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  • Film rental comes to YouTube

    YouTube has ventured into the world of online film rental, offering five (yes, five) movies available to watch for just $3.99 each. The films currently on offer are from independent film makers, meaning that, at present, there are no blockbuster titles. Will they be coming in the future? We hope so. Will we be able to watch them through the YouTube iPhone application? Doubtful, but we can hope.

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iTunes Preview now allows browser based music sample streaming

by Josh Holat on Jan 8, 2010 at 09:29 AM

iTunes Preview, the website launched by Apple back in November, was a great addition to the iTunes Store. This browser based application opens when a potential customer clicks an iTunes link in their browser but doesn’t have iTunes installed. iTunes Preview now thankfully allows those people to actually listen to… Continue Reading »

Don’t Bing me!

by Aaron Kraus on Jan 7, 2010 at 08:58 PM

Steve Ballmer, I have a problem with something you said yesterday. During CES, you made a great dig at Google, saying that Microsoft’s intent with Bing is “... not just trying to provide people with a list of links; we want to understand user intent and anticipate what users are… Continue Reading »

Google lost to Apple in purchase of Lala

by Josh Holat on Dec 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM

More news of Apple’s acquisition of Lala has surfaced.  Apparently, Google was also in the battle to get ahold of the music streaming service and the people behind the company in order to use it with their music search technologies. However, it’s quite obvious now that Apple came ahead in… Continue Reading »

Apple purchases music streaming service Lala

by Josh Holat on Dec 9, 2009 at 08:01 AM

Apple’s acquisition of Lala is interesting no matter from what angle you look at it. With a large library of music freely available to stream as well as some content for purchase, Lala’s technology could certainly offer some interesting new updates to iTunes. Going by what Lala currently does, there… Continue Reading »

Boxee unveils the Boxee Beta and Boxee Box

by Ed Parry on Dec 8, 2009 at 09:00 PM

Boxee has launched the next version of their incredibly popular platform, Boxee Beta. At their packed unveiling event today in New York, Boxee showed off the brand new user-interface and released details on the Boxee Box, built by D-Link. The Boxee Beta will be available to some early access users,… Continue Reading »

Exclusive interview with Kyle Van Essen, co-developer of Notify

by Josh Holat on Nov 25, 2009 at 09:50 PM

Kyle Van Essen of Vibealicious recently made quite a name for himself and his application, Notify, in the Mac and Objective-C development space. With thousands of users behind Notifiy 1.x, a GMail notifier, Kyle has recently been undergoing a complete rewrite of the application. In doing so, he has been… Continue Reading »

Apple launches browser based iTunes Preview for iTunes links

by Josh Holat on Nov 14, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Apple is trying to make it even easier for people to get involved in the iTunes ecosystem and enjoy the content available on the service. They have now launched a web based sort of iTunes Store that they are calling iTunes Preview. This system allows users who don’t have iTunes… Continue Reading »

Spore spawns on Facebook

by Kirk Hiner on Nov 9, 2009 at 01:23 PM

Not content with just one “weedy species” franchise in the form of The Sims, Electronic Arts now wants to take over your gaming garden with Spore. EA studio Maxis announced last week the open beta for Spore Islands on Facebook. Spore Islands invites Facebook users to experience the Spore universe… Continue Reading »

Google Chrome for Mac now official, here’s a first look

by Josh Holat on Oct 23, 2009 at 09:09 PM

This week, Google announced an official version of Google Chrome, a result of the Chromium project, at the Web 2.0 Summit in California. What that means is that outside of nightly developer builds, this version—build 4.0.223.8—is the first official release build of the software. While the Windows version has been… Continue Reading »

Dropbox makes its way to the iPhone, proves to be just as awesome as on the Mac

by Josh Holat on Oct 2, 2009 at 04:31 PM

Remember about a month ago when the team over at Dropbox submitted their iPhone application to Apple for review for the App Store? Yea, we know it’s been a while. Well that application has now been accepted and is available as a free download through the App Store! The application… Continue Reading »

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