Arabic TV news channel Al Jazeera announced the launch of its Arabic & English mobile sites today. The sites will be available on any mobile phone with browsing capabilities through http://m.aljazeera.net for news in English, and http://ma.aljazeera.net for news in Arabic.
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We all love the iPhone game,iBowl
, which closed out 2008 as the 4th most popular game on the App Store. Today SGN, the company behind the game, released an updated version of the popular game enabling users to see their friends and follow their bowling statuses.
Games from SGN have been extremely popular, with iBowl alone seeing over 4 million downloads. And taking the advantage of Wi-fi and networking capabilities in the iPhone, now you can compete with friends or random opponents online.
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TweetDeck, today has secured nearly $500,000 from seed funding house Betaworks. The increasingly popular desktop application for accessing twitter tweets has impressed the masses and yet now the investors alike.
Iain Dodsworth,the man behind TweetDeck, mentions that the application powered by Adobe AIR has been downloaded 250,000 times since he launched it over last Summer, and that users are pushing 120,000 messages a day.
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Ever lost all of your data, your tweets, photos, blog files, etc? Most of us don’t rely much on backing up data that frequently or never at all. But worry not, LifestreamBackup – a new startup(coming in two weeks), that aims to provide the peace of mind that your lifestream data will always be just as accessible as the backup of your machine.
We all know that beyond page 162 on Twitter you can’t access your tweets, no matter how hard you try. Other than that, thousands of blogs startup and shutdown, companies sold or even taking down content. So eventually a possibility of your data being lost.
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Universal Music Group and internet video streaming startup, Kyte today announced a deal, in which Kyte is to provide the mobile and online platform for the label’s artists, including 50 Cent, All American Rejects, Lil Wayne, and Lady Gaga.
Universal Music and Kyte will also be developing new mobile applications for the Music Group behemoth.
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As expected the economy downtime is seeing many big rollers fall flat – another newspaper to make it in headlines is The Start Tribune, as it filed for bankruptcy. Minesota’s largest newspaper filed for a bankruptcy petition stating that it would use this to restructure the company, see through its debts and cut down on labor costs.
Reports suggest that filing for bankruptcy was not foreseen, though as the company had missed its debt payments for the last few months, and failed to hand out pay cuts to employees, this should’ve been coming. Star Tribune has listed assets of $493.2 million and liabilities of $661.1 million. The newspaper’s publisher, Chris Harte states:
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As Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is on a medical leave it leaves the company’s fate hanging in balance… well, not quite so. Stocks seem to be going as expected and products which are in the pipeline, will come out as in their due time too (delayed). Now what’s left to see is whether Tim Cook can fit Jobs’ chair, he comes qualified though – working with Apple since some time now.
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The economy may have slumped from bad to worse but it might sound hard to digest when you look at Nintendo Wii’s sales. The console recorded the highest ever sales with 10.17 million units seconded by its own portable DS that sold 9.95 million units. With those numbers, the Wii made 55% of all sales on consoles sales while the DS accounted for 72% in the handheld market. Nintendo’s EVP of America, Cammie Dunaway:
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San Francisco based online sales intelligence application provider, InsideView Inc., has raised $6.5 million in the second round of funding. The round was participated by returning backers including Emergence Capital Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners. According to InsideView’s CEO, Umberto Milletti:
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After all sorts of troubles crashing in on Sony from every possible direction, Sony Ericsson has not been allowed to use the PlayStation brand name for its PSP phone. Reports state that Sony would only allow for such branding when it produces cell phones independently; which means it will end up its partnership with Ericsson for this. There hasn’t been much regarding the matter from Sony officials, but a spokeswoman stated:
