Breakout Internet music star Daria Musk will continue to push the boundaries of Google+ Hangout technology with her next highly anticipated performance, announcing today that Concert 3 on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. (EST) will feature embeddable YouTube Live video players streaming her concert live. These video players can be displayed anywhere—even in a Google+ stream—allowing fans around the world to simulcast the show from their websites, blogs and social networking platforms. Read the rest of this entry

Last summer, NVIDIA astounded gamers with the introduction of the GeForce® GTX 460 GPU, which editors called “an incredible value”(i). Flash forward 5 months later, and NVIDIA is set to do it again with the immediate availability of the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU. With average performance that is 33% faster(ii), overclocking headroom that is off the charts, and a performance per watt that puts competitive products to shame, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is further proof as to why GeForce GTX GPUs are favored by PC gamers worldwide. Read the rest of this entry

Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a new comprehensive long-term patent cross license agreement with NVIDIA. The companies have also resolved pending litigation in Chancery Court in Wilmington, Del., ending all outstanding legal disputes between the companies. Read the rest of this entry

Today at the International Consumer Electronics Show, DIRECTV and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced they have partnered to present the world’s first RVU-compatible production televisions, which will provide more than 19.1 million DIRECTV subscribers with the ability to watch live broadcast and stored content from their DVR on Samsung smart TVs, without the need for additional set-top boxes. Read the rest of this entry

Samsung Becomes First to Integrate Adobe AIR 2.5 into Televisions and Blu-ray Players; Announces Plans to Bring Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to Smart TVs

-Today at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Adobe announced that Samsung’s Smart TV platform will be the first to integrate support for Adobe® AIR® 2.5 for TV, Read the rest of this entry

Skype today announced it has updated its software for enterprises with Group Video Calling, which is available immediately in the new Business version of Skype (version 5.1 for Windows PCs). This new desktop offering empowers businesses of all sizes to enrich their communications and enhance their business relationships through the ability of having group video calls between three or more people (up to a maximum of 10). Read the rest of this entry

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced that it is introducing an innovative consumer experience for TV, called broadcast interactivity, on its Yahoo! Connected TV platform, which brings Internet-enhanced television to millions of consumers across the world’s most popular TV brands. The new feature is slated to launch with select national broadcast and cable TV leaders and top brand advertisers. Yahoo! is collaborating with ABC, CBS, HSN, and Showtime on content for a pilot program in the first half of 2011, and will showcase examples of the broadcast interactivity feature at CES (Booth #36201, South Hall 4, LVCC). Brand advertisers Ford, Mattel and Microsoft are also planning to work with Yahoo! to deliver interactivity with their TV advertising. Read the rest of this entry

Evolv, the leading provider of science-based, on-demand talent matching and intelligence solutions, today announced that Laszlo Bock, global Head of Human Resources of Google, has joined the company’s board of directors. Mr. Bock also serves on the advisory board of Catalyst, a nonprofit corporate membership research and advisory organization geared towards changing workplaces. Read the rest of this entry