Google taking over Youtube?

There have been rumors that Google is teaming up with Sony, Intel and Logitech to put a consumer set up box platform for mixing TV with the internet, based on its android operating system Designed to melt TV with internet content.

Apple Board Member Dies

Apple board member of 13 years, Jerome B. York, died Tuesday after suffering from a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

Formspring

The CEO of formspring, Mark Baxter, was arrested Monday for data phishing and misleading the public after the site was revealed as a social experiment. Which will result in the automatically revealing of the users private data April 1, 2010.

Bill Gates isn't this richest man?

A Mexican telecommunications tycoon, Carlos Slim Helu has stolen the title as the world's richest man, worth $53.5 billion, and Gates only worth $53 billion. He is a self-made billionaire, controlling the interest in several mexican telecommunications companies.

Google-China Revolution?

There are rumors that Google and the chinese government are negotiating internet censorship in China. It's said that they are coming to a solution 'soon'.

MSN Makeover?

Since last year Microsoft has been testing new designs for the venerable portal. One includes a cleaner more video-heavy look for the site. In the next couple of days Microsoft is expected to reveal the new designs to everyone in the US.

Apple bans iPhone app

Techcrunch says that an israeli developer called Tawkon created an app that with a finely tuned algorithm, measures your specific absorption rate, or the rate that your whole body, not just your brain, absorbs energy from a radio frequency magnified field. The Tawkon app then factors in environmental conditions and phone usage in order to give you some accurate sense of your exposure to bad rays.

Apple has rejected the app that enables this feature. This makes me wonder how much radiation your iPhone really transmits

Tivo Series 4 Announced!

On Tuesday TiVo officially announced the release of two new DRS that offer an updated user interface and enhanced integration. The new DVR also comes with an online video search capabilities . The premiere also comes with XL models that will cost $300 and $500, when they ship it in April, like all previous TiVo models, it will require a monthly, yearly, or lifetime service fee as well.

Finding his voice

The famous film critic Robert Ebert lost his voice in a battle to cancer. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002 over a series of surgeries he lost his voice and lower jaw, taking away his ability to speak, eat and drink anything. To communicate he has been relying on TTS (text-to-text speech), a software that speaks whatever he types. TTS is far from perfect, and only allows a computer voice to talk for him.

While on his website he discovered a new kind of TTS called CereProc that builds voices on a persons actual recordings.