MySpace plans Redesign for next Week

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace plans to launch a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographic and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said on Friday.
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Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:34:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Google co-founder Brin books Space Flight

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to space and has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a future orbital space flight with Space Adventures, the space tourism company said on Wednesday.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:11:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MySpace to let Users share Profile across the Net

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace social network will let users choose to share their public profile information, such as pictures, videos, and text, across the Web to spread its service beyond its own borders.
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Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MySpace's fashionable Child launches new Designers

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By Jane Lee

LONDON (Reuters) - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site MySpace.com.
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Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 09:39:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MySpace users Get SightSpeed

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MySpace users get a new video chat application today called SightSpeed from SightSpeed Incorporated. SightSpeed says it is the first company to offer integrated video mail, public video posting and free video chat to MySpace members.

The application was built with the new MySpace developer Platform. With the application users can have real time voice chats or threaded video posts where videos are recorded and posted in a chat style. Users would create a video post on a subject and then other members of their friends group could post a video response. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:35:46 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

MySpace and NBC News launch Decision 08 Hub

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Hey, it looks like there is an election coming up! MySpace, together with NBC News and msnbc.com, today announced an exclusive partnership to launch Decision 08, a comprehensive online center for in-depth 2008 election-related news, analysis and discussion. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:23:36 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bumpy ride Home for Soyuz Spacecraft

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The Russian Soyuz spacecraft with the Yi So-yeon, South Korea's first astronaut has returned to Earth, but came down 250 miles of course.

The astronauts are safe, but had to endure hihg G-forces on re-entry.
Besides Yi So-yeon, Yuri Malenchenko from Russia and American Peggy Whitson have been on board. Read more

Posted on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:54:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MySpaceTV lands global TV Distribution Deal

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By Kenneth Li

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A company founded by Rupert Murdoch's daughter will help News Corp's MySpace distribute Web shows on television and DVDs outside the United States, as the world's largest social network seeks an audience away from the computer.
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Posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:38:58 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

3Dconnexion Goes Mobile with SpaceNavigator

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3Dconnexion announced today that it has gone mobile with its SpaceNavigator mouse. The new SpaceNavigator for notebooks is designed for on-the-go 3D professionals and enthusiasts. Compared to the desktop SpaceNavigator the notebook version is more compact and about half the weight.

"As the notebook market continues to grow and more and more people carry their laptops with them, there is a greater need for advanced mobile input devices," said Dieter Neujahr, president of 3Dconnexion. "This new 3D mouse encompasses a sophisticated design to address the need for portability in many environments, without sacrificing the intuitive 3D navigation and improved design experience our customers have come to expect from 3Dconnexion's product line." Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:15:23 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

MySpace forms Music Joint Venture with big Labels

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp MySpace, the world's largest social network Web site, said on Thursday it has formed a joint venture with three major music companies called MySpace Music.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:19:07 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rivers Run Red launches Immersive Workspaces for Second Life

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Rivers Run Red unveiled the Rivers Run Red Immersive Workspaces platform, a complete collaboration solution enabling enterprises to communicate, collaborate, and co-design in a rich, secure 3D environment.

The solution tightly integrates a 3D workspace with a set of web-based applications allowing for the global prototyping of ideas in real-time, ensuring content, activity, and presence are accounted for, and can be acted on, outside the 3D workspace. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 01:48:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google announced the OpenSocial Foundation

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Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google today announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:44:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Google tells FCC of "White Space" Airwave Plans

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet search engine Google Inc gave U.S. regulators on Monday a proposal for allowing the airwaves between broadcast channels to be used for mobile broadband services.
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Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:03:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dead Space Cartoon heralds Videogame Release

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By David Ward

SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - Electronic Arts and Starz Media are producing an animated prequel movie to the upcoming sci-fi horror video game "Dead Space."
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Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:59:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sprint Offers Free Access to MySpace Mobile

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Sprint announced today that it is the first wireless carrier to offer access to MySpace Mobile on all of its web-enabled phones. Sprint says that this marks the first free direct access to the new MySpace Mobile on all web-enabled Sprint phones.

"Mobile is the next generation of social networking," said Brandon Lucas, senior director of mobile business development for MySpace. "Our partnership with Sprint makes it easier and faster for customers to get the most out of MySpace when they're on the go." Read more

Posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:37:37 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

THQ launches Worms: A Space Oddity for Nintendo Wii

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THQ today announced that Worms: A Space Oddity, the newest installment in the popular turn-based strategy series, has been released.

The franchise’s debut on Wii features intuitive controls designed to take advantage of the Wii Remote™, as well as a fresh new visual style, environmental settings and even more customization options. Worms: A Space Oddity is rated E10+ and is now available for a suggested retail price of $49.99.
The new Wii game ships on March 19th on Amazon.com. Read more

Posted on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

China video site Youku ties up with MySpace China

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Video-sharing Web site Youku.com, which is trying to position itself as China's next YouTube , has tied up with News Corp-invested social networking site MySpace China to target the local market.
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Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:13:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MySpace and TMZ launch Web Channel

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By Alex Woodson

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - MySpace and TMZ are set to launch a branded channel Wednesday on the social networking site's TV page.
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Posted on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

EA Announces Dead Space for Halloween

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EA announced a new survival horror game called Dead Space that will launch this Halloween. The game is set in a science fiction setting and will hit the Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 31st. EA says the game is set in the far future as humans travel deep into space looking for natural resources.

The game puts players in the shoes of engineer Isaac Clarke who travels to a space ship to fix the communications and finds that the crew unearthed an alien presence that he has to seal back inside the planet. Read more

Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:20:53 CST | by Shane McGlaun

MySpace working on Music Service: Reports

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the online social networking site owned by News Corp , is in talks with music companies to launch an advertising-supported free music service, according to several reports on Wednesday. Read more

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:52:55 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

MySpace launches Developer Platform, appoints COO

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the world's largest online social network, will launch its program to court outside software developers in February in a bid to widen the gap against rival Facebook. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:54:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr