DeVey's Media Snapshots 6.27.06
Warner Brothers to Offer Content Online Via Guba
Wall Street Journal
Warner Bros. has stuck a deal with Guba.com to distribute movies and TV shows on their search engine. New movies will cost a steep $20 to download, while older movies will cost $10.
Microsoft launches online Office preview
San Jose Mercury News
For all those techies who like to be ahead of the curve, Microsoft just recently launched an online preview of Office 2007, which won’t be available to buy until next year. Office 2007 has new versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
Online Effort Is Planned Against Child Pornography New York Times AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Earthlink and United Online have organized a project that will develop systems meant to help identify child pornography on the Internet and make sure proper law enforcement is taken.
American Apparel’s Virtual Clothes
BusinessWeek
American Apparel is a trendy L.A clothing store that sells t-shirts. The company has a computer generated store in the online game/universe called Second Life, where they sell t-shirts to online characters in the game for $1. American Apparel is hoping that as their brand grows in Second Life, their revenue and image will grow in the real world.
BusinessWeek
Today Intel debuted its Xeon 5100 chip for servers. Intel has been losing market share to rival company Advanced Micro Devices in recent months and hopes this move will regain their stronghold.
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