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The much-awaited voice-activated Google Mobile App for iPhone is at last available - and it pretty much lives up to its hype.

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There’s been a whole hoo-hah about the BBC making it possible to download its TV shows to Mac and Linux computers - now it seems the broadcaster may be moving to launch the service, which is already available on Windows, and the launch could come this month, if a report’s to be believed.

The broadcaster has frequently gone on the record to say that it wants to make it possible to download shows from iPlayer to the Mac, but has castigated Apple for refusing to license FairPlay to the corporation in order to easily achieve this.

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Google this week optimised its search results for iPhone users - now the search engine giant has made the Apple device capable of exercising searches using voice commands. Don’t believe me? Here’s the video:

UPDATE: Since this report was published the descriptive video appears to have been taken offline and there has been no sign yet of the application’s arrival on the App Store. We have found another version of the original video which we have posted here. The original New York Times report appears authoritative and written with cooperation from the search giant, so the jury’s out on what’s really going down. Original report from here unchanged.

Second Update: Now the word is we’re looking at Monday, watch the skies, people…

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YouTube will soon sell spaces on its search results pages to advertisers, yet another in its series of attempts to monetize its hugely popular service. This will enable anyone with a video available on the service to promote it on search results pages. More after the clip…

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Google has introduced click-to-buy links directing traffic to iTunes and Amazon MP3 underneath selected videos available on YouTube.

It’s the latest step in the company’s attempt to make some money from the huge traffic YouTube receives, and the company has begun deploying the links below videos relevant to music and videogame partners, but this reach is set to spread. Read the rest of this entry »

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YouTube seems serious with its ambitions to offer long-form video content, developing two new viewing options for delivering just that, Theater View and Lights Off.

The first view moves the creator information to the bottom of the screen, portrays the clip in widescreen format and frames it with red curtains, while Lights Off view dims the browser window outside of the video player.

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BBC Global News has extended its relationship with YouTube and will add six BBC video news channels in Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Persian and Urdu to its existing BBC World News channel on the Google-owned service.
 
The deal means YouTube users will have access to high quality, independent and impartial news clips produced by the BBC World Service in six languages.
 
Video news stories will run each day across the different language Channels and each channel will be branded and tailored to its specific audience. Videos will also be fully discoverable via Google Video search. Read the rest of this entry »

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Needham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf thinks Research In Motion is deluded in its guidance, slamming the firm with an under-perform rating on strength of increased competition from the iPhone and other manufacturers.

Wolf despatched the following message to clients today: “RIM reported second quarter results in line with guidance. The major disappointment was guidance going forward - the prospect of lower gross margins extending through 2010. We believe the company is fooling itself in ignoring the increasingly hostile competitive environment. We’re maintaining our under perform rating and reducing 2009 and 2010 earnings estimates. ”

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Amazon is reportedly developing an online music store that will work with smartphones using Google’s ‘Android’ system - pitting the firm into competition with iTunes in the mobile space.

VentureBeat reports on Amazon’s move, based on advice from a tipster who claimed to have seen an HTC Android phone running such an application.

One signal difference between Apple and Amazon’s approach to mobile sales is that the latter firm seems set to enable over-the-air downloads of film and video. Read the rest of this entry »

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