In a recent turn of events Microsoft pulled another one: Xbox 360 sales reach 500,000 in Australia. Just one thing though, the figure hasn’t reached it’s mark yet as a lot of publications are closing for Christmas holidays. As Microsoft counts its chicks before they hatch this’s what the EDD Regional Director (ANZ) David McLean had to say:
Archive for December, 2008
Samsung just announced the launch of it’s Android phone through Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile, in the U.S. – coming June. The Samsung smart phone (touch screen) will be an adaptation of it’s other (iPhone competitor) product Omnia, and Instinct. The phone is just another addition to the surge of smart gadgets following iPhone’s launch.
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This January Foxit Software brings an alternative for Kindle and Sony’s Reader – eSlick, available for a lesser price than both. eSlick, a $259 (and $229 for early birds) gadget provides eBook lovers with a cheaper offer. Though it does not carry the connectivity of the likes on Kindle, but is pretty sleek in design and display.
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We covered Outwit in August, which automates the task of data collection (images, texts, etc) across a page has released its latest Firefox extension, Outwit Images. The extension is free and is fully compatible with Mac OS, Windows and Linux. It enables users to save images from anywhere on the web by dragging images to a basket where they are automatically saved on the hard drive. Users can share or view these images as slideshows as well. A powerful extension for those love collecting images and need an effective tool. As CEO, J.C Combaz puts its:
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Clickpass a service that brings accessibility to users by letting them use their accounts over other services like MSN, Gmail, etc has been acquired by Synthasite. The terms and price for which the acquisition has been made remains undisclosed as CEO Clickpass joins the rank of Synthasite. I personally think a partnership would have been much better, given the use of Clickpass, which is pretty short lived as more services will move over to the OpenID and the service’s need would disappear. Nonetheless the service at present is definitely useful and Synthasite can use it build itself on.
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BusinessWeek has got hold of Digg’s financial statements, and man o man they are really scary. In 2007 the company’s revenues were $4.8 million while it spent $7.6 million – thereby posting a net loss of $2.8 million. In the first three quarters of 2008, Digg’s revenues were $6.4 million, whereas it spent $10.4 million – thereby racking in losses of $4 million. At an annualized rate this brings the losses for 2008 to be around $5.3 million.
But this is not all, Valleywag has some more scary insights:
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Google has pulled the plug on Google Research Datasets, a service that aimed to offer scientists a way to store their massive amounts of data generated from vastly different fields. The service already had 30 datasets uploaded to the site. But all of it has to go, as Robert Tansley from Google told the internal testers of the service:
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The unveiling of Bernard Madoff’s giant ponzi scheme, that is estimated to be around $50billion, has opened the floodgates to anti-semitism on the Internet, according to Anti-Defamation League. Madoff, is a Jew and a prominent member of the powerful Jewish community in the US.
According to Abraham Foxman, national director of ADL:
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More troubles ahead for online retail sector as Bernstein Research downgrades eBay and Amazon to "market perform" from "outperform”, citing greater risks of underperforming by these two companies due to the weak economy. According to analyst Jeffrey Lindsay:
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Meebo has now taken on the role of bridging the gap between MySpace and Facebook. The web based IM service now supports both Facebook and MySpace, allowing users to chat on both the social networks right from one IM client.
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