Hewlett-Packard, MySpace, Qualcomm new members of Symbian Foundation
Symbian Foundation has announced 14 new members joining their entity.
These include high profile names like Hewlett Packard, MySpace and even Qualcomm.
With this, the number of members of the Symbian Foundation has now reached 78.
Nokia announced this foundation to help create an open source version of their mobile [...]
Facebook now part of OpenID board
Social networking giant Facebook has announced that they are now joining the OpenID board.
OpenID is already supported by several other industry giants including MySpace, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and IBM.
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s director of engineering spoke about this new development: “It is our hope that we can take the [...]
MySpace reveals that around 90,000 sex offenders removed from their service
US based social networking portal MySpace has revealed that they have till now removed around 90,000 sex offenders as members of their service.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper stated that this figure is almost double the number they had originally acknowledged last year.
They [...]
Facebook too bans Project Playlist on their network
MySpace recently started disabling Project Playlist widgets on their network pages.
Now, Facebook is doing the same as they too are facing pressure from the media giants.
Facebook stated about this new development:
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) initially contacted Facebook last summer requesting the removal [...]
MySpace banning Project Playlist from their network
Social networking service MySpace has confirmed that they are now removing Project Playlist from their network.
MySpace users had reported that their Playlist widgets were disappearing from their profile pages.
MySpace responded saying that they are taking this action on the complaints from major music companies who are sending them [...]
Kirk Douglas blogs on MySpace
Kirk Douglas is 92 years old but he has not given up. He has become the latest and perhaps the oldest celebrity to become a member of MySpace.
He is blogging!
Douglas spoke about the power of the internet: “I express my opinion, and I tell them that they don’t have to [...]
Chinese Democracy from Guns N’ Roses streaming on MySpace
Guns N’ Roses has now released their latest album Chinese Democracy on the MySpace Music social networking service.
The songs from this album are now being streamed on MySpace.
The album as 14 tracks and it would go on retail sale this coming Sunday.
Checkout: Chinese Democracy
MySpace considering developing a portable media player
MySpace is considering plans to get into the portable media player market that could put them in direct competition against the Apple iPod range of players.
MySpace is already competing with Apple iTunes digital media store. The social networking service recently launched MySpace Music service.
MySpace co-founder and Chief Executive Chris [...]
MTV, MySpace aims to generate revenues from pirated media on social networks
MTV, MySpace are now working with technology company Auditude to identify pirated media uploaded on social networking sites and monetize them.
They are going to offer two options… Either the copyrighted content can be removed or they can serve ads in it to monetize it [...]
Facebook in deals for a digital media store
No one is surprised to hear the rumors that Facebook is now considering getting into digital music market.
Rival MySpace has already launched their MySpace Music service.
Market sources are saying that Facebook is in talks with various players in this segment including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com.
In addition, [...]
