YouTube tries out a new look

YouTube’s trying out a new redesign named, for some reason, Cosmic Panda, giving a sleeker, darker look and improving customization options.

Gone is the traditional all-white page. Videos are now set off against a darker background to lower the contrast and make the whole thing easier on the eye. There’s also a lot less text, making for a more modern look with less to distract the viewer.

There are bigger thumbnails for each video, and they now appear immediately below the video that’s playing. And the videos themselves can be seen in two different sizes, as well as full-screen.

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Flying Touch III 10.2-inch Android Tablet Device

Tablets has become a popular option on the consumer electronic market ever since Apple unveiled their iPad Tablet and today tablets can be found as cheap as $70 with the majority running the Google Android OS. I am guessing that there will be a 3D Tablet coming soon as tablets has become the norm, here is another android-powered tablet called the Flying Touch III.

The Flying Touch III Tablet features a 10.2-inch resistive touchscreen display with a 1024600 pixel resolution, it comes equipped a 1GHz ARMII Processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM and 4GB of built-in storage plus a TF card slot that supports 16GB.

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Twitter’s Biz Stone Joining Boston VC Firm

It didn’t take long for Twitter co-founder Christopher “Biz” Stone to land a new side gig. Stone

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HP opens Big Data front with Oracle

With all of the attention focused on the war raging between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, a significant HP announcement in late June seemed to slip under the radar of the industry press.

On June 20, the company announced general availability of Vertica 5.0, the newest version of the Vertica Analytics Platform, along with some integrated appliance-like bundles combining Vertica with HP hardware.

HP bought the company earlier this year and it looks like Vertica is to be HP’s key play in the burgeoning ‘Big Data’ market.

The foundation of the Vertica platform is a columnar database which, as the name implies, handles data in columns. This column-centric design can yield huge advantages vs. tradi

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VIA Technologies Announces Sale of Stake in S3 Graphics

On Wednesday, VIA Technologies and WTI announced that the two have reached an agreement to sell holdings in S3 Graphics to HTC for $300 million. S3 Graphics builds hardware graphics solutions for a number of consumer devices including game consoles, PCs, and mobile devices. VIA will receive $147 million from the deal while WTI will take home $153 million. “The transaction would allow VIA to monetize a portion of its rich IP portfolio, yet retain its graphics capabilities to support the development and sale of its processors and chipsets,” said Tzu-mu Lin, Senior Vice President and Board Director of VIA. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval but is expected to close before the end of this year. Rea

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