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YouTube increases video time limit to 15 minutes
YouTube has announced today that it is extending the video time limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes for all non-partners on the website.
We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased
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Amazon: More e-Books will be sold than paperbacks by the end of 2011
According to Mashable, Amazon has stated that more e-Books will be sold than paperbacks by the end of next year. Shortly after that occurs, e-Books will sell more than hardcovers.
“I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
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Google owns 98.29% of the mobile search market; 90.57% of search market
According to recent data revealed today by Pingdom, Google is leading the mobile search industry with a market share of 98.29%. Yahoo!, the closest to Google in statistics, only carries about 0.81% of the mobile search market, and Bing with barely half of that, with 0.46% of the mobile search market.
Also, Google owns 90.57% of the desktop search market, with …Motorola reveals Q2 2010 earnings: strong smartphone sales
Motorola has posted their earnings for the second quarter of 2010 today. Motorola’s sales in Q2 2010 were at $5.4 billion, and earnings were at $162 million, up $26 million from Q2 of 2009.
Motorola’s mobile device division had sales of $1.7 billion, down 6% from Q2 2009. Operating earnings for the division were at $87 million, including a legal …100 million Facebook users exposed in a single directory
According to ThinkQ.co.uk, a hacker from Skull Security has compiled a 2.8 GB torrent file that used a web crawler program which took information from Facebook’s open access directory, which lists all the users who didn’t bother to change their privacy settings to not be included in search engines.
The directory contains over 171 million entries, pertaining to over …Racist video gets YouTube banned in Russia
According to Mashable, a court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has ordered a Russian ISP (Internet Service Provider) to block access to popular video sharing website YouTube after a video, “Russia for Russians,” was judged to be extremist.
The court’s decision also applies to the Internet Archive and three online libraries, Lib.rus.ec, Thelib.ru and Zhurnal.ru, all of which were found to host writings
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New Amazon Kindle announced: cheaper, Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon has announced plans to release a cheaper Kindle e-Book reader sometime next month. According to Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, Amazon is attempting to go “mass market” with this new Kindle, with one simple function, sell e-Books.
The new Kindle sports an increased gray-scale contrast display, a battery that can last …Facebook Questions officially launches
According to Mashable, Facebook has begun the roll out of their newest feature, Facebook Questions, allowing users to get answers to their questions from the entire Facebook community.
Facebook Questions is accessible via a “Ask Questions” button on the homepage or via friends’ profiles just like posting on a wall.Photo questions: For example, if you take a
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Apple looking into iOS 4 + iPhone 3G complaints and issue
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has begun “looking into” issues that are being reported from iPhone 3G users running iOS 4 on their Apple device. Discussion boards across the entire Internet are exploding with complaints and issues with iOS 4 and iPhone 3G users (Apple Discussion), with claims of poor system performance and stability, battery drains, and …
Microsoft offers details on Office for Mac 2011 features
Microsoft has posted a blog entry discussing the upcoming Office for Mac 2011 release scheduled for later this year. Microsoft has also posted a video of developers talking about some of the new features included in Office for Mac 2011.
The team has a short video (above) and here is a quick look at the new feature they discuss:
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Best Buy offering free InvisibleSHIELD antenna strips to iPhone 4 users
Engadget is reporting that Best Buy is apparently giving free kits of the “invisibleSHIELD 4FIX” from ZAGG that will cover the antenna of the iPhone 4 to “fix” the issue. Any iPhone 4 user interested in receiving the product may receive one. The offer includes installation of the seven strips that cover only the surface of the stainless steel …
LG to launch a few Windows Phone 7 devices this year
According to PC World, LG will be launching its first Windows Phone 7 device by the end of September and will release more by the end of the year, said a company representative.
One of the Windows Phone 7 devices is ready to go when Microsoft’s newest mobile OS launches later this year.“We have a
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NEW REPORT: White iPhone 4 delays due to light leakage?
Scott Moritz from TheStreet is reporting today that the white Apple iPhone 4 has been delayed to due an issue with backlight leakage around the edges of the device’s glass and even through the device’s white back panel.
Apparently, the back light from the iPhone display screen is leaking out around the edges of the glass and seeping through
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Android ready to tackle piracy
According to Droid-Life, The Android team is ready to take on one of it’s biggest problems, Piracy. Free, Paid apps have been all over the internet since Google launched their Android Marketplace. A new licensing service has been sent out to developers and should roll out to the market soon.
This simple and free service provides a secure mechanism to manage
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Motorola pokes fun at iPhone 4 antenna issue again in full-page NYT ad
Motorola has published a full-page ad in today’s New York Times, poking fun at the iPhone 4 antenna issue, once again. This time, Motorola’s ad carries the slogan, “No Jacket Required,” mocking that the iPhone 4 needs a case to “fix” the antenna issue.
Motorola also stated in the ad, “it’s just one of those things that comes as …Droid X spotted running Android 2.2
Droid-Life is noting that a screenshot of what appears to be a Motorola Droid X running Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) has been circulating around the Internet for a few days.
It does seem likely that there are Android 2.2 builds almost ready to be released for the Droid X, along with the Original Droid and HTC Droid Incredible, as soon …Apple releases Safari 5.0.1 and Safari Extensions Gallery
Apple today announced that they had released Safari 5.0.1, officially bringing support for extensions to the company’s web browser. Extensions were initially available in the initial release of Safari 5, but was mainly for developers to create them.
New in this update:
Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the…
Apple releases software update that brings inertial scrolling to older Mac’s
Apple today released a software update, Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update 1.0, which brings support for the Magic Trackpad announced yesterday and also brings inertial scrolling to older Mac notebooks.
This update adds support to Mac OS X for the Magic Trackpad and is required for its use.
It also enables inertial scrolling and the three-finger drag gesture in…
Apple releases iOS 4.1 Beta 2 to developers
Apple released the second beta of iOS 4.1, the company’s latest update to their mobile OS, to registered developers today. The update appears to carry no major changes or new features, but is simply bug fixes and improvements.
The first beta of iOS 4.1 was seeded two weeks ago. The iPhone 4 proximity sensor issue does not appear to …Apple facing new lawsuit over iPad overheating
Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is facing a new lawsuit from iPad customers regarding the company’s tablet computer overheating too quickly when in direct sunlight.
The complaint, filed July 23 in federal court in Oakland, California, seeks unspecified damages and class action, or group, status. It claims the iPad “does not live up to the reasonable consumer’s expectations created by
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