YouTube Plans To Challenge The Cable With 'Channels'

The world's largest video site announced that it’s lined up a slew of new content partners who will be developing shows for the site, covering everything from sports to comedy to music. The news had been rumored for some time, including a report last week in the WSJ.


In a blog post announcing the news, YouTube says its goal with these channels is to “give you more reasons to keep coming back again and again”. The post references the so-called “defining channels” born out of cable, like MTV, ESPN, and CNN, and says that the next generation of these will emerge on YouTube.  And for advertisers, these channels will represent a new way to engage and reach their global consumers.


The first of these new original channels will appear on YouTube starting next month and continuing over the next year. They’ll be available to you on any internet-connected device, anywhere in the world, with all the interactivity and social features of YouTube built right in.


The content partners are


Uncommon Content Partners The Conversation Channel
Demand Media eHow Home
SB Nation SB Nation
Magical Elves and InStyle magazine Little Black Dress
Hearst Magazines Channel – Fashion & Beauty Channel (name TBD)
Emil Rensing International Channel – Auto (name TBD)
My Damn Channel My Damn Channel: Live
Uncommon Content Partners Taste & Access
Red Bull Media House North America Red Bull
Machinima Machinima
Katalyst Thrash Lab (Ashton Kutcher)
Steve Spangler Science The Spangler Effect
New Nation Networks New Nation Networks
Smart Girls at the Party Smart Girls at the Party (Amy Poehler)
Bedrocket Media Ventures and Full Picture Productions Look TV
BermanBraun theLOGE
The Young Turks Town Square
BermanBraun & Rodale Inc. Vigor
Electus NuevOn – Latin Channel (Sofia Vergara)
Clevver Media ClevverStyle
Demand Media LIVESTRONG
Bedrocket Media Ventures Channel – Action Sports (name TBD)
FremantleMedia Channel – Pets & Animal (name TBD)
Big Frame BAM
ModernMom.com ModernMom Channel
Brady Haran DeepSkyVideos
IconicTV 123UnoDosTres
DanceOn DanceOn (Madonna)
Fine Brothers Films MyMusic
Everyday Health, Inc. Everyday Health TV
TakePart™ TakePart™ TV
Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG) Spaces
The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal
Pharrell Williams i am OTHER
SoulPancake Productions SoulPancake (Rainn Wilson)
Chopra Media/Generate The Chopra Well (Deepak Chopra)
Clevver Media ClevverNews
The Bowery Presents The Bowery Presents
Clevver Media ClevverTeVe
Soccer United Marketing & Bedrocket KickTV
Lionsgate Lionsgate Fitness Channel
East of Center Productions LLC YOMYOMF
EQAL u look haute!
Seedwell American Hipster
Hearst Magazines Car and Driver Television
Alchemy Networks Alchemy Networks
CafeMom CafeMom Studios
Bedrocket Media Ventures Channel – Comedy (name TBD)
IconicTV myISH
Electus Channel – Food (name TBD)
Philip Defranco Sourcefed
Meredith Corporation and Meredith Video Studios Digs
Vlogbrothers CrashCourse
Walter Latham Digital Walter Latham’s “Kings of Comedy”
Tony Hawk’s production company, 900 Films, Inc. RIDE Channel
JON M. CHU Channel – Dance (name TBD)
Vuguru & POW! Entertainment Stan Lee’s World of Heroes
FAWN by Michelle Phan Fawn
DECA KinCommunity
Source Interlink Media Motor Trend
The Nerdist Channel The Nerdist Channel
Comedy Shaq Network The Comedy Shaq Network (Shaquille O’Neal)
Demand Media eHow Pets & Animals
Brady Haran numberphile
Cooking Up a Story Food Farmer Earth
Bleacher Report Bleacher Report
TED Conferences TEDEducation
Intelligent Television Intelligent Channel
Maker Studios The Maker Music Network
Maker Studios The Moms’ View
Maker Studios Tutele
Noisey VICE
Iconic Life and Times (Jay-Z)
Pitchfork Pitchfork TV
Vlogbrothers SciShow
EYEBOOGIE POP SPOT
Roadside Entertainment/BAC The NOC
Alli Sports Alli Sports
The Onion Onion Broadcasting Company
VICE VICE
Smosh/Alloy Digital Smosh Animation (name TBD)
VICE Noisey
Knights of Good Productions Geek & Sundry
Mondo Media New Animators
BermanBraun & Rodale Inc. Taste
Varsity Pictures Awesomeness
Electus Channel – Pop Culture (name TBD)
PMC PMC Entertainment News
WWE Fan Nation
Young Hollywood Young Hollywood Network
Black Box TV Black Box TV (Anthony Zuicker, founder of CSI)
IGN Entertainment / Shine Group START
@radical.media Channel – Education (name TBD)
Frederator Networks Channel Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover
monotransistor werevertumorro
Thomson Reuters Reuters.com
Slate Slate News Channel

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Apple Profit for this year Rises about 85%

As on the reports upto 25th September of this year Apple shows the net profit as $25.9bn, which 85% rise from the last year.

Even that was not enough with the shares falling nearly 5% in after-hours trading. As there were no major products released in the fourth quarter of this year the apple could not achieve more than this. Since the death of Apple's co-founder Steve Job this the first set of results.

In the fourth quarter of the year, Apple sold 17.1 million iPhones, which was a 21% increase on the same period last year, and 11.1 million iPads, which was a 166% increase. But analysts expected the sales of iPhone around 20 million pieces in the quarter.

Apple said sales were decreased in September by customers expecting for the new version of the iPhone which is nothing but iPhone 4S, which was released on 14 October. Which is not included in this report. But iPhone 4S sold over four million of the new models in the first three days after launch.

One of the analyst at BGC Partners Colin Gillis said that the numbers came in weak. They need to set records every time they report to keep up the momentum.

But the sales of the Mac computers for the last year were 3.6 million. This was increased to this year by 27% which is precisely over 4.9 million Mac computers.

Analyst at Sterne Agee Shaw Wu said "The numbers are actually quite good. The reason why the stock is off - I think some of the analysts got carried away".

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Google Shutdowns more services: Buzz, Code Search & More

The Google Vice President for the product department Bradley Horowitz's post in its official blog says that the google terminating several more products such as Jaiku, Buzz, Code search engine, iGoogle features and the University Research Program for Google Search.

Here’s the latest update:

• Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.

• In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it usingGoogle Takeout.

• Jaiku, a product we acquired in 2007 that let users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012. We’ll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku.

• Several years ago, we gave people the ability to interact socially on iGoogle. With our new focus on Google+, we will remove iGoogle's social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.

• The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to our search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will close on January 15, 2012.

Google also said that it will be closing down the Google Labs site, as it promised earlier. That site will be gone as of today, so get your last visit in now. In addition, Boutiques.com and Like.com will now be replaced by Google Product Search.

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iOS 5 for Apple Update is Now Available For iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

After 128 days, 7 beta, and a gold master, has finally arrived. iOS 5 has just been released for all (or at least, anyone with a compatible iOS device).

For those who have no funding slipped their way into the beta developers

1) you are the man more patient than a normal human and 

2) you are in for a treat. It is the largest update to IOS has seen since the addition of the App Store and it's packed full of goodies.

The iOS 5 upgrade is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA), 3rd/4th generation of iPod touch, iPAD / iPad 2 it will also come pre-installed on 4S, of course, when device will be launched later this week.

Here's a brief summary of some key features

iCloud

 Apple cloud-based service for synchronizing content / data. Backing up your content, images, etc. in the cloud for safe storage, provides access to click redownloading all the programs you have already purchased, etc.

iMessage

Apple's free iOS messaging system (iOS-to-iOS). No more SMS!

Notification Center: Apple has completely revamped their old obsolete system alarm. Now you can pull down the top of the screen to display all the notifications.

Newstand

The management of all your subscriptions as a Smart Folder towards e-magazine/newspaper

Notifications

To-do/reminder the new system, with location-based alerts

Twitter integration

Much better camera UX (You can use the camera by double tapping the home button on the homescreen, and use the volume key to take photos)

Crazy simple image processing (cropping, rotation, red-eye reduction) within the photo app

Over-the-air updates, and activation of the device without a computer

Download the update is pretty simple

Just plug in the pop on iTunes, click the name of your device in the left navigation bar and click the "Update" button on the page that appears. If you do not see the update, give it a few minutes - the servers are getting hammered hard at the moment.

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