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YouTube now offers auto-captioning

by Ronny Kerr, March 4, 2010 | Comments

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In an effort to make its videos more accessible, Google makes its speech-to-text tech mainstream

Google's YouTube announced Thursday morning that auto-captioning is now available to all users.Both users and video owners can request for a video to be captioned, after which the video is added to a queue. Transcriptions could take an hour or a whole day. Though the captioning service had been available to a few small partners since 2008, this is the ...

iPhone mobile Web share in decline

by Chris Caceres, March 4, 2010 | Comments

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Android and other smartphones rapidly gaining marketshare, says Quantcast

Apple still holds a tight grasp on mobile OS Web share, according to data released by Quantcast this week. But in the last quarter alone, it's lost 4.5% of that share to competitor smart phones. Not surprisingly, check out which mobile OS is rapidly on the rise - Google's Android, which gained 44.6% over the past quarter. Google's Android OS ...

Tripit lands $7M to fuel travel management

by Matt Bowman, March 4, 2010 | Comments

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A tech blogger favorite, the travel service plans to grow more features and boost marketing spend.

Tripit, a service that helps people manage and share their travel plans, landed a $7 million Series C round of funding, led by Azure Capital partners. Existing investor O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) also participated. The round brings Tripit’s total funding to $13.1 million. For someone who travels infrequently, the utility of having a third-party organize your trips may not be ...

Microsoft's first Android app scans barcodes

by Ronny Kerr, March 4, 2010 | Comments

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Tag turns the Android's camera into a barcode scanner like ShopSavvy and Google Shopper

Microsoft today launched an Android app, Tag, the first to be developed for the direct competitor to Microsoft's own mobile OS, Windows Mobile.This isn't the first time Microsoft has developed for a competing handset. In fact, Tag has already launched on most other popular smartphone devices, including Windows phones, the iPhone, and Blackberry and Symbian devices. Microsoft also launched a ...

Google releases new Gesture Search app

by Chris Caceres, March 4, 2010 | Comments

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New feature lets you search your Android phone with touch screen simple gestures

If you own a phone running Android 2.0, definitely check out this new utility Google has just released. The feature allows users to search with written gestures on their screens. So how does it work? Pretty much as easy as it sounds. You load up the Gesture Search application and then begin drawing letter on your screen of what you're ...

Colbert, Daily Show yanked from Hulu

by Matt Bowman, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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Parent Viacom says the site doesn’t bring in enough revenue. Hulu publishes 'fond farewell.'

American cultural literacy took a devastating blow today: The Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report will no longer be available on Hulu come March 9th. Viacom will keep the shows online at TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com, but many viewers will simply be watching more reruns of the Family Guy. Viacom, which unlike ABC, Fox and NBC is not ...

Layar returns to App Store

by Chris Caceres, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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After about two months of re-engineering, augmented reality browser returns to iPhone

Layar, an augmented reality mobile browser, on Wednesday announced its return to the App store. In case you don't know the full story, just a couple months ago, the Amsterdam-based company removed its product from the App store due to technical issues and a flood of complaints from its users. Dirk Groten, CTO of Layar said, "We had issues already ...

Playdom acquires Offbeat Creations

by Chris Caceres, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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M&A's heating up in the social gaming space

Playdom, a major player in the social gaming space, announced on Wednesday it has acquired Offbeat Creations, a developer of social games for Facebook. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.Offbeat Creations is known for games like Super Farkle, a popular dice game which sports over one million monthly active users. Other games it owns include, Be a Tycoon, ...

Facebook leak causes canceled Israeli raid

by Ronny Kerr, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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Soldier's status update says, "On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah," disclosing classified information

The Israeli military canceled a military raid on a West Bank town on Wednesday, reported Israel’s Army Radio, because a soldier had disclosed details of the operation on his Facebook page."On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, god willing, we come home," wrote the soldier in a status update, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He even revealed ...

Perfect Market raises $6 million

by Chris Caceres, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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Startup looking to deploy its solution across online papers, magazines and other publishers

Perfect Market, a startup which offers publishers a service to monetize their online content, announced it has raised $6 million in Series C funding. Tribune Company led the round while existing investors Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners and Idealab also participated. The company previously raised a total $15.6 million back in 2008. What Perfect Market has to offer is a ...

Facebook ups its maximum photo size

by Ronny Kerr, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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Photos can now be as large as 720 pixels, almost 20% bigger than previous limit

Facebook announced Tuesday evening that the maximum photo size allowed on Facebook has been increased by almost 20% from 604 pixels to 720 pixels.The picture provided is solely meant to represent the scale of the original max and new max side-by-side.With these changes, Facebook hopes that allowing higher-quality photos on the site will make photo viewing that much more enjoyable. ...

SharesPost launches venture-backed index

by Matt Bowman, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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The “eBay of private company stock” is sticking pricetags on Facebook, Twitter, Tesla and more.

If you follow tech news, you’ve probably heard that Facebook was once valued at $15 billion, and that Twitter is worth around $1 billion. Normally, such estimations are impossible to make because they rely on information from financing rounds that usually remains confidential. It takes a leak or an investment from a public company for such valuations to make it ...

How Picnik, Google's latest buy, was born

by Matt Bowman, March 2, 2010 | Comments

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The email that launched the company reveals what entrepreneurial childbirth looks like.

How do you decide whether your crackpot idea is worth all your blood sweat and tears for a decade? It’s a question every budding entrepreneur must ask. One approach is to study the AHA moments of those who made it—and the digital age is thankfully preserving those moments better than every before. Mike Harrington, one of the Picnik founders who ...

Netflix coming to iPhone?

by Chris Caceres, March 2, 2010 | Comments

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Online video rental and streaming service, sends out survey asking its users the question

Netflix is looking into whether it should bring its services to the iPhone or not. Hacking Netflix caught the news earlier today based on a survey question Netflix sent out to some of its users. The question reads as follows: "Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies & TV episodes on their iPhone. The selection ...

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