Shack news highlights for this week include Microsoft being superstitious, a sharp dose of reality for a seller on e-Bay, Google Maps’ launch of Street View, the improvements in face recognition, and the ability to legally copy HD DVD in the near future….
Google Street View has just launched. Using Google Maps you can now zoom in on a particular street corner, street or landmark – at street level! Google have once again launched an amazing service we just have to cover for all the shackers. Google Street View is cool, it is…
…video offerings. Video is seen as an important driver of traffic to sites such as MySpace, Google Inc.’s YouTube and other sites offering both user-generated fare and shows produced by TV networks and other professionals. In the coming months, MySpace has said it will offer video channels from National Geographic,…
…for mobile phones. The patent says Google could also monitor people playing on any game console that hooks up to the internet, including the Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox. It says information could be retrieved from previous game details saved on memory cards. Source: SMH Related Links: Google.com…
The Google Reader team has put together a Wii-centric version of Google Reader that makes it easy to bring your Google Reader feeds to your TV. Approximately two years ago, Google launched their first RSS reader to the public. Initial reactions were interesting but most users claimed that the service…
Looking to find your friends online and add their Mii characters? Now you can with the help of a mashup between Google Maps and Wii Friend codes MapWii.com is a Google Maps mashup of worldwide Nintendo Wii numbers (a identifier unique to each Wii system). MapWii has just announced updated…
Money from the three companies has enabled researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to create a series of Internet-connected robots. Google, Intel, and Microsoft are funding what may become a robot invasion. Money from the three tech companies has enabled researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to create a new series of…
…an internet portal akin to Yahoo and others. Unlike Digg and Netscape, which rely heavily on user submissions, MySpace will also scan thousands of web journals and news sites and group results by categories such as sports and politics. MySpace will go further than Google’s news offering by letting users…
Google is ready to introduce a copyright protection tool that helps media owners to automatically report acts of piracy on its YouTube video site Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the new tools, known as “Claim Your Content”, could resolve accusations that the world’s largest provider of Web search services is…
Nintendo has finalised and released the complete web browser for its Wii console. The new browser version, which is said to be “more convenient to use,” features faster start-up speed, better text clarity when zoomed-in, better navigation with the Wii Remote, built-in Yahoo! or Google search, option to hide the…
Shack news highlights for this week include PPT presentations – do they work?, python scare@Google, Thai government blocks access to YouTube, virtual raids on casinos and 100th million iPod sold. ABOUT NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Get the weekly insight into what’s happening in the technology and gaming industry. Listen to brief snippets…
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