MADISON - Town police on Tuesday arrested one of their own, charging him with illegally using police computers to track down information on various women, including his ex-wife and current and former girlfriends.
Officer Bernard Durgin Jr., a seven-year veteran of the Madison Police Department, was also suspended without pay on Tuesday by Chief Paul Jakubson for neglect of duty, conduct unbecoming an officer and other violations of department policy related to a separate incident.
Durgin already had been suspended with pay since early August, after a confrontation between New Haven police and a member of the Poor Boyz motorcycle club outside a bar. Durgin, according to police, was wearing the East Haven motorcycle club's colors and represented himself as an on-duty Madison police officer. Jakubson said Durgin had called in sick that day.
Officer Bernard Durgin Jr.
As a result of the investigation into the New Haven incident, Jakubson placed him on unpaid leave. Both the internal and criminal investigations into that incident are ongoing.
Durgin, a resident of East Haven, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
In the computer-use case, Durgin was released Tuesday on $75,000 bail for an appearance in Superior Court in New Haven Oct. 16, police said.
That charge involves Durgin's alleged efforts to obtain private and personal information about women he met while working part-time as a security guard at Yale-New Haven Hospital. According to the arrest affidavit, Durgin made 34 separate inquiries about 17 people between Feb. 17, 2006, and July 14, 2007, using the computer in his cruiser to access the networks police use to obtain information about suspects.
In most cases the people were women with whom he had no more than a passing acquaintance. He also used the system to find out about his current and past girlfriends, his ex-wife and her family, a former fiancée and her partners and family, police said.
Police spoke to the human resources department and the head of protective services at Yale-New Haven and interviewed several of the women.
Durgin's arrest on a felony charge of computer crime, which covers a wide range of possible activities, came about as the result of the investigation into the August incident. Durgin had called a fellow officer, investigators said, and asked if he would look up information on someone using his cruiser's computer.
The officer pretended his computer was not working. A week earlier, he said, "Durgin had told me that his fiancée left him for another guy and that [Durgin] was going to try and find out who that guy was," according to the arrest affidavit. Police began looking into other inquiries Durgin had made.
Police use various information systems, including the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing system, the National Crime Information Center and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. It is a clear violation of policy - and illegal - for police to use those systems for personal reasons.
On Aug. 5 about 12:30 a.m., on a night when he had called in sick for the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, Durgin showed up outside a Temple Street bar in New Haven after an altercation between a suspect and New Haven police, according to Jakubson, who referred to the incident in a suspension letter given to Durgin Tuesday. Durgin reportedly showed his badge and told officers at the scene he was on the job with Madison police. Instead of assisting the other officers, Durgin interceded "on behalf of a convicted felon who had been violently resisting arrest," the chief wrote.
Durgin's actions "caused the investigating officer in the incident to relate deep concern about the display of motorcycle gang `colors'" by Madison police, Jakubson wrote.
At Microsoft, seeking the next billion computer usersBill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It's Will Poole's job to get the next billion.
Poole, who co-leads Microsoft's emerging-markets push, is chartered with enabling the company's goal of allowing 1 billion more people to access computing technology by 2015.
The company has a number of efforts under way in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared computers for classrooms, to research into turning a cell phone into a low-cost computer by connecting it with a large display. Poole said the last effort, which has garnered a fair bit of interest, is moving from the drawing board to reality.
"We've got it in development in China right now," he said during a recent meeting with CNET News.com reporters and editors. "We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. It'll be in trials I think within a year, and we'll see how people respond to it."
In the meeting, Poole talked about Microsoft's approach, as well as some of the challenges, which stretch well beyond the fact that many people can't afford the latest technology. In actuality, relevance and accessibility are bigger hurdles for the world's poor, Poole said.
When I started looking at this about five years ago, I thought that affordability was the biggest challenge. It turns out that affordability is actually the third on the list of issues. The first one turns out to be relevance.
Q: How can Microsoft reach people who historically have not been users of its technology?
Poole: Let me begin by clarifying the difference between emerging markets and emerging segments. An emerging market is what people typically think about--such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. The other includes very large developing economies. Of course there are many people in those countries who do not have very good access to technology. At the same time, we look more broadly at a concept called emerging segments...people who do not have access to technology in whatever market they're in.
So what do you do to reach those people? There are obviously people who can't afford technology here in the United States, as well as in our neighboring countries and in emerging markets.
Poole: There are three primary areas where we can help people realize social and economic opportunity through technology. Transforming education is one. The second one is looking at fostering local innovation, and the third one is enabling jobs and opportunities.
When I travel around the world I see the power of the PC to bring people new opportunities--either to have skills that they can apply to get better jobs to earn more money, or to take a disadvantaged person who simply could not get a job at all because of a handicap.
What are some of the technologies that you guys are working on that can really help beyond the economic issues that are in play?
Poole: You bring up a very good point. When I started looking at this about five years ago, I thought that affordability was the biggest challenge. It turns out that affordability is actually the third on the list of issues. The first one turns out to be relevance. That means bringing a product to market that really meets the needs of somebody in an emerging segment--be it in rural India or in urban China or down the street, here in San Francisco. Are we building a technology that is relevant to the specific needs and problems that they have?
The second thing is to look at whether the technology is accessible to them. Can they find a place to buy it? Can they get support? Can they get broadband connectivity to bring them into the world of the Web? And then the third thing is affordability.
So, for example, in Asia we focus a lot on education because that's a very high priority there. In Latin America, we focus a little bit more on the jobs and opportunities and helping people get better jobs through the use of software technology. So there's a variety of different technologies we'll bring to the market, depending on the specific needs of local people.
I've seen a lot of interesting demos from across the company of some different approaches. One of those is called MultiPoint, where it's basically an entire classroom using one computer. Can you talk a little about how that works?
Poole: MultiPoint came from Microsoft Research India. They had sent people out to see what kids were doing with PCs in schools. What they found was that kids tended to be gathered around a PC and (watching) one person do their thing and then they took turns every five minutes or so. It was really not very engaging. So they developed this technology called Microsoft MultiPoint, which enables an application to be built that lets multiple mice be used with a different cursor for each kid. So one kid can be solving a math problem in one part of the screen while another one is solving a math problem on another part of the screen.
They basically can be time-sharing the screen and working collaboratively. What we found is that not only do they get to be more engaged with what they do on the PC...but they help each other. That's turned out to be something that's very beneficial from an education perspective. The kids are engaged and collaborating to solve a problem.
A lot of people think that for much of the world the first computing device that people use won't be a PC. It'll be some sort of mobile device. Obviously, that's an area that Microsoft has spent some time on, but it's a little bit further from its comfort area. What are you doing in the mobile space as far as non-PC devices?
Poole: Well, we certainly agree that the first computing device which will be used by many people around the world will be a phone. You see this happening in emerging segments all around the planet today. Mobile phones are really just taking off as the prices come down and the access is going up. We think that there are some interesting things to do to help make the mobile phone become a better device.
How close is that to being a product? You take the phone that people are already getting, hook it up to the TV they already have and you've got a computer. The phones that we use today in the U.S. certainly are capable of that from a technology perspective. How close is that?
Poole: Well, it's still got a ways to go. We've got it in development in China right now. We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us, and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. It'll be in trials I think within a year and we'll see how people respond to it. It's a new concept in the sense of trying to bring together PC and phone technology in a lower-cost device. It's not something that you're going to see a businessperson in a developed market using while walking down the street. We're trying to really target the needs of a broader population and so we're very excited about the opportunity there, but time will tell.
Obviously, Microsoft is not the only company looking at how to get computing devices into the hands of more people across the globe. The project that's gotten the most attention is the One Laptop Per Child project. What do you make of a program the group is launching in which people in the U.S. can buy one of the laptops for their own use, and then a second computer would go overseas?
Poole: It's an interesting way to get people involved in this challenge that we all see, which is how do you effectively apply technology to education. I'll be very interested to see how it comes out as well.
How important is it that that first device people use be running a Microsoft operating system versus Linux or another operating system?
Poole: Interestingly enough, we don't see that as much of a battle. The battle is around nonconsumption or around buying a new two-wheeled motor vehicle as opposed to buying a PC for the home...Clearly, we have an interest in having our software used and we think that the value that we offer is very deeply desired--particularly as people get into more of the business world...But our primary goal is around just getting technology to be adopted.
Poole, who co-leads Microsoft's emerging-markets push, is chartered with enabling the company's goal of allowing 1 billion more people to access computing technology by 2015.
The company has a number of efforts under way in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared computers for classrooms, to research into turning a cell phone into a low-cost computer by connecting it with a large display. Poole said the last effort, which has garnered a fair bit of interest, is moving from the drawing board to reality.
"We've got it in development in China right now," he said during a recent meeting with CNET News.com reporters and editors. "We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. It'll be in trials I think within a year, and we'll see how people respond to it."
In the meeting, Poole talked about Microsoft's approach, as well as some of the challenges, which stretch well beyond the fact that many people can't afford the latest technology. In actuality, relevance and accessibility are bigger hurdles for the world's poor, Poole said.
When I started looking at this about five years ago, I thought that affordability was the biggest challenge. It turns out that affordability is actually the third on the list of issues. The first one turns out to be relevance.
Q: How can Microsoft reach people who historically have not been users of its technology?
Poole: Let me begin by clarifying the difference between emerging markets and emerging segments. An emerging market is what people typically think about--such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. The other includes very large developing economies. Of course there are many people in those countries who do not have very good access to technology. At the same time, we look more broadly at a concept called emerging segments...people who do not have access to technology in whatever market they're in.
So what do you do to reach those people? There are obviously people who can't afford technology here in the United States, as well as in our neighboring countries and in emerging markets.
Poole: There are three primary areas where we can help people realize social and economic opportunity through technology. Transforming education is one. The second one is looking at fostering local innovation, and the third one is enabling jobs and opportunities.
When I travel around the world I see the power of the PC to bring people new opportunities--either to have skills that they can apply to get better jobs to earn more money, or to take a disadvantaged person who simply could not get a job at all because of a handicap.
What are some of the technologies that you guys are working on that can really help beyond the economic issues that are in play?
Poole: You bring up a very good point. When I started looking at this about five years ago, I thought that affordability was the biggest challenge. It turns out that affordability is actually the third on the list of issues. The first one turns out to be relevance. That means bringing a product to market that really meets the needs of somebody in an emerging segment--be it in rural India or in urban China or down the street, here in San Francisco. Are we building a technology that is relevant to the specific needs and problems that they have?
The second thing is to look at whether the technology is accessible to them. Can they find a place to buy it? Can they get support? Can they get broadband connectivity to bring them into the world of the Web? And then the third thing is affordability.
So, for example, in Asia we focus a lot on education because that's a very high priority there. In Latin America, we focus a little bit more on the jobs and opportunities and helping people get better jobs through the use of software technology. So there's a variety of different technologies we'll bring to the market, depending on the specific needs of local people.
I've seen a lot of interesting demos from across the company of some different approaches. One of those is called MultiPoint, where it's basically an entire classroom using one computer. Can you talk a little about how that works?
Poole: MultiPoint came from Microsoft Research India. They had sent people out to see what kids were doing with PCs in schools. What they found was that kids tended to be gathered around a PC and (watching) one person do their thing and then they took turns every five minutes or so. It was really not very engaging. So they developed this technology called Microsoft MultiPoint, which enables an application to be built that lets multiple mice be used with a different cursor for each kid. So one kid can be solving a math problem in one part of the screen while another one is solving a math problem on another part of the screen.
They basically can be time-sharing the screen and working collaboratively. What we found is that not only do they get to be more engaged with what they do on the PC...but they help each other. That's turned out to be something that's very beneficial from an education perspective. The kids are engaged and collaborating to solve a problem.
A lot of people think that for much of the world the first computing device that people use won't be a PC. It'll be some sort of mobile device. Obviously, that's an area that Microsoft has spent some time on, but it's a little bit further from its comfort area. What are you doing in the mobile space as far as non-PC devices?
Poole: Well, we certainly agree that the first computing device which will be used by many people around the world will be a phone. You see this happening in emerging segments all around the planet today. Mobile phones are really just taking off as the prices come down and the access is going up. We think that there are some interesting things to do to help make the mobile phone become a better device.
How close is that to being a product? You take the phone that people are already getting, hook it up to the TV they already have and you've got a computer. The phones that we use today in the U.S. certainly are capable of that from a technology perspective. How close is that?
Poole: Well, it's still got a ways to go. We've got it in development in China right now. We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us, and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. It'll be in trials I think within a year and we'll see how people respond to it. It's a new concept in the sense of trying to bring together PC and phone technology in a lower-cost device. It's not something that you're going to see a businessperson in a developed market using while walking down the street. We're trying to really target the needs of a broader population and so we're very excited about the opportunity there, but time will tell.
Obviously, Microsoft is not the only company looking at how to get computing devices into the hands of more people across the globe. The project that's gotten the most attention is the One Laptop Per Child project. What do you make of a program the group is launching in which people in the U.S. can buy one of the laptops for their own use, and then a second computer would go overseas?
Poole: It's an interesting way to get people involved in this challenge that we all see, which is how do you effectively apply technology to education. I'll be very interested to see how it comes out as well.
How important is it that that first device people use be running a Microsoft operating system versus Linux or another operating system?
Poole: Interestingly enough, we don't see that as much of a battle. The battle is around nonconsumption or around buying a new two-wheeled motor vehicle as opposed to buying a PC for the home...Clearly, we have an interest in having our software used and we think that the value that we offer is very deeply desired--particularly as people get into more of the business world...But our primary goal is around just getting technology to be adopted.
With a little bit of care, you can maximize the battery life
Your New Notebook
Be sure to fully charge your portable when you plug it in for the first time, and then run Software Update to ensure you have the latest software. Apple periodically releases updates that may improve battery performance.
Standard Maintenance
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based laptop battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her MacBook Pro on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. Need a reminder? Add an event to your desktop’s iCal.
Long Term Storage
If you don’t plan on using your notebook for more than six months, Apple recommends that you remove and store the notebook battery with a 50% charge. If you store a battery when it’s fully discharged, it could fall into a deep discharge state, which renders it incapable of holding any charge. Conversely, if you store it fully charged for an extended period of time, the battery may experience some loss of battery capacity, meaning it will have a shorter life. Be sure to store the ejected battery at the proper temperature. (See “Notebook Temperate Zone.”)
Optimal Setting
You can choose to use your Apple notebook in a way that maximizes its battery life.
Energy: The Energy Saver control panel offers several settings that determine power levels for your PowerBook. Your portable knows when it’s plugged in, and runs accordingly. When on battery power, it will dim the screen and use other components sparingly. If you change this setting to maximize performance, your battery will drain more quickly.
Brightness: Dim the screen to the lowest comfortable level to achieve maximum laptop battery life. For instance, when watching a DVD on an airplane, you may not need full brightness if all the lights are off.
AirPort Wireless: AirPort consumes power, even if you are not using its features to connect to a network. You can turn it off in its control panel to save power.
Bluetooth Wireless: Likewise, you can turn off Bluetooth to maximize your battery life, as it also consumes power when not in use.
Applications and peripherals: Disconnect peripherals and quit applications not in use. Eject CDs and DVDs if not currently accessing them.
Be sure to fully charge your portable when you plug it in for the first time, and then run Software Update to ensure you have the latest software. Apple periodically releases updates that may improve battery performance.
Standard Maintenance
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based laptop battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her MacBook Pro on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. Need a reminder? Add an event to your desktop’s iCal.
Long Term Storage
If you don’t plan on using your notebook for more than six months, Apple recommends that you remove and store the notebook battery with a 50% charge. If you store a battery when it’s fully discharged, it could fall into a deep discharge state, which renders it incapable of holding any charge. Conversely, if you store it fully charged for an extended period of time, the battery may experience some loss of battery capacity, meaning it will have a shorter life. Be sure to store the ejected battery at the proper temperature. (See “Notebook Temperate Zone.”)
Optimal Setting
You can choose to use your Apple notebook in a way that maximizes its battery life.
Energy: The Energy Saver control panel offers several settings that determine power levels for your PowerBook. Your portable knows when it’s plugged in, and runs accordingly. When on battery power, it will dim the screen and use other components sparingly. If you change this setting to maximize performance, your battery will drain more quickly.
Brightness: Dim the screen to the lowest comfortable level to achieve maximum laptop battery life. For instance, when watching a DVD on an airplane, you may not need full brightness if all the lights are off.
AirPort Wireless: AirPort consumes power, even if you are not using its features to connect to a network. You can turn it off in its control panel to save power.
Bluetooth Wireless: Likewise, you can turn off Bluetooth to maximize your battery life, as it also consumes power when not in use.
Applications and peripherals: Disconnect peripherals and quit applications not in use. Eject CDs and DVDs if not currently accessing them.
IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter
IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter
This is a Brand New IBM/Lenovo Boxed Original Product
Lighten your load when you travel with our new thinner 72W AC/DC Combo Adapter. Get more access to power for your ThinkPad notebook with this AC/DC adapter. Enjoy the convenience of having one power adapter for the office, home or travel. Maintain your power while traveling in your car, or on the plane (where supported) with the DC connector so your system keeps working as long as you do. And, when you arrive, plug into the AC wall outlet at your destination.
Features and Benefits:
• New slim design is 40 percent thinner than our previous model to take up less room when you travel
• AC/DC power means one adapter for office or travel
• 72W output to work with most ThinkPad systems
This option is not compatible with G and Z Series ThinkPad
IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter
This is a Brand New IBM/Lenovo Boxed Original Product
Lighten your load when you travel with our new thinner 72W AC/DC Combo Adapter. Get more access to power for your ThinkPad notebook with this AC/DC adapter. Enjoy the convenience of having one power adapter for the office, home or travel. Maintain your power while traveling in your car, or on the plane (where supported) with the DC connector so your system keeps working as long as you do. And, when you arrive, plug into the AC wall outlet at your destination.
Features and Benefits:
• New slim design is 40 percent thinner than our previous model to take up less room when you travel
• AC/DC power means one adapter for office or travel
• 72W output to work with most ThinkPad systems
This option is not compatible with G and Z Series ThinkPad
IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter
Yahoo buys RightMedia
As answer to Googles assumption of Doubleclick strengthens now also on-line portal Yahoo in things marketing technology.
On-line portal Yahoo took over the indicator market place RightMedia. So far the enterprise held already 20 per cent of the portions. The “New York Time” numbers the purchase sum on 680 million dollar. With the Deal Yahoo wants to offer competitor Google slogan, to which recently Doubleclick for 3.1 billion dollar in cash bought.
RightMedia operates the indicator market place RMX Direct. Publisher and indicator customers know there indicator places according to an auction principle en and ersteigern. Doubleclick had recently announced to want to develop a similar system.
MySpace increases internationality
On-line contact stock exchange aims with a new Spanish test version at potenzielle new user in Latin America off.
On-line contact stock exchange MySpace expands its offer internationally. The “Financial Time Germany” reports. A recently started test version in Spanish language is to address those approximately 150 million Internet user in Latin America. In Brazil MySpace wants besides a local version of the Website to start, said Peter Levinsohn, Chef of the digital business with the MySpace nut/mother news corporation, the FTD. Also in China MySpace started recently a test version, which is operated under license by a Chinese enterprise.
Universal goods baskets for Shopping market places are considered as future of the E-Commerce
Shop.com had itself patented its solution now.The E-Commerce-market place Shop.com had itself patented its goods basket solution OneCart. The technology makes it for the customers possible to buy with different dealers with a only one virtual Warenkorb. In this way consumers must complete only once the order process, all the same like many dealers them products orders.
Universal goods baskets for on-line market places apply with many Branchenenxperten as future of the E-Commerce. Also large portals already recognized that: Yahoo and Amazon have themselves already portions of the so far still privately led enterprise secured.
eBay customer connection wants to strengthen
On-line auction house wants to worry about its best customers strengthened and to double the expenditures for customer connection in the next years.
Small gifts receive the friendship: In the future eBay Top customers can count and - Powerseller on still more gratitude on the part of on-line auction house. “eBay in the next years more than” eBay Marketingchef Harald Eisenächer opposite the technical periodical OnetoOne and quit special effort around Top customers by particularly aufwändige Mailings or Vorabinfos over new features will double, said its expenditures for the customer connection. A service Hotline particularly for the best customers was already furnished. Also the salesmen are to profit to Eisenächer according to of the action: Power Seller are recompenced in the future with smaller gifts instead of with a Einheitsmail.
Small gifts receive the friendship: In the future eBay Top customers can count and - Powerseller on still more gratitude on the part of on-line auction house. “eBay in the next years more than” eBay Marketingchef Harald Eisenächer opposite the technical periodical OnetoOne and quit special effort around Top customers by particularly aufwändige Mailings or Vorabinfos over new features will double, said its expenditures for the customer connection. A service Hotline particularly for the best customers was already furnished. Also the salesmen are to profit to Eisenächer according to of the action: Power Seller are recompenced in the future with smaller gifts instead of with a Einheitsmail.
A half million mobi Domains counted
Years after their introduction the Internet address for mobile telephones its 500.000ste Domain books one and a half.
On-line contents for user of mobile terminals grow: In October 2006 the Domain Provider introduced dotMobi an Internet address, which was particularly for the announcement by contents aligned on mobile telephones - now the consortium announces the registration of the 500.000sten.mobi Domain. Travel offerers took up the Domain for mobile telephones as first, meanwhile also many enterprises from the ranges messages and maintenance mobile content provided and with the special address provided. To date the.mobi Domains is common in 104 countries.
On-line contents for user of mobile terminals grow: In October 2006 the Domain Provider introduced dotMobi an Internet address, which was particularly for the announcement by contents aligned on mobile telephones - now the consortium announces the registration of the 500.000sten.mobi Domain. Travel offerers took up the Domain for mobile telephones as first, meanwhile also many enterprises from the ranges messages and maintenance mobile content provided and with the special address provided. To date the.mobi Domains is common in 104 countries.
Bertelsmann markets Google Earth competitor
“3D globe” is to become the European answer to Googles geo's application and leave to the user more liberties.
Attack on Google Earth: On behalf of Bertelsmann the software producer bit management developed a European alternative to the prominent geo application. “3D globe” is according to data of Bertelsmann comparable map material to supply with like Google Earth and the user additionally to more liberty with the organization of the operator surface leave. So data bases and search functions can integrate user and be able pictures, clay/tone, video and other information to a region to be indicated. “3D globe” should be able to be used also in the Internet and with a One Click start to serve be particularly simple.
With the introduction on the market of the software Bertelsmann starts also the marketing; Customers for combinations are to be lured with lower prices than with Google Earth.
Attack on Google Earth: On behalf of Bertelsmann the software producer bit management developed a European alternative to the prominent geo application. “3D globe” is according to data of Bertelsmann comparable map material to supply with like Google Earth and the user additionally to more liberty with the organization of the operator surface leave. So data bases and search functions can integrate user and be able pictures, clay/tone, video and other information to a region to be indicated. “3D globe” should be able to be used also in the Internet and with a One Click start to serve be particularly simple.
With the introduction on the market of the software Bertelsmann starts also the marketing; Customers for combinations are to be lured with lower prices than with Google Earth.
Google negotiates with DirecTV
The Suchmaschinen Primus Google is to negotiate with DirecTV about the marketing of advertising places, means current rumors. Meanwhile competitor Yahoo already locked his negotiations with Viacom.
After its marketing co-operation with the satellite network operator Dish expands Google its television commitment: How in the Web log „venture Beat is to be read “, the Suchmaschinenprimus negotiates at present also with DirecTV, the largest satellite network operator of the USA. The discussions could drag on however longer than with Dish, since DirectTV must regulate its owner conditions at present, after Corp end past yearly announced news to want to sell its portions at Liberty. With Google and DirecTV employer speaker refused any statement.
Meanwhile Yahoo with the television station Viacom came into the business. The Internet portal, which in February in the USA its Internet Werbebuchungstool Panama launchte, markets immediately search word announcements on 33 web pages of the transmitter, among them MTV.com and VH1.com.
IBM wants to create 3-D-Internet-Standard
After lab of parts of its developer code for the 3D-Welt Second Life put lime trees openly, the technology company IBM works on a general standard for virtual worlds.
In co-operation with the 3D-Welt “Second Life” wants to make the technology company IBM virtual worlds the mass medium. So that this succeeds, the reverse-feed industry needs in the opinion of IBM however a success model similarly the computer language HTML used at present in the Internet. “Virtual worlds do not have a chance to become a mass medium if there are, said no open standards” Herbert Kircher, development boss of IBM Germany, opposite the “Financial Time Germany”. The vision of the future of IBM is it that Web users surfen instead of linear in the Internet to, virtually business entered can, in order to buy books, refrigerators or entertainment electronics there.
2,5 million.eu Domains
The.eu Domain is European-wide the third-most popular Domain, says the European commission.
Enterprises and private users let one year after the introduction register more than 2.5 million addresses with.eu ending. That communicated the European Union commission. Under the European land identifications are only the.de Domain (10.8 million registrations) and the.uk Domain. At the point stands further the ending .com particularly used in the USA, which counts nearly 65 million Internet addresses.
Enterprises and private users let one year after the introduction register more than 2.5 million addresses with.eu ending. That communicated the European Union commission. Under the European land identifications are only the.de Domain (10.8 million registrations) and the.uk Domain. At the point stands further the ending .com particularly used in the USA, which counts nearly 65 million Internet addresses.
Apple is to introduce Abodienst
If it goes to the will of the disk labels, then is soon conclusion with the 99-Cent-Offerten of the Apple Musikstores Itunes.
Large disk labels such as Sony BMG or universal the Music Goup pressurize the computer company Apple to introduce for its on-line music net curtain Itunes a Abodienst. How the “Financial Time Germany” reports, those of Studios make its demand the component of up-to-date lining up negotiations the prolongations of a contract. A goal of the Plattenbosse is it to set in motion by a Abomodel the conversion and increase their income security.
Still however the music companies stand according to “FTD” in a bad negotiating position, since Itunes control three quarters of the entire on-line music market. Experts assume the disk labels lock only contracts with short running times. “You look for desperately for a iPod killer, thereby it Steve job not obligated are”, quote the trade journal a representative of the music industry.
Large disk labels such as Sony BMG or universal the Music Goup pressurize the computer company Apple to introduce for its on-line music net curtain Itunes a Abodienst. How the “Financial Time Germany” reports, those of Studios make its demand the component of up-to-date lining up negotiations the prolongations of a contract. A goal of the Plattenbosse is it to set in motion by a Abomodel the conversion and increase their income security.
Still however the music companies stand according to “FTD” in a bad negotiating position, since Itunes control three quarters of the entire on-line music market. Experts assume the disk labels lock only contracts with short running times. “You look for desperately for a iPod killer, thereby it Steve job not obligated are”, quote the trade journal a representative of the music industry.
Paypal competitor Gbuy comes to Great Britain
Although Google did not create it in the USA to push with its payment solution Gbuy competitor Paypal from the throne to now the international Rollout follows.
After the introduction on the market of Gbuy in the USA the search machine operator Google wants to introduce its payment solution also into Great Britain. Whether and when the service in remaining Europe is gelauncht, over it the enterprise is silent itself however at present still out.
Gbuy competitor Paypal might see it left, after Google did not succeed also in the USA to weaken the Ebay daughter lastingly. Since Paypal is up-to-date still the more powerful service, also the Kampfpreise of Gbuy might change in it for nothing there: Until dealer can offer free of charge end to 2007 the currency.
Jubii starts in Germany
Today the communication platform Jubii goes to six weeks after the start in the USA to the start also into Europe.
In the USA it already gives several thousand Jubii users, says the boss to the new Lycos daughter. From today on the new Internet platform is to inspire also user in Europe. The platform is to offer communication from a hand: E-Mail, Internet Telefonie and the exchange of photos, files and videos are to be able to complete user completely over the portal.
Gradually all Lycos services with exception of the search machine at Jubii are to be transferred. First Jubii goes into Germany to the start, other European countries is to follow.
Microsoft makes Adobes Flashplayer competition
With the “Silverlight” - Player wants to create Microsoft a new Plugin for video content.
Under the name “Silverlight Player” wants to bring the software company Microsoft an alternative to Adobes Flashplayer on the market. As the “Financial Time Germany” reports, the new Plugin is to be able to be loaded within 15 seconds on the computer. According to information of the sheet Microsoft wants to boom-end the fight for market shares in the market for video content non as for example in case of the Internet Browsers Explorer - across the dominance of Windows to lead. Instead developers are to be convinced by Web videos and other contents to set on the new technology.
With the propietären solution Microsoft wants to probably offer to Google Paroli. Its video portal YouTube avails itself the Flashtechnologie, in order to represent and play video contents.
Recruit in “Office on-line ones”
The software giant Microsoft markets immediately in Germany advertising surfaces in “Office on-line one”.
On-line Microsoft digitally immediately its on-line offer “Office on-line one” markets Advertising Solutions in Germany. According to own statements the service under www.office.microsoft.com counts monthly more than 1.2 million German Unique user on. Target group are main Businesses Professionals, Entscheider, IT-specialists or developers, which look there for information, assistance, product Downloads, on-line training courses as well as document collecting mains for the different Office programs.
Recruit-rubbing have the possibility of switching advertising formats such as Sykscraper (160x600 pixel) and content Ads (300x250 pixel) on the sides from Office on-line one. Per Website maximally an advertising surface is platziert, thus can an accordingly prominent placement be ensured.
Yahoo cooperates with Autoscout24
On-line automarket makes immediately parts available of its Fahrzeugbestands for Yahoo car.
The offer at using vehicles with YahooAutos gets reinforcement: On-line automarket Autoscout24 puts immediately parts of its Fahrzeugbestands to the Yahoo service at the disposal. Co-operation is Yahoo car more content and the dealers, who offer more range on Autoscout24 provide. Autoscout24 co-operates already in similar way among other things with the portals ADAC.de or N24.de.
The offer at using vehicles with YahooAutos gets reinforcement: On-line automarket Autoscout24 puts immediately parts of its Fahrzeugbestands to the Yahoo service at the disposal. Co-operation is Yahoo car more content and the dealers, who offer more range on Autoscout24 provide. Autoscout24 co-operates already in similar way among other things with the portals ADAC.de or N24.de.
