Thomas Baekdal recently wrote a post with the same title, and it interested me. I have known that sooner or later YouTube would put up some better quality videos, as they have Google’s deep pockets backing them, but what Thomas has shown is that YouTube is already doing so, at least on certain videos.
YouTube has […]

While at Northern Voice this year, one thing that was brought up was the quality of online video. I mentioned how I thought Stage6 with their online version of DivX was the best, and unfortunately, it seems I promoted it too late. Stage6 is set to be shut down at the end of this month. […]

Even though you’ll probably find Microsoft on the internet headlines for another reason, there is a problem, they still haven’t addressed (properly) concerning the market that made them what they are today: their Vista OS.
Although the demand is still high for Windows XP, Microsoft has been forcing their partners to “upgrade” to Vista by refusing […]

By now, I am sure everyone has heard of the Asus Eee, a brand that has been selling a fair number of small, portable laptops for the company.
I have been eyeing a their Eee line in hopes of having a really great blogging machine on the go. Something light, and reasonable for typing up […]

So, you think someone has it rough when they lose both their legs from the knee down? Well, in the eyes of the International Association of Athletics Federations, Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee, was found to have a leg up on his competition.
Oscar is a sprinter that has been denied a shot at running in […]

In what I see as a very strange change, Sun Microsystems now owns the open source database system MySQL. They were sold to Sun for one billion dollars, which isn’t the IPO that many people were expecting from the company.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote about the purchase on his blog.

MySQL is by far the […]

Over on the International Herald Tribune, there is an article that talks about our ever cheapening society, when it comes to technology, and it seems cars will no longer be excluded from that list, as a manufacturer in India is creating a car that will be sold for a fraction of today’s automobiles. Calling itself […]

One of the things that all companies want to do is create a brand, but unfortunately, not all of them stick with it. The Xerox logo, that we have all come to know and love, over the last 40 years is being replaced. The replacement looks like they went “web 2.0″ and as such, I […]

Once attached at the hip to Microsoft, Robert Scoble is now leaving the video production start up, PodTech, that he really helped bring into the light.
Currently, he is considering either going to Fast Company to run Fast Company TV, or to some other undisclosed offer.
It is sad to see such an enterprising company lose such […]

If you are a fan of rejoicing with the word w00t, with zero’s instead of the normal “o” for vowels, then you will be happy to know that Merriam-Webster, in their 2007 Word of the Year contest, has added the interjection used to express joy to their dictionary.
In 2004 it was blog. In 2005 it […]

So it looks like we broadband users are quickly putting a strain on the multiple-decade old system we call the Internet. As we download videos, music, podcasts, and other multimedia, we are using up more and more resources. This has lead some people to wonder if the Internet could eventually break down from the strain.
From […]

All of us online geeks have watched as eBay’s ownership of Skype not go as well as anyone had hoped. eBay recently agreed that they paid too much for the company, and developments of the platform haven’t been as aggressive as I would like.
Now, over on a blog on Guardian, there is a post saying […]

One of the reasons I like Stage6 better than YouTube is because of the upper limit of quality that DivX’s video sharing site provides is much higher than anything you will see on YouTube, but it looks like that might be changing with the announcement of YouTube HD over on TechCrunch.
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen […]

It looks like the very popular DivX video codec may soon be supported by the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. While it is still only a rumour for Microsoft’s platform, it has been confirmed for Sony’s PlayStation 3.
Adding DivX and Xvid to the PlayStation 3 means that movies that I have downloaded using […]

BestBuy - one of the biggest electronic retail stores on the US, and Mydeo - a video hosting website, worked together to create a video sharing/hosting website for BestBuy.

Why will people use their system instead of YouTube or other similar sites that can store/share video content? According tho the VP of BestBuy, this video service […]

Remember the OLPC project? One Laptop Per Child? A $100 laptop that actually costs over $200 in some countries? Well, the XO Laptop has received its first batch of orders and it comes from Uruguay.

100,000 is the number of XO laptops that will become available to children that have 6 up to 12 years. A […]