YouTube Wraps Up Another Content-Sharing Deal

More professionally-produced, full-length programming (along with a lot of clips) is coming to YouTube, thanks to a deal with a television channel called Five.  Five, which operates in the UK, should bring more than 3,000 hours of content to the table.

University Creates iPhone Orchestra

iPhones are being used as musical instruments in a new class taught at the University of Michigan. The students who design, build and play instruments on their iPhones, will perform a free public concert on December 9. The course called "Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble" is believed to be the first of its kind. The class is taught by Georg Essl, a computer scientist and…

Mobile Banking Trends Accentuate Mobile Growth in General

Mercatus released the results from an interesting survey about the mobile offerings of banks. According to the firm's findings, banks that offer mobile financial services can increase their new customers acquisitions by as much as sixty percent.

Google Puts More Images (And One Big Pic) On Results Pages

The PageZoom, NoSquint, and Image Zoom add-ons for Firefox have been downloaded over 5 million times, all together, so obviously, there are a significant number of people for whom default sizes don't cut it.  And now Google's trying to help them out by adjusting the way in which it displays image results.