eBay planed to sell its recommendation engine site StumbleUpon

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Sept. 23, according to foreign media, science and technology blog TechCrunch said, eBay has hired Deutsche Bank to help to sell its recommendation engine's Web site StumbleUpon.

According to foreign media reports, in May 2007, eBay spent 75,000,000 U.S. dollars bought in 2001 for the establishment of StumbleUpon, the site hope that the recommendation engine can help enhance the eBay user base the number of large-scale. StumbleUpon may have less than satisfactory performance, which eBay wants to their re-sale of his house.

According to comScore data shows that StumbleUpon global capacity of 1,300,000 visitors, page views 25,000,000. However, a year earlier, the volume of Web site visitors have been as high as 4,400,000, 31,000,000 page views.

However, StumbleUpon the number of registered users has been growing steadily. In April 2008, the number of registered users of the Web site were 5,000,000. Until September 22, 2008, the site's registered users has reached 6,020,000 people.

Currently, eBay has not yet disclose the asking price.

Amazon subsidiary IMDB pushed free on-line films

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September 17, according to foreign media reports, the Amazon subsidiary IMDB (Internet Movie Database) will provide visitors with free on-line movies and TV series and create an opportunity for the filmmakers to display their works to global audience .

IMDB Monday, users will be in the company's Web site for free online viewing of 6,000 feature films, TV dramas and classic old films, feature films such as "extremely fanatical" (Fever Pitch) and the "roof of the violinist" (Fiddler on the Roof), TV series "Big Brother" (Big Brother) and "Crime Scene Investigation" (CSI) and the old classic film "Trek Trek" (Star Trek) and "Thunderball Jiaowa" (Charlie's Angels), and so on.

IMDB users will provide a recommended list, but not all the names of movies and TV dramas are included, in order to find a roster of no movies or television dramas, users must enter their name, and the same time can only watch one. IMDB of these films and TV dramas were the most detailed breakdown, such as film star or producer, also provide the location, movie reviews and fan sites, and other information.

IMDB founder and executive director of Col Needham said: "We have to be able to provide users with simple, free online viewing experience is exciting." He claims he has watched more than 7,000 movies.

In addition, IMDB will allow the global producers and rights owners to Imdb.com 57 million visitors a month to display their works.

January this year, IMDB acquired Los Angeles-based media company Without A Box, began to focus to the independent film business expansion. Withoutabox.com Film Festival allows artists to submit films directly to the fans and promote the works, film festival organizers to provide for on-line management and marketing tool.

CBS, Hulu, Sony Pictures Television (Sony Pictures Television) and more than 500 other independent filmmakers to provide video content to IMDB, which will play a part.

Although there are 6,000 movies and TV dramas to choose from, but not on the IMDB watch each movie. If the IMDB can not watch a movie, the user will be informed in the Amazon site to watch.

Amazon earlier this month said it would provide 40,000 customers without advertising the copyright movies and TV dramas, users can video-on-demand as of the Amazon (Amazon Video On Demand) services in the PC and Mac on-line viewing, Previously only after downloading to use a PC or TiVo to watch. Currently, this service is only applicable to Amazon's U.S. customers.

Amazon video-on-demand service manager Roy Price, Amazon customers put forward a number of functional requirements, the highest one is that video content can be watched without downloaded.

Microsoft and Nokia provide E-mail service to S60 phone owners

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September 11, according to foreign media reports, Nokia Wednesday announced that it has signed cooperation agreements with Microsoft, which will provide commercial e-mail services to Nokia mobile phones.

According to foreign media reports, the agreement provides that the cooperation aims to Nokia S60 mobile phone system to add commercial e-mail functions so that 80 million mobile phone users can enjoy this e-mail services. Nokia is intended to move to the BlackBerry maker RIM company to launch an attack. Nokia said that all pre-installed with the latest version of the S60 mobile phone software can use this Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync e-mail services.

Nokia said in a statement: "If users of the company is using the Microsoft Exchange e-mail, the user can not pay the additional cost of using mobile phones under the Exchange e-mail service." Nokia executive vice president Anssi Vanjoki said Nokia's cooperation with Microsoft will enable the enterprise e-mail service more complete.

Microsoft Exchange Server's vice president Terry Myerson said: "Nokia is a very meaningful cooperation partners, through it, Microsoft will provide e-mail service for 80 million S60 mobile phone users to maximize the value of Exchange Server."

Instead of Nokia, Sony becomes the most popular brand in Asia

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September 8, according to an Asian consumers report written by media magazines and market research firm NTS that the Japanese electronics giant Sony becomes the Asia's most popular brand.

The report said that Sony has replaced the Finnish handset maker Nokia as Asia's most popular brands, and ranked in the Japanese electronics companies Canon and other U.S. athletic footwear company Nike (Nike) before.

This survey reported that consumers in Asia, ranked the most popular brand in the previous 20 U.S. technology companies including Hewlett-Packard and Apple, South Korea's Samsung and LG and Japan's Matsushita.

U.S. Internet giant Google is seen as the first, and in the media and telecommunications companies, and Coca-Cola was considered the most popular beverage company.

The survey has investigated 3600 consumers in 10 markets including Australia and China. Asia which includes China has become the key market for many global leading companies in the past 10 years.

Google will release Web browser of Google version

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September 2 news the Wall Street Journal reported that Google plans to release a " Google Chorme” web browser to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

The newspaper, citing anonymous sources, Google may soon release the news to be announced.

Google did not immediately respond to the outside world to seek comments in a telephone interview and e-mail.

The Wall Street Journal article said that through the provision of enhanced address bar characteristics and other alternative browser is not the same elements, Google browser color design goal is to make Web browsing more convenient and faster. Google will use open-source browser code, which means that other people can modify the code.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Google has been developing the new browser over the past two years, but after Microsoft released IE 7 browser, development work has become more serious.

Samsung announced the world lightest 13.3-inch notebook

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August 30, according to foreign media reports, South Korea's Samsung Electronics announced the thin and light notebooks designed for mobile professionals, which is declared to be the lightest system in 13.3-inch screen in the world.

Samsung Electronics said, code-named X360 notebook listing scheduled in September this year, despite the weight of only 1.27 kilograms, but it's all fully functional, no compromise. The new thin and light notebooks equipped with Intel's Centrino mobile platform 2, memory storage capacity to 1 GB to 4 GB, can choose to 120 GB hard drive or storage capacity of up to 128 GB of solid-state flash disk. But Samsung did not disclose the price of new notebooks.

Samsung Electronics claimed X360 notebook with a six-unit with batteries, the batteries can be achieved for the operating hours of 10 hours. 13.3-inch screen resolution of 1280 pixels X 800 pixels, using light-emitting diode rear-projection light, brighter than other design increased 33 percent.

Samsung X360 notebook ran Microsoft Windows Vista Business operating system. To reduce weight, X360 notebook was not equipped with the same drive as the standard laptop, but the best choice for consumers is to use external DVD Copy.