NBA, NHL and Google in talks to stream live games on YouTube

Google, the NHL and the NBA are reportedly in talks to enable live games to be shown on YouTube. According to a Bloomberg story published today, Gautam Anand, Google’s director of content partnerships for Asia Pacific said that the second half of 2011 would see a number of live sport events streaming on YouTube.  This would supposedlly include the ongoing NBA and NHL games as well as soccer leagues from Europe.

“It’s fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you’ll see on YouTube,” Anand said. “We have ongoing conversations with pretty much everyone." The NBA has been active in finding ways and means to offer fans access to games from their mobile devices as well as on demand through their NBA League Pass programs 

Source: Bloomberg

This is the LG G-Slate, a 3D-capable Honeycomb tablet

The LG G-Slate will apparently be a T-Mobile device (which for Canadians means it should work on Wind Mobile, Videotron and Mobilicity's networks). Clearly running a variant of Android's Honeycomb OS, this 8.9-inch tablet is expected to have a dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 32GB of storage, a gyroscope and accelerometer combo plus 3D-capable stereoscopic dual-cameras in the rear (for shooting 3D videos and stills) plus a front-facing camera for video calls. You will 3D glasses to view photos and videos on the LG G-Slate's screen but it can also output regular HD video via a HDMI port. This is coming to T-Mobile in Spring. 

Google taking its talents to the desktop with Chrome OS, Cr-48 notebook revealed

Now that Google has dominated the web search and advertising markets and expanded into a successful mobile OS strategy with Android OS, it is setting its sights on something bigger, The desktop.

Until now, the Chrome OS project was considered another funky exploration from the Google Labs. It was a big "what if scenario" that married the concept of cloud-computing and a web browser as the only components one would need for personal computing. Now out of the skunkworks and into the mainstream, the Chrome OS is being realized as a competitor to Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Google breaches Canadian privacy laws,RIM's Balsillie deflects Jobs' reality distortion field

It's happened before and it is likely to happen again. While gathering photos and information for Google's Street View feature in its Google Maps application, the search giant has breached Canada's privacy laws by snagging people's emails and other private information. Canada's privacy commissioner has called Google out while revealing the findings of their investigation.

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