Archive for June, 2008

Comcast’s Fandango buys Movies.com site

Entertainment site Fandango.com bought Movies.com from the Walt Disney Co to widen its offering of celebrity news and movies reviews.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Nokia buys social networking site Plazes

Top cellphone maker, Nokia, agrred to buy a social networking website, Plazes as a start of their major offering of internet services. Nokia did not reveal the price of acquisition of Plazes but instead said that Plazes rovides location aware services that people can use to record, plan, and share their social activities.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Yahoo introduces two new e-mail address domains

Yahoo Inc will introduced two new email domains this coming Wednesday, allowing users to pick between e-mail addresses with ymail.com and rocketmail.com.
The current yahoo mail, the yahoo.com e-mail service has more or less 260 million users all over the world, now they have three options to choose from, the yahoo.com, ymail.com and the rocketmail.com.

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Snail mail gets a digital make-over

By Daisuke Wakabayashi
The U.S. post office in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square district can see the future coming. In fact, it moved in next door.
At least, that’s the bet Ron Wiener, CEO of Earth Class Mail, is making. His company seeks to transform a mail box at a fixed location into an digital inbox, like e-mails, […]

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Blogging now considered a therapeutic tool

I read on yahoo technology that blogging is now considered as a therapeutic tool. A published study by an Oncologist last February supports a theory that cancer patients who engaged in expressing themselves through blogging before treatment is reportedly to be more physically and mentally better compared to patients who did not.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Nokia to bring new E-series phones to market

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone maker, is set to start selling a group of E-series enterprise handsets and the top-of-the-range N96 multimedia device, a senior executive said on Monday.
“We will in the third quarter bring to the market the N96 we have launched and a group of E-series multimedia computers that will […]

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Top 10 Video Games For 2008

10 titles to look forward too in 2008.
1. Fallout 3 - Systems: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; Release: Fall 2008
2. Fable II - System: Xbox 360; Release: Fall 2008

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Canadian Law Clinic Files Privacy Complaint Against Facebook

By Grant Gross
May 30, 2008 — IDG News Service —
A Canadian university law clinic has filed a privacy complaint against Facebook, alleging that the social-networking site’s policies include 22 separate violations of a Canadian privacy law.
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008

IDC: US Internet Ad Spending to Boom

By Juan Carlos Perez
May 30, 2008 — IDG News Service —
Online advertising will balloon in the coming years, becoming bigger than all advertising media except direct marketing by 2012, according to IDC.
Spending in U.S. online advertising will double from US$25.5 billion in 2007 to $51.1 billion in 2012, along the way climbing up from […]

Sunday, June 1st, 2008