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ReadWriteWeb: If our attempts at getting such simple information as bus schedules or account balances from automated voice recognition systems are any indication, then we imagine Google has a lot of work to do in its latest endeavor - real-time, spoken-language translation. According to the Times UK , Google is working on developing software for a mobile phone that would translate what you were saying into the language of the speaker on the other end of the line and vice versa. Sponsor As you may have noticed, Google already ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Google:Translation/ Real_Time:Google%401265617079034
ReadWriteWeb: According to 4chan's Twitter account and status update blog, they have been "explicitly blocked" by the Verizon Network. If you're unfamiliar with 4chan and why an ISP/wireless company would block it, read more about it on Wikipedia . The high-traffic image board of mostly anonymous users was created by Christopher Poole in 2003 and has been the subject of a fair amount of negative media and legal attention over the past 7 years. But why would Verizon choose to block the site now? Does this put Verizon... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/4chan:Verizon_Communications/ 4chan:Verizon_Communications%401265627098316
Mashable!: Location-based service Loopt is going to offer deals at venues and stores near you thanks to a partnership with Mobile Spinach . Mobile Spinach has already built up a large database of exclusive deals at venues ranging from sushi restaurants to concert halls to clothing stores. Currently, it serves San Francisco by texting users with deal notifications, but the partnership with Loopt will make the process that much more effective. Loopt and Mobile Spinach plan to offer deals in New York and Los Angeles “du... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Loopt:Spinach/ Loopt:Local%401265636709818
VentureBeat: In what will surely be a common trend over the next few years to take advantage of China’s growing population of media consumers, Reuters is reporting that a Disney-led consortium is in talks to buy a portion of China’s largest in-bus media firm, Bus Online. Google is a part of the consortium — even as they are currently seeking out the NSA’s help to deal with their recent security breach in China. According to anonymous sources, the consortium is planning to buy a portion between 30 and ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Bus:Google/ Bus:The_Walt_Disney_Company%401265636709788
: Vitamin D Video has officially gone out of beta and is now available in 1.0. The basic, single camera version of the software is available now for free while a two camera version costs $49 and unlimited cameras costs $199. The software watches a web-based camera - including many popular models from Linksys and D-Link - and records motion as it it happens, even alerting you when humans step into the frame. I've been using the beta for months now with a Linksys WVC54GCA and I consider the software an early warning... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Vitamin_D:Monitor/ Vitamin_D:Pricing%401265639694645
Mashable!: EA Sports President Peter Moore told Bloomberg that the popular Madden NFL series of football video games will make its way to Facebook . We haven’t heard a peep about a launch date. Moore says we will definitely see Madden on the Facebook platform, but the social media version will be simpler than its console cousins, because EA wants to “make Madden more accessible.” Facebook games are a big deal these days. FarmVille and Mafia Wars developer Zynga just raised $180 million in funding . The ne... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/EA:Facebook/ EA:Electronic_Arts%401265648987715
: On the heels of the EU’s approval of Oracle’s $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, the tech giant has opened up the purse strings to acquire application management software provider AmberPoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close in the first half of this year. AmberPoint’s software helps organizations diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning w... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Oracle_Corporation:AmberPoint/ Oracle_Corporation:AmberPoint%401265645779723
ReadWriteWeb: As soon as this week, Google might be rolling out a "Twitter-killer" feature for Gmail users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages aren't available in a timeline format. the new "Twitter clone," they will be. Sponsor This is the current option for updating statuses in Gmail: Google's new tools, however, wil... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Gmail:Google/ Website:Twitter%401265656598341
: Back in July 2008, Tapulous released a music game for the iPhone called Tap Tap Revenge (TTR). The game proved to be a massive hit, growing to 1 million users within its first few weeks.  Over the last year and a half, TTR and its sequels have become the most popular series on the App Store, with over 25 million installs. And tonight, Tapulous is ready to release an entirely new music-focused gaming series: Riddim Ribbon (iTunes link), featuring the Black Eyed Peas. Riddim Ribbon is a fusion between racing,... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Tapulous:Ribbon/ Ribbon:Tapulous%401265607352567
ReadWriteWeb: The rise of cloud computing looks like it has lead to the fall of SAP CEO Léo Apotheker, who resigned over the weekend. It's not that cloud computing has been absent at SAP. There are a number of efforts underway. But it's the lack of any unified strategy that is most notable. "They have been exploring the cloud," said Ray Wang of the Altimeter Group. "It's how quickly they have responded is the question of contention." Sponsor SAP's headquarters are in Germany, and Wang says that may ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/SAP_AG:CEO/ SAP_AG:CEO%401265665763510
Mashable!: The Super Bowl game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints may be in full swing, but a winner has already emerged on the web. On Facebook, the Saints has racked up 418,000+ fans versus 304,000+ fans for the Colts . The graphs below, courtesy AllFacebook , show the trend. The Saints are winning on Google , too, with higher search volume and more news references than their rivals in recent weeks. Will the data predict the outcome or not? Let us know your predictions in the comments. Colts vs. Sa... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Super_Bowl:New_Orleans_Saints/ Super_Bowl:Sean_Payton%401265639694322
VentureBeat: Mobile advertising is one of the hottest fields we report on at VentureBeat. Gartner analysts expect it to be a $7.4 billion market by the end of 2014. Not as big as Google’s $20 billion-ish ad economy, but a viable space for which media planners will design and place ads. For ad buyers, it’s a big deal that Mobclix will soon be hooked up to Nielsen’s ad targeting data. Nielsen’s  PRIZM is built around a database that segments markets by lifestyle and consumer behavior. Nielsen&rsquo... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Nielsen:xkcd/ Nielsen:xkcd%401265627098312
VentureBeat: Electronic Arts reported third fiscal quarter results today that were in line with the reduced expectations that analysts had. For the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, EA reported revenue of $1.24 billion, down fromm $1.64 billion a year ago. Net loss was $82 million, compared to a net loss of $641 million a year ago. Loss per share was 25 cents compared to a loss of $2 per share a year ago. On a non-GAAP basis, earnings per share were 33 cents a share, compared with 56 cents a share a year ago. Non-GAAP reve... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Electronic_Arts:Outlook/ Electronic_Arts:Outlook%401265665767008
VentureBeat: Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants you to believe that Google’s 52-second “ Parisian Love ” ad that ran in the third quarter of yesterday’s Super Bowl was a spontaneous decision to take a popular YouTube video and “share it with a wider audience.” Aw, a present. You shouldn’t have! They didn’t. We got an email this morning from Martin McNulty, director of online ad agency Forward3D . Maybe because he’s a Brit, McNulty can see past Super Bowl mania. “Google i... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Google:Super_Bowl/ ShmooCon:Underbelly%401265607352226
: There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards trying to be a much more mainstream application, for anyone on any platform, from celebs to your non-tech friends. But for power Twitter users, Tweetdeck seems to be go-to app so far. Of course, all that can change, but that seems to be the landscape at the moment. Just... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/TweetDeck:Flickr/ Flickr:TweetDeck%401265656598039
ReadWriteWeb: According to reports from China Daily , what is believed to be the largest illegal hacker training and recruitment entity in China has been shut down by police. Three people were arrested and the equivalent of a quarter of a million dollars in assets frozen. The accused, who ran a now-shuttered site called Black Hawk Safety Net , are suspected of offering online attacking programs, disseminating viruses and recruiting almost 200,000 members. Police have confiscated nine servers and five computers and completely ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Hacker:China/ Hacker:Public_Security_Bureau%401265620538007
: As predicted , Hell has indeed frozen over. Yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt sent a tweet hinting at something most people probably never expected to see: a Google Super Bowl ad. But the contents of the ad, and even the product it would be promoting, remained a mystery. Moments ago some 90 million Americans watched as Google showed off the search functionality that it’s famous for, in an ad called Parisian Love . We’ve embedded the ad below. Yesterday, John Battelle correctly predicted that the ad ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Super_Bowl:Motorola/ Motorola:Super_Bowl%401265604348867
Mashable!: This one will definitely put a smile on the faces of all those who think Google’s Street View service is invading their privacy: members of German Free Art & Technology group (F.A.T.) have noticed Google’s Street View car in Berlin and decided to attach a GPS device onto it and track its movement. The result of their efforts can be seen on a large map , and although it doesn’t seem to show anything out of the ordinary – the Google Street View car seemed to be driving around Berlin as ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/CAR:Google/ Google:GPS%401265660979423
VentureBeat: A little over a month after it gobbled up primary competitor Rotten Tomatoes , Flixster , a social-networking site for movie enthusiasts, has landed $12.5 million in a new round of equity and common stock, according to a filing with the SEC . The San Francisco company has already been growing fast, but the new money could kick it up another notch. The January Rotten Tomatoes acquisition came at an opportune time. Flixster was looking to expand its market share, and News Corp., Rotten Tomatoes’ parent compa... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Flixster:Rotten_Tomatoes/ Flixster:Rotten_Tomatoes%401265665766271
: It looks like some major consolidation is about to go down in the Central European Internet market, and in particular Poland. According to local newspaper reports, the largest Internet group in the region, Naspers /MIH Group, is conducting due diligence of assets belonging to DST (Digital Sky Technology)-owned holding Forticom, including the “Facebook-of-Poland” Nasza-Klasa.pl which has 23 million users. Naspers/MIH Group and DST already together own the largest Russian online portal Mail.ru . go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-02-08/Central_European_Time:Poland/ Central_European_Time:Poland%401265639694649