YouSendIt steps on Dropbox’s turf with unlimited cloud storage service

YouSendItis best known as a convenient alternative to email when you have large files to send, but now the California-based firm is stepping up a gear with the launch of a Dropbox-stylecloud storage and file sharing solutionwith a low-price unlimited plan. Similar toDropbox, the service offers storage which you can access via a Web-based interface, a desktop app (currently Windows only) and an app for the iPhone and iPad. Files and folders can easily be shared with others using three different permission levels: read and write, read only and read only without login....

3 min · 444 words · Amber Turner

YouTube and Firefox bring 3D HTML5 video support to NVIDIA hardware

Mozilla and NVIDIA haveannouncedapartnershipwith YouTube which will see support for 3D HTML 5 video brought to PCs powered by NVIDIA’s 3D Vision video technology. YouTube already features plenty of stereoscopic 3D videos, and the new move will see the Google-owned video site transcode and play these videos in the open WebM format with 3D for use with their HTML5 player. The feature is currently only supported by Firefox 4, and sadly will only work with computers using NVIDIA’s3D Visionhardware....

2 min · 274 words · Kimberly Brady

YouTube and Google could once again be blocked in Pakistan

Last year, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia were blocked inPakistandue to a Facebook group that had encouraged users to submit caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, as part of what was dubbed, “Draw Mohammed Day.” Now both YouTube and Google are faced with a similar threat in the country, but for very different reasons. While at the Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik isreportedto have said that these sites may no longer be accessible in the country if they do not cooperate with authorities in their investigations of terrorist-related crimes....

3 min · 478 words · Andre Coleman

YouTube and Lenovo team up to live-stream high school experiments from space

YouTube and personal technology company Lenovo have teamed up to launch a worldwide initiative for 14 to 18 year-old high school students. Joined by space agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the initiative,YouTube Space Lab, invites students to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. Two experiments will be selected by a panel of judges including Stephen Hawking, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne and Cirque du Soleil’s founder Guy Laliberté....

3 min · 594 words · Mary Hawkins

YouTube App Repositions its Navigation Bar for Better User Experience

World’s No-1 Video app ‘YouTube’ is working to make it interface more user-friendly. In this endeavor, YouTube app has come up with a major change in the last update – repositioning of navigation bar. Have you noticed the change? YouTube navigation tab now appears on the bottom of the screen. What could be the possible reason for such repositioning? Designers and UI/UX experts well understand the strategy behind this move....

4 min · 719 words · Corey Hickman
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