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Court order on YouTube User Data fans Privacy fears

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By Kenneth Li and Eric Auchard

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:27:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Anheuser-Bush to reject InBev Offer

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Anheuse-Bush is apparently preparing to reject the InBev Take-over bid.

According to the WSJ, this could set the stage for a hostile take-over battle. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sprint Mobile Email Work Gives Users Access to Business Email

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Sprint announced a new service that allows users access to corporate email accounts on non-PDA style phones like the new Instinct from Samsung. The application is called Sprint Mobile Email Work and allows easy access to Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Notes accounts.

The new service is an extension to Sprint’s access to personal email accounts like AOL, Gmail, Windows Live and Yahoo Mail. Users of compatible flip phones and other devices can use the new service. The new corporate email access is available at no additional charge on some Sprint plans. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:55:13 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Study Says 9 Million mobile Users Pay for Goods and Services with Mobile Phones

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According to a study by The Nielsen Company 9 million mobile phone users in America have used their mobile phones to pay for goods and services and half of all data users say they expect to participate in mobile commerce in the future.

The study says that as of Q1 2008 3.6% of US mobile users paid for good with their phone. Men are more likely than women to use their phones for commerce and adults 25-34 are the most likely to use their phone for buying goods. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Sharp to target wealthy Cellphone Users in China

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp will target wealthy users in China with its mobile phone launch later this month, seeking growth in a market that has defeated its Japanese peers.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:47:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony Qore Video Show for Sony PS3 Users

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Sony announced today Qore, an interactive, monthly original program that covers the world inside PlayStation.

Sony Qore is only available on the Playstation Store for the Sony PS3.
Qore episodes will be available the first Thursday of every month in coordination with the weekly PLAYSTATION Store update. Sony actually expects you to pay for this show. The first show sells for $2.99. An annual subscription sells for $24.99. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:34:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Online Video to Boast Over 1 Billion Users in 2013

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According to ABI Research online video will have over 1 billion users by 2013. ABI says that the exponential increase will be pushed by improved broadband speeds and availability across the world.

To be able to offer the increased bandwidth that will be needed by ISPs to serve this much content ABI says that ISPs will change the way they deliver content by caching it closer to the user and peer-to-peer networks. Read more

Posted on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:12:21 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Myxer Gives iPhone Users Free Mobile Content

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If you own an iPhone and are tired of having to pay for songs or tracks at the iTunes store and then pay to turn them into ring tones Myxer announced a new service that may be just what you need. The Myxer service provides free ringtones and mobile content that is ad supported.

It’s not exactly clear what type of ads you have to put up with to use the service from the Myxer website. If the tradeoff for free ringtones and other stuff is tons of email from Myxer partners it may not be such a good deal. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Garmin Mobile Offers BlackBerry Users Lifetime Navigation

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Garmin Mobile has a sweet deal that will allow BlackBerry users a lifetime of Gamin satellite navigation on their specific BlackBerry device for the lifetime of that device. The one-time fee for the lifetime service is $99.99.

That is a good price for heavy users of navigation service, so long as you don’t intend on upgrading your phone soon. For the price users get unlimited access to Garmin’s turn-by-turn voice prompted direction service and dynamic content like traffic, weather forecasts, fuel prices and more. Read more

Posted on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:16:22 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

RIM's BlackBerry Bold aims at business Users

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By Wojtek Dabrowski

TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd is launching a new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base of business users, but it hopes the sleek new smartphone will also catch on with the broader retail market.
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Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 17:00:00 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

Facebook Users willing to let Employers see Profiles

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By Claire Sibonney

TORONTO (Reuters) - While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
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Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

India said to have 114,000 BlackBerry Users

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has about 114,000 mobile subscribers using Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry services, much lower than expected, the junior minister for telecommunications said on Monday.
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Posted on Mon, 5 May 2008 08:20:38 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

Verizon Users Can Get Medication Reminders on their Phones

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For thousands and thousands of Americans who are on daily medication regimes it can get difficult to remember when to take their meds and if they took the medication. Verizon wireless announced a new application today aimed at making remembering to take life saving medications easier.

The application is called Pill Phone and is a mobile version of the medication reference guide The Pill Book. The Pill Phone application is a Verizon Wireless exclusive and in addition to giving reference information and images of all sorts of medications it can also provide dosing reminders right on the phone. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:08:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Google defends User Data Policy after EU Report

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By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months.
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Posted on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:23:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AT&T eyes millions of Navigation Users in 2 years

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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - AT&T Inc sees location services such as driving directions as its strongest growth area in mobile data services and aims to have millions of customers in less than two years, an executive said on Tuesday.
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Posted on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Royal Pardon frees Moroccan Facebook User

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RABAT (Reuters) - A Moroccan computer engineer jailed last month for setting up a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed's brother has been freed after a royal pardon, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:46:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Japanese Nintendo Wii Users get Gemstar TV Guide

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Gemstar-TV announced this week a deal with Nintendo to provide the G-Guide interactive program guide on Wii consoles in Japan.

Gemstar's EPG is pretty well established in DVR's around the world. The integration of the G-Guide inside the Wii is only passive as the Wii has no TV or recording functionality. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Already 400,000 iPhone Users in China?

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The Apple iPhone is not officially available in China, but China Mobile has apparently 400,000 iPhone users on their cell network.

Back in January the talks between Apple and China Mobile failed. Market Research company In-Stat reports that China Mobile already had 400,000 unlocked iPhone customers by the end of 2007. Read more

Posted on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

1 million Sony PS3 Users participate in Folding@Home

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Sony today announced that since the PS3 took part in Stanford University’s Folding@home project on March 22, 2007, the total number of registered users has reached over one million users.

This equates to roughly 3,000 PS3 users registering for Folding@home per day or 2 new registered users every minute worldwide. Read more