REDMOND, Wash. — March 14, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. With the inclusion of Rapt, the Atlas Publisher Suite allows Microsoft to provide its customers with integrated asset and inventory management, forecasting, yield and sales management, and ad delivery and operations.
“Online publishers have a complex …

NEW YORK, NY, March 13, 2008 - AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing world of social media with a network of approximately 80 million unique users.
With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide, Bebo is a global social media network which combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, …

Now how about a mobile phone device that has a built in TV tuner and 16 GB of internal memory? This is what you get if you purchase a Nokia N96, available to purchase in quarter 3 of 2008. Nokia looks set to dominate the mobile phone market for another year as it takes advantages of economies of scale, producing great handsets that undercut its competitors on price and style.
The Nokia N96 is the only phone (at the time of writing) to come with a digital tuner inbuilt. This is …

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (March 13, 2008) — Acer, the third largest vendor in the global PC market (Source: Gartner data, 2007), today presented the Aspire 6920 line, a brand new notebook PC series designed to bring the enjoyment of High Definition (HD) anywhere you go.
 
In the wake of the great success achieved by the first Aspire Gemstone range, launched in May 2007, Acer has developed a brand new notebook concept that fuses elements of the original Gemstone series - exclusive design, innovative textures (surfaces) and materials, Dolby audio enhancements - …

WAYNE, NJ, February 12, 2008 – JVC announced today its first-ever NASCAR sponsorship in support of its new line of Everio G-Series Hard Disk Camcorders, leveraging the consumer reach and brand loyalty of America’s fastest-growing spectator sport.
JVC and Jay Robinson Racing will debut the #4 JVC Chevy Monte Carlo, driven by Robert Richardson Jr., on February 16th in the Camping World 300 at the Daytona International Speedway. The vehicle will don a Ruby Red Everio Gem color scheme for the first and most prestigious race of the inaugural NASCAR Nationwide …

Panasonic Firmware Brings Contrast Auto Focus to LEICA D SUMMILUX 25mm/ F1.4 ASPH.(L-X025) Lens, Helping Consumers Take Higher-Quality Portraits
SECAUCUS, NJ (March 12, 2008) – Panasonic today announced a new firmware update available for its interchangeable LEICA D SUMMILUX 25mm/ F1.4 ASPH.(L-X025) lens, which is compatible with the Four Thirds standard digital single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras, including Panasonic’s LUMIX DMC-L10*. With the firmware update, the LEICA D SUMMILUX 25mm/ F1.4 ASPH.(L-X025) adds contrast auto focus (AF) to the single focal length lens, making it more suitable for taking snapshots and portraits …

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 12, 2008 — D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumer and business, is the leader in Draft 802.11n Wi-Fi product shipments worldwide, showing significant growth in Q4 2007 and surpassing nearest competitors Linksys and Belkin, according to leading analyst firm In-Stat.D-Link claimed the top spot with 584,000 Draft 802.11n units shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2007, claiming 33% of the market share, followed by Linksys at 28.4%, Belkin with 17% and NETGEAR at 14.15%, according to the In-Stat WLAN market share report*.
“D-Link has …

San Diego, California, March 6, 2008 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX), a digital media company, today announced an agreement with Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAUP) to release a device based on the DivX Connected™ platform. DivX Connected is an open platform that can be easily embedded into a wide variety of consumer electronics devices from different manufacturers, enabling consumers to deliver their favorite media from the PC and the Internet, including high-definition videos, directly to the living room. In addition to streaming videos, photos and music stored on a local hard …

NEW YORK, March 5, 2008 – Ziff Davis Media Inc. (”Ziff Davis” or the “Company”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Ziff Davis Holdings Inc., announced today that it has reached an agreement with an ad hoc group of holders of more than 80% in principal amount of its Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes (the “Senior Secured Notes”) on the terms of a restructuring to reduce substantially the Company’s funded indebtedness.
In order to implement the restructuring and permanently improve its capital structure, Ziff Davis and certain of its affiliates today …

Expensive and error-prone digital tapes have forced the BBC to look at using computers running Linux to help produce its programmes.
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