Category: YouTube

Pakistan has become the latest in a long list of countries that have banned the video sharing site YouTube. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country's Internet Service Provicers (ISPs) that the site will be blocked until further notice due to content deemed offensive to Islam, though they would not name the specific content that was deemed offensive. Countries such as Turkey, ...

Few things makes us more angry than taking advantage of tragedies to push personal and political agendas, especially when when that agenda lacks things like supporting evidence... or logic. Jack Thompson, a self-described Christian conservative and Republican (which is an insult to Christian conservative Republicans everywhere), has made a career of crusading against so-called obscenity and ...

Rubiks Cube Solving Robot - Watch more free videos What's more impressive than director Michel Gondry solving a Rubik's Cube with his feet? A robot solving a Rubik's Cube with with mechanical hands. While the former stunt was all done in reverse and then played backwards (he started with a completed Cube), we have absolutely no idea how the robot did its business. And for this we salute you, ...

YouTube is quickly becoming the bane of over-reactive adults everywhere. Web-savvy kids are catching their elders freaking out on video and posting it on video sharing sites like YouTube. The general result: teachers, cops, and other adults are made to look like jerks. The latest casualty is an officer from Baltimore, Maryland, Salvatore Rivieri. Officer Rivieri had a rather hostile encounter ...

According the recent reports, social networking sites like MySpace and even YouTube are being used as recruitment tools by gangs. "We're seeing our gangs and the resurgence of some of the gang members coming back from prison looking more and more to those middle schoolers and the younger kids to recruit them," said San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer. Manheimer said kids get into discussions ...

That up there is Obama Girl, the Internet phenomenon who declared that she had a "Crush on Obama." But what's this? Obama Girl did not cast her vote for Obama during Super Tuesday. She didn't switch sides, she simply shirked her civic duty and didn't vote at all. Her reason? She "was in Arizona for the Super Bowl -- every time I get in the airplane I get sick." Allow us to say that is the ...

We're wondering when media companies are gonna get tired of suing everyone is sight. Warner Music Group (a division of our parent company Time Warner), has zeroed in on SeeqPod, a search engine that links to music and videos found across the Internet. The reasoning behind the legal action is that some of the links link to music and videos that are in violation of copyright law. Warner Music ...

Be careful what you leave in a voicemail: It might end up on the Switched Show (podcast, direct link), via YouTube and just about every major TV and radio outlet in the nation. We discuss implications of privacy in a digital world -- from warrantless searches of Blackberry e-mail in-boxes to the unfortunate case of an angry phone message turned YouTube phenomena. PLUS: The Macbook Air crash lands ...

You may remember a little story we posted the other day about a Fairfax County High School student named Devraj Kori, who called a school administrator's home to question the decision not to close the area's schools for snow. Dean Tistadt's wife, Candy, returned Kori's call and left the boy a minute long rant chastising him for calling their home number with some harsh words, including the ...

Dean Tistadt, Chief Operating Officer for the Fairfax County, Virginia school system, and his wife, Candy, learned a tough lesson in the power of the Internet after an angry voicemail left on a student's cell phone became an Internet phenomenon. The ordeal started when Devraj "Dave" S. Kori, a senior at Lake Braddock Secondary School, called Dean at his listed home phone number to find out why ...

For those of you unfamiliar with the Church of Scientology let us give you a very, very abbreviated background. Scientology was started in 1952 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. The secretive religion has proven to be very popular amongst the Hollywood elite, but has faced allegations that it harasses critics, abuses members trust, and is not a religious organization but a commercial ...

Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi enabled SD memory card won the Yahoo! Last Gadget Standing Award at CES comes the joint announcement that T-Mobile and Panasonic will release a Wi-Fi enabled digital camera that can directly upload to Google's Picasa Web Albums. The new wireless Panasonic LUMIX will allow you to wirelessly transmit digital photos from the camera to your ...

The new Sony mylo personal portable communicator recently debuted with a host of new features, added functionality, and redesigned form factor. Specifically designed for the texting teenager (AIM, GoogleTalk, and Yahoo Messenger), the new mylo is also set up for social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster as well as direct uploads to content sites like YouTube and other Adobe ...

Casio announced an update to its line of top notch and fashionably slim Exilim point-and-shoot digicams at a press conference yesterday. The new EX-S10, EX-Z80, EX-Z100, EX-Z200 add some fancy new features and a bevy of new color choices. The EX-S10 is "the world's smallest and slimmest" 10-megapixel camera, and adds iTunes (read iPod/iPhone/iPod Touch) compatibility to Casio's existing YouTube ...

Boynq Alibi (Style maven, $100 and under) Want to get your college-bound, studying-abroad, jet-setting son or daughter to actually video-chat with you? Try getting them a webcam -- particularly one that looks as fresh as Boynq's Alibi. Though its primary function is video, the unit doubles as a speaker as well: While it's only able to crank out five watts, it sounds better than your laptop's ...