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Sony Online Service iTunes rival announced

In Japan, Sony has outlined basic plans for a new online store that, if the plans pan out, will manage to rival iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and Flickr - at least for Sony customers.

Sony Online Service, as it's been dubbed at this early stage, will offer digital...

VIDEO: YouTube gets automatic captions

Google has used its automatic speech recognition tech, as seen in Google Talk, to offer machine-generated automatic captions across all of its YouTube videos.

"The captions will not always be perfect", says Google, "but even when they're off, they can still...

VIDEO: YouTube gets 1080p HD functionality

Google has announced that its YouTube video-sharing site is going 1080p. It's available to test right now on some videos, but will be going live for all users at some point next week. Until then, you can see some 1080p content by appending "&fmt=37" to the end of the...

Vimeo vs YouTube - which is the better video service?

It's all too easy to go to YouTube as a knee jerk reaction whenever you want to find a video on the internet. In fact, the term has passed into common parlance to refer to any user-generated internet film footage much the same as Google has come to refer to search. But...

YouTube intros skippable pre-roll adverts

YouTube has begun a "small test" of a new kind of advertising on the site, in an attempt to finally meaningfully monetise the billion videos it serves on a daily basis.

While initial testing for pre-roll adverts on the world's most popular video site did not...

Google launches data Dashboard

Google, perhaps reacting to criticism that it's keeping a whole load of your data in disparate places, has launched a "dashboard" that displays all the info that the search giant is keeping on you, and allowing you to modify that data.

The service, which can be...

Orange T&Cs ban Spotify, Facebook and YouTube

Orange's terms and conditions for its mobile internet ban applications like Spotify, AudioBoo, Ustream, Facebook and YouTube, something which could be of concern to those considering buying an iPhone with the mobile network.

In the company's T&Cs, it says: "Not...

Susan Boyle album becomes biggest ever CD pre-order on Amazon.com

Whilst here in the UK Amazon is highlighting the pre-order sales success of American company Microsoft's Windows 7 OS, in the States, Amazon.com has announced that Brit Susan Boyle's upcoming album, "I Dreamed a Dream," has become the biggest ever CD pre-order in the...

U2 concert to be broadcast live on YouTube

Fans of U2 will be able to watch the band's upcoming performance from the Rose Bowl in LA live on U2's YouTube channel.

Described as the first global concert webcast, those in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico,...

Channel 4 content to be available on YouTube

YouTube and Channel 4 have done a "landmark" deal that will see full-length versions of the broadcaster's top TV shows available online, on demand on the Google-owned site.

The agreement, 6 months in the making, is for a 3-year period and will mean programmes...

VIDEO: YouTube serving 1 billion videos a day

YouTube is celebrating its third anniversary of being bought by Google with the news that it is serving over 1 billion videos a day, showing that we all need our quick fix of the random and bizarre in video format.

"We're working hard to keep up with the fast...

3D - short term play or here to stay?

As they say, “technology drives consumer demand". Well, not in my book! I look closer to the edges – to the users themselves - for the drivers of consumer demand. Technology that enables consumer desire is where my interest lies. The question is whether stereo 3D - realism...

VIDEO: Downfall Hitler parody memes go into overdrive

Ever seen the movie Downfall about the fall of Hitler at the end of the Second World War? It's a fantastic film, however we are betting you haven't seen it. Sorry.

What you probably have seen is one of the parodies below. There are hundreds of them ranging...

10 YouTube 3D videos worth watching

3DTV is still very much in its infancy and you can tell that by the amount of content on YouTube that is 3D enabled.

Still, we've watched a lot of "interesting videos" [read crap - Ed] so you don't have to. The result? 10 great anaglyph 3D videos (that's the...

Five ways to enjoy 3D right now

Just because the broadcasters and TV manufacturers insist on spending years around board-room tables deciding how they're going to deliver 3D to our homes, it doesn't mean that we have to wait to get our fix of stereoscopic images. So, while their coffee gets cold and digestives...

President Obama warns "be careful" on Facebook

President Barack Obama has spoken out against the potential dangers of posting personal content on social networking sites.

Answering a question put to him from a group of teens, about how to go about becoming president, Obama said:

"Well, let...

YouTube to charge for streaming Hollywood movies?

YouTube is looking to charge viewers for the first time in the service's history. The number one video site on the web is currently in talks with a three major movie studios to start a video on demand model which would likely see feature releases available on a rental...

Samsung Blu-ray goes YouTube

Samsung has announced that going forward all its Blu-ray products will come with YouTube support as it continues to try and convince people to embrace the HD format.

With the new service, available from 3 September, consumers can also enjoy video clips from...

Music videos make a return to YouTube

The block created by YouTube in March this year has finally come to an end, once more enabling thousands of music videos to be viewed by UK users.

The block started after the Google-owned company had a disagreement over licensing with the PRS, who collects royalties...

YouTube hosting week-long Ghostbusters screening

To comemmorate the 25th anniversary of the legendary Ghostbusters movie, YouTube has signed a deal with Sony to show the movie on its site for a week. However, UK users aren't able to watch it. Instead, they get a message saying "This video is not available in your country...

MoD okays social networking services for troops

In stark contrast to recent rules set by the authorities in the US, here in the UK, the Ministry of Defence is encouraging British troops to use social networking services.

The MoD has published a new "Online Engagement Guidelines" document that makes it clear...

YouTube officially goes 3D

YouTube has confirmed the rumours that it is going 3D by releasing an instructional video an a 3D page for users to better understand what 3D is all about.

"First there was 1953's 3D thriller "House of Wax," then there was the Michael Jackson adventure "Captain...

Microsoft closing Soapbox

Further to the news that the company was planning to scale the service down, its now been revealed that Microsoft is to completely close its Soapbox site. Soapbox, launched in 2006, was Microsoft's answer to YouTube and launched as a rival, or alternative, to the Google...

YouTube claims growth is good

YouTube has gone on a bit of a PR offensive against what it refers to as "myths we repeatedly see". The company asserts that growth is good for the company, and that it's monetising its content effectively.

"There's been a lot of speculation lately about how...

YouTube Goes 3D

Over the weekend, YouTube has quietly rolled out a new feature for the video sharing site. You can now upload in 3D.

A Googler known only as "Pete" has revealed on the help forum that he's building stereoscopic support for the streaming service in his "20%...