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An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance. Although “android” is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, “android” technically refers to the male form, while “gynoid” is the feminine form. Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television. However...

Adobe Proves Relevant To HTML5 Future With Adobe Touch Apps & AIR Integration

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Adobe MAX 2011 is going on, and while I'm not there, I've been keeping up with what's going on. One of the interesting things for us, the online video community, is Adobe AIR 3 and Flash Player 11. They announced that both are available as ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Google Plus Stampede Edition

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Seems like just a handful of major companies dominated the past week in online video. There were numerous stories and opinions about the public launch of Google Plus. Netflix prompted headlines galore with a huge announcement, and questions continued to surround the possible sale and ...

16% Of Netflix Users Plan On Dropping The Service, 30% More Thinking About Leaving

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As Hulu Plus continues to expand, rolling out to new Android devices this week, Netflix is still seeing shrinkage from the cold shoulder that customers are giving them--regardless of what kind of backhanded apology the Netflix CEO spammed out to everyone who has ever had ...

Ooyala Reports Viewers Watch Online Video 40% Longer On Tablets

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Ooyala, whom I need to speak with about something else and who should email me (yeah, I know it works because I've done it before), put out a pretty rockin new infographic on Friday which talked about video consumption. I just happened to stumble upon ...

Google Plus Open To Everyone, Adds Killer Video Features To Hangouts

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Google Plus, the social networking service that has long been in a restricted field test, is now officially in beta. That's right, folks, you can stop leaving comments on this post asking people to invite you and just head on over and sign up yourself ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Video Editing Edition

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This week went by incredibly fast, and if you're like me... you just couldn't get to everything you really wanted to do. These days, there's so much online video news, it can be hard to keep up with it all. Which is exactly why we ...

WeVideo Brings Cloud-Powered, Collaborative Video Editing To Almost Any Device

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I have known about WeVideo for a couple weeks now and have been bursting to tell you all about it. I mean really, when something this cool comes along, embargoes get in the way of my enthusiasm. I did mention a brief bullet point or ...

Mobile Video Soars: Half Of All Mobile Device Owners Shoot Video Once A Week

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Photobucket pulled some numbers from their users of late to find out that mobile video uploads are continuing to soar. In fact, they have grown something like 300% in the past year (July 2010-2011). If we were to do a survey of new phones that ...

Netflix Android Update - Streaming Video On Android 2.2 & 2.3 Devices

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An update just dropped over the weekend for the Netflix app (updating to version 1.4) for Android 2.2 and 2.3 that gave users access to Netflix. That's a big group of users who can now more commonly run into the 'single stream' error as they ...

Viewster Brings Streaming Video Catalog To Samsung Devices Worldwide

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Viewster has been making some good moves lately and perhaps the Pièce de résistance is today's announcement that sees them teaming up with Samsung, worldwide, on multiple device platforms including connected TVs, tablets, mobile phones and more.

Google TV To Be Central Device In Home For Cable, Internet, Automation & More?

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See, I told you it probably wasn't dead. Several months ago I wrote Android Apps May Save Google TV's Ass though I did then later write The Death Knell For Google TV? Logitech Revue Drops Price To $99 Admittedly, in that second one I did ...

12% Of Online Video Views Come From Mobile - Break Media

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If one-eighth of your video views are coming from mobile, then you are in good company as Break Media just reported that 12% of their video views come from mobile users. That's a pretty good portion and shows the ever-increasing interest in mobile video viewing.

Vid.ly Grows Up, Goes Pro - The Universal Video URL Slam Dunk

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When I hop on a conference call and say "Go Team [INSERT BRAND] Woo!" you can be pretty sure that I dig your product. So Jeff Malkin and the team over at Vid.ly should be well aware of that fact now since I both opened ...

Google-Motorola Deal Means More Video Streaming to Android Devices?

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Google yesterday announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion, which instantly brings them into the mobile hardware market. Now the mobile platform is pretty interesting in and of itself, but that's not the only reason this deal is being made. As part of the ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Internet TV Edition

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Another big week for major world news, as the UK riots took center stage for most of the week. It was a huge week for online video and online video news as well. Because we know many of you are even busier than us (if ...

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