South Korea is set to starting issuing notices of legal indictments via SMS in the new year. Prosecutors feel that issuing notices of indictment via SMS would be more effective than via mail given the 75% of country’s population uses a mobile phone.
Reuters reports that Lee Young-pyo, an administrative official said:
“Most people in South Korea [...]
Tags: Mobile
AOL formally announced its revised partnership with Google Inc. today. Google has agreed to purchase a 5 percent stake in AOL for $1 billion giving AOL a valuation of $20 billion USD. Google will also offer AOL advertising “credits” valued at $300 million which will allow AOL to promote its web properties on Google’s search [...]
We are pleased to announce that the internet domain Fastmail.net has been sold to email service FastMail.fm. Details of the sale will be announced in a press release to be issued in conjunction with the closing of two major transactions this past week.
Having used FastMail.fm since its commercial inception in 2002, we are [...]
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Online film and video game company AtomShockwave is set to announce the launch of a online video aggregation service AddictingClips.com.
The website maintains a directory of online video content, including short films, interesting commercials, and user generated content. While the site currently doesn’t include any of its own content AtomShockwave intends to host user generated short videos.
At launch the site is believed to contain more than 1,000 links and appears to be closely modeled after AtomShockwave’s recent acquisition online game aggregator AddictingGames.com. At the time of the acquisition, AtomShockwave announced that: (continued)
Tags: Entertainment · Social Media
One of the major internet domain transactions of 2005 has closed Escrow.  The transaction value is in the high six figures (US Dollars) and involves a short generic dot com internet domain.  A press release will be issued shortly.
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