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YouTube is set to become a regular feature of televisions, but only through its partners’ hardware. So far one company been blocked from accessing YouTube videos on its set-top box pursuant to a July 2008 change in YouTube’s terms of service, with others soon to follow, according to sources close to the situation. Syabas, which has [...]

Anyone with half a brain can put a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter window. A free, open source program called SuperCollider (simplified instructions below) turns the short strings of code into [...]

BARCELONA (Reuters) — French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google’s Android platform. Android has won attention in the mobile industry lately, with Motorola and Sony Ericsson choosing it for their new top models. “We have significantly cut our investment in [...]

Google’s new playable music search feature was just a hint at the future of Google’s musical ambitions, if its new concept demonstration video of next year’s Chrome OS netbooks — featuring an embedded Lala music playback app — is any indication. About 40 seconds into the video to the right, Google’s video depicts a user [...]

News Corp’s MySpace purchased streaming music competitor imeem for a bargain price reported to be in the ballpark of $8 to $10 million, but the lion’s share of the purchase price isn’t for the service itself — it’s for key staff to guide MySpace’s transformation into an entertainment destination. The straw that broke imeem’s back appears [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards. Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which [...]

AT&T may have the iPhone, but Verizon Wireless claims its network offers five times the 3G coverage — a stinging accusation considering that even the best phone in the world can be hobbled by a slow or nonexistent data connection. After Verizon’s “There’s a map for that” ads (video above) started appearing online and on television, [...]

AOL plans to shed 1/3 of its employees after it is spun off from Time Warner on Dec. 9, according to an SEC filing. That’s about 2,300 staff. If it’s any consolation to the nearly departed, CEO Tim Armstrong has decided to forgo his 2009 bonus, which could have totaled $4 million, wsj.com reports. AOL cut 700 [...]

Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to its citizens. We’re not talking about wiretapping. Rather, he wants to solicit expert opinions on scientific matters through a new social network belonging to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Expert Labs. Dash pumped his idea Wednesday afternoon during [...]

When Celemony posted a demonstration last summer its lead developer Peter Neubäcker dissecting chords and rebuilding them as he pleased, we called it a major breakthrough. After testing the software, we stand by that assertion. Autotune and other technologies have allowed manipulation of single notes, but until now, nothing let you edit polyphonic audio files as [...]