Posts Tagged Video

WOW: Advertising banners attached to flies (video)

WOW: Advertising banners attached to flies (video)

A German book company, Eichborn, decided to think beyond the booth at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair. The advertising stunt they concocted though is something that, uh, flies in the face of convention. The banners, measuring just a few centimetres across, seem to be causing the beleaguered flie

10.30.2009 | Marketing, Video | Hugo Candeias

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The genius brothers behind Google Wave

The genius brothers behind Google Wave

CNN.com wrote: Lars and Jens Rasmussen were broke and jobless -- with only $16 between them -- when they made it big in the Web world by selling their idea for Google Maps. Years later, after finding cushy employment at Google Inc., the Rasmussen brothers flew in May from Sydney, Australia, to

10.28.2009 | Technology, Video | Hugo Candeias

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Microsoft launches Windows 7 (video)

Microsoft launches Windows 7 (video)

Reuters.com wrote: Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday in its most important release for more than a decade, aiming to win back customers after the disappointing Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market. The world's largest software company, which powers more than 90 percen

10.22.2009 | Business, Technology, Video | Hugo Candeias

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Man found his son on Facebook after 36 years of searching

Man found his son on Facebook after 36 years of searching

An WSNV video via CNN reports on a man who found his son on Facebook after 36 years of searching. Embedded video from CNN Video

10.21.2009 | Social Media, Video | Hugo Candeias

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Video: One Million Frames per Second

One of the most viewed videos on YouTube these days shows the impact of bullets shot in a million fps (frames per second). The video was recorded by Werner Mehl, the measurement company ballistics German Kurzzeit.

10.17.2009 | Technology, Video | Hugo Candeias

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Nokia’s Booklet 3G is out!

Nokia and AT&T just announced the official availability of the Booklet 3G, Nokia’s Win7 netbook. It will be available on October 22 for $299 with 2-year contract and $60/month data plan. The netbook, rumored to hit 12 hours of battery life and has and Intel Atom processor, 120GB HDD, 1GB of RAM

10.13.2009 | Business, Technology, Video | Hugo Candeias

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What Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer have to say (video)

Michael Arrington, TechCrunch wrote: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Silicon Valley on Thursday for his annual meeting with top venture capitalists to talk about Microsoft product strategy. This was his first visit to Silicon Valley since announcing the search partnership with Yahoo in Ju

09.25.2009 | Technology, Video | Hugo Candeias

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Facebook Becoming a Mobile Giant (video)

Facebook's new mobile iPhone app is a considerable upgrade over its previous one. I won't do a review of the app, but it offers much more utility than before (including chat, notes, photo uploads, etc). We'll continue to see new features and various enhancements in future versions too (next up is pr

09.4.2009 | Mobile, Video | Hugo Candeias

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Jail threat for donkey bloggers (video)

BBC.co.uk wrote: Two bloggers from Azerbaijan are facing up to five years in jail after posting a video of a donkey giving a news conference on YouTube.

09.2.2009 | Technology, Video | Hugo Candeias

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YouTube Will Pay for Best Video Submissions

InternetNews.com wrote: There's an old joke about a company that's losing money on every sale declaring, "we'll make it up in volume." That's probably not Google's strategy, but the search giant just announced a revenue-sharing plan that may greatly expand the number of videos on the video sit

08.27.2009 | Business, Technology | Hugo Candeias

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