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Archive for October 23rd, 2007

Introducing SearchReviews! (StumbleUpon)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Introducing SearchReviews!  —  We’re really excited about this announcement.  We’ve been hearing great feedback from you about our SearchReviews feature that has been in beta, and allows you to see StumbleUpon ratings layered on your searches on the major engines - Google, Yahoo, Ask & more.

Source:   StumbleUpon » Official StumbleUpon Blog
Link:   http://blog.stumbleupon.com/searchreviews

Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio  —  Mozilla has released its 2006 audited financials and that little Google search box in the top right of Firefox is the gift that keeps giving.  —  Mozilla’s revenue, which includes Mozilla’s foundation and corporation, came in at $66.8 million in 2006.

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Larry […]

Facing Competition, iTunes Revs Up Its Film Section (David M. Halbfinger/New York Times)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Facing Competition, iTunes Revs Up Its Film Section  —  When Edward Burns’s latest romantic comedy, “Purple Violets,” had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, it drew positive reviews, but only lukewarm offers from movie distributors.  —  Mr. Burns, the director of indie favorites like …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   David M. […]

AOL launches new mobile services (Nancy Gohring/InfoWorld)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

AOL launches new mobile services  —  San Francisco (IDGNS) - AOL plans to unveil a number of new mobile services Tuesday, including the customizable MyAOL for mobile phones as well as a redesigned AOL.com portal page for mobile phones.  —  The beta version of the mobile portal …

Source:   InfoWorld
Author:   Nancy Gohring
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071023…

OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested  —  The British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations.  The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/oinkcd-servers-raided-admin…

AT&T talks up wireless, TV subscribers (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

AT&T talks up wireless, TV subscribers  —  AT&T said Tuesday that it added 2 million wireless subscribers and more than doubled its U-verse TV customer base in a quarter.  —  The telecom giant reported third quarter adjusted earnings of $4.3 billion, or 71 cents a share, on revenue of $30.1 billion.

Source:   Between the Lines
Author: […]

Oracle Delivers Letter to Board of BEA Systems (PR Newswire)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Oracle Delivers Letter to Board of BEA Systems  —  Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) today announced that it had delivered a letter to the board of directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - News).  The text of the letter follows:  —  Board of Directors  —  BEA Systems, Inc.

Source:   PR Newswire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071023/aqtu137.html

MySpace Got Game… Casual Game That Is! (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

MySpace Got Game… Casual Game That Is!  —  First it was music, then web video, and now it is time for MySpace to turn the attention of its 100-million plus members to casual games.  The company has signed a deal with Oberon Media, and two companies will create a new casual gaming channel on MySpace.

Source: […]

Google Switches to Its Own Translation System (Ionut Alex Chitu/Google Operating System)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Google Switches to Its Own Translation System  —  Google switched the translation system from Systran to its own machine translation system for all the 25 language pairs available on the site.  Until now, Google used its own system only for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   Ionut Alex Chitu
Link:   http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/google…

Has America’s First Friend Been Lying About His Age? (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Has America’s First Friend Been Lying About His Age?  —  I can’t decide if this doesn’t matter at all, or if it matters a lot.  A Wall Street Journal reporter named Julia Angwin has apparently been working on a tell all book about MySpace for some time, and she’s dug up a lot of sensationalist […]