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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Google and Yahoo Release Online Video/TV Searching BETAs

Google and Yahoo have both released beta versions of their online video search tools. Both index close-caption text and display thumbnail images of television shows from certain broadcast networks. You can see Google and Yahoo's beta search tools at:

http://video.google.com
http://video.search.yahoo.com.

Incidentally, there are a couple companies who provide very good web search tools for online video and television broadcasts. Check out:

http://search.singingfish.com
http://www.altavista.com/video
http://www.blinkx.com



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Monday, January 24, 2005

Electronics Giants Form Alliance

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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters) -- The world's four biggest consumer electronics companies have agreed to start using a common method to protect digital music and video against piracy and illegal copying, they said on Thursday.

Japan's Sony Corp and Panasonic-brand owner Matsushita Electric Industrial, South Korea's Samsung Electronics and Dutch Philips Electronics formed the alliance because they want buyers of their products to watch or listen to "appropriately licensed video and music on any device, independent of how they originally obtained that content," they said in a joint statement.

Read the full article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/biztech/01/21/digital.rights.electronics.reut/index.html

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Sony to port LocationFree TV to PSP, laptops

Sony may have found the killer app to get non-gamers to fork over their cash for the upcoming PlayStation Portable: the unit will also serve as a broadband-enabled TV, allowing users to pick up hometown TV from anywhere in the world via a wired or WiFi connection. The technology, which will also be made available on Sony’s laptops, is apparently based on the company’s LocationFree TV system.

Read the full article here:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000600026877/

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The Apple Mac Mini

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So Apple’s released the details on their new Mac Mini, but we know you’d rather see ‘em here with all the rest of the gadget goodness, so here you go! (Did we mention their site’s been up and down?) So, as you can see, the slick anodized-aluminum box houses a slot-loading drive (DVD/CD-R), DVI (and VGA by included adapter), Ethernet (10/100, not Gigabit, unfortunately), USB 2.0, Firewire, audio out (but no audio in—this is a big deal!), a v.92 56k modem, and is 6 x 6 x 2.5-inches. It will be $499 with a 1.25GHz G4 processor and 40GB hard drive, and $599 with a 1.42GHz CPU and an 80GB drive.

Read the full article here:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000590026982/

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First details on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2006?

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Shuttle’s Media Center XPC prototype has enough going on in its own right—it’s running on the new Alviso chipset, and has some nice touches like a removable hard drive bay—but to be honest what we really care about is the fact that it’s designed to run on the next version of Windows XP Media Center Edition (rather than the new one which just came out). Obviously a lot could change between now and the third quarter of this year when Windows XP Media Center 2006 is due out, but according to AndandTech the next version of the software is definitely going to add support for CableCard, which means you’ll be able to plug digital cable directly into the box and natively record HDTV programming.

Read Full Article Here:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000583027047/

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