YouTube on April 8 added a stage for live events as the world's leading video-sharing website continued its effort to woo viewers away from television programming. YouTube Live launched online at youtube.com/live, letting people subscribe to watch shows or events streamed by the Google-owned operation's partners.
YouTube planned to gradually roll out a test version of a platform that would allow established video contributors with accounts in good standing to stream their own real-time shows.
YouTube has live-streamed concerts, sporting events and interviews in the past on an intermittent basis. The Live platform would make real-time programming a standard part of the service.
"The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from their channels in the months ahead," product manager Joshua Siegel and product marketing manager Christopher Hamilton said in a blog post.
Bing search takes to iPads
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has tailored a version of Internet search service Bing for Apple's hot-selling iPad tablet computer. A free Bing programme for iPads available on April 8 at Apple's online App Store was designed "from the ground up" for touch controls so tablet users can browse online offerings with finger taps or swipes, according to Microsoft.
Bing for iPad also let users search the Internet with spoken queries. "Not only have we focused on making the app beautiful and functional, we've also focused on making search easy," the Bing team said in a blog post.
Microsoft has been striving to gain ground on Google, which dominates the Internet search market and has customised applications for iPads that feature voice queries as well as location-sensing capabilities. Google applications for iPad include search, maps, Gmail, and video-sharing service YouTube.
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