Tag archive: MIAMI

Kicked off in the pilot program during the first half of the year to start collecting photographs, Google has officially launched an interior version of Street View for buildings. The program sends a Google photographer to a business to take 360-degree photos and allow a potential customer to walk through the store. For instance, a user could navigate through a retail department store to find the exact location of the housewares department and… Read More

While the Google Street car has been known to capture some crazy situations, this is the first time that the vehicle has snapped several photographs of a naked woman within the United States. Captured standing outside her house holding a water jug, the Miami-based woman catches the Google automobile turning the corner and continues to put her hand up to her mouth in shock in subsequent pictures. The vehicle captured at least three images of the… Read More

The beaches, the sunshine and the hyper-toned bodies seem to be going to Miami's head. The Magic City is the flirtiest city in America, according to a new and decidedly unscientific study conducted by multi-lingual social networking site Badoo. “This is a proud day for Miami,” Lloyd Price, Badoo's director of marketing, said in a press release. “The Dolphins might not have won the other NFL lately but their town has… Read More

Albert Gonzales of Miami might never have thought it, but he’s making history. The 38-year-old, along with two unnamed Russians, has been charged with the largest identity theft in history – stealing data from 130 million credit and debit cards. The Department of Justice alleges that Gonzales used an SQL injection attack to breach firewalls and steal the information. His targets included 7-Eleven, Hannaford Brothers, and card… Read More

Windows 7 in 2010? Forget that, it’s coming sooner, and will be in the stores and on new machines well before the end of the year to take advantage of the holiday market. At the tail of a posting from senior vice president of the Windows and Windows Live engineering group Steven Sinofsky regarding the recent Release Candidate of the browser, comes the giveaway: “If the feedback and telemetry on Windows 7 match our… Read More

On January 27th Panasonic and Sony unveiled a new high-def video format that may put a stake in the venerable camcorder’s silicon heart. Called AVCHD Lite, this subset codec of the AVCHD format found in today’s top camcorders (Canon HG21 and Sony SR12), is geared for digital cameras; the first ones arrive in April from Panasonic. Given that Sony is planning a big press conference at the upcoming Photo Marketing Association convention March… Read More

In 2003 the satellite TV market was pretty cutthroat, and retailers would do almost anything to have an edge on the competition. In the case of Web retailers Miami-based Rapid Satellite and Weaknees in LA, that anything included a denial of service hack attack that took their sites offline. Now the FBI is looking for a Brit, Graham Walker, and a German, Axel Gembe, in connection with the attack. If convicted, they’re looking at… Read More

A new market research study from MultiMedia Intelligence ranks U.S. cities on the basis of how wide their residents have adopted in-home networking during 2007. Perhaps not surprisingly, San Francisco topped the survey results, with some 28 percent of households having adopted home networking technologies. San Francisco was closely followed by Miami at 27 percent, and Los Angeles at 24 percent. If you're wondering why other… Read More

Although it still hasn't been officially announced, U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile is widely expected to introduce the first mobile phone build on Google's Android platform next month, in the form of the HTC Dream. The potential problem with this scenario is that, while the Dream supports 3G data connectivity, T-Mobile is the number four mobile operator and only has 3G service up in a handful of markets. T-Mobile introduced 3G… Read More

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has signed on comedian Jerry Seinfeld as lead pitchman for Microsoft Vista. Microsoft has recently fired up a substantial new public relations campaign—including the now infamous Mojave Experiment—as the company tries to promote the benefits of Windows Vista to customers who have put off upgrading…or who have deliberately downgraded to Windows XP. Enlisting Jerry… Read More

Amercian Airlines has announced it is now offering in-flight Internet service on selected cross-country flights, powered by Aircell's Gogo mobile broadband service. As of today, American is offering the service on 767-200 aircraft flying between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami. The service costs $12.95 on flights more than three hours in duration, and is available to customers in all… Read More

When it comes to Grand Theft Auto, Chicago’s Transit Authority just can’t seem to make anybody happy. After accepting ads for GTA IV in April and plastering them all over the transit system, news reports criticized the CTA for advertising the violent game following crimes in Chicago. Bowing to public pressure, the Authority yanked the ads, a move GTA publisher Take-Two is now bringing the CTA to court over. According to… Read More

Universal Studios used to be the staunchest backer of Toshiba's HD DVD high-definition disc technology, being the only movie studio that didn't either sit on the fence and support both HD DVD and Blu-ray, or just skip HD DVD altogether and go for Blu-ray from day one. However, when Toshiba folded the HD DVD format back in February, Universal said it regretted that HD DVD hadn't worked out, but wasted no time in saying it… Read More

Nearly a year after Adobe first broke news of its upcoming media player, the company has released version 1.0 of the software for free to the public. Adobe Media Player expands the use of Flash for online video by providing viewers with a more powerful tool for watching video, and offering content providers more control over their releases. Using Adobe Media Player, viewers can download video from a number of sources, build a personal… Read More

Google AdWords may be the current king of online advertising, but on Monday, heavyweight rival Yahoo announced its own challenger, a new online advertising platform dubbed Amp. With it, Yahoo will attempt to consolidate different types of Web advertising into one platform that it hopes will draw in advertisers and publishers with ease of use. Yahoo envisions Amp as a sort of stock market for Web advertising, where people where… Read More