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APAC mobile multimedia services to dethrone SMS
News Mobile multimedia services will surpass short messaging service in revenue contribution to Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan by year-end, reports IDC.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Development/design, Mobile Multimedia Service, cell phone, multimedia, revenue, network, mobile, Mobile applications
No buying sprees ahead for social networks?
News Consolidation will be part and parcel of still maturing social networking, but content partnerships and alliances may be way forward, say industry watchers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Personal applications, MySpace, Site, International Data Corp., digital content, social networking, monetization
APAC IPTV subscribers to hit 9.4M
News Number of Asia-Pacific Internet Protocol television users will grow 51 percent by year-end, predicts analyst, making region second-largest IPTV market in world.
Tags: Personal broadband, PCCW Ltd., IP Television, SingTel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Broadband, pay-TV, South Korea, Frost & Sullivan
EU earmarks US$69M to tackle illegal Web content
News The European Parliament has voted in favor of a proposal backing the next phase of the 'Safer Internet' program, due to run from 2009 to 2013.
Tags: Web sites, Content, Web Page, European Parliament, European Union, Knowledge Base, Environment, Safer Internet Program, London, Silicon.com
OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search
News Content publishers who need traffic may find OneRiot's new ad platform useful.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., CBS Interactive Inc., Web 2.0, OneRiot, advertisement, CBS Corp.
Joost: It could have been a contender, or not
News It was supposed to kill YouTube, and now it's finally dead, as some of its assets get sold off in what's likely a total fire sale.
Tags: Web 2.0, Video, Joost, CEO, Web 2.0, P2P, venture capital, YouTube Inc., online video, File-sharing
Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites
News The media empire is talking with tech giant about having its Web sites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Web sites, News Corp., financial
Expert says Adobe Flash policy is risky
News Adobe Flash Player allows arbitrary content to access applications without permission, says researcher at Foreground Security.
Tags: Personal applications, Multimedia, Security Management, Web sites, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Security, Web sites, Web Browser, researcher
As expected Warner Music, YouTube make up
News Companies sign multi-year deal that will bring label's videos back to YouTube and enable users to include Warner's music in their clips.
Tags: Web sites, Sales/revenue, Web 2.0, Warner Music Group Corp., Video, YouTube Inc., agreement, licensing agreement, Sales/revenue, Web 2.0
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
Tata targets high-end network services
News Tata Comms touts slew of varied investments in Asia-Pacific, in effort to beat competition from operators and content-delivery service providers.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Data centers, network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Singapore, Cooper, content delivery, managed services
Amendments to empower Copyright Tribunal
Blogs As a lawyer, I often inform my clients about the need to clear licenses with the various licensing societies whenever th...
Utopic world of free-for-all content
Blogs Hi, my name is Eileen Yu, and I'm a Barry Manilow fan. All right, there, I've said it. I'm a huge, big, out-of-this-...
News Corp.'s talks with Microsoft: A flawed deal?
News Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Social Networking, Google Inc., MySpace, Arianna Huffington, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal
News Corp.'s challenge to Google
News Rupert Murdoch may make a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the only search engine to deliver News Corp. content--unless antitrust cops object.
Tags: Antitrust, Search, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal, vice president
