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Concepts:

MySpace, Cingular, mobile, Cingular Customers, friends, wireless, MySpace profile, ability, community, feature, blog, network, photos, partnership, Parental Controls.

Summary:

The landmark deal marks MySpace's largest-scale mobile partnership and gives Cingular's customers exclusive access to MySpace Mobile's rich tool set including the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and add friends, post photos and blogs, send and receive MySpace messages, and much more -- all from the mobile phone.

"MySpace.com has a passionate community of users, many of whom use our site as their primary means of staying in touch with family and friends," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO, MySpace.

"The photo upload feature of MySpace Mobile means Cingular customers will now have the ability to capture, record and share their world as it happens via their MySpace profile, creating a more enriching experience for our customers as well as their MySpace friends."

Available on select Cingular handsets, MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to select photos stored on their mobile device and upload them to their MySpace profile.

From their Cingular phones, they have the ability to send messages to their MySpace friends, read and reply to messages sent to them, as well as view and manage friend requests.

MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to perform basic friend searches giving users the opportunity to "click-to-add "friends into their network.

MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to post new blog entries and make comments to other users' blogs or MySpace profile pages.

The Friend list contains a text listing of the friends, which when selected would show the profile picture along with a link to that user's MySpace page and the ability to add the friend to your contact list for quick bookmarking.

MySpace Mobile Alerts have been available to Cingular customers since March 2006 and, to date, more than 75 million alerts have been received on Cingular handsets.

Cingular offers Parental Controls that enable parents to block their children's purchase of and/ or access to wireless content that may be inappropriate for young users.

MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world.

Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 58.7 million customers.

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Facebook

Concepts:

Facebook, students, school, campus, employers, profiles, Malavenda, networking, social-networking, technology, phenomenon, colleges, friends, Christian Science Monitor, life.

Summary:

Facebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact; The social-networking website isn't growing like it once did, but only because almost every US student is already on it.

Bridget Henry didn't think her school, the University of Iowa, gave students an appropriate venue to participate in the search for a new president.

Henry, a senior majoring in political science, started "Hogan's Heroes," a group supporting provost Michael Hogan for the job.

Henry and her friends tried a laundry list of ways to publicize "Hogan's Heroes" - everything from a letter-writing campaign to handing out flyers.

But what succeeded most was their page on the social networking website Facebook, which attracted more than 200 supporters.

Even if Hogan doesn't get the job, Henry learned what colleges and universities are waking up to: Facebook is no longer just a fun way for students to keep in touch.

It is now essential to the college experience, a fact that faculty and staff are scurrying to catch up with.

Soon to enter its fourth year, Facebook has matured into a warehouse of school information, a big-time player in campus activism, and a mirror of university life - good and bad.

More than 12 million users are signed up.

School officials, most of whom were either dismissive or unaware of the phenomenon, are now awake to it.

And they worry about information in student profiles, especially after hearing that employers routinely check them.

Students still "friend" others in their school or regional networks, exchange messages and pictures (Facebook claims to be the largest photo-sharing website), check class schedules, or post diary notes.

Then there are groups like Henry's, for example.

Or the one at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., that wants to revive sluggish campus social life.

Students running for campus office campaign on Facebook, as do actual politicians.

"Any [campus] behavior that you could experience face to face, you'll see on Facebook," says Pablo Malavenda, associate dean of students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Malavenda says the schools overreacted because they were confused - after all, he adds, social networking is the biggest campus phenomenon since phones were allowed in residence halls.

Brian Payst, director of technology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says schools need to use the changing ways in which students communicate.

At Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., administrators sent "a call to action," asking faculty and staff to join Facebook in the hopes that it would have a "norming influence" on content.

Michael Bugeja, director of the journalism school at Iowa State University, views Facebook as one of several distractions that the spread of wireless access has allowed to flourish on campuses.

"They have dominated their niche," says Fred Stutzman, who studies Facebook for his doctoral dissertation at UNC.

The site is a hit, and within a few months it expands to other schools in the area.

One of the most publicized warnings about Facebook comes from a slew of surveys showing that employers check Facebook profiles before making hiring decisions.

A recent survey by Christine Wiley and Mark Sisson, who work in the Career Services office at the University of Dayton, Ohio, not only confirms the use of Facebook by employers, but it also points to the disconnect that exists between students and the adults who make decisions about them.

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EMI Music Expands in Hollywood at CIM Group's 1800 Highland Office Building

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EMI Music Expands in Hollywood at CIM Group's 1800 Highland Office Building http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=NEWS_VIE W_POPUP_TYPE &newsId=20061219005862&ndmHsc=v2*A1166533200000*B1166580548000*DgroupByDate* J1*N1000001&newsLang=en&beanID=1802668732&viewID=news_view_popup

Concepts:

Hollywood, CIM Group, Highland, EMI, EMI Music marketing, business, office space, community, Los Angeles, districts, support, Kuba, Gogerty Building, relocate, expanding.

Summary:

Emi Music North America is expanding operations in Hollywood, signing a 10-year lease for 50,000 square feet with CIM Group at 1800 Highland.

EMI Music North America will relocate approximately 200 employees for occupancy on four floors.

"Several of EMI's divisions have been scattered in a variety of Los Angeles and Hollywood locations, and they have grown beyond the capacity of space it had on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles and at its iconic cylindrical Capitol Tower and adjacent Gogerty buildings located at Hollywood and Vine.

With this move, EMI is firmly establishing its commitment to remaining a part of the Hollywood business community by consolidating its operations at this Hollywood location," said Shaul Kuba, principal and founder, CIM Group.

CIM Group purchased 1800 Highland in 2005 after identifying the severe shortage of modern office space in the area.

"We're very pleased to learn that Hollywood as a business address is more popular than ever with the announcement that EMI Music Marketing is expanding their operations in Los Angeles," said Councilmember Tom LaBonge.

They include housing, office, entertainment and a diverse mix of restaurants and retailers to support revitalization of the area as a vibrant urban center serving residents, visitors and businesses.

CIM Group directs its efforts towards districts of high population density, including the downtown areas within large cities, smaller "main street" districts within towns and suburban cities, and other locations which lie within the metropolitan areas of the country.

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MTV join ModeLabs

The musical marks do not adopt all the same strategy to touch the consumers. While Universal, M6, NRJ, Virgin or Fnac launch virtual mobile operators, the chain of television MTV (Viacom group) decided to join ModeLabs, French company specialized in the design of mobile telephones, to reveal a compound with its colors.

NVIDIA published today new pilots

NVIDIA published today new pilots for the users having been able to download and install version RC2 of Windows Vista, the next operating system of Microsoft. These pilots have the advantage of being certified "WHQL" (Windows Hardware Quality Labs), i.e. which they were checked and tested directly by Microsoft. Compatible with the whole of the charts of the GeForce families, these pilots propose the following innovations: New panel controls improved NVIDIA Nouveau pilot OpenGL Compatibility and performances Here various bonds allowing to download these new pilots only for the RC2 of Windows Vista (or higher version):

Electronic Arts - Battlefield Updates

We did not speak to you about it later than this morning to present to you the last captures as well as the video of introduction. Eh well it is back already to the one of the topicality. It, it is Battlefield 2142, the next play of action directed multijouor of DIGITAL Illusions EC/Electronic Arts and if it again makes speak about him, it is because a first update is available right now! The play hardly has just left on other side from the Atlantic and is not waited before the weekend in France, but the American editor brings already the first final improvement in order to return on a bug which can involve the planting of the customer in Titan mode.

Free Online Word Processing Software from Google

Google just released a new free service. This service called Docs & Spreadsheets combines an online word processing software and a storage and sharing system. In fact, Google simply shared two applications that it had already: Writely, acquired at the beginning of 2006 and his storage and sharing system.

No installation will be necessary and the service will be completely free. By offering Docs & Spreadsheets free, Google competes with the famous Office of Microsoft which is sold nearly 400 $ and requires a long installation. Let us recall that Microsoft and its Word software dominate the field of the word processing software since years and that version 2007 of Office should be released in a few weeks.

Microsoft carries out the majority of its profits by selling its Office package and Windows to private individuals or companies of the whole world. Also, the arrival of a free text processing which is likely to be very popular, like all the products of Google, could hurt Microsoft badly.

Europe: Internet now Stronger than Newspapers

A recent study published by the Financial Times and done by Jupiter Research, reveals interesting figures concerning the evolution of Internet compared to the traditional media newspapers. The study completed from a sample of more than 5 000 people residing in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and in the United Kingdom, shows that in Europe Internet exceeded the popularity of the traditional newspaper industry.

According to the study, people would spend an average of four hours of their time per week to surf on Internet, contrary to the three hours devoted to reading the newspapers and magazines. In Europe however, television remains the media of predilection since always according to the study, Europeans would on average devote more than twelve hours each week to look at tv programs.

A study published by Mediametric last July showed that in Europe, more than 18 million people are connected to high-speed Internet, and that the internet surfers obtained the highest ratio of surfing among the countries concerned with the study with an average of five hours of surfing per week.

With Youtube: Google goes over 100 millions users

For 1,65 billion dollar in actions, Google, the first search engine, will acquire YouTube, most popular video exchange website. Google, which is worth more than 9 billion dollars out of Stock Exchange, first search engine on the web, has a sales turnover of 6,14 billion dollars in 2005.

YouTube, for its part, opened the Web with the digital images turned by the amators of the whole world, armed with their light cameras or their portable telephones with video function. The young start-up did not yet gain only one dollar, but represents a true phenomenon of audience, with up to 100 million viewed videos certain days, a figure which, in the absence of profitability, surely weighed in the decision of acquisition of Google.

The YouTube company, founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Charin, is operational since December. In less than one year, this service of free remote loading, of a very simple use, constituted a "social network", a vast community of users who post their own clips (of less than ten minutes), comment on those which they view, gather by affinities, share their experiments... YouTube, it is, to some extent, the tv-reality of the Internet. "Our community radically changed the way in which people use the media, and created a new culture of the video clip, declared, Monday October 9, in an official statement, Chad Hurley, the chairman of YouTube. While joining our forces to those of Google, we will benefit from his total distribution and its advanced technology, in order to propose a more complete experiment with our users, as well as new opportunities for our partners." "Everyone agrees to saying that it is right the beginning of the revolution of the video on Internet", Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google commented on, by confirming the maintenance of the YouTube mark.

Google wants to invade your website!

Google will invade the sites of the Webmasters In its ultimate conquest of the Web, Google benefitted from the interest of the Webmasters for the dynamic contents in order to invade the remainder of the web which did not belong to them. The company will propose to the developers, gadgets that they will be able to install on their Internet site. Google launched successfully a few months ago the Google Gadgets service, which makes it possible to all the Net surfers to personalize the banner page of the search engine by installing on their computer various utilities. The company benefits now from the passion for the dynamic contents by proposing to the Webmasters a bank of 1200 applications ready to be installed on their site. About thirty of those were designed by Google, the others coming from developers seeking a distributor for their varied programs. The mini-applications that Google calls "Universal Gadgets", contrary to "Desktop Gadgets" intended to be installed on the micro-computers, could be integrated easily into the Web sites. Adam Sah, the person having found the title "Universal Gadgets" for Google, affirms that "the gadgets are nothing more than HTML and a little Javascript". With this new service, Google will be represented, a little everywhere on the independent sites, with the Net surfers who had not yet adopted the search engine or one of its many services.

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