Tag archive: Pittsburgh

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 its legal status in Canada may still be up in the air, Google Street View has expanded into six new U.S. cities without problems. Google announced the addition on Tuesday on its Lat Long Blog. Online pedestrians can now peruse Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. Besides the added locations, Google has also improved the quality of Street View imagery. Views in Phoenix, Tucson and Chicago are all high… Read More

You’ve probably wandered through a graveyard and noticed that some older inscriptions are so worn that they’re illegible. Perhaps you’ve even wondered about the stories behind them,whose bones are lying there.   Thanks to a new project you might be able to find out one day. Scientists at the Ambient Intelligence Lab atCarnegie Mellon Cylab have developed a way to take hi-res scans of the tombstones that can reveal the… Read More

Following their breakthrough agreement with EMI, YouTube has signed a deal with Hearst-Argyle Television.Under the pact, Hearst-Argyle stations will receive a licensing fee whenever content from member stations is viewed on YouTube. It represents the first such deal involving local TV stations, andshows the way YouTube is being viewed by the media.   Hearst-Argyle is a major player in the local television market, owing 29 stations across… Read More

The Zune, Microsoft’s next combined hardware/software service has launched and is now available in an impressive 30,000 retail outlets, arguably the most aggressive attempt to take market share from Apple to date. Apple has responded by cutting deals with a number of airline carries to exclusively support iPods for in-flight entertainment. What makes this particularly interesting is that in both cases the two companies appear to be… Read More

If you think your quirky local TV anchor has the stuff to become an Internet celebrity…he or she might just have gotten their change. In an interesting move, Yahoo and CBS have inked a video syndication agreement to put local news video from 16 CBS-owned stations on the Internet via Yahoo's enormous Internet presence. The agreement goes into effect October 17th, and is the first time network-owned stations have entered a… Read More

TiVo's annual post Super Bowl analysis of viewer reactions to the commercials today revealed that, of the dozens of multi-million dollar spots that aired, Ameriquest's two ads landed at the top of the pack. Also revealed, according to user viewing data, was how a controversial call in the second quarter put actual Super Bowl viewing time on par with some of the commercials. TiVo, the company said, did their annual analysis of… Read More

One way to measure the buzz around the upcoming Super Bowl seems to be auction related traffic going on over at eBay. The online auction giant yesterday released some interesting numbers regarding listings for

Sony today announced they'd shipped their 1 millionth Grand WEGA micro-display HDTV from its Pittsburgh production facility. They've been primarily manufacturing this line there since 2002. Sony, through data produced by research firm NPD, said that Grand WEGA televisions have held the top market share in the overall micro-display television category since their inception, averaging approximately 40 percent weekly share and a… Read More

Radio giant Clear Channel Radio seems ready to fully embrace the podcast revolution as today they announced they were setting up multiple podcasts tied to various stations across their empire. This greater rollout is based on the successful podcast debut of WHTZ-FM Z100′s “Phone Tap