Google Acquires Email Search Technology Firm Remail

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Mark Hefflinger
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Mountain View,
Calif. – Google (NASD: GOOG) has acquired
Remail, a developer of email search technology, for an undisclosed sum.

Remail was created for Apple’s iPhone, but in the wake of the
company’s acquisition the application has been removed from the App Store.

CNET
speculated that Google may have an eye towards incorporating Remail into its
Android mobile operating system, or Gmail email service.

 

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(reMail blog)

EveryScape Lands $6 Million for 3D Local Search

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Mark Hefflinger
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Waltham, Mass.
– EveryScape, a developer of 3D local search technology, announced on Thursday
that it has raised $6 million in its third round of funding, led by SK Telecom
Americas, a unit of South Korea’s
SK Telecom.

Previous backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Dace Ventures also
participated.

Founded in 2002, Massachusetts-based EveryScape has created 3D photographic
maps of 20 cities in four countries.

The company makes money in part by selling
the ability for businesses to include interior panorama photographs in
"The Real World Online."

EveryScape will use the funds to fuel its
Asian market strategy, as well as to propel growth in the U.S.

 

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Shazam to Let Advertisers "Tag" Commercials, Link to Promotions

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Shazam, a provider of mobile music identification
services, on Wednesday announced the launch of a new program that lets brands
and broadcasters utilize the Shazam service, now on 50 million mobile phones.
The Shazam Audio Recognition Advertising (SARA) program, already used by
Dockers in its Super Bowl ad campaign, lets advertisers set up ads which users
can "Shazam," and receive special promotions and hidden content via
Web links. The company partnered with Augme Mobile to offer SARA in the North
American market.

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MTV Games in Talks with Hendrix Estate on "Rock Band"

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Los Angeles
– Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) MTV Games and development studio Harmonix are "in discussions
to bring [Jimi Hendrix]" to the "Rock Band" game platform,
Billboard and the Los Angeles Times report. The talks could result in a new Hendrix-themed
iteration of the game, similar to previous versions featuring the Beatles and
Green Day, or simply in Hendrix’s tunes becoming available for download and
play on Rock Band.


 

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Blockbuster On Demand Service to Ship on HTC HD2 Smartphone

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Mark Hefflinger
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Dallas – Video rental giant
Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) said on Wednesday that its Blockbuster On Demand movie download
service will ship embedded on HTC’s new HD2 smartphone in the U.S. The deal
marks the first download and multi-screen mobile movie application for
Blockbuster, and will give HD2 owners access to more than 100,000 movies, TV
shows and games, downloadable over a Wi-Fi connection. The HTC HD2 is expected
to be offered by T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) this spring.


 

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Turner Broadcasting Taps Brightcove for Web Video Delivery

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Brightcove, a
provider of video delivery services for content producers, announced on Wednesday
that Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) Turner Broadcasting will use its services to support its online
video content throughout Europe. The first
Turner sites in Europe to launch on the
Brightcove platform include Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Adult Swim, which
will receive localized video experiences for various countries.


 

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Veteran Game Designer Richard Garriott Forms Portalarium

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Mark Hefflinger
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Austin
– Veteran video game designer Richard Garriott ("Ultima Online") on Wednesday
announced the formation of a new social media company, Portalarium, which will
initially develop online game applications. Garriott says the new venture
"has a broad-based, open-social mission that will also see it expanding
into content that includes open learning, open health, open
science/environment, open government and much more." Portalarium’s first
product is a cross-platform Web browser plug-in that enables gamed developed on
disparate platforms to run inside the major social networks.


 

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Polish Authorities Raid Operators of Rapidshare Link Forum

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles – Authorities in Poland have
conducted a raid on the operators of Filmowisko, an Internet forum where users
post links to download copyrighted materials on file-hosting service
Rapidshare, TorrentFreak reported.

Following an investigation conducted with
local anti-piracy group the Foundation for the Protection of Audiovisual
Creativity (FOTA), police arrested three alleged operators of the site — two
of whom are teenagers.

Authorities also conducted searches on locations
connected with three of the site’s estimated 30,000 members.

While the
Filmowisko site itself hosted no copyrighted content, but instead provided a
forum where users posted links to files hosted by Rapidshare, those arrested
face copyright infringement charges that come with a maximum five-year prison
sentence.

 

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Google: 60,000 Android-powered Phones Shipping Daily

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Mark Hefflinger
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Barcelona – Google (NASD: GOOG) and its
manufacturing partners are now shipping 60,000 Android-powered mobile phones
every day, according to remarks made by CEO Eric Schmidt this week at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

That figure works out to about 21.9 million Android-powered handsets shipping
per year.

In addition to Google’s own HTC-manufactured Nexus One, an
Android-powered handset, HTC also offers a range of its own Android handsets.

 

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(TechCrunch)

http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/60000-android-phones

AOL Planning Major Expansion of Patch Community News Sites

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York
– Eight months after acquiring local news and information firm Patch Media, AOL (NYSE: AOL)
is now planning to substantially expand its network of community news blogs,
Silicon Alley Insider reported, citing an internal memo.

The company currently
runs 33 localized Patch sites in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut,
but plans to grow that number into the "hundreds" by year’s end.

In
the memo, AOL said that the expansion is part of its effort to "be leaders
in one of the most promising ‘white spaces’ on the Internet."

AOL acquired
New York-based Patch Media last June.

At the time, CEO Tim Armstrong vowed to
make local sites "a core area of focus and investment for AOL."

 

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