It is getting to look like stormy skies with all these cloud services around. Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music Beta, and iCloud are all offering space to store your music. Amazon just officially upped the ante with a press release tonight. If you subscribe to a paid Cloud Drive (the cheapest being $20/year for 20GB), it now includes unlimited space for .mp3 and .m4a files. … [Read more...]
Facebook’s “Awesome” News? Skype Video Integration
Last week, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg told reporters from Facebook's Seattle office that they would be launching "something awesome" this week. Today, it was announced what that news was: Skype Video integration into Facebook. The original statement that oversold today's announcement came hot on the heels of the Google+ announcement. It didn't live up to the hype and seems … [Read more...]
Fox News Acknowledges Twitter Account Hacking; Removes Tweets
Over the weekend, the verified @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account was hacked, as reported earlier. Fox News confirmed the hack in a story today and added some details: Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports were incorrect, of course, and the president was spending the July 4 holiday with his family at … [Read more...]
Netflix Continues March Toward World Domination By Expanding To Latin America
Netflix seems to be quickly becoming the de facto entertainment provider. People use it to subsidize their cable subscriptions and many are using it to completely replace their cable subscription. With already more subscribers than Comcast, Netflix is continuing that upward climb by expanding to Latin America later this year. According to a post written to the Netflix … [Read more...]
Google Puts A Physics-Based Game On YouTube To Promote The Nexus S Phone
YouTube might be getting into the web gaming business if we can take anything away from this Nexus Contraptions game, beyond the fun time. The object of the game is to use the various contraptions around the lab to get the core apps like Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, and YouTube into the Nexus S phone. … [Read more...]