Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:19 pm

Video-sharing: YouTube, Vimeo on the rise

Washington, DC (ip-192.com): Video-sharing is on the rise: 71 percent of online Americans use sites such as YouTube and Vimeo frequently. On any given day, 28 percent of internet users go to video-sharing sites, according to a national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. A similar survey conducted in 2010 [...]

Optimus 3D: LG’s first 3D-enabled Smartphone

Seoul (ip-192.com): The Optimus 3D is LG Electronics (LG) first 3D-enabled Smartphone. The second largest South Korean company says that the new Smartphone is powered by a 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4 processor and has four times more video decoders than competing designs. It features simultaneous dual-channel processing and dual-memory. The phone uses parallax barrier [...]

Twitter: Facelift, 370,000 new users each day

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter promises a "faster, easier and richer" user experience after redesigning its interface and introducing new features. The most obvious tweak is that Twitter changed from a single to a two-panel interface to make the site more interactive and user-friendly. This makes navigating the site much easier and faster. Direct messages, favorites, [...]

Pakistan: YouTube and Facebook blocked

Islamabad (ip-192.com): Pakistan blocked access to Google's YouTube service due to "objectionable content." A day earlier, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked access to the social networking site Facebook, following a court order. More than 450 web links were unavailable; including certain pages on Wikipedia and Flickr, as the government widened a crackdown on material [...]