If you got an HD-capable digital camera or camcorder over the holidays, you might be wondering which Web sites can handle those massive files you’ve been recording. Over on Webware, we put six big video-hosting sites head-to-head to see which one handled HD video the best.
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Multitouch gestures on the iPhone are simple and really easy to use. Mobile touch-screen devices that don’t have it, however, can make Web browsing a harrowing experience. Enter Linja Zax, a new project that’s trying to give users an easy way to zoom in and out of Web …
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YouTube on your PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii looks a little sexier with a new portal site designed specifically for video game console browsers.
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Don’t have an Apple TV or a TiVo box, and have been lusting after watching YouTube videos from your couch? …
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On Thursday Boxee will be releasing a new version of its media center entertainment software that adds support for Netflix Watch Instantly streaming movies.
Unlike streaming solutions from Roku and Microsoft’s XBOX 360, Boxee’s effort includes the option to both browse and search through Netflix’s library. Roku’…
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All this could be yours, human.
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Looking for the perfect holiday gift for an Xbox 360 owner? When a signed copy of Gears of War 2 by creator Cliff Bleszinski isn’t enough, Sam’s Club has up for auction a 19-inch-tall replica head of a locust drone…
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As mentioned early last month by my CNET News colleague Daniel Terdiman, Microsoft is giving users the option to browse and purchase XBOX Live Marketplace content within the browser. The new store front, which is slated to go live early Wednesday morning is already beginning to appear on XBOX.com, …
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SAN FRANCISCO– While most of this week’s Web 2.0 Summit has centered on trying to find business models that work in today’s slumping economy, two of the most exciting ventures are also the least affordable–at least for now.
Those two companies are Tesla Motors and Shai Agassi’s Better Place. The two have completely different business models, but are joined by the idea that gasoline vehicles are something that will not last. Tesla, which is the creation of PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, is creating expensive sports cars that run off nothing more than electricity–and a large bank account to afford the six-figure cost of the vehicle. Meanwhile, Agassi’s Better Place is aiming to change the paradigm in the automobile industry to the point where everything is electric, and instead of filling up in gas stations we’re simply getting our batteries swapped out in less time than it would take to go through a car wash.
Both Musk and Agassi face huge financial hurdles on the way to seeing their visions become as ubiquitous as the business models they’re trying to replace. In Musk’s case it’s infrastructure as much as it is improving the actual technology.
Tesla’s current model, which is a two-door roadster, costs consumers in excess of $100,000, and the company cannot produce them fast enough. The waiting list, which is currently at a little over 1,200 people, matches that of Tesla’s current yearly production. “We’re making 1,200 a year” said Musk “and eventually 1,500 a year.”
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For a little over a week now PlayStation 3 owners have been creating thousand of levels in LittleBigPlanet, a platformer where creativity is both encouraged and rewarded using an ever-expanding level making tool set. The only problem is that these tools are relegated to the game, meaning if you’re …
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Later this week Valve Software, makers of the popular Half Life series, and the Steam software distribution system are releasing the first version of the Steam Cloud service in the demo for the upcoming cross-platform title Left 4 Dead. The service will keeps things like game saves, mouse and keyboard …
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Since Netflix introduced its Watch Instantly service back in January 2007, Mac owners have been left out in the cold. Besides using Apple’s Boot Camp software, or third-party solutions like Parallels and VMware to use Windows, there was no other way to watch Netflix’s streaming videos with out-of-the-box …
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