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Google’s Gmail is now mobile enabled. Users can now access the service through (almost) any web-enabled mobile phone through a variety of mobile browsers. Most of the service’s key features are available and have been optimized for the smaller format of mobile phone screens.
From Gmail Mobile’s news release:
Now you can access your Gmail [...]

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Google Inc. launched a new vertical search service for music.  Google Music allows users to search for musical artists, bands, songs, song lyrics, CD titles, titles, with the results will appearing accompanied by icons of music notes  Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google indicated that any items that can [...]

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The transaction for the acquisition of the internet domain Sharks.com transaction has been successfully completed through Escrow.com.  The transaction was valued in the low six figure USD range and closed on December 14th, 2005. More details will follow.

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Reports suggest that Sprint Nextel is set to offer full length movie downloads to its mobile phone subscribers through a subscription service.  Analysts suggested that the idea will likely face consumer resistant due to limited demand for small-screen content and problems which plaque the present generation of mobile video devices according to TechNewsWorld.  Sprint, which already allows users to watch live TV on the mobile phones through Sprint Power Vision, will market older Hollywood films through the a service provided in conjunction with MSpot which is launching its mobile movie service shortly.  Sprint is expected to price its service at $7 USD per month.  Its questionable whether full length feature films will find widespread acceptance amongst smaller screen devices.  The market has seen numerous high profile devices optimized for video launch this year, including Apple’s iPod Video and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP).  Apple’s iTunes has signed recent deals with NBC-Universal and Disney/ABC which allow for downloads of music videos as well as current and older TV programming.  The recent success of the iPod video and its poor battery life has highlighted one of the issues which adversely affect mobile video devices to date.  Battery life is of even greater importance in the mobile phone sector and may make watching a full length movie a non-starter.  While Sprint’s forthcoming mobile devices will allow for  downloads of full-length feature films the problems with battery life remain.  The market is still seeking for an elusive mix of compelling content, film length, purchase price, and device usability in order for mobile video to gain mainstream acceptable.  We would argue that inexpensive, compelling, short films, produced for the mobile medium with the commuter in mind, would stand the greatest chance of success.

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Alexa, an Amazon.com Inc.  company will allow web  developers paid access to customized data searches through its Amazon Web Search Platform.  The new platform will allow developers to effectively build their own search engines using Amazon’s set of online tools.

The company has created a photo search engine to demonstrate the service’s potential including the ability [...]

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AOL is set to decide whether to partner with Google Inc. or Microsoft’s MSN service on a deal which may affect the future of online advertising.  The New York Times reports (free subscription required):

The fundamental issue for AOL appears to be how it can best expand its advertising revenue, which it is counting on to [...]

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Business 2.0 speculates on the Del.icio.us sale to Yahoo!  While confirmation on the details of the deal haven’t been made to date, Business 2.0 writes:
Joshua Schachter is surrounded by lawyers and his phone is ringing off the hook.  He just sold his two-year old company, del.icio.us, to Yahoo today for an undisclosed sum (estimated to [...]

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Social bookmarking site del.icio.us has announced that it has been purchased by Yahoo!
We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family.  Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community.  We’re excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search [...]

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