Windows XP Starter Edition is now being used in over 1 million homes worldwide. The program launched just over two years ago with a pilot of only five countries with the goal of putting PCs in the homes of low-income families in order to increase computer literacy in developing cultures. Now, Windows XP Starter Edition [...]

Yahoo announced that it has acquired Jumpcut, a developer of online video editing tools. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched earlier this year, San Francisco-based Jumpcut offers a Web-based application that lets users make basic edits and add some professional features to personal videos, often before uploading them to blogs or video-sharing [...]

Microsoft announced on Thursday that its Zune portable digital media player will go on sale in the U.S. on Nov. 14 for $249. In addition to a small library of pre-loaded songs, music videos and short films, the Wi-Fi-enabled device will allow sharing of songs and other media between Zune players. Microsoft will also simultaneously [...]

If you’re tired of forgetting your keys, get the Waleli GSM doorbell and you’ll never have to worry again. You can talk to a visitor at your front door through your mobile phone and even let them in remotely with your mobile phone. How does it work? Certainly not by a clap! As you ring [...]

Google launched a free Japanese-language news site for mobile phones, to expand in the Japanese market where more people access the web via handsets than do by PCs. The service currently provides news from approximately 30 media sources, including Asahi newspaper and state-run NHK.
Links:
http://tinyurl.com/yduzu4

President Bush today signed into law a ban on online wagering. The legislation was included in the SAFE Port Act. The decision by the Republican majority to lump the Internet gambling ban onto the bipartisan ports bill had drawn loud criticism from industry groups for the legalization and regulation of online gambling. Opponents of the [...]

New York’s Museum of Modern Art will feature work selected by unlikely curators: YouTube users. The videos are included in a retrospective of the Residents, an avant-garde musltimedia group, that will open next week. The museum has posted clips of 11 finalists and invited the public to weigh in. Posting clips from the popular video [...]

Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, said the company would pursue copyright infringement cases against YouTube, the video sharing site acquired by Google this week for $1.65 Billion. “You can assume we’re in negotiations with YouTube,” Parsons said in an interview with The Guardian, “and that those negotiations will be kicked [...]

Google announced on Tuesday that the University of Madrid has agreed to add titles from its Compultense library — which houses 3 million works — to Google’s controversial project that aims to scan every book in print into a searchable index. While the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the Universities of California [...]

Fonpods on Monday introduced its podcast by phone service at the DEMOfall ‘06 conference in San Diego. The Fonpods service provides users with a searchable library of available podcasts, as well as tools to produce and share their own content.
Links:
DigitalMediaWire
http://www.demo.com
http://www.fonpods.com

The Dyson Airblade dries hands twice as fast as traditional hand dryers, but uses 83% less energy. The Dyson Digital Motor (DDM) produces an air stream flowing at 400mph. This unheated air is channeled through a 0.3 millimetre gap, no thicker than an eyelash. James Dyson: “Instead of painfully slow evaporation, Dyson Airblade(tm) creates a [...]

The company’s new source-code search engine, unveiled as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information and even proprietary code that shouldn’t have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts said Friday.Unlike Google’s main Web search engine, Google Code Search [...]

Google said Friday (October 6, 2006) that it plans to subpoena its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in order to obtain information that will help the company defend its book scanning project from a legal attack. Google was sued by both the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, which accuse the company of [...]

The bad news is that so many batteries were recalled and not enough were replaced, causing a global shortage of batteries. Analysts are saying that battery supply is currently at critically low levels on a global scale. Despite being the world’s largest lithium cell manufacturer, Sanyo does not have the capacity to supply replacement orders. [...]

TouchTunes, a maker of digital jukeboxes for bars and restaurants, announced on Monday plans to introduce the ability for users to create playlists for the devices, both on the Web and on the jukeboxes themselves. The company said the playlists can be created for birthday parties, themed events or other occasions where the broadband-connected digital [...]