What’s all the Buzz at Google? [First Look]
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by zevmo.
Today, the tech universe has been blogging about Buzz, a new Dr. Moreau synergistic (I had to put that word in) evolution to Twitter, Google Wave, GMail, Facebook Wall, and FourSquare. On paper, it seems like a really great idea. So, is it? My first impressions are relatively positive. This service will definitely get better. But [...]
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YouTube using new control buttons?
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by zevmo.
Checking out some Melvin Machismo videos on YouTube, and it looks like they are playing around with some new control icons. Take a look… These are very minor changes, but I like it. Share this story:
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Google’s fading home page
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by zevmo.
If you are like me, you have been wondering what the hell is going on with Google’s home page fading in the text (see video below). I am one for experiments, but does this make much sense? I think just about everyone knows that Google is a search engine (hopefully), and I thought maybe it [...]
