IPhone.com domain not registered to Apple

Try to type in http://www.iphone.com although they sell mobile phones, you don't see an iPhone at this site, as this site is not owned by apple, and has probably been registered by some speculate thinking "hey, if people wants to buy a phone they will at this point type in iphone.com".
And yes my guess is this guy is getting a lot of traffic by people just just typing in the address in the address bar.

But this guy it not the only one, according to Name Intelligence, about 450 domains with the word "iPhone" were registered on Jan. 11 and about 375 on Jan. 12 - just days after Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.

Several of these domain names can be found and bought at a very high price on auction sites like ebay.

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Myspace Is Loosing Traffic

When talking about social network sites, the most known and spoken of have always been Myspace.

Now some new runners is stealing market shares from Myspace, in May the research firm Nielsen/Netratings saw a drop in UK traffic to myspace, while Bebo and Facebook is attracting more and more traffic.
Facebook has grown its traffic by 500% in the last six month (Damn that's a lot).
Although this is a big step for Facebook Myspace is still in the lead with 6.5 million UK users, compared to Bebo with 4 million and Facebook with 3.2 million.

Rupert Murdoch, who bought MySpace in 2005, has already expressed concern about the growth of Facebook. His executives will now be under even more pressure to find ways of making MySpace fashionable again.

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Google Asks for Extension of Microsoft Oversight

Google Inc. asked a federal judge Monday to extend a 2002 consent decree involving Microsoft Corp.

Tuesday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will hold a quarterly hearing in which she will determine whether Microsoft is sticking to the terms of the agreement, which is due to expire in November.

Why Google gets involved in Microsoft matters is the latest in a complicated series of steps it has taken to challenge its rival's adherence to the 2002 consent decree.

"Without an extension, the court may not have effective means to oversee Microsoft's implementation of these changes and determine whether they are effective in meeting the requirements of the final judgment"
Said the Google court filing.

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380 new games for Playstation 3

Good news for all the playstation 3 fans, at least 380 new playstation games will be released this year, Sony promises.

Since the release of playstation 3, there has only been about 150 games available for it, this is mainly because there has been so much focus on Sony rival Nintendo Wii. So not much energy has been put into developing games for playstation.

I Japan Nintendo Wii has been selling three times as much as Sony Playstation, so Sony has had some really big startup problems.

Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer says that attractive games will be the key factor to accelerate PS3 sales over the next year.

A lack of attractive games available for the PS3 has been pointed out as the main reason that Nintendo has gained so much of Playstation sales market.

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Youtube Goes International

The Google owned Youtube is spreading, to support more languages then english.

Each site will be translated into 9 new language specific sites. It will launch versions across Brazil, Ireland, Italy, France, Japan, Poland Netherlands, Spain and the UK.
More international sites will be available later this year.

"We want to create a youtube experience that is local experience"
Steve Chen, YouTube co-founder

And now, what do we need language specific YouTube sites?

"It's not just about translating, it also about creating content unique to
certain countries."

It will be exiting to see if its a good idea to separate countries, instead of the one english based site. Video descriptions and commenting will of cause be in the specific language.

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Iran will filter Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) for porn

The Iranian ministry for telecommunication will filter out adult material in multimedia messages for cell phones, to spare the Iranian young people from the corruption from adult material.

Pornographic and erotic materials has got some attention to the Iranian government, we have heard before about filtering the internet for pornographic material in religious countries, now Iran will make an effort to filter out pornographic material from cell phones.

According to Iranian tv The Iranian ministry for telecommunication will begin to remove all adult content such as images and sound files via cell phones, to spare the minds for the Iranian young people.

There has been no information on how they will accomplish this filtering process, on the technical part.
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Adobe In The Web Developing Tool Market

Adobe will release their version of a developer tool under Mozilla Public license.
Before the end of this year Adobe will release a development tool called Flex, hoping to attract more developers to their platform.

Flex is a tool for developing complex web applications. Adobe will release all necessary tool for programming of flex applications inclusive actionscript 3.0 and MXML, and components for the graphical user interface etc.

Flex is based on Flash, the popular multimedia player, which we have enjoyed for some time now for both websites, small online games etc.
Adobe’s biggest competitor will be Microsoft with their new silverlight project, which we have heard some things about for some time now.

As for me, I’m just happy to see some new steps in the flash area, have been waiting for something new for some time now.
I will definitely keep an eye on this development.
Source: comon.dk