Windows 8.1 will be offered as a free download to those already using Windows 8

A tweaked version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system which restores the “Start” button missed by users and updates other features will be available on October 18, the company said on Wednesday.

Windows 8.1 will be offered as a free download to those already using Windows 8, and comes in response to a lukewarm reception to the operating system introduced last year aimed at serving both mobile devices and PCs.

A full retail version of Windows 8.1 will also be available on the same date.

“I know a lot of folks are eager to find out when they will be able to get Windows 8.1,” said a blog posting from Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc.

LeBlanc said it would roll out worldwide starting in New Zealand just after midnight.

“Windows 8.1 brings many improvements in areas like personalisation, Internet Explorer 11, search which is powered by Bing, built-in apps including a few new ones, an improved Windows Store experience, and cloud connectivity with SkyDrive (and much more) that people will enjoy,” LeBlack said.

A public preview of Windows 8.1 was made available on June 26.

At the time, Microsoft said it had sold more than 100 million licences for Windows 8 but that the update was planned after listening to customers.

Some analysts say Microsoft was forced to act because of slow adoption of Windows 8, which made some radical changes to the design of the desktop.

With Windows 8, Microsoft was trying to create a system that could be used on mobile touch screen devices while also serving the users of traditional PCs.

Microsoft launched Windows 8 last October, revamping its flagship system in an effort to make inroads in the fast-growing mobile segment. At the same time, it launched its Surface tablet computer.

Facebook fueled fresh talk Friday about its own mobile phone after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week.

Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the April 4 event, the technology news site TechCrunch reported the announcement would be a modified version of the Google Android operating system with “deep native Facebook functionality.”

Another report on “9 to 5 Google” said Facebook designing the software for the new smartphone, which would be made by Taiwan’s HTC.

Facebook’s invitation said only “Come See Our New Home On Android.”

The reports, if accurate, could explain the long speculation about a “Facebook phone” to help the social network better monetize its mobile platform by featuring Facebook prominently on the phone.

Facebook has long held firm it has no intention of building its own smartphone, saying instead it would rather weave access to the social network into software running the gamut of handsets.

News of the April 4 event at social network’s main campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park came as the research firm IDC released a Facebook-backed study showing that smartphones have become people’s close friends in the US.

US smartphone owners tend to be connected from the instant they rise until they fall sleep and revel in every minute of it, according to the study.

A weeklong IDC survey of more than 7,000 people ranging in age from 18 to 44 years old with iPhones or Android-powered smartphones showed that four out of five check their handsets within 15 minutes of waking.

The top three applications used were for messaging; Web browsing, and Facebook, in that order, according to IDC.

“People have a universal need to connect with others, especially those they care deeply about,” IDC researchers said.

“This coupled with mass market adoption of smartphones means that social engagement via phones has become mainstream.”

At a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco in September, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said the social network giant is focused on mobile devices.

“It is really clear from the stats and my own personal intuition that a lot of energy in the ecosystem is going to mobile, not desktop (computers),” Zuckerberg said during an on-stage interview.

“That is the future,” he continued. “We are going to be doing killer stuff there.”

Facebook has made a priority of following its more than one billion members onto smartphones and tablet computers, tailoring services and money-making ads for mobile devices.

“Now, we are a mobile company,” Zuckerberg said at the conference.

Zuckerberg rejected suggestions that Facebook would make its own smartphone, adamant that the company had no intention of stepping into the fiercely competitive handset hardware arena.

“Apple, Google, everyone builds phones — we are going in the opposite direction,” Zuckerberg said at the time.

“We want to build a system deeply integrated in every device people want to use.”

Will 3D Printing Change the World…
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Much attention has been paid to 3D Printing lately, with new companies developing cheaper and more efficient consumer models that have wowed the tech community. They herald 3D Printing as a revolutionary and disruptive technology, but how will these printers truly affect our society? Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based. From at-home repairs to new businesses, from medical to ecological developments, 3D Printing has an undeniably wide range of possibilities which could profoundly change our world.This video includes copyright material fromhttp://www.explainingthefuture.com You can learn more about 3D printing on the ExplainingTheFuture channel athttp://www.youtube.com/explainingthef…

From at-home repairs to new businesses, from medical to ecological developments, 3D Printing has an undeniably wide range of possibilities which could profoundly change our world… ;

Internet speeds around the world have noticeably slowed down due to a massive “distributed denial of service” attack, reports the BBC.

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These DDoS attacks bombard targeted web servers with so much dummy traffic that people trying to access a site for legitimate purposes are unable to do so. It’s most analogous to a traffic jam on a highway with no one able to move.

The BBC says that security experts are describing it as “the biggest cyber-attack in history.”

The attacks were focused on a company called Spamhaus, which maintains a “domain name system” to connect a typed-in URL to the correct server hosting the appropriate content. With this company’s services compromised, large portions of the web became less stable.

A Dutch web host called Cyberbunker states that it will host anything except child pornography or terrorism-related content. Spamhaus blocked Cyberbunker’s servers in an effort to weed out any spammers that might host their content with the company.

Now Spamhaus is alleging that Cyberbunker is collaborating with a Russian and Eastern European criminal organizations to facilitate the attacks.

A DDoS attack of 50 gigabits per second is usually enough to take out a major bank. Spamhaus is seeing sustained attacks of 300 gigabits per second. It’s only because of its distributed structure helping to effectively reduce the load that it’s still operational.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636#TWEET690031

 

Step 1 to Sep7 will help you to Tether(USB) Galaxy to Computer/Laptop
Step 1: Download ClockworkMod Tether from Google Play Store.
Step 2: Connect Galaxy S3 to your PC ( Windows, Mac or Linux) via USB and then launch ClockworkMod Tether application on Galaxy S3.
Step 3: ClockworkMod Tether will prompt out message to ask you choose and install drivers (Windows ,Mac or Linux) for PC.
Step 4: Click to download the driver.
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Step 5: After complete download the driver, now you need to install the downloaded “TetherWindowsSetup.exe” driver on your PC> . So, Go to your Galaxy S3 ClockworkMod folder>tether then copy “TetherWindowsSetup.exe” and then paste into your PC.
Step 6: Now on your PC, click to install “TetherWindowsSetup.exe”.
Step 7: Open Tether application on your PC and then click start button. After that, open your Galaxy S3 and click on the ClockworkMod Tether USB icon to start tether internet connection to PC. That’s All!
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Apple Vs. Samsung

Posted: August 25, 2012 in Apple Iphone, News, Technology

 

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that Apple scored a major legal victory over Samsung on Friday, when a jury in San Jose, California said the Korean company infringed several Apple patents.

The jury also awarded $1.049 billion in damages to the US-based tech giant. Analysts say the damages could be tripled because jurors found Samsung “willfully” infringed on patents.

The next date in the seemingly endless legal battle falls on September 20, when Apple is expected to ask the court to bar US sales of Samsung devices that the jury found infringe Apple’s patents.

Apple claimed Samsung infringed on three of its feature-related patents and four design patents. The jury found Samsung infringed all three feature-related patents, but only two of the design patents, ruling in Samsung’s favour on the other two.

Here’s a patent by patent, device by device breakdown of the jury’s verdict.

Claim 19 of the ‘381 patent (scroll-back/ bounce-back)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S (i900), Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (i9100), Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, Vibrant.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy Tab, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi).

Claim 8 of the ‘915 patent (pinch-to-zoom, swipe-to-scroll)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S (i900), Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (i9100), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Transform, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Ace, Intercept, Replenish.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy Tab, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Transform, Vibrant.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Intercept, Replenish.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi).

Claim 15 of the ‘163 patent (double tap to zoom and centre)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S (i900), Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (i9100), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Replenish.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Gem, Indulge, Intercept, Nexus S 4G, Transform, Vibrant.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy Tab, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Replenish.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Gem, Indulge, Intercept, Nexus S 4G, Transform, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi).

Was Samsung’s behaviour a case of willful infringement of any of above 3 patents?
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have willfully infringed ‘381 patent (claim 19) for following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have willfully infringed ‘915 patent (claim 8) for following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Transform, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have willfully infringed ‘163 patent (claim 50) for following devices: Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Replenish.

apple_samsung_design_patents.jpgD’677 patent
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Fascinate, Galaxy S (i900), Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (i9100), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy S II (Epic 4G Touch), Galaxy S II (Skyrocket), Galaxy S Showcase (i500), Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Ace.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy S II (Epic 4G Touch), Galaxy S II (Skyrocket), Galaxy S Showcase (i500), Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

D’087 patent
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy S (i900), Galaxy S 4G, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (i9100), Galaxy S II (Epic 4G Touch), Galaxy S II (Skyrocket) Infuse 4G.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy S 4G, Vibrant.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (Epic 4G Touch), Galaxy S II (Skyrocket) Infuse 4G.

D’305 patent
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy S (i900), Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

D’889 patent
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi), Galaxy Tab 10.1 (4G LTE).

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Tab 10.1 (4G LTE).

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. found NOT to have infringed above patent for the following devices: Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wi-Fi).

Was Samsung’s behaviour a case of willful infringement of any of above 4 design patents?
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. or Samsung Telecommunications America found to have willfully infringed D’677 patent for following devices: Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II (AT&T), Galaxy S II (T-Mobile), Galaxy S II (Epic 4G Touch), Galaxy S II (Skyrocket), Galaxy S Showcase (i500), Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. or Samsung Telecommunications America found to have willfully infringed D’087 patent for following devices: Galaxy S 4G, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. or Samsung Telecommunications America found to have willfully infringed D’305 patent for following devices: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S Showcase (i500), Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. or Samsung Telecommunications America found NOT to have willfully infringed D’889 patent for any device.

What (if any) patents infringements from Samsung were willful?
‘381 patent (claim 19), ‘915 patent (claim 8), ‘163 patent (claim 50), D’677 patent, D’305 patent.

What (if any) patents infringements from Samsung were NOT willful?
D’087 patent, D’889 patent.


Microsoft has quietly moved its “socl” social network while it continues to dogfood the new Facebook and Google+ rival, after the site was spotted in the wild back in November. The company dismissed socl – which builds interaction around Bing searches, among other elements – last month as “an internal design project from one of Microsoft’s research teams which was mistakenly published to the web”; however, Fusible spotted that the site seems to have reappeared at a new, even shorter domain, so.cl.

That move is unconfirmed, since Microsoft has been careful to batten down the hatches on so.cl and make sure nobody unofficial can gain access. The site presents nothing more than a message saying “We are in private beta” and a password-protected login; however, according to a check on the domain itself, Microsoft Chile registered the URL as far back as 2009.

According to Fusible, incoming web traffic had been spotted to their servers from cancun.cloudapp.net, and this week the URL began redirecting to so.cl/privatebeta. It’s unclear if this means Microsoft is nearing a point in time where it might launch socl officially, or that internal testing of the system has been ramped up a notch with broader participation. Alternatively, of course, it could all be an elaborate URL shortener, using the so.cl domain with some sort of link tracking system, though given the previous leaks that seems unlikely.

Microsoft is keen to downplay any suggestion that it hopes to rival Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Nonetheless, put together with the UI and feature leaks from November, and this new development, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to take the company at its word.


Today at its ‘These Go To 11‘ special event, Google just announced that Google Music — which launched over the summer in a private, invite-only beta —  is open to everyone.

The service allows you to upload your music library and stream it to all of your other devices. And while Google had initially stated this would be a premium service after the Beta ended, it has some good news: it’s going to continue free of charge. You can upload and store up to 20,000 of your songs without having to pay anything.

Google is also fixing Music’s biggest issue: you’ll now be able to purchase music via Android Market, which will let you purchase ‘millions’ of songs. Users can listen to 90 second previews before they buy.

There’s also some deep (and siginficant) Google+ integration: buy a song, and you’ll have the option to share that song to Google+ — and your friends will be able to listen to the entire song without having to leave their Google+ stream. They won’t have to buy anything and they won’t need to sign into a different account. This is big.

Update: I just shared my first song to Google+ using this feature, and there’s one catch Google didn’t mention: only people who are in your Circles can listen to the full track — if someone has Circled you (i.e., they’re following you), but you haven’t Circled them back, then they’ll only get a sample of the song.

Google Music’s new features are available immediately via music.google.com, and updated Android apps will be released in the next few days.

The labels who are on board: Universal, EMI, Sony Music (the holdout from the ‘big 4′ is Warner). Also includes numerous indy labels, ioda, The Orchard, and others.

To help get people to check out Google Music, Google has secured exclusive music from major artists, including some free tracks. Among the bands offering exclusives: The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Busta Rhymes, Shakira, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band.

The Stones will be releasing 6 live concert albums, which haven’t been released before.They’re launching one concert album initially, and will release the five others over 2012. Busta Rhymes will be debuting his new album exclusively on Google Music.

YouTube’s ambitions to challenge cable television head-on are getting a big boost tonight: the world’s largest video site is announcing 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.

These channels will start coming online next month (“continuing over the next year”, so some will take a while), and will be available anywhere YouTube is.

There are some big names on the list. But there are still a lot of questions: Will this content really rival the premium production values seen on cable? Will the shows be exclusive to YouTube? And how exactly is YouTube going to tweak the site’s user experience as it looks to shift users from funny cat videos toward these shows (which advertisers will be able to more effectively monetize)?

Here’s a list of content partners that are part of this announcement:

Electus Channel – Pop Culture (name TBD)
PMC PMC Entertainment News
WWE WWE
Young Hollywood Young Hollywood Network
DanceOn DanceOn (Madonna)
Fine Brothers Films MyMusic
Everyday Health, Inc. Everyday Health TV
TakePart™ TakePart™ TV
Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG) Spaces
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
ModernMom.com ModernMom Channel
Brady Haran DeepSkyVideos
IconicTV 123UnoDosTres
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
Seedwell American Hipster
Hearst Magazines Car and Driver Television
Alchemy Networks Alchemy Networks
CafeMom CafeMom Studios
Bedrocket Media Ventures Channel – Comedy (name TBD)
Demand Media LIVESTRONG
Bedrocket Media Ventures Channel – Action Sports (name TBD)
FremantleMedia Channel – Pets & Animal (name TBD)
Big Frame BAM
IconicTV myISH
Electus Channel – Food (name TBD)
Soccer United Marketing & Bedrocket KickTV
Lionsgate Lionsgate Fitness Channel
East of Center Productions LLC YOMYOMF
EQAL u look haute!
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
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
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
Maker Studios The Maker Music Network
Maker Studios The Moms’ View
Maker Studios Tutele
Noisey VICE
Iconic Life and Times (Jay-Z)