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Kyte, which gives high-end media publishers a way to distribute video on mobile phones, is launching support for Android and Nokia devices. (That’s on top of existing support for the iPhone and Blackberry devices.) The San Francisco-based startup lets brands and labels like Universal Music Group and the NBA deliver video content to fans. Kyte says what makes it stand out from enterprise-focused competitors like Brightcove is that it integrates more social functionality like Twitter, chat, and location-sensitive features that tell you about nearby events. “We really feel that to be relevant today, you have to be more than an online video platform. You have to address how consumers really use the web by providing interactive social capabilities,” said Gannon Hall, the chief operating officer at Kyte. The company has 45 people and has raised $23.3 million from investors including Steamboat Ventures and Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera. Hall said the company isn’t planning on raising...

Just got your hands on Windows 7 and want to bend it to your will? No problem. We've got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, speeding up taskbar thumbnails, finding hidden desktop themes, forcing User Account Control to act the way you'd like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more. So check out these tips. If you like them, we'll keep more coming. General tips We'll start with a few nifty tips that can make your desktop more interesting, make it easier to get around and increase your computer's power efficiency. Use hidden international wallpapers and themes When you first install Windows 7, it asks for your language, time and currency. Based on your responses, it installs a set of wallpapers and themes. If you choose English (United States) for your time and currency format, for example, the available desktop backgrounds and themes will include a United...

Samsung Electronics has launched a consumer empowerment campaign against stolen, used and counterfeit phones in East Africa as a way to increase its market share in the region. The company has set up an SMS (Short Message Service) application that allows consumers to check whether a phone has a warranty, was stolen or sold as secondhand. Samsung has provided a short code for consumers to send a phone's IMEA number and receive a status report on the phone. "The region has a lot of phones imported from Dubai and they are not covered by warranty, mobile phone theft is rampant and in some cases unscrupulous businesspeople just change the cover of a secondhand phone and sell it like new," said Patricia King'ori, Samsung General manager, mobile phones division, East and Central Africa. The Samsung campaign is targeting Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, and will eventually be rolled out in 15 countries in East and Central Africa. Samsung commands 15 percent of Kenya's handset...

Last week, the release by Google of the Android 2.0 mobile operating system coincided with the debut of the first device to incorporate it, Motorola's Droid , which is available through Verizon. With three big players like those involved, and with Verizon kicking off its iPhone-baiting iDon't campaign , there's been a lot of buzz about the new device and platform. I had an opportunity to get a hands-on look at the Droid, and by extension, Android 2.0. Here's my take. While there's a lot to like about the Droid, it's not the phone that most businesses are going to turn to. The hardware is good, including a lovely high-resolution screen, but the keyboard is definitely something you will want to try before you buy. For me, the keys are way too close together and much too flat to promote good typing. (Oddly, the virtual on-screen keyboard works much better for me). While the operating system, Android 2.0, performs well in many regards, there are just too many drawbacks to it and the Droid...

A distinguished analyst at Gartner fast-forwards to the future of the CIO Your future CIO holds finance and economics degrees, focuses on people and policies but also on ethical and moral concepts at work--and starts her day at 5 a.m. Do you know anyone like that today? No CIOs are there yet. Even now we know it's critically important that CIOs have a wholistic picture of the business, but this is still emerging. In 2028, it will be a given. At that time, the general skills of the average worker will include a large amount of technology experience. Our children's children will laugh at us for having segmented business and IT. This 2028 CIO uses collaborative technologies to hold global meetings and eats dinner with physical and holographic family members. Is the CIO now driving that kind of shift inside companies or playing catch-up with more tech-savvy employees? Even in 2028, it will be a push and a pull. Users will still be pulling some of the tech they need. Eventually, the role...

VentureBeat is looking to hire the next David Pogue! If you’re a good writer with an interest in technology, consider working for one of the most influential business blogs — with syndication across outlets like the New York Times — that hosts exciting events to debate the most disruptive technologies of the day, including DEMO (the leading launchpad event for emerging technology products), MobileBeat, GamesBeat and most recently GreenBeat (our inaugural conference on the Smart Grid taking place next week, featuring Noble Prize winner Al Gore and the energy industry’s other movers and shakers.) Right now, we’re looking for fearless scribes to cover the revolutions happening in mobile and social media. If you’re interested or would like more information, please contact us at jobs@venturebeat.com with the subject line “Writer.”

Riding your bike is all well and good, until you have to carry home more than 2 bags of groceries at a time. Toby from the DIY cyclist website Bike Hacks has assembled a pretty keen towing package for your wheels. Toby used parts easily found at your local hardware store. The trailer hooks to a wooden box that sits snug on the rear of the bike. Here's some of the materials used: I made this trailer out of wood as I am a woodworker. I used metal electrical junction box covers cut in half to make my plates for the wheels. The fenders are made out of the middle of a piece of vinyl gutter that I bought at Lowe's. A 10′ piece of gutter was only about $7.00 and you score it with a utility knife and then just snap it off. This DIY home project cosy Toby far less than purchasing a retail version of similar size and shape, it's built to last, and it should be able to carry home whatever the day may bring. Are you so into your biking you'd consider a trailer? Already have one? Sound off in the...

There are 190 changes in the latest test version of the open-source browser, but most of them are under the hood. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Microsoft's search engine is getting improved preview results as well as some new health information licensed from Wolfram's Alpha. Originally posted at Beyond Binary

Bing today is launching several new features that greatly improve the search engine, and continue its war with the giant Google. Upgrades include integration with Wolfram|Alpha, upgraded “hover over” capabilities, and intent based weather and event results. Strong Wolfram|Alpha Integration: We heard about this a while back; Bing is finally bringing it live. Of course, Bing has [...]

Advanced Micro Devices released new details of its long-awaited Fusion chips, which combine graphics and microprocessor functions into a single chip in a computing platform that will launch in 2011. Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD products, said at the company’s analyst meeting today that AMD is preparing a whole series of Fusion chips that will use the 32-nanometer manufacturing process that will be ready for full-scale production in 2011. The new chips will hit new targets in power efficiency, performance, and size. They will be able to be used in both powerful desktop computers as well as the smallest netbooks, which are smaller than laptops and are meant for surfing the web.

Face.com today launched it's free PhotoTagger facial recognition application for automatically tagging photos on Facebook.

Today, Google announced a new locking feature within SafeSearch, the filtering mechanism that keeps unwanted sexually explicit text and images out of our daily search results. While SafeSearch has been around for some time, users had no way of locking their settings. Allowing anyone say, a child looking for some risque material to easily access the Google search preference page and change the settings on a particular computer. Now, with Google’s “Lock SafeSearch” feature, users can determine their settings and lock them using a password determined by that user. A series of colored orbs in the top right corner of your Google search results indicates that the lock feature is activated. A great visual for parents and teachers worried about a child’s online activity or a human resources manager keeping an eye on an employee. Here’s a tutorial on the new feature from Google on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Ken Kutaragi, father of Sony’s PlayStation business, has launched a new Japanese startup called Cyber Ai Entertainment. The name “ai” is a combination of the Japanese word for “love” and a pun on the English word “eye.” A board member includes Takashi Usuki. The venture is vaguely aimed at developing next-generation Internet services. Kutaragi owns about 90 percent of the company while Usuki has 10 percent. The startup has $223,000 in capital. That’s all the details out so far. Kutaragi retired in 2007 after more than 30 years at Sony. He started an earlier startup, Cellius, in January 2007 with $821,000 in funding. The venture was 51-percent owned by Namco Bandai and 49-percent owned by Sony’s game division. That startup was aimed at making apps for Sony’s Cell microprocessor, which is used in the PlayStation 3 and other computing platforms.

Parents can now lock in the search setting that filters out inappropriate sites. There are still ways for kids to circumvent the feature, however. Originally posted at Safe and Secure

At this point, a fair number of Twitter users have the new retweet feature enabled (and if you’re not one of them, don’t worry, the rollout continues). While we’ve weighed both the pros and the cons based on the early descriptions and screenshots provided by Twitter, company co-founder and CEO Evan Williams has taken to his blog to detail why exactly Twitter is making this change and why he believes it’s in everyone’s best interests. Up front, perhaps the most important thing to know is that “old-school retweets” as Williams calls them will still be supported – so even if you don’t like the new feature or its rationale, you can still use Twitter the way you do now (though, the interface will still be a bit different, both on the website and third-party clients, most of which Williams says are adopting the new system). In his post, Williams outlines the things he thinks the new system solves: attribution confusion, messages becoming messy or broken in the Twitter version of a game of...

The movies have always been a communal, social experience. Whether you’re sitting in the theater with a hundred strangers or piled in your living room with family and friends, it’s just fun to watch movies with others. Social media and our increasing addiction to digital technologies has had an interesting effect on the movie-watching experience. Admit it, how often do you send out a tweet while watching a Blu-ray or DVD title at home? How often do you check IMDB or scour Wikipedia for information about an actor or factoid in the film? Spot411 and Fox Home Entertainment have decided to partner together to better meld the social experience of watching a movie with social media. FoxPop Spot411 has developed an application called FoxPop that adds interactive elements to your movie watching experience. You can download FoxPop on your computer (it’s built using Adobe AIR so you can use it on Mac or PC) or use the free iPhone app that launches on December 1. When you first start up the app,...

Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency, Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter. The Internet has already radically changed the way we shop. Googling for promotion codes, free shipping, free return shipping, virtual models, live chats with sales associates – it’s all become common place. In fact, a recent study from Burst Media found that 85% of consumers will shop online this holiday season, and the majority of those people will continue to shop online throughout the year. Now that online shopping is widespread – just try finding someone who has never purchased an item on the Internet these days – it’s about to enter whole new dimension: social shopping. What Is Social Shopping? Many consumers are turning toward social networks like Facebook and Twitter, coupon aggregators like RetailMeNot and CouponCabin, and deal blogs like FatWallet or Dealfinder to find the best discounts and bargains – and they’re sharing these deals...

Kyte, which gives high-end media publishers a way to distribute video on mobile phones, is launching support for Android and Nokia devices. (That’s on top of existing support for the iPhone and Blackberry devices.) The San Francisco-based startup lets brands and labels like Universal Music Group and the NBA deliver video content to fans. Kyte says what makes it stand out from enterprise-focused competitors like Brightcove is that it integrates more social functionality like Twitter, chat, and location-sensitive features that tell you about nearby events. “We really feel that to be relevant today, you have to be more than an online video platform. You have to address how consumers really use the web by providing interactive social capabilities,” said Gannon Hall, the chief operating officer at Kyte. The company has 45 people and has raised $23.3 million from investors including Steamboat Ventures and Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera. Hall said the company isn’t planning on raising...

You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time. Since the invention of the internet, programmers have been using it to discuss software development techniques, publish tutorials, and share code samples for others to learn from and use online. If you're curious about how to become a programmer, you can get off to a running start using tons of great free web-based tutorials and resources. First Things First: Don't Get Hung Up on Choosing a Language A common pitfall for beginners is getting stuck figuring out which programming language is best to learn first. There are a lot of opinions out there, but there's no one "best" language. Here's the thing: In the end, language doesn't matter THAT much. Understanding data and control structures and design patterns does matter very much. Every language—even a simple scripting...

Why You Should Never Ever Talk To The Police A very informative video on how to deal with the police even if you are innocent. http://www.xomba.com/why_you......

Tired of waiting for Flash to come to the iPhone, and other mobile devices, video host Vimeo is making parts of its site pocket-friendly. Originally posted at Web Crawler

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