McDonald's to Give Away Breakfast Burritos

McDonalds's will treat Americans to breakfast burritos this week -- and might make money doing so.

The chain that offered "Free Coffee Mondays" to get consumers to taste its brew will give away more than 2 million McSkillet burritos the morning of Feb. 28 and 29 as part of a national sampling event.

A-B, Miller May Face Lawsuits for Alcoholic Energy Drinks

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is threatening to sue Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing Co. in state court unless they cease "unfairly" marketing "adulterated" alcoholic energy drinks.

A similar threat from CSPI in 2006 to sue Kellogg Co. over marketing of food products to kids helped launch a process that led to major food companies either withdrawing from or limiting marketing to children.

Editor gets 'cold feet' on a critique of Murdoch

When Rupert Murdoch took control in December of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, he collected The Far Eastern Economic Review, a small monthly based here.

It was an incidental addition to the vast global stable of Murdoch's News Corp.

Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All

Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0.

The ability to set up an Open Source social network is now available to anyone who can put a Mediawiki install on their servers.

Sprint Nextel Posts $29.5 Billion Loss

Daniel R. Hesse, Sprint Nextel’s new chief executive, tells it like it is — but on Thursday, investors did not like what they heard.

Sprint’s stock slid more than 9 percent after the company announced a $29.45 billion fourth-quarter loss because of a huge write-down related in part to its merger with Nextel Communications. The company also said it was suspending the payment of its dividend and had borrowed $2.5 billion through a revolving credit facility.

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Le Festin- Camille (Ratatouille Soundtrack)

80. Akademi Ödülleri'nde uzun metrajlı animasyon dalında en iyi film ödülünü kazanan Ratatouille, aynı yarışmada en iyi soundtrack dalında da yarışmış ama ödülü kazanamamıştı. Bizim kazananımız Ratatouille Soundtrack'in açılış şarkısını küçük bir fareye inanan herkese dinletmek istiyor ve lafı Büyük Şef Gusto'nun sözüyle tamamlıyoruz: "Herkes Yemek Yapabilir..."

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Microsoft enters virtualization with Windows server

Microsoft Corp released the latest version of its Windows operating system for powerful servers on Wednesday, thrusting itself into the red-hot market for virtualization technology that allows one computer to act like many machines.

fistikyesili says: "Most popular cowboy is Lucky Luke!"

Survey results


Question
My Favourite Cowboy is: John Wayne / Clint Eastwood / Lee Van Cleef / Lucky Luke?

Answers
John Wayne: 16
Clint Eastwood: 25
Lee Van Cleef: 9
Lucky Luke: 37

Total votes: 87
Total time: 25 days

I.B.M. Plans $15 Billion Share Buyback

I.B.M. said on Tuesday that its board had authorized a $15 billion share buyback program that could increase 2008 earnings by up to 5 cents a share, sending its stock up 4.2 percent.

News of the planned repurchase, equivalent to about 10 percent of the market capitalization of I.B.M., pushed the stock market higher. The company’s shares rose $4.30, to $114.38.

The schizophrenia of link building

Link buying is an effective marketing strategy but has an evil twin in Googlebombing. Here's a look at the issues.

Over the past six months, much has been made over the good and bad of link buying. Angry blog posts, posturing from Google, and near fights at search conferences made this one of the biggest issues in 2007. It's an epic struggle of good versus evil in which the credibility of the internet hangs in the balance -- or at least that's how it seems.

Pakistan lifts the ban on YouTube

Pakistan's telecoms regulator has lifted the restrictions it imposed on video-sharing website YouTube.

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has told internet service providers (ISPs) to restore access to the site, according to a spokeswoman.



Youtube history:

24 Feb 08 - Pakistan blocks YouTube website

Thai ban on YouTube website ends - 31 Aug 07

YouTube site 'blocked' in Morocco - 29 May 07

Turkish court bans YouTube access - 07 Mar 07

Hacker breaks iTunes restrictions

An infamous Norwegian hacker has found a way to crack the digital rights management code that prevents songs bought from the iTunes music store being transferred onto devices other than Apple's iPod.

It means that iTunes users will be able to copy their purchased songs onto many mobile phones and handheld devices, as well as onto iPod music players.

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Study to Track 24-Hour Media Usage

What better way to track people's video consumption than to have someone follow them around all day -- literally from the time they wake up until they retire at night -- making detailed notes about when and how they watch, listen, surf, read, play video games, download, text and talk on the phone?

Sony and Sharp to set up large LCD joint venture

Sony Corp and Sharp Corp, the world's second- and third-largest liquid crystal display TV makers, said they would set up a joint venture to make and sell large LCD panels.

Sharp plans to turn its new 380 billion yen ($3.52 billion) LCD plant, which is being built in western Japan, into a joint venture with Sony.

F.C.C. Weighing Limits on Slowing Web Traffic

The head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials said on Monday that they were considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from delaying the downloads and uploads of heavy Internet users.

The agency is considering rules and enforcement decisions to force the cable and telephone companies to disclose their policies more clearly for delaying traffic that they say is clogging their systems.

Word of mouth: empower or cower

Since you can't stop online chatter about your brand, provide consumers with a controlled platform to spread the word. It will benefit you both.

This year, a third of marketers at large companies expect marketing budgets to increase by up to 5 percent, while over half (53 percent) of marketers believe their greatest challenge is to measure marketing ROI, according to the recent CMO Council survey in January.

A notable 41 percent switched agencies, 38 percent found different web design firms, and 26 percent went to new PR agencies, citing "lack of innovation" and "no value-added thinking" as the most common reasons for change. Isn't it a question of not seeing measurable results?

Lippert Critiques MasterCard's Latest

New campaign by McCann is still priceless

How appropriate that this new MasterCard campaign is breaking on the Oscars telecast, since it brings new meaning to the phrase, "The envelope, please."

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the iconic and much copied "Priceless" campaign, this "search" version is a treasure trove of beautifully written and art directed clues in every medium, all leading to the three winning envelopes (out of 14 million sealed pieces attached to print ads in 10 magazines) that offer three life-changing prizes.

DDB Chicago ECD Tilley Dead at 40

Paul Tilley, the 40-year-old creative chief of Omnicom Group's DDB in Chicago, died Friday, an apparent suicide. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, an ambulance was called to that city's Fairmont Hotel around 6:25 pm Friday following reports that someone had fallen from the building.

80. Oscar Ödülleri sahiplerini buldu

Bu yıl 80. kez düzenlenen Oscar ödülleri Los Angeles Kodak Tiyatrosu'nda sahiplerine dağıtıldı. Ünlü komedyen John Stewart'ın sunduğu Oscar ödüllerine Avrupalı oyuncular ve 4 dalda oscar alan "No Country For Old Man" filmi damgasını vurdu.



En İyi Erkek Oyuncu: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood /Kan Dökülecek)

En İyi Yardımcı Erkek Oyuncu: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men /İhtiyarlara Yer Yok)

En İyi Kadın Oyuncu: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose /Kaldırım Serçesi)



En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton/ Avukat)

En İyi Film: No Country for Old Men (İhtiyarlara Yer Yok)

En İyi Yönetmen: Joel ve Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men/ İhtiyarlara Yer Yok)

En İyi Özgün Senaryo: Diablo Cody (Juno)

En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo: Joel ve Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men/ İhtiyarlara Yer Yok)

Yabancı Dilde En İyi Film: The Counterfeiters (Kalpazanlar/ Avusturya)

EA proposes acquisition of Take-Two for $2 billion

Not one to miss out on a gaming industry trend as hot as corporate synergy, Electronic Arts recently proposed an acquisition of Take-Two Interactive Software for $26 a share (nearly a 63 percent premium to their current stock value) -- for a grand total of approximately $2 billion.

Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web

On sabbatical in 2001 from Macromedia, Kevin Lynch, a software developer, was frustrated that he could not get to his Web data when he was off the Internet and annoyed that he could not get to his PC data when he was traveling.

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Utilities go green

With energy costs climbing and more states mandating energy-efficiency standards, utility companies have had to take on the difficult marketing task of convincing their customers to change their energy habits.

The challenge for those creating campaigns is that these habits are often hard to break.

Media Motion: for the record

Draftfcb announced that it has hired Mary Crosse to lead the agency's new business initiatives.

Imageworks Interactive SVP Emmanuelle Borde announced that Robert Speiser has been hired as VP of marketing and JD Black has been promoted to VP of client services.

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A Google Competition, With a Robotic Moon Landing as a Goal

More than three decades after the last Apollo astronauts roamed the lunar surface, disparate universities, open-source engineers and quixotic aerospace start-ups are planning to start their own robotic missions to the Earth’s barren cousin.

MySpace seeks joint ventures for iTunes rival

MySpace, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire, is trying to tie up deals with a number of record labels to produce its own digital music service to compete with Apple's iTunes.

MySpace, which News Corp bought for $580m (£330m) in July 2005, is rumoured to have approached all four major music labels - Vivendi's Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI and Sony BMG about becoming involved in the service. But cutting a deal with Universal would be conditional on the music company and MySpace settling a copyright dispute.

Burnham targets illegal downloading

The government is to consult on legislation to punish internet service providers if they fail to take action against the illegal downloading of music, films and TV programmes.

The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, made the proposal to crack down on illegal downloading today as part of a wide-ranging strategy paper designed to support the UK's creative industries.

2007'nin en kötü oyunları

www.pcworld.ca sitesi 2007 yılının en kötü 10 oyununu açıkladı. Listede yer alan oyunların çoğunun film oyunları olduğu dikkatimizden kaçmıyor ve tekrar diyoruz ki aceleye getirilmiş, para amaçlı film oyunları asla başarılı olamayacak. Liste şöyle;

10. Spider-Man 3 (PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)

09. Beowulf (Xbox 360, PS3)

08. Tenchu Z (Xbox 360)

07. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Wii, Xbox 360, PS3)

06. Lair (PS3)

05. Transformers: The Game (PSP)

04. Hour of Victory (Xbox 360)

03. Vampire Rain (Xbox 360)

02. Star Trek: Conquest (Wii, PS2)

01. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (DS)

BBC programmes now available on iTunes

Millions of iPod owners will be able to watch BBC programmes on the go following a ground-breaking deal between the corporation's commercial arm and Apple.

From Wednesday, viewers will be able to download episodes of Torchwood, Life on Mars, Little Britain, Spooks and other BBC favourites from the iTunes website for just £1.89 each.

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Sellers negative on eBay feedback change

Sweeping changes to eBay announced by the auction site's soon-to-be chief executive were met this week with an attempt by some sellers to organise a "listings strike". Why?

Because in front of more than 200 top so-called Power Sellers at eBay's annual eCommerce Forum in Washington, DC, John Donahoe said that eBay was at a crossroads: "We need to redo our playbook, and we need to do it fast."

U.S. Security Concerns Block China’s 3Com Deal

Does the “America for Sale” sign require a warning label?

That would seem to be the case in light of the apparent collapse on Wednesday of a Chinese company’s effort to purchase a stake in 3Com, an American maker of Internet router and networking equipment, in the face of Bush administration questions about the deal’s national security risks.

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Crispin's Taylor Moves to GSD&M

Creative director Mark Taylor is moving from MDC Partners' Crispin Porter + Bogusky to Omnicom Group's GSD&M Idea City as executive creative director. Taylor said he expects to start at the end of March.

"It is a natural fit," said Taylor. "Idea City wants to get into approaching a business problem in a way that might be different than just advertising. That's the direction we're going in."

TV Ads Are Less Effective, Survey Says

A majority of marketers believe that television advertising has become less effective in the past two years, according to a new survey from the National Association of Advertisers and Forrester Research.

Over 50 percent of marketers reported that when half of all television households use DVRs, they would cut spending on TV advertising by 12 percent. Current DVR penetration is estimated to be nearly 25 percent.

Assassin's Creed soundtrack'e ödül

Bu yıl ikincisi düzenlenen Elan Awards ödüllerinde Assassin's Creed ile Jesper Kyd, "Best Original Musical Score in a Video Game" ödülünü kazandı.

Kyd, daha önce de benzer yarışmalarda ödüller kazanmıştı. Oyun müziklerini seven bir blog olarak Kyd'i kutlar ama Jeremy Soule ve Michael Hoenig'in yerleri ayrıdır demek isteriz.

Fallout 3 eşzamanlı hazırlanıyor

Efsane oyun Fallout'un uzun aradan sonra 2008'de tamamlanması beklenen üçüncü oyunu PC, PS3 ve Xbox 360 için eş zamanlı olarak hazırlanıyor.

Bethesda tarafından hazırlanan oyunun, Oblivion'da kullanılan ödüllü grafik motoru ile geliştirildiği de gelen haberler arasında.

Oyunun trailerını hala izlemediyseniz başlığı tıklamanızı tavsiye ederim.

Burnett Picks Up Clearblue Easy Global Creative Account

The global Clearblue Easy creative account has moved to Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett, Milan, Italy, as the joint venture behind the brand, which is 50% owned by Procter & Gamble Co., prepares to step up the pace in an already fast-growing home-diagnostics market.

Why Microsoft Thinks Big Is Better

Some have questioned whether Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo! would have a positive impact on the advertising industry? The concern is the deal is only about the big getting bigger.

Yet according to Yusuf Mehdi, svp of strategic partnerships at Microsoft, scale is key to the deal. In an interview late Wednesday afternoon, he laid out the case for why the ad industry needs a bigger Microsoft.

Listening to internet chatter

Thousands of people chat online every day - but what does it actually sound like?

A new electronic art installation at the Science Museum in London endeavours to show just that.

Listening Post allows its audience to eavesdrop on the online world. Sampling text from thousands of chatrooms, message boards and forums, the artists have created a huge display that attempts to "hear the internet".

Paramount signs Xbox film download rental deal

The hit film Transformers will be available to rent via the games console Xbox 360 this week as Paramount became the second Hollywood film studio to sign a distribution deal.

At least 20 Paramount films, including Primal Fear and Naked Gun 33 & 1/3, were added to the Xbox Live Marketplace Video Store and will be available from tomorrow (Tuesday), for between £2 to £3.20 per title for a two-week rental.

Xbox, Microsoft's gaming brand, launched its download-to-rent service in December, rolling out more than 40 titles through a deal with Warner Bros.

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2 email strategies most marketers forget

Welcome and transactional emails both provide great opportunities for engaging with potential customers but are greatly underutilized.

Often when I'm working with clients, they just want to focus on their marketing messages or newsletters and whether or not they are getting good delivery or open rates. The problem is that no matter how great your newsletter might be, you could be missing out on another great opportunity to interact with your customers.

Terminatör 4 kadrosu şekilleniyor

Terminator serisinin son filminde Marcus isimli karakteri Sam Worthington’ın oynayacağı açıklandı.

Avustralyalı oyuncu James Cameron’un yönettiği Avatar filminde de rol alıyor. Cameron’un Worthington’u Terminator 4’ün yönetmeni McG’ye önerdiği ve yeni filmde ona bir şans vermesi gerektiğini söylediği McG’de bu öneriyi dikkat alarak Worthington’a bu yeni filmde önemli bir rol verdi açıklandı.

John Connor’ı Christian Bale’in oynayacağı Terminatör 4'ün 2009 yazında gösterime girmesi bekleniyor.

Guitar Hero Aerosmith geliyor

Activison'un başarılı oyunu Guitar Hero'nun yeni oyunu Guitar Hero: Aerosmith duyuruldu. Dünya çapında 150 milyonun üzerinde albüm satan Aerosmith'i konu alan oyun, PS3 ve XBox 360 için Neversoft Entertainment, PS2 için Budcat, Wii için de Vicarious Visions tarafından hazırlanacak.

Game creators look to the future

The developers of some of the world's most popular video games are in San Francisco this week to discuss the future of the industry.

They will look back on one of their most successful years and discuss tackling the challenges ahead.



Jamil Moledina, director of the Game Developers' Conference said: "We had an incredible banner year in 2007 with games like Bioshock, Halo 3 and Uncharted.

J&J launches campaign to touch moms online

Johnson & Johnson Co. has launched a campaign for its baby lotion targeting modern, Web-savvy moms.

The online animated video campaign is a part of a multichannel effort with a call to action that focuses on the power of a mother's touch to build a bond with her child. The campaign is working to acquire new moms and to build rela­tionships with existing customers who grew up on the brand.

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Marley documentary next gig on Scorsese tour

Fresh from the world premiere of his Rolling Stones concert film "Shine a Light" at the Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday, Martin Scorsese is preparing to tackle another musical project.

The Oscar-winning director has signed on to shoot a documentary about influential reggae musician-songwriter Bob Marley. The feature doesn't have a title yet, but it does have a release date: February 6, 2010, the 65th anniversary of Marley's birth.

Altın Ayı Brezilya'nın oldu

58. Berlin Film Festivali Berlinale'de bu yıl Altın Ayı ödülünü Brezilyalı yapımcı ve yönetmen Jose Padilha'nın "Trope de Elite" (Seçme Birlik) filmi aldı. Filmin konusunu Rio de Janerio'dan beslenen ülke çapındaki büyük uyuşturucu mafyasına karşı mücadele veren özel bir askeri-polis timinin başından geçen olaylardan oluşturuyor.

En iyi yönetmen dalında "There Will Be Blood" (Kan Dökülecek) filmiyle Amerikalı yönetmen Paul Thomas Anderson Gümüş Ayı'ya layık görüldü.

En iyi kadın oyuncu dalında İngiliz oyuncu Sally Hawkins "Happy-Go-Lucky" filmiyle, en iyi erkek oyuncu dalında İranlı oyuncu Rıza Naci Macid Macidi'nin yönettiği "The Song of Sparrows" (Serçelerin Şarkısı" filminde canlandırdığı işsiz baba rolüyle Gümüş Ayı'yı almaya hak kazandı.

En iyi senaryo ödülünü ise, kanser olan çocuğu için mücadele eden bir annenin öyküsünün anlatıldığı "In Love We Trust" (Aşka Güveiyoruz) filmiyle senarist-yönetmen Wang Xsiaoshuai aldı.

Joe Vitale Announces Ultimate Mentoring Program

Joe Vitale has announced 'Ultimate Mentoring Program'.

Joe Vitale says, "We offer the best of both of our Miracles Coaching Program and Executive Mentoring Program in one hybrid coaching program. This hybrid Coaching program begins with you identifying all of the unconscious ways you have your foot on the break.

How To Make 6-Figure Income In Niche Marketing

Download this 26-page report to find out how to make 6-figure income from Niche Marketing. It’s free with no strings attached.

I would WANT to write some interesting description to convince you to read the “How To Make 6-Figure Income In Niche Marketing” Report but I truly couldn’t find the time.

Indian Company to Sell $20 Cell Phone

India has already built the world's cheapest car — the $2,500 Tata Nano — and now the country has unveiled the telecommunications equivalent: the $20 "people's phone."

The mobile handset, developed by Spice, the Indian telecoms group that is listed in Bombay and worth $2 billion, is angled at the very lowest end of the market. This means the phone has jettisoned all "non-essential" features — such as a screen.

AOL clicks with Yahoo! to sideline Microsoft

AOL, the American internet company, is attempting to piece together a deal with Yahoo! designed to help the Silicon Valley-based search engine evade the clutches of Microsoft, the world's biggest software group.

Smugglers Return iPhones to China

Factories here churn out iPhones that are exported to the United States and Europe. Then thousands of them are smuggled right back into China.

The strange journey of Apple’s popular iPhone, to nearly every corner of the world, shows what happens when the world’s hottest consumer product defies a company’s attempt to slowly introduce it in new markets.

Flash drives offer new choices for music fans

When the Mars Volta put out its latest album, "The Bedlam in Goliath," in January, the act gave its hardcore fans an option that is becoming increasingly popular -- and creative.

Instead of a CD or digital version of the Universal album, fans could buy a $30 USB drive designed like a Ouija board planchette. The device comes with a digital-rights-management-free version of the album and the promise of more bonus materials in coming months.

Media Work Force Sinks to 15-Year Low

U.S. media employment in December fell to a 15-year low (886,900), slammed by the slumping newspaper industry.


But employment in advertising/marketing-services - agencies and other firms that provide marketing and communications services to marketers - broke a record in November (769,000). Marketing consulting powered that growth.

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Mobile Folks Not on Same Page

Two panels at the Mobile World Congress made it clear Thursday that tensions between the media and telco worlds have not diminished as the two continue to try to work out business models that will finally give legs to mobile video.

"Content owners are still peeved about things like revenue share," said Neeraj Roy, CEO of Hungama Mobile, a distributor of mobile content like Bollywood films in the massive Indian market. "I do not believe we are all sitting around a round table at this point. We are still at opposite ends of the table."

Silicon Valley Starts to Turn Its Face to the Sun

CAN Silicon Valley become a world leader in cheap and ubiquitous solar panels for the masses?



Solar EnergyGiven the valley’s tremendous success in recent years with such down-to-earth products as search engines and music players, tackling solar power might seem improbable. Yet some of the valley’s best brains are captivated by the challenge, and they hope to put the development of solar technologies onto a faster track.

Report: Toshiba May Withdraw HD DVD Video Format

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba might withdraw its HD DVD next-generation video format, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday.

The report cited unidentified individuals from the industry as saying Toshiba Corp. is reviewing its operations, with the timing of the withdrawal to be decided later, depending on U.S. demand for its HD DVD products and other factors.

Calls went unanswered at Toshiba Corp.'s Tokyo office, which was closed for the weekend.

Polaroid fans ponder a filmless future

When Jerry Conlogue heard Polaroid will soon stop producing its instant film, he worried about his mummies. Joe Howansky shows off the Polaroid film he has stockpiled in his home in New York.

1 of 2 Conlogue uses Polaroid film when he travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to take X-ray photographs of ancient mummies, so he doesn't have to lug cumbersome developing chemicals. Now he and other enthusiasts who use the film for art or specialized industrial photography are left wondering where they'll go to stay stocked.

Nielsen: 13 Mil. Unprepared for DTV

More than 13 million households are unprepared for the TV industry's transition to digital broadcasting a year from now on Feb. 17, 2009.

According to Nielsen data released Friday, 13 million households have TV sets that can only receive analog broadcasts. Another 6 million households have at least one TV set that will no longer work after the big switch.

Murdoch's Yahoo move gives Microsoft pause

Microsoft was deciding last night whether to raise its offer for Yahoo or walk away and use its cash to buy a number of web 2.0 companies after learning of Rupert Murdoch's interest in the online search and content company.

There was intense speculation on Wall Street yesterday that Microsoft could start any shopping spree with an approach to Facebook, the social networking site in which Microsoft bought a tiny stake for $240m (£120m) in October. That deal placed a valuation of $15bn on a site that Mark Zuckerberg created in his room at Harvard four years ago.

e-Dönüşüm Danışma Kurulu ilk toplantısını düzenledi

e-Dönüşüm danışma kurulu 12 Şubat tarihinde ilk toplantısını yaptı.

Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı Müsteşar Yardımcısı Halil İbrahim Akça'nın başkanlığında düzenlenen toplantıda, Serhat Özeren başkan seçildi. Kurul, Türkiye'nin bilgi toplumuna dönüşüm çalışmalarında ve stratejinin uygulanması sürecinde çalışmalarını yürütecek. Bir sonraki toplantının, 20 Mart tarihinde düzenlenmesi kararlaştırıldı.

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Judge Lets Lawsuit v. UM Proceed

U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein today denied Universal McCann's motion for summary dismissal of an age discrimination lawsuit brought against the Interpublic Group agency by George Hayes, former evp, client services.

Hayes was let go by UM in early 2006 and filed suit here in May of that year.

Burnett Gets Ready to Turn Out the Lights

Talk about logistical nightmares. Just getting print, online and multimedia aspects of a campaign in order can be a real headache. Try getting everyone in Chicago to turn out the lights for an hour.

An evening with the YouTube killers

Marketers may be ready for video ads, but are users ready to embrace the platform with open arms? We got the scoop from the people who matter most -- users.

Internet video is exploding.

Internet video is here.

Internet video is around the corner. Internet video is a flop.

These are just a few of the wild claims that have been swirling around internet video for the past few months.

Buttressed by a protracted writers' strike (now over), proponents of the medium have taken the opportunity to declare victory, calling web video a bona fide rival to TV. But detractors have been quick to point out that internet video -- though popular -- has yet to deliver the audiences advertisers crave.

So, who's right?

Alternative Consumption Prompts Alternative Marketing

Spending on branded entertainment marketing has doubled in the past five years, reaching an all-time high of $22.3 billion in 2007, according to the PQ Media report, "Branded Entertainment Marketing Forecast: 2008-2012."

Branded entertainment marketing is defined by PQ Media as comprising event sponsorship, product placement, advergaming and webisodes.

MacBook Air revisited

Apple's new laptop, the MacBook Air, may not be the true ultraportable that many had hoped for, but it still easily breaks new ground for small laptops.

Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it's only 0.76 inch thick at its thickest, and Apple calls it the "world's thinnest notebook."

Street Fighter IV focuses on strategy, nostalgia

Lining up for an hour and a half is a long wait to pick a fight. But for those in the arcade and gaming industry, the global unveiling of Street Fighter IV, the first new version of the classic fighting game in nearly eight years, was a chance not only to throw a few fireballs down memory lane but also to try out some new moves.

Yahoo! CEO Says: Nix Microsoft

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is urging his company's shareholders to reject any overtures from Microsoft, just as reports emerge that the embattled portal is seeking an alliance with News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media.

In a letter issued to stockholders on Feb. 13, Yang trumpeted what he sees as Yahoo!'s many strengths -- including its huge user base, powerful global brand and online advertising prowess -- which in his view amount to compelling reasons why the company should not accept Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to purchase the company outright. He again declared that the Microsoft offer "undervalued" Yahoo!.

UK Internet: Users and Usage

2007 was another boom year for the Internet in the United Kingdom. Almost 37 million people went online in an average month—that’s over 60% of the population. This year looks like more of the same, so that by 2012 the Internet will reach roughly 70% of all UK residents.

EBay fee hike sparks seller rebellion

If eBay's fee changes were meant to shore up market share at a time when sellers are increasingly migrating to competitors such as Amazon, initial response suggests it may do the opposite: eBay's veteran sellers are furious, with some forecasting ruin for their businesses.

Kirshenbaum Adds Avon

MDC's Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners has been awarded Avon's global fragrances account following a review, the client confirmed. Account billings exceed $60 million, per sources.

Kirshenbaum will be responsible for creative and strategy with executions in TV, print and out-of-home venues on tap. The first work, which is currently being shot, is scheduled to debut in August.

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Valentine's high tech love

After you've racked your brain over the traditional Valentine's gifts and come up dry, some experts say gadgets are increasingly more appreciated.

Microsoft seeing Xbox shortages in U.S.

Microsoft Corp is seeing shortages of its Xbox 360 video game console in the United States, as the company failed to anticipate strong post-holiday demand, an executive said on Wednesday.

Microfiber fabric makes its own electricity?

U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.

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Know What Youre Thinkin - Roy Davis Jr.

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Moving Outlook: Mail to a Mac

Q. I am thinking of buying a MacBook to replace my Windows laptop. Is there a way to move the Microsoft Outlook file (e-mails, contacts and calendars) between a PC and a Mac?

A. Picking up your life in Outlook and moving it over to a Mac is certainly possible, and you can do it in a number of ways. One easy option is to use an inexpensive program like Outlook2Mac ($10 at www.littlemachines.com) to do the heavy lifting between Outlook and mail programs on the Mac.

A Little Piece of Microsoft Aids Small Business

Has it come to this? Is Microsoft’s innovation engine so dead that the only way it can grow is to buy other companies?

It’s sad, in a way, because under the right circumstances, Microsoft, or pieces of it anyway, are still capable of fresh ideas and polished work.

Amazon Fights New York Online Sales-Tax Plan

Amazon.com is fighting Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to require out-of-state online companies to collect New York state sales tax on goods they send to addresses in New York — the most recent cash-strapped state to propose the tax.


Spitzer estimates in his budget that the state would gain $47 million by requiring Internet giants such as Amazon.com to collect state sales tax.

Exposed: Digital camera blonde who became Facebook phenomenon is an X-rated model

The digital camera blonde who attracted thousands of admirers on Facebook has been exposed - she is nothing more than a advert for a adult site.

Images of the mystery blonde were posted on the internet - supposedly in a bid to trace the owner of a camera lost on holiday.

Yahoo Acquires Ad Technology Company

Even as Yahoo tries to stay out of Microsoft’s grip, the company is busy closing acquisitions of its own.

Yahoo said Tuesday that it had paid $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, an Internet company that sells a system for managing advertisements in online videos.

Quitting Facebook Gets Easier

Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, Facebook.com said on Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social networking site.

Nokia's future is green

Nokia has developed a "green" phone using recycled steel and bio-materials.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the Finnish firm's chief executive, pulled the clamshell handset out of his pocket during his speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona yesterday, pictured above.

Spielberg walks out on Beijing games in protest over Darfur

Steven Spielberg has resigned as artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, in protest at China's failure to distance itself from genocide and human rights abuses in Darfur.

Local search service goes live on AIM network

Poynt, an instant messenger-based local search service developed by Multiplied Media, has gone live on the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) network. The search service is already available on Windows Live Messenger.

Google Android phones make debut

The first mobile phones to be loaded with Google's Android software for mobile phones have gone on show.

About a dozen companies such as ARM, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm showed off prototype handsets at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelo.

Top 10 online video mistakes

Nearly all direct marketing email campaigns can benefit from bringing in oft-overlooked user experience principles. See how it can be done.

Each time you send someone an email, you create a little user experience for them.

Top 10 online video mistakes

Experimenting with an in-house project

Did you know that a visitor to your website gets a first impression within two-tenths of a second?

PR 'Had a Good Run,' but Agencies Expect Growth to Slow

Even with more interest than ever from marketers, the PR business won't be recession-proof.

Most agencies surveyed recently by the Council of Public Relations Firms are predicting slower growth than in the past few years, a period that in some ways has been a boom time for a marketing function that hasn't always gotten a lot of respect.

Just Imagine How Trump Would Have Looked in Wendy's Red Wig

You know that Super Bowl commercial with the cavemen?

They were having trouble transporting a case of beer to a party, so they invented a wheel, carved out of a boulder.

Click here to read full article of Bob Garfield's post

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2008 Grammy Ödülleri sahiplerini buldu

Bu yıl 50. si düzenlenen Grammy Müzik ödülleri Los Angeles'ta düzenlenen törenle sahiplerine dağıtıldı. Gecenin en dikkat çekici ismi 5 dalda ödül kazanan İngiliz şarkıcı Amy Winehouse idi. Tina Turner ve Beyonce'nin yaptıkları düet de geceye damgasını vurdu.

Yılın Albümü: "River: The Joni Letters" - Herbie Hancock

Yılın Plağı: "Rehab" - Black to Black albümü - Amy Winehouse

Yılın Şarkısı: "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse

Yılın En İyi Kadın Pop Şarkıcısı: Amy Winehouse

Yılın En İyi Erkek Pop Şarkıcısı: Justin Timberlake

Yılın En İyi Yeni Sanatçısı: Amy Winehouse

Yılın En İyi Pop Albümü: "Back to Black" - Amy Winehouse

Yılın En İyi Rock Albümü: "Icky Thump" - White Stripes

Yılın En İyi Rock Şarkısı: "Radio Nowhere" - Bruce Springsteen

Yılın En İyi Elektronik/Dans Albümü: "We Are The Night" - Chemical
Brothers

Yılın En İyi Kadın R&B Şarkıcısı: Alicia Keys

Yılın En İyi Erkek R&B Şarkıcısı: Prince

Yılın En İyi R&B Albümü: "Funk This" - Chaka Khan

Yılın En İyi Rap Albümü ve Rap Şarkıcısı: "Graduation" - Kanye West

Yılın En İyi Caz Albümü: "River: The Joni Letters" - Herbie Hancock

Yılın En İyi Hard-Rock Albümü: "The Pretender" - Foo Fighters

Experts: Space Tourism Faces Challenges From Insurance Companies

The personal spaceflight business — also known as space tourism — will face high hurdles from the insurance business in its early years, according to several industry experts.

Policy costs will be extremely high until companies fly without incident at least three times. And a string of early failures may well doom startups to business failure, one of three insurance experts on a panel about the subject said during a panel discussion at the Federal Aviation Administration's annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference.

Kia's Top Marketer Beavis Leaves

Kia vp of marketing Ian Beavis has left the company, along with CEO Len Hunt.

The move comes several days after Byung Mo Ahn was named to the newly created position of chairman and group CEO of Kia Motors America. The client spends more than $200 million annually in measured media.

Microsoft and Cbeyond partner for new e-mail service

Microsoft has teamed up with e-mail services firm Cbeyond for a new e-mail service that targets small and midsize businesses.

The new e-mail service will come as part of Microsoft's communications package that already includes hardware and air time for mobile phone service, local and long-distance phone service, and T-1 broadband Internet access.

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Samsung hopes to have Google phone early 2009

Korea's Samsung Electronics hopes to have a phone based on Google's Android mobile phone software platform by early next year, it said at the Mobile World Congress on Monday.

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Lobster chair by Lund & Paarmann

Yahoo seeks to restart merger talks with AOL: paper

Yahoo is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL as a means of defending itself against an unsolicited bid approach from Microsoft, the Times newspaper said on Monday.

JWT's Salzman Heads to Porter Novelli

Marian Salzman, worldwide chief marketing officer at WPP Group's JWT, is leaving to become a partner at Omnicom Group public relations agency Porter Novelli, sources said today.

Salzman worked as a consultant at JWT before joining in May 2005 as director of strategic content. In February 2006 she rose to CMO, adding responsibility for managing multi-national and global pitches.

PR 'Had a Good Run,' but Agencies Expect Growth to Slow

Most Shops Predict Revenue Will Increase About 10%

Even with more interest than ever from marketers, the PR business won't be recession-proof.

Most agencies surveyed recently by the Council of Public Relations Firms are predicting slower growth than in the past few years, a period that in some ways has been a boom time for a marketing function that hasn't always gotten a lot of respect.

LG, Samsung bet on new mobile Linux platform

Samsung and LG Electronics on Monday showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors would use its software.

Microsoft, police fight global battle against counterfeiters

Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago.

Real Microsoft software has been imitated by counterfeiters for years. Soon, PCs in more than a dozen countries were running illegal copies of Windows and Office, turning unwitting consumers into criminals and, Microsoft says, exposing them to increased risk of malicious viruses and spyware.

People Still Read Books

Contrary to Steve Jobs' assertion at the Macworld Expo that "people don’t read anymore," books are as popular as ever, particularly on the Internet.

In fact, books are the most purchased item online, according to a Nielsen Online survey of 26,312 people in 48 countries.

The survey found that 41% of Internet users had bought a book online.

Nokia hit by German subsidy row

Nokia has said it is "astonished" that a German state is seeking the repayment of 41m euros ($60m; £31m) of subsidies given to a factory now due to close.

North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) wants the Finnish mobile phone maker to give back the money after Nokia announced it was relocating the facility to Romania.

LendingTree Taps Euro RSCG for Creative Chores

LendingTree has named Havas' Euro RSCG as its lead creative agency, though incumbent Mullen, a unit of Interpublic Group, remains on the roster for media chores through its MediaHub unit, the client has confirmed.

Dating Site Seeks Same Audience as Grandparents.com

Think about online dating, and what likely comes to mind are 20-somethings trolling web pages in the hopes of finding a love connection.

But increasingly, those trollers are more like 50-somethings, single baby boomers looking for dates.

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Search Terms and Buy Terms In Keyword Research

David Cooper's latest 'Affiliate Avalanche' update article: "Search Terms and Buy Terms In Keyword Research"

The most successful affiliate marketers are often the ones with the best keyword research skills.

Would you vote for a computer?

Does it really make sense to judge a political candidate by which operating system they prefer?

Mac or PC, which do the Republican candidates prefer?

The 1996 version of "I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC."

Charge your phone as you walk

A knee brace which can generate electricity as you walk, creating enough power to charge mobile phones and medical devices, has been developed by scientists.

'I'm not scared to die'

On stage at the BFI Southbank, artist-turned-director Julian Schnabel talks about his experiences making The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the agony of quitting smoking and the joy of being heckled by a drunken Sean Young.

Guardian interview at BFI Southbank

The 4400 iptal edildi

USA Network'un yaratıcısı Scott Peters, büyük ilgiyle izlenen The 4400 dizisinin iptal edildiğini açıkladı.

Resmi forum sayfalarında duyuruyu yapan Scott Peters, "Tüm 4400 sevenlerine bu acı haberi vermek zorundayım. Dizi ne yazık ki iptal edildi. Forumda vakit geçiren sizlere ve diğer 4400 fanlarına teşekkür ederiz" dedi.

Dizinin başrol oyunculardan Jacqueline McKenzie de Myspace'deki sayfasında kendilerine destek olan herkese teşekkür ettiğini, bundan sonraki yapımlarda tekrar izleyicileriyle buluşacaklarını yazdı. Dördüncü sezonu yayınlanan dizinin son bölümü geçtiğimiz eylül ayında NBC kanalında yayınlandı. Türkiye'de de CNBC-E kanalında yayınlanan dizi, biz fistikyesili de dahil olmak üzere büyük bir izleyici kitlesi tarafından takip ediliyordu.

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Death Cab for Cutie Update

Each year there’s a definite blog band winner. You know, the band all the blogs and magazines certify as the the leading album/band of the year.

2007 could easily belong to The New Pornographers or Spoon, a year before it was all about Midlake and Band of Horses, and way back in 2005 Death Cab for Cutie’s Plans album rocked everyone’s world.

Going mobile in Barcelona

I'm off to to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday.


Our very compact two-man team (me plus camera/lights/sound/editing specialist Peter Page) is hoping to bring BBC viewers, listener and readers coverage of the most interesting products and stories from this annual shindig of the mobile industry.

Facebook translated into Spanish

Facebook has introduced a Spanish version of its popular social networking website as part of efforts to attract new audiences.

It said this was the first of several languages besides English that the site plans to offer, with French and German versions expected soon.

Password pain looks set to ease

Using your favourite websites and services could soon mean memorising far fewer passwords.

Tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have joined the board of the Open ID Foundation which aims to streamline login systems across the web.

Online gambler seeks UK licence

Bodog, one of the world's largest and most controversial online gambling groups, has applied for an operating licence for the UK despite allegations that its substantial activities in the US are criminal.

In an interview with the Guardian, Bodog's founder and boss, Calvin Ayre, rejected such allegations, saying: "We have licences from sovereign governments to do what we do - that's how it works on every other industry on the planet." Ayre admitted Bodog took bets from US customers but claimed the company did not "operate" there.

Microsoft Shatters $900 Million Global Software Piracy Ring

Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago.

Soon, PCs in more than a dozen countries were running illegal copies of Windows and Office, turning unwitting consumers into criminals and, Microsoft says, exposing them to increased risk of malicious viruses and spyware.

The case began to turn in 2001 when U.S. Customs officers seized a shipping container in Los Angeles filled with $100 million in fake software, including 31,000 copies of the Windows operating system.

Weekly Jobless Claims Drop 22,000 to 356,000

The number of newly laid off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week, but not enough to indicate that strains on the labor market are easing.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that 356,000 claims for jobless benefits were filed last week, a decline of 22,000 from the previous week. The decline only erased a part of the huge jump of 72,000 in claims of the previous week.

U2 in 3D

Serves me right for being on stage with U2. Not literally, but that's what it felt like, when I went to see the band's new film U2 3D at the Imax cinema in London.

Nintendo Looks to Build on Its Anti-Couch-Potato Game Play

Sports video gaming used to mean sitting around on couches frantically punching buttons on a controller -- with the only other minimal exertion being smack talk.

Then came the Nintendo Wii. Suddenly, sports video gaming meant getting up off the couch to virtually play by actually jumping, running, swinging and pitching.

Vaio’nun yeni yüzü: Malkovich

Bu ayki MediaCat dergisini okurken Sony Vaio ilanlarında en sevdiğim aktörlerden John Malkovich’i görmek benim için sürpriz oldu. Uzun süredir yazmayı düşündüğüm konu neredeyse bana hatırlatma gönderiyordu.

Vaio'nun kampanyasının konsepti “be like no other” yani “diğerleri gibi olma”. Oscar ödüllü oyuncu, yapımcı ve yönetmen Malkovich’i 15 Ekim 2007’den bu yana kampanyasında kullanan Sony Vaio, kampanya için bir internet sitesi yayına açtı. Sitede Türkçe bölümler de yer alıyor.


4 ay sürecek olan kampanyada, her ay siteye yeni bir senaryo eklenecek. Malkovich, her ay senaryo yazarlarının internet sitesine yükledikleri senaryoları düzeltiyor ve düzeltilen senaryo üzerinden kullanıcıların senaryoyu yazmaya devam etmesi isteniyor. Senaryonun en son hali ise Mart 2008’de sitede yayınlanacak.

Google Apps Team Edition Released

Google has released a new version of Google Apps called “Team Edition” that, on first blush, doesn’t offer much that’s new. The same document, spreadsheet, instant messaging, calendaring, and start page functionality that we’ve come to expect from Google Apps is here.

But now it’s easier for groups within established organizations (businesses, universities, etc.) to collaborate using Google Apps without getting their entire organization to buy into Google Apps (quite literally) first.

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Durex banned commercial

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Feuer Frei - Rammstein

YouTubers given share of ad cash

YouTube users in the UK will be given the chance to make money from the videos they post on the site.

The project is already up and running in the US and is now being extended to other countries, starting in the UK.

U.K. Stops Blaming Marketers, Enlists Them to Help Fight Obesity

The U.K. government has stopped using the marketing industry as a whipping boy for the obesity epidemic and is now enlisting marketers and agencies to help combat the problem.



In the biggest move, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced a $150 million multimedia campaign over three years aimed at creating a cultural shift in the nation's eating habits.

Mobiles 'not brain cancer risk'

Mobile phone use does not raise the risk of brain tumours, a Japanese study suggests.

The research is the first to look at the effects of hand set radiation levels on different parts of the brain.



Tokyo Women's Medical University found no increased risk of the three main types of brain cancer among regular mobile phone users.

Muslims Protest Wikipedia Images of Muhammad

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has again stirred up controversy — this time over a biographical entry on Islam's chief prophet Muhammad.

In CBS Test, Mobile Ads Find Users

CBS plans to announce on Wednesday that it is trying one of the first serious experiments with cellphone advertising that is customized for a person’s location.

Its CBS Mobile unit is teaming up with the social networking service Loopt, which allows its subscribers to track participating friends and family on their mobile phones.

Google Aims to Crack China With Music Push

Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for free, unlicensed music downloads.

Facebook featured on new iPhone ad

Tonight, Apple released two new iPhone commercials in the standard iPhone-esqe style -- Facebook and Cars. In these two commercials, Apple expounds on features that have already been introduced in older commercials.

Apple Beats Microsoft and Motorola in 4Q Phone Sales

Even after being on the market for less than half a year, more iPhones sold in the fourth quarter than Windows Mobile phones in the U.S., according to research from Canalys.



Canalys researchers estimate that the iPhone had 28 percent of the U.S. converged-device market in the fourth quarter of 2007. Research In Motion, with 41 percent, had the largest share of the market. Windows Mobile phones had 21 percent share of devices sold in the quarter, falling into third place behind Apple.

Monopoly Dünya Şehirleri

Hasbro'nun dünya çapında bilinen masaüstü oyunu Monopoly, Dünya Şehirleri uygulamasını oylamaya sundu.

Kendi internet sitesinde yer alan 68 aday şehirden 29 Şubat 2008 tarihine kadar en çok seçilen 20 tanesi masaüstüne taşınacak. Ayrıca uygulamada eğer aday şehirleri beğenmezseniz kendi şehrinizi de önerebilirsiniz. Önerilen şehirlerinde 1 - 9 Mart tarihleri arasında oylaması yapılacak ve en üstte yer alan iki şehirde masaüstü oyun olarak hazırlanacak.

68 aday şehir arasında yer alan İstanbul'un şu anda ilk 20'de yer aldığını ve önerilen şehirler arasında İzmir'in bulunduğunu hatırlatırız. Oy vermek isteyenler haberin başlığını tıklayabilir.

Homer Simpson Manchester United'da

Simpsonların yeni sezon bölümlerinde ailesiyle beraber İngiltere'ye tatile giden Homer Simpson, Manchester United'ın formasını giyecek. Dizinin yapımcıları Homer'ın fazla kilolarını vermesi için böyle bir senaryonun hazırlandığını ve İngiltere tatilinin seyirciye futbolsuz sunulamayacağını belirtti. Daha önceki bölümlerde bir kere futbol hakemi olarak gördüğümüz Homer, Brezilyalı futbolcu Ronaldo'ya kırmızı kart göstermişti.

Homer'ı, Cristiano Ronaldo, Rio Ferdinand ve Wayne Rooney ile beraber Kırmızı Şeytanlar forması içinde izleyeceğimiz bölümde Homer'ın takımdaki adıda Ronal-D'oh olacak.

Grand Thet Auto 4 29 Nisan'da raflarda

Take-Two, Grand Theft Auto 4'ün resmi çıkış tarihini açıkladı. Geçen yıl Şubat-Nisan arası diyerek kesin bir tarih veremeyen firmanın yaptığı son açıklamaya göre GTA 4, 29 Nisan'da raflardaki yerini alacak.

Nisan ayının son günüde geçen yıl yapılan açıklamaya sadık kalındığı görülüyor. Herkese iyi oyunlar.

China cuts online video a little slack

China has eased new Internet controls that had limited video-sharing to state companies, saying private competitors already operating in the fast-growing arena may continue.

Any new video-sharing companies must comply with the rules, which took effect last Thursday, the government said Tuesday.

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Across the Universe - Rufus Wainwright

Daha önce haberi okuyanlar hatırlayacaktır. 4 Şubat tarihi gerek NASA gerekse Beatles için önemli bir tarihti. Tam 50 yıl önce 4 Şubat'ta NASA ilk ABD uydusu Explorer'ı aya fırlatmış, Beatles'da unutulmaz parçalarından Across the Universe'i kaydetmişti. Ayrıca 2008 her ikisinin de kuruluşunun 50. yıldönümü.

NASA, bu iki büyük olayın şerefine 4 Şubat 2008 saat 00:00'da (Türkiye saatiyle 02:00) kendi frekansından uzaya Across the Universe'i çaldı. Şarkının evrende saniyede 307 bin kilometre hızla 431 ışık yılı uzaklıktaki Kutup Yıldızı'na ulaşması planlanıyor.

Biz de fistikyesili olarak sizleri "Listen Today!" kısmında, birçok sanatçı tarafından coverlanan bu mükemmel şarkının "I am Sam" Soundtrack'inde yer alan Rufus Wainwright yorumuyla başbaşa bırakıyoruz.

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Algida ve MTV Türkiye'den Sevgililer Günü yarışması: "Aşka Gel"

YouChoose: Wii VR, tracking torrents and robot clocks

This week's video picks have a fantastic VR setup for the Wii, a "hmm.." bit of video for torrenters and robots that tell the time. Really expensively.

Super Bowl winners and losers

Fox, the once-perfect Patriots and the underdog Giants combined to create one of the biggest media events ever. But many of this year's ads treated the web as an afterthought. Did brands fumble the digital handoff?

As mass marketing events go, Super Bowl XLII may have been one of the biggest in history, second only to the series finale of "M*A*S*H." (The Nielsen numbers are still coming in). And while millions of people tuned in for the game and countless more watched just for the ads, something was missing -- digital integration.

Web 3.0 is all about rank and recommendation

We had a real-life web-lebrity in the Guardian's offices last week: Martin Stiksel, one third of the brains behind the music recommendation site Last.fm.

He's laidback and rather unassuming, but has the kind of enthusiasm and insight about his company that is often missing in serial executives. He'd probably say that's because he always did it for the music not the money, but seems to have ended up doing rather well with both.

CPG Online: Health & Beauty Go Interactive

After years of foot-dragging, US consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers are now racing online. In fact, in 2007 eMarketer projects that CPG companies will spend $920 million on all forms of Internet advertising, up 33% over 2006.

Ocak Ayında Kanalların İzlenme Payları

Tüm Gün / Prime Time

Show TV......12.7......18.8
Kanal D.......14.8......18.3
Atv............ 8.8...... 9.4
Star TV........ 7.4...... 8.3
Samanyolu.... 5.8...... 7.4
Fox TV......... 7.3...... 6.5
Kanal 7........ 5.8...... 4.6
Kanal 1........ 3.8...... 3.6
TRT 1.......... 3.0...... 2.4
Flash TV....... 1.9...... 1.2
CINE5.......... 2.3...... 1.0
NTV............ 1.2...... 1.0
TV8............ 1.0...... 0.9

Radyo-Tv "Oscar"ları sahiplerini buldu.

Radyo Televizyon Gazetecileri Derneği (RTGD) tarafından her yıl verilen "Yılın Oscarları" sahipleri basın toplantısıyla açıklandı. RTGD'nin internet sitesinden yapılan oylama sonuçlarına göre ödül alanlar şöyle:

Yılın Haber Bülteni: Kanal D Haber -(Mehmet Ali Birand)

Yılın Haber Programı: Ve İnsan - NTV (Oğuz Haksever)

Yılın Gece Bülteni: Moderatör - Kanal 24 (Fuat Kozluklu)

Yılın Spor Programı: Maraton - Lig TV (Şansal Büyüka)

Yılın Magazin Programı: Canlı Canlı - Kanal D

Yılın Show Programı: Haydi Gel Bizimle Ol - NTV (Müjde Ar, Çiğdem Anat, Pınar Kür, Aysu Kayacı)

Yılın Sabah Programı: İyi Sabahlar - TRT (Sabiha Akdemir)

Yılın Yarışma Programı: Buzda Dans - Show TV

Yılın Radyosu: Alem FM

Yılın Yerel Televizyonu: KON TV

Yılın Televizyon Dizisi: Hatırla Sevgili - ATV

Yılın Kadın Oyuncusu: Vahide Gördüm - Annem (Kanal D)

Yılın Erkek Oyuncusu: Erdal Beşikçioğlu - Köprü ( Star TV)

Yılın Dizi Müziği: Kıraç - Gönül Salıncağo (TRT)

Yılın Reklam Filmi: Atatürk Reklamı - İş Bankası (Haluk Bilginer)

RTGD Jüri Özel Ödüller:

Yılın Habercileri: Farkında mısınız Programı - CNN Türk

Yılın Belgeseli: Kan Uykusu - Sky Türk (Serdar Akinan)

Yılın Kültür Sanat Ödülü: Yaşamdan Dakikalar - TV8 (Nebil Özgentürk, Hıncal Uluç, Sunay Akın, Sinan Çetin)

Yılın Müzik Eğlence Programı: İki Renk - TRT (Özcan Deniz)

Nokia starts to roll out gaming, networking sites

Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker, started to roll-out its online gaming service N-Gage on Tuesday as it expands into mobile Internet services.

Nokia also opened its social networking site "Share on Ovi" on Tuesday, which allows people to share photos and videos and is built on technology acquired with the U.S. firm Twango, a spokesman for the company said.

Warner, Universal take action against Baidu over piracy: IFPIWarner, Universal take action against Baidu over piracy: IFPI

Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China's top Internet search engine Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of violating copyright by giving access to music files, an international music trade body said.

Universal Music Ltd, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Hong Kong) Ltd and Warner Music Hong Kong Ltd have asked a court to order Baidu to remove all links on its music delivery service to copyright-infringing tracks that they own the rights to, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said in a statement.

With Hockey Market Stagnant, Nike Seeks to Sell Equipment Unit

It was just a little swoosh. But when Nike added its logo to gear by Bauer, a longtime Canadian maker of hockey equipment, “there was resistance,” said Terry Bovair, owner of the Fontaine Source for Sports in Peterborough, Ontario. “Some people did not buy the product.”

Parently, that kind of reaction was not confined to Peterborough, a small city northeast of Toronto that is something of a hockey hot spot.