Articles Tagged “Youtube”

Search and Watch Online Videos All in One Place with Fuugo Video

Search and Watch Online Videos All in One Place with Fuugo Video

Fuugo Video is an Android app that can search, gather, and play online videos from various content sites.

Original YouTube Content Could Give Google TV a Boost

Original YouTube Content Could Give Google TV a Boost

Google has announced plans to bring more original content to YouTube, bringing more original and professional videos to the platform and placing Google TV at a great advantage. The company is building a new YouTube application, along with recent updates to the Android Market app and a newer version of Android, integrated into Google TV–unifying online and traditional video content. Google TV makes the Web easily available to users while they are enjoying their favorite TV shows–just a few clicks away. With the inclusion of the YouTube app and Google channels, Google TV could offer a wide variety of videos …

Hollywood Entertainment is Google’s Next Multibillion Market

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Google is planning to overhaul YouTube and gear it up for the emergence of Internet television. The Wall Street Journal reported last April that the company is spending around a hundred million dollars to commission premium Hollywood content which will then be shown on certain specialized channels in the video sharing site. The report further states that the search giant is currently in the process of forming partnerships with groups such as Creative Artists Agency, International Creative Management, and William Morris Endeavor. Here is financial and research firm William Blair & Company’s take on the matter. With annual revenue of …

Video: Motorola Connected Media Player demo

Video: Motorola Connected Media Player demo

Yeah, yeah, I know.  A lot of videos from me lately.  The latest is a 9 minute demo of the new Connected Media Player that Motorola is putting into the new CLIQ XT (QUENCH) smartphone. It fetches album art and lyrics from the internet, plays Shoutcast internet radio stations, and can search YouTube and other services for related content.  It event lets you post a message to Twitter or Facebook about a song. Here’s the demo running on a Motorola CLIQ – and no, I won’t send you the program. Maybe Moto will include it in the Android 2.1 update …

Sense 2.1 demoed on the HTC hero with multitouch in full swing

Sense 2.1 demoed on the HTC hero with multitouch in full swing

The guys over at Pocketnow discovered a YouTube video that offers a preview of HTC Sense 2.1 running on the HTC Hero. Most of the video is fairly mundane but one notable feature is the support for multitouch. A pinch gesture was used in the video to show off a new homescreen preview which allows you to view all your homescreens as thumbnails and switch to any widgetized homescreen with a single tap. The full video, complete with a modern musical score, is after the break.

Rent movies through Youtube, integration to Android inevitable?

Rent movies through Youtube, integration to Android inevitable?

You can now rent a handful of movies through YouTube via this link, and while it may not seem like much of a selection now, think of the possibilities of this for Android users.  YouTube could be experimenting with the service and is offering 5 movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival.  If this succeeds, and they are able to secure deals with major studios, we could see a viable competitor to Apple’s iTunes movie rental service.  Since YouTube is owned by Google and integrated into most all Android devices, it would be a logical fit. The rental …

Nexus One dock spotted in Youtube ad for $45

Nexus One dock spotted in Youtube ad for $45

The Nexus One docks are inching closer to reality and to further build excitement, a new ad spotted during a Youtube video has put a price on the accessory.  Weighing in at a whopping $45, the ad directs consumers to www.google.com/phone to get more details, yet there currently is nothing there relating to the docks.  In comparison, the Motorola Droid car and multimedia docks retail for $29.99 and $39.99, the cheaper versions of each don’t include an extra charger and USB cord.  While the Nexus One dock is said to contain Bluetooth connectivity, one can’t help but think that the …

HTC and Adobe announce Flash support on Android

HTC and Adobe announce Flash support on Android

Adobe and HTC today announced that the new HTC Hero is the first Android powered smartphone to feature Adobe Flash support.  From the press release: “As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go,” said David Wadhwani, vice president and general manager, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important …

Android 1.5 features YouTube and Picasa uploading

Android 1.5 features YouTube and Picasa uploading

If you hadn’t noticed in our prior post that featured all of the new features in Android 1.5,  the guys at the official Google Mobile Blog are writing about the additional functionality offered by Android 1.5, such as allowing you to record and easily upload videos from your mobile device to YouTube. In addition to this, there are also updates supporting Picasa Web Albums, which allow you to upload photos directly, and also updates for Gmail, which now offers multiple-thread selection to easily archive, delete, label, or mute several threads at once. Finally, Google have improved their speech recognition facilities …

How-to: Cupcake on the Android Emulator (with video)

How-to: Cupcake on the Android Emulator (with video)

The guys at NullWire have put together a nice and neat way to get the Cupcake branch of Android running on your personal copy of the Android Emulator.  But before you can do that, you need to download and install the Android SDK. [Step 1] Download the SDK from here and install it.  Once you have it installed, which is pretty painless, you can then [Step 2] download the Cupcake image files ZIP for the emulator.  Make a note of where you install the SDK (ie. “C:\android-sdk\”).

Dream no more: T-Mobile launches G1 smartphone with Google

Dream no more: T-Mobile launches G1 smartphone with Google

Google has finally taken the wraps off its first Android phone, the G1 from T-Mobile. The new smartphone runs on Google’s open source software, exclusive to T-Mobile in the States and the UK. The HTC manufactured G1 offers connectivity for global use with GSM support as well as 3G UMTS/HSDPA connectivity (GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, UMTS 1700/2100MHz). WiFi is also on board. Full HTML web browsing with tap to zoom is available on the new smartphone along with a bevy of Google apps including Google Maps with a compass mode. The G1 also features a 3 megapixel camera, GPS, and Bluetooth. Other …

T-Mobile G1 specs leak, no Exchange support

T-Mobile G1 specs leak, no Exchange support

T-Mobile leaked some important details this morning for its G1 Android phone.  We are learning that the new device has no Microsoft Exchange support but does claim to have 3G connectivity, a 3 megapixel shooter, HVGA (480×320 pixel) touchscreen display, built-in GPS, and an expandable microSD slot able to handle up to 8GB.  Also missing video recording and stereo Bluetooth. Of course Google applications are on board such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Talk, and a YouTube app. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. [via TalkAndroid]

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