CNN and YouTube have announced plans to bring broadcast two presidential debates that will feature video questions submitted via Youtube. The questions will be broadcast and answered by the candidates during the CNN debates. CNN‚Äôs Anderson Cooper will moderate the two-hour debates and pose follow-up questions. The Democratic debate, the first Democratic National Committee-sanctioned presidential […]

A new version of Skype for Windows, now in beta, introduces several features: Auto redial Call Transfer Device Indicators Edit chat messages Message history loading granulated Private Telephone Numbers Send contacts inside chat Visual indicators for Audio In / Audio Out in options Show examples of notifications / alerts in options Added Latvian localization – […]

Google posted an article yesterday that explains their thinking on introducing content filtering to YouTube. “We are beginning tests on an automated system to identify and match specific videos,” writes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen. “We‚Äôre excited about the progress so far, and we‚Äôre dedicated to making these tests successful, but as always with cutting-edge technologies, […]

The Bush administration on Thursday attacked a congressional bill that would help protect the First Amendment rights of news gathers, including bloggers and podcasters. According to a U.S. Department of Justice official, the Free Flow of Information Act (pdf) would pose a grave threat to national security and federal criminal investigations by protecting the free […]

Apple today announced that people have downloaded more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday. Safari has generated a tremendous amount of interest, in part because of people questioning Apple’s speed claims for the browser and because of publicity […]

Simon & Schuster has turned to YouTube to promote its new books, with a series of videos showcasing their authors and sneak-previews of new releases. The videos will be featured on a Simon & Schuster-branded YouTube platform and on Bookvideos.tv, a new online video channel dedicated to books and author personalities. The latest videos will […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote speech is being called the worst keynote ever. Maybe it was the Leopard update. While Leopard looks like it will feature nice refinements to OS X, enhancements don’t wow, especially enhancements that most people won’t see for months. Maybe it was the announcement that Apple’s solution for opening the […]

Apple today unveiled a near final version of Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of the Mac operating system. Scheduled to ship in October, Leopard introduces over 300 new features, including: a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks, an intuitive new way to organize files; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow and a […]

Completely out of left field, Apple today introduced Safari 3 for Windows PCs and Macs. According to Apple, Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari joins […]

The Diffusion Group reports that, based on their latest research, 11% of adult broadband users (some 12 million US consumers) listen to podcasts at least once per month. They also predict that the podcast audience will more than double in the next five years, to 24% of broadband users (38.5 million Americans) by 2012. While […]