YouTube announced the launch of its new channel “The YouTube Reports Center” made to help people become good journalists. People always tend to share videos related to natural disaster, or crime or a political rally on YouTube we have seen allot of them and in one way or another we are journalists sharing stories and our experiences. (more…)

This is interesting President Obama is taking up live questions from the YouTube community this Wednesday in a special online health care town hall event. Your chance to ask directly from the President.

How to ask questions from the President ?
Simple all you have to do is to log on to YouTube record a 20 – 30 second video with your question for the President, and send it as a reply to the President Video here. Or you can simple use this page to record your video and send it over. (more…)

“Oracle accquires SUN Microsystems for $7.8 billion”.

The Original Accusation
Sun had been suffering in past and was making every effort to make an accusation happen for it.  The Oracle-Sun deal came more than two weeks after I.B.M. ended its talks with SUN. I.B.M lowered its offer to $9.40 a share from $10 and Oracle bid was $9.50 a share.

MySql Goes to Sun and Sun Goes to Oracle

Oracles’ chief executive, said in a conference call Monday morning that Sun’s Java programming language and its Solaris operating system were the main attractions. But that might not be the case as Oracle was more intersted in MySql then any one else. In 2008 Sun Microsystem annouced a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL the worlds fastest growing open source databases for $1 billion. Which accelerated Sun’s position in enterprise IT to a $15 billion database market. Though many people looked at the accusation with a controversial eye stating that MySql could have had a bigger value then what SUN offered, Google, Yahoo & Microsoft could have paid much more. (more…)

Recording video tutorial never got much easier then this one. Screen Toaster is a free web based screen recorder utility designed to capture screen activity in real-time to create and share tutorials, demos, trainings, lectures and more. Fire up the web page your recording studio is ready to go you can also add audio, embed webcam while you record and once you are finished you can even add subtitles, choose thumbnails, add tags to your video share it with friends over social networks with privacy setting allowing you to control the access to the video you made. You can now also automatically upload HD screen casts directly to YouTube from Screen Toaster also you can download videos in .mov format for editing on your desktop. Their beta API allows you to integrate Screen Toaster into your website thus allowing your users to create / share and distribute video tutorials.

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Ever wondered what kind of web traffic your competitors is having, which are the top keywords & which strategy to adopt to increase your website traffic? if yes then we got some great tools to monitor and study web traffic of any website or specially that of your competitors. You have to keep an eye on them. (more…)

Google is now offering “Google Apps Reseller program” enabling technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to business around the world.  According to Dave Girouard President of Enterprise Google “This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”

So far more then 1 million business & 10 million users benefit from Google Apps, using Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Docs™, Google Sites™, Google Talk™, and Google Video™ for their business.

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Have you started to tweet this year? Did you answer the question “What are you doing?” well if you answer is yes then we got a huge list of tools and applications to spice up your twit activity. If you are already a twitter fan then you can use the tools to spice up your twitter actives.

We all know one thing when the twitter came to life we all rejected it but soon we got so much into twitting that now we made their server go “over capacity” couple of times a day.

So now lets get back to the list of twitter tools and widgets that can help and improve your twitter activities and make you twit more. (more…)

Songbird this week finally made its 1.0 release:

What is Song Bird?
Songbird is an opensource music player build on Mozilla technology, VLC Player & SQLite. Purely based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox. Like Firefox, Songbird allows for tabbed browsing, themes and addtions of add-ons to customize the extendibility of your media player. So far packed with more then 90 Add Ons you can customize SongBird as you want.

“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players” according to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey.

SongBird is currently in its early stages but have a very active development teams, this week they released there 1.0 release, powered with an addition in features, performance according to their blog post

• Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones.
• Reduced RAM Usage: There’s a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries.
• Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
• Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast.
• Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU.
• Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering.
• Optimized DB Size: We’ve optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application.
• Fewer Crashers: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird.

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Holiday season and this time you can gift an iPhone 3G easily with the help of iPhone 3G gift card being offered by Apple. Simply log on to the site, fill in the form add a person message and the iPhone 3G gift card will be delivered to your loved one who can pick it up from any Apple store close to their home. An once the person redeem it, an Apple Store specialist will take care of every details and setup the iPhone for all features and give a sort of personalized service.

Give someone an iPhone 3G Gift Card and when the lucky recipient comes in to redeem it, an Apple Retail Store Specialist will take care of every detail. The Specialist will get your recipient’s iPhone 3G up and calling, set up email, and help customize the Home screen, choose some great iPhone applications, personalize ringtones, and find favorite songs.

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BMW is currently working on a replacement for the Z4 Roadster. Codenamed E89, the new Z4 will be a conventional soft-top and will come as a competitor for the next generation Porsche Boxster and Mercedes SLK-Class. It will be priced somewhere around $40.000.

Here is a leaked picture taken from a BMW dealership, where a movie (Solitary Man) with Michael Douglas is being shot. 

2009-bmw-z4

Courtesy Zpost.com