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Beware of Online Scads, the Scam Ads
Alliance Against Bait & Click offers tips to help shoppers avoid deceptive
online ads lurking on search engines. Scam ads, or "scads" lure online
shoppers with search ads highlighting popular brands that the site may not
even actually offer…More
Video
Hey iPromote, Create My Ads
And iPromote.com is ready for site owners, who’d just enter a webpage
address and click "Create My Ads." iPromote's WebpageToAds technology will
analyze their page, select the relevant content, and instantly build a
rich media display advertising package. Advertisers can then use iPromote
ad network to display their ads…More
NetDragon, Disney to Launch Disney Fantasy Online
NetDragon Websoft, an online game developer and operator in China, joins
hands with The Walt Disney Company's Interactive Media Group for its first
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game "Disney Fantasy Online."
It’ll come in Spring 2009…More
 Here’s
a Mobile Computer that Allows You to Talk
Mobile device maker Nokia has introduced the Nokia N97 “mobile computer”
and new Ovi services, including Maps on Ovi and Mail on Ovi. The company
aspires to transform the Internet to become a more personal and relevant
part of mobile consumers’ lives…More
 Blackwave
Ropes in EMC Pro Mike Killian as CTO
Internet video storage and delivery infrastructure company Blackwave says
that Michael Kilian has joined the company as chief technology officer. He
spent 11 years at EMC and worked for EMC's Centera division as its CTO…More
Bangladesh Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology
for Voters
Neurotechnology, a provider of biometric identification technologies, says
as Bangladesh is preparing for the upcoming elections, the country is
using its MegaMatcher biometric technology. The technology is deployed to
detect and prevent duplicate registrations in the voter registration
project…More
 SMobile
Launches Security Shield for BlackBerry
SMobile Systems, which provides security solutions for mobile phones, has
announced that its Security Shield application is being introduced for
BlackBerry smartphones. It integrates its anti-virus solution, VirusGuard,
with remote lock, wipe, backup, and restore functions for device
protection…More
Sony Projector to Meet Corporate Training Needs
Sony is introducing the VPL-GH10, its first SXRD high-resolution projector
designed for the simulation, training, and industrial visualization
markets. It’ll incorporate Sony's Motionflow high frame rate technology to
identify and remove blurry images from fast motion content…More
 Xbox
360 Went Completely Black on Black Friday
Microsoft says that its Xbox 360 video game console kicked off the
holidays with record-breaking sales on one of the biggest shopping
weekends of the year in the U.S. Though the company didn’t reveal the
actual numbers sold, it estimates that the console sales over the Black
Friday weekend were better than previous years…More
AT&T Expands in Europe, Asia Pac with VPLS
AT&T has announced expanded global reach for AT&T's Ethernet portfolio by
offering a virtual private local area network service (VPLS) in 14
countries in Europe and Asia Pacific. It’ll enable businesses to link
multiple locations with a flat Ethernet wide area network that can be
extended globally…More
RECENT STORIES
Walmart.com
Offerings for Cyber Monday
Battle of the Immortals Coming from Perfect World
Virgin Mobile in U.K. Prefers Yahoo! oneSearch
Now
You can Control Air Traffic from Your PC
Black Friday This Year 11% Blacker than Last Year
Amazon.com
Offering Holiday Gifts
Online Shopping Surged During Thanksgiving Week
Asia-Pacific Driving Growth for CDMA Market
Roke, Indra Sign Deal for Air Traffic Management
Technology
Motorola Deploys WiMAX Trial Network in Vietnam
Viigo,
Cellular South to Offer Mobile Content Platform
BRIEF NEWS
Nokia has completed its offer
to acquire Symbian Limited. It has received valid acceptance of greater
than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own.
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, an open operating system for
mobile devices. All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia
employees on February 1, 2009.
(Dec. 2)
HP has announced financial
results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2008, with net
revenue of $33.6 billion, up 19% from a year earlier and up 16% when
adjusted for the effects of currency. For the full fiscal year 2009, HP
expects revenue of approximately $127.5 billion to $130.0 billion.
(Nov. 25)
More Brief News
APPOINTMENT NEWS
EnvIO Takes Manish Jha as President and CEO
Meet the New Top Brass at Alcatel-Lucent
John E. Evers Jr. to Head Siemens IT Division
Papermaster
will Handle Apple Devices
Microsoft
Pro will Now Face Yahoo!’s US Audience
Lee Williams is Executive Director of Symbian
Foundation
CORPORATE NEWS
Alcatel-Lucent Bags Contract from Vietnam Mobile
Telecom
Publicis Groupe Buys Brazilian Tribal
Autodesk
Pays $35 million to Buy Softimage
Alcatel-Lucent Signs Network Ops Contract with BT
Vodafone, MTS are Partners in Russia
Intel Goes Green with First Chinese Cleantech
Investments
Motorola Lab for Multimedia University in Malaysia
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Perfect
World’s Zhu Xian Goes to Malaysia, Singapore
Activision
Ready to Play Paintball Championship
Wanna Play Trading Card Game in Free Realms?
Your
Next Basketball Game is on iPhone
Nokia Calling Hollywood
Sony Links Slacker Radio, Howcast Videos to BRAVIA
Xbox 360 to Stream Netflix Movies to TV
Majesco
Sends Bananagrams to Facebook
Fun with Mobility at aFlix
MARKET RESEARCH NEWS
Global Demand for Used PCs Exceeds Supply
Worldwide IT Spending: Slow but Steady
Recession will Hit Semiconductor Market
Who Rules the Web in U.K.?
Intel Atom Pulls off Growth for Mobile PC Processor
Market
New Venue for the Conference: Web
TV, Net Get Equal Attention
PRODUCT NEWS
Nikon
Says Smile Please with D3X Digital SLR
Nokia Targets Mass Markets with Software Development
Kit
HTC
Touch Pro Gets Verizon’s Touch
Epson
Eyeing Small Outfits with Tech Products
WASP 2 Offers Protection for GroupWise Users |
 The
7-O-7 Tech Shop
Here are the 7 offers for 7 days, ending Nov. 30. For mobile users,
Viigo and Cellular South have introduced a
mobile content platform for
smartphones, Nokia has released its SDK for Series 40 6th Edition
mass-market mobile devices, and
Verizon Wireless and HTC are offering
HTC Touch Pro. While
Silex SDKs will allow USB device
networking, Epson
is targeting small businesses with an array of
office automation products. And GWAVA
is offering
WASP 2, a spam and anti-virus solution
for GroupWise WebAccess. Some fun: AOL UK and Amuso.com have announced
an interactive website for the 58th
Miss World pageant…More
 Which Camera?
Here’s a checklist for consumers who want to buy a digital camera to
capture the joyous moments during the upcoming holiday season. Consumer
Reports – published by Consumers Union, an independent nonprofit
organization working for consumers’ interests – tested 77 digital camera
models and took 3,080 images to rate the best cameras. Which one is good
for you and your pocket? Take a look...More
Your Top Web Guides in the U.S.
They’re Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask Network, and AOL. Google Sites led
the U.S. core search market in October with 63.1% of the searches
conducted, up 0.2 percentage points from September, followed by Yahoo!
Sites (20.5%), Microsoft Sites (8.5%), Ask Network (4.2%), and AOL LLC
(3.7%). Research firm comScore has released the October 2008 U.S. search
engine rankings…More
SIZZLING
STORY
 Meet
Miss World on the Web
AOL UK and Amuso.com will jointly feature an interactive website dedicated
to the 58th Miss World pageant on the AOL UK Entertainment channel. The
site will feature video updates throughout the month-long festival that
precedes the crowning ceremony…More
Ads on Social Networks Don’t Attract Users
Most social networks are able to attract web wanderers by offering free
online meeting joints. However, these networking businesses are struggling
to pull off meaningful profits mainly because users ignore ads displayed
on the sites. According to research firm IDC, ads on social networking
services have lower click-through rates than traditional online ads and
they also lead to fewer purchases…More
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Tech Shop
FACTS & FIGURES
The comScore Video Metrix service reveals that 25.4 million French
Internet users viewed a total of 2.2 billion videos online in September
2008. While 77.8% of the total French Internet audience viewed online
video, a total 156 million hours of video content was consumed…More
According to a research commissioned by Nokia, which offers map-enabled
devices, there are more people getting lost in London than anywhere else
in the world, including cities like Bangkok and Beijing, which are nearly
twice the size of London. The findings are part of a global navigation
study of 12,500 people in 13 countries…More
Half of employers admit they monitor the Internet use of employees. And
about one-third (29%) of workers plan to holiday shop online while at work
this year. These are findings of a CareerBuilder survey
conducted among over 5,600 U.S. workers and more than 3,000 hiring
managers and HR professionals…More
SHOWTIME
Youth to Use Digital Weapons to Counter Violence
Global youth groups and tech geeks will converge at a Dec. 3-5 Summit in
New York to discuss ways to use digital media to promote freedom and
justice, counter violence, extremism, and oppression. Facebook, Google,
YouTube, MTV, Howcast, Columbia Law School and the U.S. Department of
State will convene the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit…More
BLOG BUZZ
Hot Stories from My
Techbox Blog
Airtel Offers Hello Tunes
with a Social Touch
India’s mobile service provider Bharti Airtel has decided to go with
envIOWorks platform that enables social marketing of mobile content to add
social marketing to its Hello Tunes service...More
Google Chrome isn’t Hot for Hotmail
Have you tried to use Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail in Google Chrome
browser? It’s not fit for Hotmail. That’s what Hotmail tells...More
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 Wellbeing
for Your Bytes
You’d agree that today’s information-driven world has become a gory
battleground for cyber rogues and cyber guards. As common information
users are looking for protection, the cyber guards or the security outfits
are trying to provide all possible help. Finland-based F-Secure
Corporation ensures Internet security with its Wellbeing 2009 family of
security products. Its chief technology officer, Pirkka Palomäki,
sheds light on a number of security concerns through a mail interview
with
Rakesh Raman
of My Techbox Online...More
THOUGHT LEADERS
 Ganesh Natarajan, chairman,
NASSCOM
– on software
exports from India…More
 Stan
Lepeak, managing director of global research,
EquaTerra
– on outsourcing
business…More
 David Wei,
chief executive officer, Alibaba.com – on online marketing…More
 Ed Moran,
director of product innovation, Deloitte – on online communities…More
 John Batter, co-president of Production, DreamWorks Animation – on 3-D
animation movies…More
 Carla
Golla, executive VP for Security, Spansion – on mobile handset
security issues…More
 David Rips,
director, Deloitte’s Media and Entertainment practice – on digital media
business…More
EDITOR'S WINDOW
 Chasing
the Mobile Mirage
Can a mobile device double as phone and TV? Yes, if you do something about
its screen size, something about its battery life, something about the
shaky networks, something to keep service prices in control, and
everything to improve the content quality. Is that all? No, wait a sec!
Find out what else
Rakesh Raman
has to say…More
Keep
Your Friends Close and CIOs Closer
Five simple tips that can help CEOs deal with
their ignorant CIOs. By
Rakesh Raman...More
VIDEO PARLOR
 Imaging company Kodak has roped in "Trading Spaces" host Paige Davis to
share five simple design tips for a holiday-ready home. Subtly, she also
talks about Kodak digital camera. The focus obviously is on potential
holiday buyers ...Video |
 Epson’s free project templates will allow consumers to make personalized
greeting cards, calendars, CD/DVDs, stationery, and wrapping paper. The
image solutions company’s new Artisan 800 all-in-one allows consumers to
make holiday gifts using how-to videos and templates
…Video |
 Activision Publishing and developer Treyarch have shipped Call of Duty:
World at War to retail stores in North America. While the video game will
take players to the beaches of the Pacific and the streets of Europe, it’s
rated "M" (Mature) by the ESRB for intense violence, strong language,
blood, and gore
...Video |
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Sify Technologies, a tech company in India, has launched its mail service
from Sifymail called WIYI or 'World In Your Inbox'. The company says it’ll
enable faster mail uploads, 99% uptime, and spam filters
...Video |
 Silicon Graphics has ushered in VUE, a suite of software
visualization solutions for managing visual information. It will allow
users to experience immersive environments on their laptops, desktops, or
mobile devices
...Video |
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Activision Publishing has roped in popular stars for making TV ads
for Guitar Hero World Tour, the latest
installment in this video game franchise. Each ad will highlight different
celebrities jamming on instruments from Guitar Hero World Tour to the song
"Old Time Rock and Roll," performed by Bob Seger
...Video |
YOU & ME
 What
Kids Want: Wii, iPod, Digital Camera
The top three tech toys on the holiday wish lists of kids are Nintendo Wii,
iPod, and digital cameras, according to a recent Disney Family.com Survey.
Disney offers parents Disney Family.com’s “Get Plugged In” resource for
tips on tech gadgets for their kids…More
Nokia Wants You to Live in a Smart Home
It’s developing a smart home platform, Nokia Home Control Center, which
will let you control your homes with a mobile device. Will provide
solutions for networked homes around security and energy management. It’s
expected by the end of 2009…More
 Net
Nanny Gets Tough, Won’t Allow Web Rubbish
The Internet filtering and parental control software company ContentWatch
has released new version of its product. It’s Net Nanny 6.0,
which comes with PC game blocking, IM monitoring, and social network
profile reporting among a host of new features…More
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