Hulu Forced To Abandon UK Expansion Plans?
Word is going around that Hulu might have to abandon its UK launch for the moment. Apparently advertising talks with ITV have broken down considering the broadcaster wants to focus on growing its own service – ITV Player. With that in mind, it isn’t too keen to syndicate out its subject matter to a third [...]
Tiger Woods’ iPhone, iPhone advertising made easy, Pioneer adds new iPhone compatible AV receivers
Tiger Woods dug himself a deep gap when the story about his numerous affairs surfaced. Reports are now coming in that Woods’ iPhone was packed with porn and cartoons. Said porn was reportedly of the adult actress that was among his affairs. I’m not certain that is a good thing, but Brighcove has announced a [...]
MIT reveals Flyfire swarm
The crazy folks at MIT have come up with a bunch of micro LED-equipped helicopter-robots which are capable of hovering autonomously in the sky, helping create a huge piece of floating 3D artwork. The program used to control that swarm is known as Flyfire, where it can synchronize up to hundreds of small helicopter robots [...]
Yahoo Checking Out Search By SMS Feature
Search by SMS never really took off, but by referring to a patent that was recently filed by Yahoo, the company seems like it wants to take a crack at the challenge. In the patent, it’s mentioned that users will be able to use the system by sending a search query as a text report [...]
Only 80k Nexus One Phones Sold In The First Month
The Nexus One from Google might have had plenty of hype in the build up to its official announcement, but it seems that despite that, initial sales haven’t reflected that hype. According to analyst firm Flurry Inc., Google sold just 80,000 units of the device during its first month of being on sale. whether you [...]
iPhone Core Location Cannot Be Used Primarily For Advertising
If you were planning on popping a lot of location-based ads into your upcoming killer iPhone app, you might want take a peek at the latest update from Apple for developers. A rather stern note on the site reads: “whether your app uses location-based knowledge primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based [...]