Facebook Inc has renovated a new advertising system that can flicker private complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other corporations.
The 55 million people who use Facebook will be given control whether they want to join in for the three week program that movement’s responsive information about online purchases and other activities.
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Based on a report published on Thursday, one of the biggest threats to the security in the next decade would be waged through computers resulting in a “Cyber Cold War”.
According to McAfee, an internet security company, about 120 countries are coming up with ways to use internet to target financial markets, government systems etc. McAfee said that intelligence agencies were testing other states networks to make out their weakness and their methods were growing as time goes.
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According to an internet research firm, American consumers stuck shopping sites on Monday, giving a robust start to the shopping season, resulting in good sales.
ComScore Inc reported that about $733 million were spent by consumers for shopping on Monday, resulting in a 21 percent high when compared to the same day a year ago. It was expected that the sales figure would surpass the $700 million mark.
According to ComScore, the first Monday after Thanksgiving was not the busiest day for retailers however. Wednesday, Dec 13 was the busiest day last year bringing in $667 million in sales. Monday after Thanksgiving was actually the 12th busiest day for the 2006 holiday period.
However Monday, known as Cyber Monday, represented the big sales, as consumers got back to office and started clicking to shop. Monday’s sales resulted in 84 percent jump from average daily online spending, according to ComScore.
The number of buyers online saw a rise to around 38 percent compared to last year, according to ComScore. Average dollars spent per head was 12 percent down. ComScore chairman said that he believed deeper price discount depressed sales. ComScore said that about $10.7 billion has been spent online from Nov 1 through Nov 26, thereby gaining 17 percent compared to last year.
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Video game Company Nintendo and telecoms operator NTT said they would cooperate in Japan in putting forward web access of Nintendo’s Wii game console.
Wii’s internet connection looks important for Nintendo as the company in the coming march has planned to launch a service known as WiiWare, which allows Wii users to purchase game software titles through internet.
On Thursday call centres will be started jointly by Nintendo and NTT’s two units NTT East and NTT west in order to provide consultation and support for Wii’s internet connection. They will offer a cut-rate start up package, which will provide equipment for Web access. A growing user base represents a drawing pool of customers for the Wii.
Since its launch last year, Wii which features motion sensing controller sold around 13 million units by the end of September. The executive vice president of NTT East Senior said at a news conference that he hoped the fibre optic service would become popular as the Wii. “I think we won a powerful ally to hit our target to boost fiber-optic subscribers to 20 million by the end of March 2011”, he said.
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UK’s TV networks such as BBC, Channel 4, ITV are planning to launch a joint online TV on-demand service that will provide content from all channels. The unnamed new service is likely to be launched in 2008.
The new service will include free downloading, purchases through internet, streaming and more. Shows will be locally produced content and perhaps US and non-British content. According to reports so far, the new service is believed to be available to the residents of UK only.
BBC has described the importance of the new service as remarkable, To take the deal to a more viewpoint it ought to be like NBC,CBS and Fox holding together for a joint gateway where their shows would be available on demand, for download, purchase etc. But the biggest winner will be the British viewer who will have access to TV content on the net. Recently BBC had problems with its iPlayer service which had delays, then was attacked for being available to Windows users only.
The channels launching the service said that the new service will be first launched online and then it will be made available on other platforms as well. Viewers will be able to watch the content free. The venture will be owned similarly and will work as independent.
Broadcasters hope by aggregating their content into one service they will cover competition from the prior services provided by other Internet upstarts like Joost and others.
For more on the topic check Media Guardian
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Retailers hope last week’s start to the holiday shopping season translates into a busy buying season online, which is officially to kick off on Monday. Retailers are busy hosting special offers. ComScore, research firm online has projected sales online may exceed $700 million on Monday.
ShopperTrak RCT Corp, which tracks total sales at almost 50,000 retail outlets, reported on Sunday that sales on Friday and Saturday saw a rise of 7.2 percent compared to the same 2 day period a year ago.
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The unique Smart Surface Mounting Technology from Samsung squeezes features within a slim form. The U600 phone from Samsung comes with a thinness of 10.9 mm, with a 3.3 mega-pixel camera for ultra sharp images. The U600 mobile phone from Samsung is the replacement for Samsung D900 and is the first of second generation Ultra phones to hit the market, thereby also making it the slimmest phone available.
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According to a study release on Friday, Chinese Internet users seem to depend on their web experiences, and see web as a key to socializing and sharing opinions compared to their U.S counterparts.
The study was conducted by InterActiveCorp (IACI.O) and advertising agency JWT, part of the WPP group. The survey was conducted in the age group of 16-25 years old both in U.S and China which showed that about 42 percent of Chinese users said they felt addicted to Web use compared to 18 percent of users in U.S.
The survey was conducted online in November, in English and Chinese. The study distinguished that about 10 percent of Chinese population used internet, with a higher proportion of them living in major cities.
Almost 25 percent of Chinese population held a view saying it was unable for them to spend more than a day without internet compared to 12 percent in U.S. About 76 percent of Chinese users said Web helped them in making new friends where as less than third of Americans said internet contributed to their social life.
The study also revealed that about three quarters of Chinese users were free to do and say things through internet which could not be possible in the real world, compared to 32 percent of users in U.S.
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Activision Inc, the maker of “Guitar Hero”, has been sued by “The Romantics”, saying that the video game has intruded on the band’s rights by featuring a sound alike recording of “What I Like About You”, the 1980 hit.
The case was filed on Tuesday in the U.S District Court in Detroit and was seeking unnamed impairment.
The song is one of the 30 songs featured on “Guitar Hero”. For the Romantics, Copyright claim hasn’t been the issue so far. The attorney’s say that Activision had been given the rights to use “what I Like About You” thereby allowing to record a cover version.
By creating an imitation like the Romantics, the Cali-based company intruded on the group’s rights. The band is seeking a ban that could take the game off the stores.
Activision refused to take calls from Newspaper agencies for comments regarding the matter.
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The U.N food aid agency has called on film makers to help it raise the awareness of hunger and bring the reality of poverty to the “You Tube” followers.
A contest was launched on Wednesday by the World Food Program (WFP) for 60 second video that geared at creating a buzz in the online community about global hunger.
The WFP communications director Nancy Roman said that for those among them who did day-in, day-out backbreaking work of getting food to hungry people, it was sometimes discouraging how people understood that hunger killed a child every five seconds. The agency has posted its own video which is available at its site www.youtube.com/hungerbytes. Towards the end of the video, a message goes on saying, in about 850 million people go to bed hungry every night.
The five best films are likely to be posted on WFP’s YouTube site, with an overall winner receiving a trip to one of the relief operations. WFP said that filmmakers had a better chance of winning if they get play on networking sites like Facebook or Myspace before the competition’s deadline on July 2008.
This isn’t the first time WFP has come up with an awareness programme using computer technology. Earlier in 2005 it launched a video game in which players could plan and distribute food drops to the people in need.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment has come down to a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc that could make way for people to upload files with music, the companies said on Tuesday.
Yahoo said that the financial terms of the deal were not revealed. The agreement calls Sony to receive a cut of advertising revenue. The deal covers giving out of music videos through Yahoo player applications that users can place on other sites.
This agreement marks that Yahoo has reached a deal with a major recording company over licensing content in user created videos. Sony BMG is a joint venture of Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann.
The deal reflects the recognition of user created videos, which includes copyrighted content. Sony BMG also reached a similar deal with Google Inc last year. The agreement included Google subsidiary YouTube.
Major media and Internet companies issued a set of guidelines last month which required web portals that hosted user generated videos. Earlier, Yahoo said that it was deploying video identification and filtering technology early next year.
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Sony Corporation on Monday lowered the fees it was charging for a software development kit for the PS3 console in order to get more designers to do video games for the machine.
The company said that it would strengthen its backup support in order to make new games for the PS3. The console comes with a Blu-ray disc player and a processor, is Sony’s new product in years. Sales look no good for Sony because of high prices and lack of games.
Although PS2 dominated the gaming market, PS3 has had a hard time against rivals like Nintendo. The console has succeeded in getting players by offering games that use handheld device for the remote control.
Sony has sold about 5.5 million PS3 consoles world over, Sony’s spokesperson said. The console went on sale late last year in U.S and Japan.
PS3 has not been able to compete with Xbox. Microsoft has sold about 13 million Xbox 360 devices from the last two years. Xbox has also slashed it prices in Japan from ¥39,795 to ¥34,800.
Sony’s PS3 sales beat the Wii from Nintendo for the first time this month between Nov 5 to Nov 11, with 55,924 PS3 machines sold vs. 34,546 Wii’s. Sony’s chief executive said that last week sales in the U.S doubled after the price cut.
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