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TweetTV: Reality TV Series Looking to Twitter for Gimmick

TweetTV: Reality TV Series Looking to Twitter for Gimmick

The microblogging service Twitter is doing rather fabulously—signing up millions of users and landing attention via celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Oprah. It’s also rather famously not making any money: the site doesn’t run advertisements (not yet, anyway) and has yet to deploy any monetized services aimed at businesses or commercial users. Now, reports are emerging that Twitter might be looking to mass media as a way to generate some income: specifically, reports have the company looking to develop a reality TV series that incorporates Twitter into the action and competition on the show.

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Fujitsu To Add The Zero-Watt PC

Fujitsu To Add The Zero-Watt PC

It might seem unlikely, but at the Cebit technology show in March, Fujitsu is set to debut a PC that consumes zero watts when in standby, and plans to have the product, called the Esprimo Green, on the market by the summer.

The zero-watt PC comes in ahead of European legislation mandating that units like this, consuming less than a watt of power when on standby, should be standard by 2010, and joins Fujitsu’s other zero-watt venture, its monitor.

Unsurprisingly, the company isn’t offering any details about the unit, which it describes as “the next step.” Fujitsu says the PC will still be administrable when in standby.

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Microsoft Pacts on In-Game Ads, The Guild

Microsoft Pacts on In-Game Ads, The Guild

Microsoft has landed an exclusive deal to distribute the second season of the “Internet cult hit” The Guild, and will be distributing the series’ 12-episode run via the Xbox Live Marketplace, MSN, and the company’s Zune Marketplace. The series will be sponsored by mobile operator Sprint. The first season of the show is being re-released across those platforms starting today; new episodes will begin appearing once a week beginning November 25. Episodes will be available for free.

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How Can You Get to Sesame Street? Online.

Perennial children’s programming favorite Sesame Street is taking to the Internet, with the non-profit Sesame Workshop announcing today that complete episodes of Sesame Street will be available on iTunes for $1.99 each (with 70 percent of the revenue going to Sesame Workshop), and with online video sides YouTube and Hulu also setting up Sesame Street sections featuring clips and segments.

iTunes will be the only service carrying complete episodes of the series; the episodes will accompany featured non-episode Sesame Street programming that’s already available on iTunes. YouTube will be setting up a dedicated Sesame Street channel with more than 100 clips from the show, while Hulu will offer more than 100 segments and 30 celebrity appearances on the show.  Read more...

Veoh Copyright Infringement Suit Dismissed

Veoh Copyright Infringement Suit Dismissed

Judge Howard Lloyd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has thrown out a copyright infringement suit brought against Internet video provide Veoh Networks by the adult entertainment firm Io Group Inc., saying Veoh’s active efforts to protect copyright owners’ rights covered the company from any liability for piracy on the service under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) “safe harbor” provision. “The DMCA was intended to facilitate the growth of electronic commerce, not squelch it,” Judge Lloyd wrote, as he granted summary judgement to Veoh.

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Viacom to Get YouTube User Histories

As litigation continues in Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google, a judge has ordered (PDF) Google most turn over the usage histories of every YouTube user to Viacom. The usage logs contain each YouTube user’s login ID, the IP address used to connect to YouTube, as well as a video identifier and a start time.

The court did not order the Google disclose to Viacom its search code, schemas, and other intellectual property, noting that such disclosure—even under a non-disclosure agreement—would cause Google harm since the information carries significant commercial value. The court also ruled Viacom doesn’t get data on privacy videos hosted on YouTube—that is, videos that can only be seen by a user specifically authorized to view it.  Read more...

CNET Gives Best Of CES Awards

Tech news company CNET has judged the entries at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show and come up with a list of ten.Philips gets overall best of show for its 42PFL5603D Eco TV, while consumers, in the People’s Voice Award, went for the Motorola Rokr E3 phone.   "Our editors were so impressed withthe number of innovative products that were launched at the show, but in the end they awarded the Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV as the Best in Show," said Jai Singh, editor-in-chief and vicepresident of CNET. "With its power saving features, the Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV showed us that a TV manufacturer could embrace ‘green tech’ in a way that benefits the eco-conscious and thosewho just want to save money."   So who were the winners? Apart from the two already mentioned, there was the Azentek Atlas CPC-1200 in the Car Tech and GPS category, Lenovo IdeaPad U110(Computers and Hardware), Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 (Digital Photo and Video), Bug Labs Platform (Emerging Technology), Nyko Wireless Nunchuk (Gaming), Logitech Squeezebox Duet (Home Audio), EchoStarTR-50 (Home Video), and the iRiver W7 (MP3 and Portable Video Players).

Microvision Unveils Pocket-Sized Projector

Microvision Unveils Pocket-Sized Projector

Washington-based Microvision believes it has a solution to the tiny displays that are currently commonplace on media players, cell phones, and PDAs: Project them instead. On Wednesday, the company unveiled plans for its SHOW pico projector, a battery-operated projector that can fit in a pocket and throw an image up to 100 inches across. First glimpses of the prototype will be shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The Pico uses a new laser-based projection system dubbed the PicoP display engine. It can project full-color 848 x 480 pixel images anywhere from 12 to 100 inches, without the need for focusing. The device is also expected to deliver 2.5 hours of battery life, enough for a full movie.

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Europeans Go More Mobile

New figures released by Eurostat show that mobile phone subscriptions in the 27 EU states increased a staggering 14 times between 1996 and 2005. At the start of the period, the average was seven subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, but just nine years later it had increased to 96 for each 100. With 158 and 127 respectively, Luxembourg and Lithuania were top of the list, with Romania the lowest, having just 62 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.   The most interesting figures, though, show countries where people used mobile access but had no landline. There was a great divide between Western Europe and the newer EU member states to the east. Although Swedish registered non one with just a mobile and no landline, the percentage was 42% just using mobiles in the Czech Republic, 40% in Latvia, and 36% in Estonia, 48% in Lithuania and 38% in Slovakia. Throughout the EU members in 2006, 18% had mobile access but no landlines.   The overall percentage of landlines rose during the nine-year period from 43 per 100 inhabitants to 48, with the highest numbers occurring in Western Europe.

MySpace Announces Political Reality TV Show

Reality TV shows have been used to pick out the next singing sensations, models, and even Coyote Ugly bartenders. Now MySpace wants to use the medium to pick who we’ll put in office. The company announced Wednesday that it will partner with Mark Burnett Productions to produce INDEPENDENT, a reality TV show that will test participants’ political chops using input from online communities.

The winner will receive one million dollars that he or she is obligated to use in a political fashion. The winning contestant could donate it all to a cause, form a third political party, or even use it to support his or her own presidential bid.  Read more...

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