Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: App Store, Apple, Google, googlevideo, iPhone, Microsoft, Picasa, Windows
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Google will let Windows users begin tooling around today with its new Google Chrome Web browser, a product for the video age and a test for rivals who designed their products for a time when text and graphics were king. Google, which has versions for Apple and Linux systems in the works, said it would open all of Chrome’s code to third-party developers. International Herald Tribune/Reuters (9/2)
Yesterday Google launched Google Video for business, a customized video platform aimed at businesses for internal use. Think training vides, HR videos, etc. (anything that isn’t outside facing). The product is included in Google Apps Premier Edition for free, with 3 GB of storage per user account. (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/google-launches-video-for-businesses 9/1)
Hulu unveils its Fall TV Premiere Line-up today featuring full episode streaming of a number of new shows such as Knight Rider, Lipstick Jungle and Chuck and Life a week before they premiere on air. (Cynopsis 9/2)
In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa
, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/picasa-refresh-brings-facial-recognition 9/2)
Apple will release an application next month that will provide users with interactive albums, which will include lyrics, behind-the-scenes images, and exclusive artwork. According
to Music Week, Apple will make the app available to users in tandem with the release of Snow Patrol’s upcoming album, A Hundred Million Suns. The app will add the extra features to more iTunes albums over time, but because it will be made available through the company’s App Store, it will only provide the extra content on the iPhone and iPod touch. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/apple-puts-one-more-nail-into-the-cd-coffin 9/1)
Microsoft is acquiring a Munich-based Web comparison shopping site and its parent company for about $486 million in cash. The software giant says the acquisition of Greenfield.com, which owns Ciao, a collection of European price-comparison sites, will boost its search presence. (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/microsoft_greenfield_online 8/29)
Long form web TV show The B-Cast (which makes a home on Federated Media’s Breitbart.tv portal) will be broadcasting live from the Republican National Convention this week showcasing the new RayV livecasting platform. The B-Cast, which streams daily at 4 pm M-F ET, is co-hosted by Breitbart.tv editors Scott Baker and Liz Stephans and produced by Hot Metal Media. (Cynopsis 9/2)
Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: 2007 World Series, AppleInsider, Invesco Field, INVESCO Field at Mile High, Microsoft, Pepsi Center, Windows, Windows Mobile
Microsoft is also working on its own app store for phones that run on the Windows Mobile operating system, according to company job posting sourced by AppleInsider. “Skymarket” is slated for release in late 2009, given the dozens of handsets and devices it would have to integrate with. (Cynopsis 9/2)
Text messaging was the preferred medium of communications for AT&T Wireless customers during the DNC last week, according to the company with more than 244 million messages being sent – a 48% increase in activity compared to the prior week. Other findings include:
- There was a 57% weekly increase in wireless calls over the AT&T network
- AT&T experienced a 21% text messaging traffic spike inside the Pepsi Center, Invesco Field and immediate surrounding areas on Thursday compared to an average day
- AT&T saw a 101% increase in call volume during the convention compared with the 2007 World Series traffic in Denver
Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Games, Handheld game console, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Sony, United States, Wii
A revamped PlayStation Portable, with an improved liquid crystal display and a built-in microphone, will go on sale Oct. 16 in Japan. The machine, called PSP-3000, is also being promised for the United States and Europe. (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_hi_te/japan_sony_playstation 9/2)

Nintendo has increased its sales estimates on its Wii console from earlier predictions of 25 million, saying it now expects to sell 26.5 million units this year. The firm did the same for its DS handheld unit, upping its outlook from 28 million to 30.5 million. The higher sales and the improving dollar enabled Nintendo to raise its profit forecast 26% to $3.8 billion, a 60% increase from a year earlier.
ClipSyndicate/Bloomberg (8/29) , The New York Times/Associated Press (8/29)
Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Amazon.com, Apple, Moscone Center, OneForAll, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco California, Yerba Buena Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
TECHNOLOGY
Apple has sent out invites to a Special Event taking place on September 9, which is exactly one week from today. The invite features the iconic iPod silhouette along with the tagline “Let’s Rock.” It will be taking place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco—just down the street from the Moscone Center—at 10am Pacific Time next Tuesday. (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/02/apple-confirms-september-9-special-event-lets-rock 9/2)
Despite published reports, a new version of Kindle, Amazon.com’s e-reader, will not be forthcoming in time to make it onto holiday-shopping lists. According to Heather Huntoon, an Amazon spokeswoman, a next-generation Kindle won’t be available until sometime in 2009. E-Commerce Times/TechNewsWorld (8/29)
MultiTouch
, a company specializing in, you guessed it, multi-touch technology, today launched the world’s first modular multi-touch LCD screen, which will allow owners to create screen tables and walls to their desired size. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/31/first-modular-multi-touch-lcd-screen-takes-aim-at-microsoft 8/31)
In-store DVD rental kiosks are gaining in popularity, but some customers note the kiosks offer a limited selection. The kiosks, at supermarkets and other locations, currently represent about 2.4% of the U.S. DVD rental business. The Sacramento Bee (Calif.) (9/1)
OneForAll will introduce a new remote Oct. 31, the “Xsight,” which features similar LCD, touch-enabled technology as the Philips Prestigo, but OneforAll said its model would remove the need for a printed instruction manual since users could read them off the screen. The company did not discuss pricing. Pocket-lint.co.uk (9/1)
Filed under: MISC | Tags: DreamWorks, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, Paramount Pictures, Rupert Murdoch, Steven Spielberg, Viacom, Wall Street Journal
Since buying the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch now wants to own the New York Times, according to Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff, who is writing a biography of the media titan. “I’ve watched him go through the numbers, plot out a merger with the Journal’s backroom operations …” (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/10/wolff200810 9/08)
Steven Spielberg is expected to announce a deal with India’s Reliance Communications to restart the DreamWorks studio that he is relocating from Viacom‘s Paramount Pictures in an acrimonious split. Reliance could become a 50% owner of the Hollywood director’s new studio. (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2008/db2008091_384222.htm 9/1)
Fewer people went to the movies this summer than last, confirming Hollywood’s fears that this year’s slate of pictures would not match the crowd pleasers of 2007. But higher ticket prices and a “Batman’ sequel delivered near-record revenue to the major studios. (Iwantmedia 9/2, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/business/02movie.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 9/2)





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