As mobile video gains popularity, new content providers are cropping up all over the place to compete for the attention of consumers — and their recreational dollars. GoTV, a made-for-mobile television network, has a horse in this race. The company, based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., creates its own mobile programming and distributes content for other companies, including Univision.

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The universal popularity of the iPod can make holiday shopping much easier than it used to be. If the beneficiaries of your gift-giving don’t have an iPod yet, you’re set. If they do, there are thousands of companion gadgets to keep those iPods, nanos and iPhones company. Here are a few ideas to keep those i-Devices pimped, powered, protected and projected.

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Google’s proposed $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick encountered another stumbling block this week when two privacy groups filed a petition with the FTC, asking its chairwoman, Deborah Platt Majoras, to recuse herself from voting on the deal because of what they say is a conflict of interest.

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Major IT companies are fashioning themselves into leading worldwide proponents of clean technology as they put into use a growing battery of tools that can reduce organizations’ carbon footprint — while at the same time increasing the power, efficiency and flexibility of IT systems’ architecture.

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The Open Source Development Labs merged with the Free Standard Group on Jan. 21, 2007. The new organization became The Linux Foundation, which now spearheads the goals of Linux standardization, promotion and protection. Jim Zemlin, formerly the executive director of the Free Standards Group, took the reins as executive director.

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New data released this week shows that human evolution is speeding up — an interesting development given that many in the scientific community are hopeful that humans can take greater control over the process. At a recent conference in San Diego, scholars discussed how various religious orders may perceive radical life extension, one potential path of human evolution.

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Back-to-back announcements — first from Facebook and then Bebo — have upped the ante in the social network application development game. Facebook, which launched its Facebook Platform for developers last May, will make its developer platform architecture available to other social networking sites as a model and through licensing deals.

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Microsoft took a big leap forward Thursday in its virtualization effort. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, which is now called “Hyper-V.” Previously code-named “Viridian,” the Hyper-V beta was expected in early 2008, Microsoft said.

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Amazon has added a new component to its Amazon Web Services, the online retailer announced Thursday. SimpleDB, a new Web-based service for running queries on structured data in real time, joins Amazon’s other offerings, Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud, as a computing solution for individual developers and small companies with big ideas and undersized budgets.

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Google is launching a new effort to capture human knowledge on the Web, test-driving Google Knol, a Web-publishing approach that is drawing comparisons to Wikipedia. A Knol, according to Google, is a unit of information or knowledge, and the new publishing platform is being tested by individuals who have been invited to take part in a beta version, the search giant said Thursday.

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With the number of military interpreters dwindling in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new technology developed in Orlando, Fla., might be the key to helping U.S. soldiers counter insurgents and communicate with locals. Dubbed the “Vcommunicator,” the handheld, iPod-based device is loaded with more Middle Eastern voice files than there are songs on a teenager’s nano.

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Warren Adelman’s colleagues know him as “Thumbs”: Like many executives, he is adept at checking e-mail on his BlackBerry and does it almost constantly. Unable to do so during flights, Adelman welcomes business trips as “an opportunity to decompress a little bit from the constant flow of e-mail, perhaps catch up on a book.

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D&M Holdings Inc. announced today it has sold most of the assets of its ReplayTV® brand company to DIRECTV Group, Inc., the leading satellite television provider in the U.S. ReplayTV® produces digital video recorders for the consumer market and enjoys a significant following due to its premium service and advanced technology. The terms of the agreement were not released. More…

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The manner by which consumers create and share content, enjoy entertainment applications, communicate, and enhance productivity at home and on-the-go is evolving as digital technologies become more mainstream, according to Consumer Technology: Key Trends and Outlook for 2008. This new Parks Associates white paper reports sales of networked CE devices will grow from 9.8 million units in 2007 to 71 million in 2011. More…

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Digi International today introduced the XBee wall router, a ZigBee router used to expand a ZigBee network’s range. By plugging into standard power sockets, XBee wall routers are easy-to-install building blocks for self-healing ZigBee networks and ideal for creating robust Drop-in Networks. More…

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The 1394 Trade Association today announced a new specification to quadruple the speed of FireWire to reach 3.2 gigabits per second. More…

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DivX, Inc. and Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced the DivX Ultra Certification® of Corel® DVD Copy™ 6, enabling a superior digital media experience with DivX® output. More…

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Pulse~LINK, Inc., a pioneer of Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications, announced today that its recently released CWave® UWB chipset has been validated in independent testing to have the world’s highest data rate available for wireless networking. A comprehensive test of UWB products, conducted by octoScope, showed CWave’s 1.35 Gbps over-the-air signaling rate delivering 890 Mbps application layer throughput. CWave performance was 15 to 20 times greater than all other wireless UWB products measured in the test, the best of which peaked at around 50 Mbps at close range. A full report on the independent UWB test results was published in this week’s EE Times and Wireless Net DesignLine. More…

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Lava Software is now shipping Kenbushi Pro v7.2, a powerful media entertainment center with built-in file sharing and data backup. New features in this version include a complete Internet TV system with 180+ channels of high-quality content, simplified DVD and CD cover artwork downloads, a one-click setup wizard, powerful Internet download management tools (such as download quotas), a regularly updated Internet TV program guide, and various enhancements and fixes. It is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista and MacOS X (a Linux version is coming soon). More…

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As many of you know, Microsoft and partners created a whole media player eco-system based around the PlaysForSure DRM platform that allowed consumer who bought media that was PlaysForSure compatible to work on any such branded player. Well, now the company has decided to drop the moniker and label all designed for Windows products, “Certified for Windows Vista.” Unfortunately, this move creates a slight problem for consumers. Geoff Duncan at Digital Trends explains it well: “The problem, of course, is that plenty of things are ‘Certified for Windows Vista’ that are not compatible with PlaysForSure services and devices. Like, say, the Zune. And then there are the untold millions of Windows users content with Windows XP who will now see "Certified for Windows Vista" logos and have no idea whether the devices and services work with their computers or media players.” With that being said, it looks like Microsoft may be planning on merging its different DRM platforms into a cohesive system by requesting that partner products get re-certified. Personally, I think the label of “Windows Media Compatible” would have been more appropriate and less confusing.

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