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YouTube Shines Spotlight on New High-Def Content

YouTube continues to bring its high-definition video strategy into sharper focus with the announcement late this week of more support for HD videos. And while the new development may not make it any easier to know just where the hell Matt is -- regarding the globetrotting dancer in one of YouTube's most popular videos -- his scenic backgrounds will indeed look much clearer...

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My Wish List for a Beleaguered Profession

Like Tiny Tim, Cindy Lou Who, George Bailey and Hermey the Misfit Elf, I too have some Christmas wishes as this Year from Hell for journalists comes to a merciful end ...

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Internet Love: Intel Shows How to Sex Up a Tech Survey

Sure, it's a survey commissioned by a major tech company, which should trigger "Star Trek"-style alarms in most newsrooms. The headline, though, might draw some journalistic interest considering recent Dow Jones gyrations: "Most Adults Find Internet Access Essential to Daily Life in Today's Economy: Intel Survey." ...

WSJ Story on Google’s Net Neutrality Stance Raises Hackles

Google is either a major supporter of Net neutrality -- the concept that all Web traffic from all companies should be treated the same -- or is quietly working behind the scenes to set up its own Internet express lane with ISPs. The incoming Obama administration is either a big fan of Net neutrality, or its celebrated technology advisers are backing off their stances that no company's data traffic should get preferential treatment on the Web...

YouTube Aims to Curb Abuse With Safety Center

Recent headlines focusing on the Web's dark side and its impact on young people can be enough to frighten parents into shutting down their child's Internet service accounts. The world's top user-generated video Web site has another idea: Give teens and parents more information about the kinds of cyber-behavior they should report when they do bump into it on the Web...

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Major Media Ignore Science, Tech at Own Risk

Here are just a handful of the big stories that CNN and other news organizations won't be able to fully cover over the next two to three years: ...

Google Gives AdWords Mobility

Maybe you've seen more of them during your Christmas shopping jaunts at the neighborhood mall this holiday season than you did last year; people using smartphones while in stores to do Web searches on products, price comparisons, or even to place orders ...

Policy Wonks Urge US Cybersecurity Overhaul

The report is called "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency," and one paragraph in its opening section succinctly sets forth the Internet-related challenges awaiting President-elect Barack Obama ...

Virtual Realty: The Online Real Estate Detente

How did Seattle become the home for technology companies that want to help you buy or sell ... a home? Sure, it's where Microsoft and Amazon are based, and it's a well-educated, tech-savvy community, and the University of Washington churns out more than its share of software engineers ...

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The Mumbai Reports: Will Twittering Masses Supplant Pro Journalists?

I'm starting to lose track of which major news event is supposed to be THE turning point for technology-driven citizen journalism. Was it bloggers detailing the horrors of Sept. 11? The surreal graininess of cell phone videos and photos capturing the 2004 London subway bombings? The digital camcorder footage later that same year showing the South Asian tsunami washing away coastlines and lives? What about the eerie muted gunshots of a madman heard on another cell phone video, this one from the Virginia Tech campus in 2007?...

Is YouTube Becoming PrudeTube?

In the early days of YouTube, one could find scads of commercial pornography, plenty of amateur pole-dancing and scatological material out the wazoo, but as the world's top user-generated video Web site chases down more revenue, it has also cracked down on the kind of mature content that might make advertising executives a tad nervous when they're deciding where to place their brands -- not to mention moms and dads wondering what uploaded atrocities the kids are viewing now...

Cheating Scandal Roils Online Gambling Industry

Regular viewers of "60 Minutes" may not have been aware of a major scandal in the online gambling industry before Sunday night's broadcast, but Internet poker enthusiasts already knew the score and were waiting for reporters to show their cards ...

YouTube Pays Homage to Its Stars at Live Event

President-Elect Barack Obama didn't show (previous commitment), but Obama Girl was there. So was Obama's unofficial Web troubadour, will.i.am. A real politician, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, presented an award to a real member of royalty, Queen Raina of Jordan, while Chad Vader, the unambitious, not-so-real brother of a member of pseudo-royalty, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader, looked on...

Agassi’s Electric Car Plan Gets Bay Area Jump-Start

In four years, driving a car in the San Francisco Bay area may involve a variation of the "plug and play" concept. Think "plug and drive," if the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and start-up Better Place have their way ...

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Bond Goes Commercial: Quirky Gadgets Out, Product Placements In

The history of James Bond films is the history of our fascination with technology: booby-trapped briefcases, jetpacks, cars with machine guns and ejector seats, super-magnet watches, cars driven by remote control, acid-filled fountain pens, cars that become invisible, sharks with frickin' lasers ...

MySpace Suicide Case Exposes Legal Gap

So far, the testimony in the Lori Drew cyber-bullying trial, which began Wednesday in Los Angeles, has generated headlines for its inherent drama and tragedy: the mother of a teenage daughter, accused of using the MySpace social network to stage an elaborate hoax that ends with the suicide of a troubled 13-year-old classmate, Megan Meier ...

Adobe Promises Flash-ier Smartphones by 2009

That blur you saw at the edges of your vision just now? That would be the Internet continuing to move at light speed to your cell phone and other mobile devices. So Adobe's argument is, how can anything move that fast without Flash? ...

Game Sector Hauls In October Treats

Facing down the nastiest alien creatures in "Gears of War 2" may seem like a cakewalk compared to the big boss battle awaiting the video game industry this Christmas -- maintaining strong sales during an extremely challenging economic environment that has resulted in gaming retail outlets Circuit City filing for bankruptcy and Best Buy warning of consumer spending slowdowns...

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Game Makers Going Soft? Don’t Count on It

The military squad members from the hyperviolent "Gears of War" video game franchise are on your TV screen, sandwiched in between football scoring drives or reality show arguments or autopsies on "CSI Des Moines." Only there's not a insectoid killer alien to be seen for miles in this particular commercial ...

Botnet Hunters Bypass Cops to Bring Down Spam Host

If you notice less spam in your e-mail inbox today, you can thank a coalition of cybersecurity researchers who have made it their mission to sew up spam-based "botnets" on the Web ...

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