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Video game goliath Electronic Arts has recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Mythic Entertainment, which vaults it into developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs).
Mythic is recognized worldwide for revolutionizing the online gaming space with the awardwinning Dark Age of Camelot (pictured) and is currently developing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning under a license agreement with Games Workshop.
The net net: The growing importance of online gaming as a revenue-producing space, as more and more companies look to monetize the Internet.
Is that a good thing?
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Comcast Interactive, a division of Comcast, has snapped up ThePlatform, a digital media services company based in Seattle, according to sources close to the company. While I was typing this up, PaidContent published the details of the deal.
The purchase price is pegged at between $70 to $80 million and the company will likely continue working with existing clients such as Verizon’s VCast and Scripps. The six-year-old company had raised about $8 million from Spark Capital. I guess, Comcast is getting serious about this whole digital media thing and is trying to develop some more Internet properties for its broadband users.
Written by Om Malik on June 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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Even if you don't do too much traveling, this a must-have digital camera accessory!
(Works with other gadgets, too.)
Digital Foci's Memory Card Travel Case organizes and protect your valuable flash memory cards with smart stackable slots that let you hold as many as eight memory cards of all different types: CompactFlash I/II, MD, SM, MMC, SD, miniSD, MS, MS Prod, MS Duo and xD card.
(Do we really need all of these formats?)
The combination of the brushed aluminum casing and the molded hard rubber lining (that keeps the cards from sliding around once they're inside the case) provides maximum protection.
(And yes, I have dropped this case to test that the cards are actually protected ...)
Besides protecting your memory cards from damage, the case also helps protect you from misplacing or losing memory cards (pretty easy when they are all so small and in all sizes and shapes of cases).
Price: $19.95
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Two weeks ago, a Comcast repairman in Washington fell asleep in a customer's home. The customer, Brian Finkelstein, a student at Georgetown Law School, took the incident to the Internet. He shot a video of the repairman sacked out in his couch and posted it on his blog, Snakes on a Blog. The video, which he also posted on YouTube, is one of several recent examples of angered customers taping their interactions with customer service, then putting the experience online ...
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By Robert Young
In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google…
“…could have bought MySpace three months before we did for half the price. They thought, ‘It’s nothing special. We can do that.’”
So that means Google could have acquired MySpace a year ago for about $290 million. Talk about a strategic blunder… the thought of Google and MySpace, combined, boggles the mind. Instead, Google is left thinking of what could have been. And to add insult to injury, it may turn out that not acquiring MySpace may end up being more expensive for Google!
As widely reported, MySpace is now the largest source of search traffic for Google, accounting for over 8% of their inbound traffic as of early May. That essentially means that MySpace is responsible for about $400 million of Google’s annual revenues. Knowing this, MySpace is trying to capitalize by holding an auction for its search business. If Google wins, it will end up sharing a significant percentage of that $400 million with MySpace… John Battelle thinks the split to MySpace will be close to 90%. And Google would need to pay it every year. Needless to say, had Google acquired MySpace, no such payments would have to be made.
In addition to the real costs that Google is likely to incur, there’s also the opportunity cost. Had Google acquired MySpace, they would likely be ranked the #1 Internet property on all user & usage metrics… nudging out Yahoo! from that top spot. It certainly would have been quite a sight to see… being #1 overall, based on its dominance in search fortified with an even greater dominance in the social networking category. It certainly would have cemented Google’s leadership into a near-ineffable state of invincibility.
Having said all that, I personally believe it would be foolish for Google to pay MySpace anything. Even if MySpace strikes a deal with a competitive search engine, it’s highly likely that the users will simply bypass the default and go to Google anyway.
Robert Young is a serial entrepreneur who played a major role in the invention & commercialization of the world’s first consumer ISP, Internet advertising (pay-per-click ads), free email, and digital media superdistribution.
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Only in Boston do they celebrate losers! I'm not sure if this is pathetic, or the mark of a great sports town with a sense of history. The answer is obvious to me, and believe me, they wouldn't be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Series if they hadn't won in 2004. That would be really sad.
All I can say is that if it goes well, I have no doubt next year will be the 40th anniversary of the 1967 "Impossible Dream" Red Sox, who lost heroically to the Bob Gibson Cardinals, of course, in 7. The Sox always lose in 7! I remember it like it was yesterday, as do millions of Nation followers, and if the Cardinals are slated for an interleague visit next year, it sure would be fun to see the likes of Yaz and Gibson again. I digress, but in a nice way....
So, tonight - weather permitting - interleague play continues, and the Red Sox host the Mets. Normally this wouldn't merit a blog post, but the stars have lined up to make this a special event. At this point in the season, these are arguably the two best teams in baseball, and I think there's a pretty strong chance they will meet again in October.
With all this good karma happening, it's no surprise the Red Sox are making a big deal about the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Series, which does not bear repeating here. But in case you need to know, I'll reprise the box scores, and you can draw your own joyous or painful conclusions...
Perhaps things will be differnet this year - the season is barely halfway over - lots can and will happen. If you thought Johnny Damon's return to Fenway was fun, I can't wait to see how things go on Wednesday when Pedro makes his return, squaring off against Beckett.
I'm going to close out with two short references to 1986. It's hard not to get pulled back to this today, so this is a form of catharsis to get it out of my system. Then I can serenely return to the 21st Century and think about what today's heroes - Papi, Manny, Papelbon - might do in this series.
First, an anecdote. I watched Game 7 of that series at a friend's house. I lived in an apartment building then (in Toronto), and after parking my car in the garage (following a very quiet, pondering drive home), I get on the elevator up to my floor. I'm joined by someone else, who I recognized as a neighbor on my floor. Yeesh - I remembered, he was from Boston too, and we both had this sullen, hollowed-out look of defeat. It was obvious we had both come home from watching the game, and never raised our heads to make eye contact. Just stared blankly at the floor - WE KNEW - there was nothing to say, just silent suffering. Never saw him again...
On a visual note, Jeff Pulver's office is quite a site. Amidst all the rock momentos, cool posters, gadgets and knick knacks, this sits quietly in the corner, propped up against the window...
Oh, cruel ye gods. Captured at the moment of humility, the Buckner Incident that in an instant tore the heart out of New England, because we knew then and there that victory had been snatched away again by the baseball gods. There was a lot more baseball to be played before the series was over, but you just knew then it was over.
Not only is this picture a painful reminder, but it's autographed by both Buckner and Mookie!!!!! It's hard to see from the photo, but it's there. Jeff is a lucky guy to have this, and I hope he enjoys it. I could never do the same. Mind you, I need to be nice to Jeff because he has Mets tickets! If our teams meet again in October, I'll make sure to let him know that if he needs company, I'm there.....
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RIM, the makers of the highly addictive Blackberry device has gone 3G. The company today launched 8707, a version of its very popular 8700 series device in Ireland that runs on Vodafone’s UMTS Network. RIM claims it can be used as a broadband modem that can be connected to the laptops.
RIM needed to make this move since a whole slew of new devices that utilize the 3G networks are hitting the stores in Europe. One challenger is Nokia E61 which frankly is one of the best since it can do plain vanilla email, Exchange Mail (without blackberry) and Blackberry EMail. (In fact, I ended up buying one on my London trip.) It also is 3G ready and has WiFi. 8707 seems to be a pretty good device, and can help fight off the new 3G ready challengers.
Written by Om Malik on June 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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Marvell Technology Group has acquired Intel's XScale processor division. As a gadget-lover this is absolutely shocking since the Intel XScale chips are used in PocketPCs, handhelds, mobile phones and other embedded devices and gadgets. The popular Treo and Blackberry devices also use the XScale chipset.TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadget Blog | Permalink: Intel sells XScale processor to Maxell
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In place of complicated user agreements, JAJAH has created a system that depends on the JAJAH community adhering to a “fair use” policy, which simply asks people to try to keep their calls within a reasonable amount of minutes. To this end, JAJAH will monitor the number of hours per individual user per day to assure that no single person damages the overall service.
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The Moroccan government has recognized Amitelo for its VoIP products and services. Last week, a conference was organized to demonstrate the VoIP related products and services of Amitelo. Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Jettou, External Investment Director Hassan Bernoussi, presidents of incumbent African telecom companies were present in the conference. The Board of Directors of Amitelo AG were among the dignitaries. Amitelo, headquartered at Zurich made a demonstration of its products at the conference. The company will undertake a pilot on VoIP.
The Moroccan government will take favorable steps for the growth of VoIP services in the country. The government has decided to grant loans for the installment of VoIP. There would be 5,000 new VoIP call shops over the next three years in Moroccan. For which, it will grant EUR 25, 000.00 per call shop.
Driss Jettou said,
The Government of Morocco is with Amitelo, will support Amitelo and will assist Amitelo in any way possible in its economic growth and social undertakings in Morocco.
Via: [VoIP Central]
Written by gautam.chabbra on June 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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In an effort to mark its presence in the VoIP market, the leading mobile phone manufacturer Samsung has developed an enterprise networking solutions. The networking 'Ubigate iBG' provides routing, switching, security and voice integration (both analog and digital). The product also supports VoIP.
The company designs four types of iBG product lines, two for small business and one each for medium and large enterprise. The company will release the fourth model meant for large enterprise second quarter of next year. The remaining three models will be available this year.
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Enea is joining forces with Nanoradio to integrate the OSE real-time operating system (RTOS) with Nanoradios NRX701 WLAN platform of for mobile terminals, which will facilitate mobile terminal producers to add high-performance and low-power WLAN capability to their mobile devices for the applications such as VoIP and Internet connectivity. Eneas OSE RTOS is very popular among the mobile phone manufacturers. Around half of the worlds' third generation mobile phones and base stations have the Eneas OSE RTOS deployments. With this new alignment, Eneas will further enhance its position as the ultimate choice for 3G mobile terminals.
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NetAlly Lifecycle Manager of Viola Network has now added up with Avaya's Communication manager, Mitel's Enterprise Manager and Cisco's CallManager and voice gateways. NetAlly helps for the successful implementation of VoIP with a minimum investment of time and resources. It is a software suite for managing VoIP assessment, deployment, network monitoring and network optimization. The VoIP assessment is significant to determine whether the network is reliable for VoIP deployment or not. It operates in passive monitoring mode to collect data on VoIP phones, monitoring call records and quality statistics.
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Surprise, surprise (well, not really), Nortel is cutting 1,100 jobs and reviewing its pension plan. The jobs cuts will reduce annual operating expenses by $100-million in 2007 and $175-million in 2008. The company also unveiled changes to its pension plan from defined benefits to defined contributions contributions to defined benefits, which will save Nortel about $100-million a year. And everyone wondered why Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski is so bullish about the company's prospects.
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