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Spontaneous gatherings to Michael Jackson popped up all over the globe following news of the pop icon’s sudden death on Thursday. But in the Philippines, 1,500 convicts at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center practiced nine hours Friday night and into ...Read More

On Monday night, I was invited to participate in the red carpet event celebrating Tuesday's release of the Star Trek DVD/Blu-ray. Not only was it at the Griffith Observatory, somewhere I've always wanted to go, but the legendary Leonard Nimoy ...Read More

In addition to rolling out its Chrome OS code, Google on Thursday also unveiled automatic captions and timing for YouTube. Automatic captions will use the speech-to-text algorithms currently used in Google Voice to produce captions for a selected video. These captions ...Read More

Google has given a sneak peak of its new computer operating system. Google's Chrome is expected to be on computers for the holidays next year and could challenge Windows. The software is designed to run on inexpensive laptops that only offer ...Read More

Six channels run by universities are also involved in the initial launch. YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in ...Read More

In a move that will make hundreds of thousands more videos accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired, Google Thursday announced that videos on its YouTube site would sport machine-generated automatic captions.Google has offered user-generated captioned videos for three years. ...Read More

Google is adding new technology to YouTube that can automatically add text captions to videos using speech recognition. The website has allowed users to manually add captions to videos for about a year now, but the process requires the author to ...Read More

Vevo, the music video startup backed by Sony and Universal, with Google's YouTube support, is launching December 8th. Rio Careff, Vevo's CEO, promised us last week that Vevo would be a great experience with high quality sound and video. He says ...Read More

These staffers at the Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo, CA might seem really excited, but the clearly rehearsed dance routine comes across more like some kind of Stockholm syndrome. I've heard the Microsoft Store pays well and all, but seriously, what ...Read More

With the advent of "citizen journalism," anyone with a camera, an Internet connection, and a few questions can become a member of the fourth estate. But how do you know if this reporting is accurate? YouTube on Tuesday introduced a new ...Read More

MORRISVILLE, Vt.—What possesses a man to steal his ex-employer's bus, take it for a three-state joy ride and then post a video of the lark on YouTube? "It was inspired," Jacob Rehm, 38, said outside court Tuesday. "I felt inspired." The vehicle's ...Read More

YouTube is launching a new video platform, YouTube Direct, in hopes of leveraging YouTube's popularity to help media organizations with video needs. A free service, YouTube Direct invites citizen journalists to submit amateur video content to news organizations, allowing those ...Read More

Here's one from the "One more reason not to block YouTube" files: Univision will be posting its content for free on YouTube. The details announced yesterday provide easy access to programming online for a quickly growing segment of the US ...Read More

Artwork: Chip TaylorUnivision's agreement with Google to bring television content to YouTube may not seem all that important on the surface, but in reality, this is actually a pretty big deal for everyone who watches TV online. Univision will host current, ...Read More

(AP) -- YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls. The assist comes in the form of "YouTube Direct," a free tool made for media interested in amateur video of calamities, protests or other ...Read More

Univision Communications and Google's YouTube have cut a deal to put much of the Spanish broadcaster's content on the video website. If you're looking to catch up on the network's popular telenovelas there, though, you're out of luck. Until now, Univision ...Read More

Spanish-language media giant Univision is teaming up with Google's YouTube subsidiary to make Univision videos available on-line to the fast-growing Hispanic audience.Univision Interactive Media, the digital division of Univision Communications, on Monday said the company's video content, including programs from ...Read More

YouTube's latest content partnership will bring an influx of Spanish-language clips to the video-sharing site from Univision. The deal, which is slated to kick off in Q1 2010, includes short- and long-form clips of shows like Cristina, El Gordo y ...Read More

* YouTube to feature full length Univision shows * Deal includes Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision shows NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Spanish-language media companyUnivision Communications Inc [UVN.UL] said on Monday it hasreached an agreement to feature short and full-length programson Google ...Read More

LOS ANGELES - Univision, the biggest Hispanic broadcaster in the U.S., says its shows will be coming to YouTube in the new year. Videos to be made available include the talk show "El Show de Cristina," based in Miami, and the ...Read More

YouTube has just announced that it has partnered with Univision, the United States' most popular Spanish language network, to bring a selection of its content to the world's most popular video site. The agreement includes rights both to short clips ...Read More