Bad news for Portland-based Open-ID startup Vidoop (as well as Vidoop partners like AOL , MySpace and Flock) : it’s apparently out of business. Earlier this month the company announced layoffs , but based on an email string that was forwarded to us, the company is now out of ..readmore

A couple years ago, Netflix began supplementing its DVD mail rental business with movie streams over the Web. for a few thousand select titles. Today, millions of Netflix customers stream their movies instead of waiting for them to come in the mail (or, more often, do both). You pay ..readmore

Imagini has launched the private beta version of its VisualDNA Shops widget to help monetise blogs and websites through a unique take on affiliate sales. The widget adds personalised product recommendations to any site, and immediately starts generating detailed demographic, psychographic and behavioural analytics of its visitors. It does ..readmore

High profile advertising network Federated Media’s Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards has resigned, we’ve confirmed, and will shortly be taking a job at Digg with the same title. Thomas Shin , who Digg stole from Yahoo earlier this year, will report to Edwards. Mike Maser, Digg’s Chief Revenue and ..readmore

Here’s the full video of the Google Wave demo from this morning at Google’s IO conference in San Francisco. Our full review of Google Wave is here . Exclusive interview with the founders is here , and our video and notes from the press conference is here . CrunchBase ..readmore

A solar-powered robot that’s fully autonomous and able to control it’s own energy acquisition may seem like a frightening proposition to some. But set aside those preconceptions for a minute and take a look at the Trilobot’s video debut after the break, and then try to tell us you ..readmore

Call it a sign of the times, call it a Google I/O attendee who just didn’t really like the Ion , call it an overabundance of Western-style capitalism, call it man’s almost instinctive need to generate profit — whatever the case, one of the 4,000 specially-branded Ions given away ..readmore

Five days before launch and out pops another teaser for the Alienware Allpowerful gaming laptop. The image above again comes courtesy of the cats and kittens over at the NotebookReview forums. Noted symbolist, Larven, went so far as to translate the gibberish on the picture setting the forum into ..readmore

Go ‘head with your bad self, Dell ! The colorful Studio line is expanding this fine morning, with the newest member rocking a slightly unorthodox 14-inch (LED) display size. Designed for hipster students and those at the top of the computing bell curve, this perfectly average portable offers up ..readmore

There are little HTPCs that hum indiscreetly amidst your home theater equipment, and then are there behemoth multimedia PCs that gobble down all the HD content you can shove at them while playing Crysis at 80fps and folding proteins in the background. Medion’s Akoya P7700 D looks to fall ..readmore

When word that Sprint Gurus had gotten hold of the Palm Pre User Guide came across our desks yesterday, we couldn’t wait to get our eyes all over it… and then we saw that it was almost as long as Infinite Jest . Okay, we kid, it’s not as ..readmore

Remember Nokia’s Home Control Center launched in December with plans to send home automation product to retail by the end of 2009. Well, it’s been upended today with Nokia bowing out of its own smart home activities and licensing the technology to the independent There Corporation — a company ..readmore

Ready for this? No, seriously — are you strapped in? The same reliable “mole” that enabled ArsTechnica to correctly call the Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 bundle and the new Halo 3 / Fable 2 bundle (among other items) has come forward with convincing evidence that a UMD-less PSP ..readmore

We see boatloads of solar charging gizmos around here, but they’re usually not so… large. What we have here is a big sunning umbrella, for use outdoors (obviously), which has large flexible solar panels made by Konarka on top. The solar collecting panels store the energy in the stem ..readmore

There’s been no direct confirmation just yet, but Fortune has it that Palm’s hotly anticipated Pre actually syncs with iTunes. Yeah, iTunes . According to the report, the Pre works “seamlessly” with iTunes on a Mac, with the only notable limitation being that it can’t handle older DRM-laced files ..readmore

Despite new cameras being riddled with borderline useless features and modes, useful functionality like automatic geotagging is getting little love from the big players. All the more reason for third parties to sneak in and make a few bucks, and ATP certainly seems to be on top of it. ..readmore

Remember late last year, when AMD poured out the liquid nitrogen to boost its new Phenom II X4 to a ridiculous 5GHZ? The company’s factory overclockers apparently had a lot of leftover LN2, so they invited a crew of others to come over and splash some around on a ..readmore

With Akihabara, mobile TV that works and games like this , does Japan really need another nicety to remind us of how awesome it is? Starting this week, Yahoo Japan has started to deliver free video services to loads of Sharp AQUOS HDTVs. The so-called Douga Channel currently offers ..readmore

We already heard that HDMI 1.4 was just around the bend, and now HDMI Licensing has come forward with all of the official details surrounding the specification. Unfortunately for AV enthusiasts, it seems as if we’re taking two steps forward and three back , and we get this sinking ..readmore

We won’t go so far as to say that the innards of ASUS’ sexy Eee PC 1008HA are literally held together with tape, but man, there’s an atypically high amount of sticky strips in there. If you’re curious to see the ins and outs (but mostly the ins) of ..readmore