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YouTube to Add Download Feature

The popular video site YouTube will be adding a download feature along with the widely used embedded and share feature. I am not sure if this all makes sense as visitors will more than likely hoard up as much video clips as they can, thus not visiting YouTube to see a video replay of what [...]

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Vatican Plunges into New Media

Vatican Plunges into New Media

The holy of holiest takes a plunge into new media! The Vatican will soon have its own channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholic faithful or the curious will be able to see Pope Benedict or Church events, a Vatican source said on Saturday. So now I can watch mass on YouTube [...]

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Mix Turtle – The Music Search Engine

Mix Turtle – The Music Search Engine

TechJaws.com searches the internet looking for the tastiest sites that offer up some of the coolest stuff and we found a good one in Mix Turtle. You can play your favorite songs by searching by artist or song title. It serves up the best of what you like when you are in the mood to [...]

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Pandora is Saved by Fans

Pandora is Saved by Fans

Pandora can be thankful from the huge support this struggling music service has received from its fans. Pandora fans helped to persuade the House of Representatives to unanimously pass the Webcaster Settlement Act on Saturday, according to multiple people associated with the bill. The proposed legislation is designed to give Webcasters added time to negotiate [...]

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Intel and Yahoo Join Forces

Intel and Yahoo Join Forces

Intel today launched a system-on-a-chip (SoC) for digital television, and said it has partnered with Yahoo in building software that brings the Web to the TV screen. Media Processor CE 3100, launched at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, is the first of a family of SoCs for consumer electronics, a market that Intel [...]

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Google Enters The Living Room

Google Enters The Living Room

It should be called Google Living Room, but will let Google have that say. Google has entered in the PC to TV arena with its Google Media Server. The Windows software works in conjunction with Google’s desktop search application – Google Desktop – to locate various media (photos, music and video) stored on your PC [...]

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Blu-ray No Way!

Blu-ray No Way!

Blu-ray was the king in the high-def DVD arena. Sony is not feeling that victorious and more like a beaten down old dog. Why is this? It seems that the fish (the consumers) are not taking the bait, or that’s what it seems like so far. When HD DVD stepped away from the market earlier [...]

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