Week 9 Tech News

May 24, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

WebM and Google's Web-video plan (FAQ)

by Stephen Shankland

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Google, trying step by step to rebuild everything in the computing industry from Internet protocols to cloud-computing services, began a new project called WebM on Wednesday that seeks to begin a new chapter in Web video.

Even after Google's high-profile WebM announcement at its Google I/O conference, there's plenty of confusion, and some questions concerning the technology can't be answered yet. Here, however, is our attempt to demystify WebM and its effects.

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Week 8 Tech Post

Google Wave officially available to all

Google has announced that it has officially opened up its Google Wave service to everyone.
Instead of waiting for an invite, users can now access the service straight from the Google homepage.
Google had said back in 2009, that it wanted to make the service available to all by the end of 2010 so it looks like it is ahead of schedule.

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Week 7 Tech News

What's the bug up Apple's @$$?

By David Goldman, staff writerMay 17, 2010: 9:43 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Seriously, what's gotten into Apple?
For the past decade of Steve Jobs' second go-around as CEO at Apple, the company has secured a strong following of loyal customers by playing the role of the David in a world of tech Goliaths. You can see it in the famous Mac vs. PC ads: Apple is the everyman, and its competitor (Microsoft) is the stuffy, out-of-touch "Man."

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Week 6 Tech News

A technology created to track political violence in Kenya with social media is now being used to log the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf Coast. Witnesses’ texts, tweets and e-mail messages generate the rainbow of dots on a map and database of spill-related damage at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s Web site.






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