A wordy headline, to be sure, but a pleasing one nonetheless. We came across HTC's Chinese web portal listing the Desire as coming with Android 2.2 (with Sense!) and simply had to ping the official source for confirmation. It turns out the info up there is no mistake: all HTC Android handsets shipping to China -- which includes the Wildfire and Tianyi -- will do so with Froyo preloaded, cutting down on your upgrade angst at least until the Gingerbread man comes a'knocking. HTC has also reiterated that a 2.2 update for its phones already on the market will be delivered "very soon," so if all goes well, we should be looking at a Froyo-dominated August in the land of High Tech Computers.

[Thanks, Christian]

HTC will ship all Android phones in China with Froyo on board, fuels fire for immediate update closer to home originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Someone should really tell T-Mobile USA it's got a rather large hole that needs plugged. Hot on the heels of the (presumably) T-Mob-bound G1 Blaze leak comes this duo, which includes a purported leak of the myTouch HD (or 3G HD) as well as a web portal that quite clearly prepares us for the launch of the carrier's first HSPA+ smartphone . Of course, there's no official confirmation that the handset you're peering at above is anything more than a fan render, but it certainly has a look of authenticity to it; sadly, there aren't any rumored specifications to tag alongside the JPG, but it's a pretty safe bet that this one will run some flavor of Android and rely heavily on screen presses for letter input. As for the promo page? Scrutineers have drawn a link between it and the Vanguard that we peeked a few weeks back , so feel free to let your imagination run a bit wild there. Looks like it's gearing up to be quite the second half for America's number two GSM operator.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Purported myTouch HD leaks out alongside promise of T-Mobile's first HSPA+ smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Chinese Web portal Sohu.com Inc. said Monday its second-quarter net income rose 10 percent as online advertising and games revenue jumped.

www.topix.net | 7/27/10 11:05 AM

Chinese Web portal Sohu.com Inc. said Monday its second-quarter net income rose 10 percent as online advertising and games revenue jumped.

www.topix.net | 7/27/10 12:40 AM

AP - Chinese Web portal Sohu.com Inc. said Monday its second-quarter net income rose 10 percent as online advertising and games revenue jumped. us.rd.yahoo.com | 7/26/10 8:54 PM

AP - Chinese Web portal Sohu.com Inc. said Monday its second-quarter net income rose 10 percent as online advertising and games revenue jumped. us.rd.yahoo.com | 7/26/10 8:54 PM

Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced that Black Lotus Communications has selected Afilias' FlexDNS^SM Platform to provide DNS infrastructure in support of its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection solutions. Black Lotus needed to replace its previous DNS provider in order to improve its resiliency to DDoS attacks and achieve better economy in its DNS management.

"Outsourcing our DNS allows us to focus on our core competencies and leverage numerous off-site nodes to discourage DDoS attacks against our name resolution infrastructure," said Jeffrey Lyon, President of Black Lotus. Black Lotus"Since switching to Afilias, we were able to cut our costs by more than 50 percent and receive more value for about the same cost of running our own off-site nodes."

Afilias' FlexDNS Platform provides three different ways to utilize Afilias' DNS network: A Web-based portal, AXFR (DNS zone transfer), or an Application Programming Interface (API). Black Lotus selected Afilias' Web-based portal, which provides a simple, easy-to-use online interface to manage DNS settings for small or large portfolios of domains. The Web-portal also provides bulk import functionality, an advanced reporting suite, and enhanced security alerts and notifications.

Black Lotus also selected Afilias' SiteCertain™ IP monitoring and failover service to ensure that their customers will always have a working IP address to failover to incase of emergency or compromise.

"Any organization that is providing critical services across the Internet needs to take their DNS seriously and ensure that they avoid single points of failure," said John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services for Afilias. "We are pleased to provide Black Lotus with both a valuable and cost-effective DNS solution to enhance the resiliency and reliability of their important DDoS protection services."

About Afilias Managed DNS Services
Afilias' state of the art DNS network ensures security and resiliency through a diverse Anycast architecture. Its multi-layered, tiered design uses multiple hardware and software solutions, multiple bandwidth providers, and is dispersed across numerous geographic locations, avoiding single points of failure and guarantee 100 percent up-time. Afilias' system also supports DNSSEC. To learn more about Afilias' FlexDNS platform visit http://www.flexdns.info/

About Black Lotus (HOSTINGCON Booth #101)
Black Lotus Communications is first and leading in distributed denial-of-service protection solutions. The company was the first to market a commercially viable DDoS protection solution and provides protected hosting services, web proxies, IP tunnels, and the ecologically friendly LotusCloud VM, a dedicated server environment that is 16 times more efficient than its bare metal counterpart. For more information visit http://www.blacklotus.net/

Afilias (HOSTINGCON Booth #535)

www.circleid.com | 7/19/10 4:03 PM

A thematic report on agroforestry is available on the "Knowledge for Development" web portal run by the Centre technique de coopération agricole et rurale. Its authors include researchers from CIRAD and its partners in developing countries.

www.cirad.fr | 7/13/10 3:03 PM

Co-owner of leading Russian internet investor Digital Sky Technologies Ltd. (DST), Alisher Usmanov, has finalized the purchase of messenger service ICQ in a deal that could become a headache for the U.S. security services, vesti.ru web-portal said on Tuesday. en.rian.ru | 7/13/10 8:48 AM

Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Computers, Security, Software / Applications

RIM recently announced a new piece of software for the BlackBerry and it is called BlackBerry Protect.  As of now, the app is in beta stage and limited to BlackBerry Beta Zone users who will be receiving special invite codes later this week.  It is set to reach open public beta later this year for the general public. 

One of the first things the BlackBerry Protect software will do is backup your necessary and important files.  For example, you have the ability to backup contacts, tasks, calendar events, memos, bookmarks, and messages and you can choose how often to backup data.  It will only update new data after every backup in order to minimize data usage.  Now, let’s go through some of the key security features that makes BlackBerry Protect a solid application.  In case you misplace your phone, you can choose to play a loud ring for a minute on your phone and even change it from silent to loud volume if you wish to call the phone.  I don’t know about you, but I happen to misplace my cell phone all the time and such a feature is really convenient. 

In case you actually lost your phone somewhere, not simply misplaced around the house, you can set a password lock feature by going online to BlackBerry Protect web portal.  In addition, you can display a lost and found page which features your contact information.  In addition, you can take advantage of the BlackBerry’s onboard GPS to view its current location in case the phone is on and functioning.  If push comes to shove, there is a Remote Wipe feature which will delete all data on the phone and microSD card.  This is where backing up your data often comes in handy, just in case you have to wipe all your memory. 

I’m not sure how well the software and online program works together, but just reading about the product makes me believe it could work really well.

Via [BlackBerry]

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PC Magazine - Want to keep up with various government recalls on your phone? Maybe you want to calculate your BMI or keep tabs on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list? Not a problem. USA.gov, the government's official Web portal, last week got an overhaul that includes a number of new mobile apps. us.rd.yahoo.com | 7/6/10 3:49 PM

Intel has launched an Interaction and Experience Research division, focusing on natural interfaces, such as touch, gesture and voice. Projects include SENS, using sensors in devices to monitor a person's real-time activities and displaying them live on the computers of networked friends and family; the use of projectors and 3D cameras to light up a tabletop or other flat surface, using an interactive Web portal that would recognize hand gestures and objects; and technology that would enable a computer to read a user's thoughts. (Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702022&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News ) www.kurzweilai.net | 7/1/10 8:44 AM

Hulu, the free web portal that offers ad-supported content from News Corp., NBC Universal and Disney to viewers in the US, has been planning for months to launch a paid subscription version of the service. A preview of the new paid iteration, called Hulu Plus, is being rolled out today. The LA Times reports that the subscription service will cost $9.99/month, and "offer the full run of current prime-time shows such as Family Guy, Glee, Modern Family, 30 Rock and The Office."Currently, the free version only offers the latest five episodes of shows in the site's roster. Full past seasons of some shows (Arrested Development, Law & Orders: SVU, The X-Files) will also be offered. No word yet on any particular premium movie content. But here's the kicker: the Times report describes Hulu Plus as "an ad-supported subscription service." So will shows still be interrupted by ads? If so, Hulu has a ... www.slashfilm.com | 6/29/10 10:37 PM

BT and GENBAND jointly announced the latest upgrades to BT's iComms Unified Communication service, which provides businesses with a variety of carrier-hosted IP communications solutions aim at enhancing how people do business.

Powered by GENBAND's carrier-hosted offering, the new upgrade allows BT to provide Centrex IP and SIP services to customers. The new upgrades to the service include advanced voice and multimedia collaboration services such as unified communications, real-time presence and customized Web portal capabilities. Customers can now launch a voice conference with a personal conference bridge and run web meetings on their personal web collaboration tool while sharing their desktop.

For more:
- read the release

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www.fiercevoip.com | 6/28/10 4:06 PM

Sweden Wednesday launched a web portal for Swedish support in international involvement in Afghanistan, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson and Minister for Defense Sten Tolgfors are the three key persons to launch the portal. "Sweden's involvement in Afghanistan is long-term and is one of the most important expressions of our commitment to international p ... english.people.com.cn | 6/23/10 7:41 AM

Politico - When HealthCare.gov debuts next Thursday, it will allow users to determine program eligiblity. us.rd.yahoo.com | 6/22/10 9:51 AM

Afilias' NEW FlexDNS Platform allows you to manage DNS your way. Resellers, Registrars, TLD registry operators, and Corporations can now get a custom DNS solution, made for their unique needs.Today Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced the expansion of its Managed DNS services with the availability of its new FlexDNS^SM Platform. The FlexDNS Platform now provides Afilias' DNS customers with three different options for managing their DNS over Afilias' network: A Web-based portal, AXFR (DNS zone transfer), or an Application Programming Interface (API).

Afilias' Managed DNS service, which leverages the DNS network that supports 15 top-level domains (TLDs) including .INFO and .ORG, has always provided a convenient Web-based portal that allows customers to manage their DNS easily and quickly. The FlexDNS platform expands this service with new features for registrars and others who offer Web services, or for users who have a need to make frequent changes to their DNS in an automated fashion.

"Afilias' Managed DNS service is becoming increasingly popular as threats across the Internet grow and organizations recognize the need for better DNS that can guarantee 100% up-time," said John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services for Afilias. "Other solutions are often limited in features or functionality. However, with the launch of our FlexDNS Platform, Afilias makes DNS management easier for a wider range of customers, including registrars, whose domain customers often rely on them for DNS services."

"As the first DNSSEC-signed TLD, Afilias has made it easy for us to provide 100% reliable DNS," said Danny Aerts, Managing Director of the Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation which manages the .SE registry for Sweden and uses the AXFR portion of Afilias' FlexDNS platform to provide Secondary DNS for their top-level domain.

The FlexDNS Platform

Afilias' FlexDNS Platform now makes three choices available for customers using Afilias' diverse, secure and reliable AnyCast DNS network:

• Application Programming Interface (API): Afilias' new API is ideal for customers like domain name registrars who need to integrate Afilias' DNS offering into their own interface for ease of use, or to offer the API as a value added or premium DNS service. Afilias' API is fully documented REST and XML-based.
• AXFR: Customers that update their DNS frequently need an automated solution that reflects these changes worldwide in near real time. Afilias' new AXFR option allows these customers to act as a "hidden master" and transmit their updates to Afilias via AXFR. This choice is especially useful for customers with large zones, like TLD registries, and it provides superior service in either a Primary or Secondary DNS role.
• Web-based portal: Afilias' traditional Web portal remains available for customers with smaller domain portfolios and enables them to easily manage their DNS settings. It offers extensive customization options including multiple user groups, domain folders, extensive Web-based reporting, bulk import, advanced permissions, and SMS notifications.

"Our FlexDNS platform provides an ideal solution for corporations as well as other managed service providers like hosting companies or domain name registrars who need to easily integrate a secure and reliable DNS network to augment their product offering," added Kane. "Afilias provides significant cost savings over building out your own network, and provides DNS that is already proven to support millions of domains and billions of DNS transactions across the Internet."

About Afilias Managed DNS Services

Afilias' state of the art DNS network ensures security and resiliency through a diverse any-cast architecture. Its multi-layered, tiered design uses multiple hardware and software solutions, multiple bandwidth providers, and is dispersed across numerous geographic locations, ensuring no single points of failure and 100 percent up-time, guaranteed. Afilias' system also supports DNSSEC. To learn more about Afilias' FlexDNS platform visit www.flexDNS.info

www.circleid.com | 6/17/10 3:00 PM

At a recent E3 preview presentation, LittleBigPlanet 2 mastermind Alex Evans revealed a handful of new innovations that Media Molecule is incorporating in the do-it-yourself sequel. One aspect of the game that will see a major (and oft-requested) improvement is its community features. According to Evans, the days of hunting for levels randomly distributed across the face of a planet will be gone -- player creations will now appear in a simple list, which players will be able to filter using a number of metrics (genre, keyword, etc.).

More exciting than that was the explanation of the functions offered by LBP.me, the web portal which will give players their own personal websites, which will automatically update with that player's creations, recently played levels and top scores. If you're looking at one of these pages in a browser, you can set the game to automatically queue up the level next time you play -- or, alternatively, you could just print out a QR barcode assigned to each level, place it in front of your PlayStation Eye, and watch as it loads up the appropriate creation.

More LittleBigPlanet 2 community features, LBP.me functionality revealed originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink  | Email this  | Comments www.joystiq.com | 6/17/10 12:22 AM

While I completely sympathize with the people who have lost large contracts, work, or even their jobs because of some company moving to another platform I honestly do not understand some of the comments about Notes not being a good platform for application development.  I do think IBM AND the Community need to do a much better job marketing things like the Eclipse and Lotus Expeditor Platforms because that is what its primary installed Lotus offerings are based on.   More and more companies are getting it, each week I hear of a new plugin, extension, or Eclipse view being created for some use case – so its not only the few business partners that have given Eclipse programming a chance, IT shops are starting to get it.  What I would like to see are more business partners expanding the organic marketing campaign of Eclipse and Expeditor.  XPages has gotten a lot of attention but I think once again the client has gone to the back burner; but I also see a lot of stir in the client space with plugins coming from partners like GIST, LinkedIn, SAP, customers, etc.  I was just at customer site yesterday and they have built an amazing plugin that integrates Notes with EMC’s Documentum – it was very cool – and guess what – that was an IT shop that did it because they have Eclipse developers.

In short, you have XPages for Web and the Expeditor platform for rich client.  Mix Expeditor plus NSF, Web, Portal, SWT, and native applications and you get composite applications.  You can do things in the Notes client today you could not imagine doing in version 7 and below.  Some stuff is easier, some just different but now you can do most of it in Java and it works on all platforms.  I have personally been pushing Eclipse and Expeditor for well over four years and I am sure my readers are aware of that – we as a community need to create compelling applications that make the platform stand out!

Now, in Notes 8.5.1 you can even create XPage based components that run locally in the client – meaning write your components once and they run in both Domino and Notes applications.  Many may not be aware, but you could also do this with pre-compiled JSP’s and Portlets for over 5 years in Lotus Expeditor – and yes, that means in Lotus Notes also.  So the Notes community has had the ability since Notes 8.0 to completely enhance their skill set to industry standards like Java, Eclipse, and many web technologies.  With technologies like XULRunner in the platform the web technologies that can be deployed to the Lotus Notes client are essentially limitless and are only held back by your imagination.

I am not sure how to close this rant but in short I would like to see the community better selling “the platform” versus posting long rants in the opposite direction.  I do not speak for IBM or the marketing behind our products, I can only “sell” what the platforms can do technically and from a technical point of view the Lotus Platform is an amazing piece of software that can present amazing applications.

technorati tags: eclipse, expeditor, java, Notes, platform

blog.balfes.net | 6/16/10 2:41 PM

Urban romance story "Love in a Puff" will be opening in mainland cinemas on June 18. Its producer, Media Asia, said that the movie has got a pass from the film bureau for screening. &$ &$Poster of "Love in a Puff." (Photo: CRIENGLISH.com)&$ &$ According to a report on web portal sina.com, the romantic comedy was rated as a third level film in Hong Kong, which means it's forbidden for people under 18 years of a ... english.people.com.cn | 6/14/10 12:20 AM

Web portal strengthens its ties with dominant social network, announcing plans to integrate content on the two platforms, as well as a new privacy dashboard.

redir.internet.com | 6/8/10 10:55 PM

PC World - Consumer Web portal company Yahoo has appointed a new chief technology officer, with former Chief Architect Raymie Stata taking on the role immediately, Yahoo announced Thursday. us.rd.yahoo.com | 6/3/10 8:00 PM

Google gave its online advertising clients a new tool Thursday that gives them the ability to restrict their online marketing campaigns to the world's top 1,000 web domains from Facebook on down, based on unique visitor numbers. Google said it launched the new Ad Planner 1000 filter in response to feedback from a number of customers running branding campaigns.

With Ad Planner 1000, the goal is to enable Google's online advertising clients to only show their ads on the leading 1,000 web sites around the globe, noted DoubleClick Ad Planner Product Manager Sean Harvey. "This new feature will ensure that your ads reach a large number of users, but only on well-known sites best suited for branding goals," Harvey wrote in a blog.

Web Site Leaders

With Facebook having generated 540 million unique web-site visitors and a staggering 570 billion page views in April alone, the social-networking site is doubtlessly high on the wish lists of many advertisers contemplating the launch of online media campaigns. Number-two Yahoo generated a respectable 490 million unique visitors, but its page views lagged far behind Facebook at 70 billion.

Microsoft's top web properties Live.com, MSN and Microsoft.com had 370 million, 280 million and 230 million unique visitors, respectively. Rounding out the world's top 10 were BlogSpot (230 million), Chinese web portal Baidu (230 million), and e-mail and messaging service qq.com (170 million). Though Wikipedia (310 million) and Mozilla (140 million) also made the top 10, neither web site currently accepts advertising.

Other popular web destinations include Bing and Adobe Systems, which were tied at 110 million unique visitors in April. Twitter and Ask.com made the top 20 with 96 million and 88 million unique visitors, respectively.

Google's web-site performance rankings for April didn't include any data for the company's own web properties, such as the number of unique...

www.cio-today.com | 5/28/10 8:12 PM

In the race to be the dominant Web portal, Internet search engines are constantly growing smarter. Although outward appearances may not change much, the algorithms churning behind the scenes are getting better at predicting what users want and delivering answers almost instantly.

Google recently unveiled new tools for its search-results pages to help users further refine their queries. But there's plenty of power built into the search box on the main page. Most users will find what they're looking for with just a basic query on a search page. But there are some lesser-known tricks to help consumers maximize the search function.

Most of the shortcuts below also are available on Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo Search. Those portals have their own unique features: typing in a company name such as "Amazon" on Bing spits out a toll-free customer-service number, for example, and entering "gas" and a ZIP code on Yahoo calls up a list of local gas prices.

Still, Google remains dominant in search. According to Experian Hitwise, Google captured 71 percent of all U.S. searches in April, compared with 15 percent for Yahoo and 9 percent for Bing.

Here are some quick tips to make searching easier:

* Packages: Enter a tracking number to get a direct link to the page listing a shipment's status. It works with the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS.

* Show times: Enter a movie title and ZIP code to see nearest theaters and times. Clicking on the name of the theater will return complete listings for that location, while clicking on a movie time leads to a Fandango site to purchase tickets if online sales are available.

* lights: Enter an airline and flight number to track its status.

* Conversions: Calculate the number of teaspoons in a fluid ounce, or try something more obscure like pascals to pounds per...

www.cio-today.com | 5/24/10 3:32 PM

AP - For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems. us.rd.yahoo.com | 5/24/10 2:03 PM

AP - For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems. us.rd.yahoo.com | 5/24/10 2:03 PM

For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems.

www.topix.net | 5/23/10 7:51 PM

AP - THE OFFERING: Warrior Gateway is a free site designed to help young veterans find services in an environment they are comfortable in: the Internet. us.rd.yahoo.com | 5/23/10 5:45 PM

AP - THE OFFERING: Warrior Gateway is a free site designed to help young veterans find services in an environment they are comfortable in: the Internet. us.rd.yahoo.com | 5/23/10 5:45 PM

AP - For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems. us.rd.yahoo.com | 5/23/10 5:45 PM

AP - For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems. us.rd.yahoo.com | 5/23/10 5:45 PM

AllianceBernstein has launched a suite of redesigned Websites powered by Methode technology from EidosMedia.

www.topix.net | 5/20/10 12:55 AM

Web portal seeks to answer questions of advertising partners concerned with the transition to Microsoft's adCenter once the companies' search partnership is completed.

redir.internet.com | 5/14/10 11:45 PM

Hungarian web portal Port.Hu has taken a 50% stake in Budapest-based video-on-demand platform Filmklik.

www.topix.net | 5/11/10 8:18 PM

International News: Hungarian web portal invests in VOD platform -- Hungarian web portal Port.Hu has taken a 50% stake in Budapest-based video-on-demand platform Filmklik. feedproxy.google.com | 5/11/10 7:25 PM

By John Consoli  

FoxSports.com is making a serious run at ESPN.com's online dominance by turning its web portal into a virtual cable channel, with hourly streaming of a live daily sports news report beginning Monday.

The strategy also reflects an aggressive effort to integrate televised and online content – at least as far as selling advertising is concerned.

Called Fox Sports Flash, the show will originate in Los Angeles and be anchored by sportswriter/sportscaster Barry LeBrock...

feedproxy.google.com | 5/10/10 5:19 AM

In the race to be the dominant Web portal, Internet search engines are constantly growing smarter.

www.topix.net | 5/9/10 9:39 PM

To call Mark Cuban eccentric would be akin to describing the ocean as wet , but what's not so often acknowledged about the Dallas Mavericks owner is the sharp mind and commercial nous that have gotten him to the position of hiring and firing millionaire ball players. One of Mark's recent blog posts, entitled "The future of TV ... is TV," got the attention of NewTeeVee , who sought to debunk his contention that VOD (video on demand) services from cable operators would become the primary means by which we consume digital media in the future. They cite the growing success story of Netflix' s digital distribution model, as well as the 12 million hours of March Madness video consumed via CBS' web portal, in arguing that web streaming is indeed the great new hotness.

Mark's response tackles Netflix head on, and points out that the company's rapid growth is about to start working against it, with movie studios and other content providers likely to jack up prices and demand further concessions from the streaming service as it turns into a real competitor to cable companies. According to him, Netflix is presently getting its content at prices that are unsustainable, and his prognostication is that content owners seeking bigger levies -- together with the expansion of VOD choice, which he sees as foolproof compared to the overwhelming complexity that web streaming entails -- will lead to Netflix passing costs on to the consumers and losing out to cable operators. Irrespective of whether you agree with him, the whole exchange is well worth a read. Use the links below to get filled in.

Mark Cuban foretells Netflix demise, sees a future filled with on-demand video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 10:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Netbiscuits, a cloud-based development and publishing platform for the mobile Web, today announced a solution partner agreement with the Indonesian mobile consulting and service company Mavenix. Based on this preferred partnership, Mavenix will enable businesses and brands in Indonesia to set up professional mobile Web services fast and cost-efficient. Mavenix utilizes Netbiscuits as preferred platform to deliver Web services to the mobile channel. In addition, Mavenix will leverage its strong expertise at the intersection of marketing and technology to distribute Netbiscuits in Indonesia, one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. Backed by the partnership, Mavenix has just successfully implemented the mobile Web portal of Goodyear GO, a corporate print magazine that is offered in Indonesia’s Goodyear Autocare franchises. Apart from including all of the print magazine’s articles, the mobile portal provides exclusive content by featuring cover story videos. Users also have easy access to the locations of the Goodyear car servicing shops.

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wireless.sys-con.com | 5/4/10 2:03 PM

Netbiscuits, a cloud-based development and publishing platform for the mobile Web, today announced a solution partner agreement with the Indonesian mobile consulting and service company Mavenix. Based on this preferred partnership, Mavenix will enable businesses and brands in Indonesia to set up professional mobile Web services fast and cost-efficient. Mavenix utilizes Netbiscuits as preferred platform to deliver Web services to the mobile channel. In addition, Mavenix will leverage its strong expertise at the intersection of marketing and technology to distribute Netbiscuits in Indonesia, one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. Backed by the partnership, Mavenix has just successfully implemented the mobile Web portal of Goodyear GO, a corporate print magazine that is offered in Indonesia’s Goodyear Autocare franchises. Apart from including all of the print magazine’s articles, the mobile portal provides exclusive content by featuring cover story videos. Users also have easy access to the locations of the Goodyear car servicing shops.

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wireless.sys-con.com | 5/4/10 2:03 PM

Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.) announces the public release of their API version 2 with enhanced features that allow customers to automate DNS changes to the database via API scripts, simplify DNS integration and incorporate the Dynect Platform's advanced features such as monitored Round Robin Load Balancing, Traffic Management and CDN Manager into the services they provide to their end-users. With this announcement Dyn Inc. aims to remove DNS as a pain point for customers and partners that are integrating the Dynect Platform's DNS into their current service offerings.

The Dynect Platform's original API, launched in November of 2007, was only available in SOAP and was created specifically for those Dynect Platform customers doing cloud computing to help automate adding and removing instances. Soon after the roll out, the development team at Dyn Inc. realized the demand for an easily integrated API extended beyond those just focused on the cloud. With the first API, the goal was to provide a critical piece of the puzzle for those customers that specialized in cloud computing but not in DNS. By providing the critical DNS component, customers using the Dynect Platform were able to remain focused on their specialty while also providing a more comprehensive, rock solid solution to their end-users.

With the API version 2 the team has created what they believe to be a more robust and complete offering for any customer who needs to interact with the Dynect DNS database outside of the Web portal. The API version 2 is now compatible with the REST interface and also has augmented the SOAP API with a WSDL to assist developers in the creation and customization of internal tools they can tailor to their unique needs. The advanced DNS features on the Dynect Platform such as Traffic Management, a Global Server Load Balancing product and CDN Manager, designed to allow the use of multiple CDN providers, either regionally or Load Balanced, have been exposed in this version of the API which allows users to adjust their DNS settings programmatically on the fly based on their changing content delivery needs.

"Dyn Inc.'s newest API can be used to automate processes and procedures and build internal tools to streamline the provisioning of customer services as part of the infrastructure workflow for those customers providing applications and services for others. This can help make things quicker, more resilient and less error prone," said Fred Hoth, Sales Support Engineer, who has been instrumental in refining the new API based on feedback from beta users. "The input from beta users has been extremely encouraging," added VP of Engineering, Lisa Hagemann. "We are excited to roll this out to public."

One popular use case that customers have been asking about is the ability to extract QPS (queries per second) data via the API so that they can build their own daily reports on usage levels without having to log into the Web portal. Data can now be extracted by zone and record type in a .csv format with a few API calls.

With these technical innovations and an advanced interface, the Dynect Platform's API version 2 has only scratched the surface of its capabilities that were tested during the beta period, making the team at Dyn Inc. excited to see how their customers mold and use the API for their specific needs. Beta user, Aaron Evans, Director of Research & Development at Thinking Phone Networks is looking forward to the continued use of the new API and the benefits it will bring to his business saying, "We expect to benefit from the Dynect Platform API version 2's ability to further automate DNS configurations. This will allow us to increase provisioning and support staff productivity and better serve our enterprise customers."

Demo account access is available to test-drive the API version 2. For more information on the Dynect Platform and its enhanced API, please contact sales@dyn.com or call 888.840.3258.

www.circleid.com | 5/1/10 12:36 AM

Latvian cookery students has pledged to cook a 100-meter long sandwich on Thursday, the Delfi web portal has said.

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A Swedish think-tank has launched a new web portal enabling aid-workers and peacekeepers to check that the transport firms they contract do not also engage in illegal activities such as khat and arms smuggling. www.thelocal.se | 4/20/10 10:25 AM

Internet usage in Russia increased 20% in 2009, mostly due to higher user activity in the country's regions, a study by Yandex web portal said on Tuesday.

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Aid agencies can now ensure that companies contracted to carry aid and peacekeepers to disaster zones do not also engage in activities that spark conflict, a leading think-tank said Tuesday.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said its new information web portal, www.ethicalcargo.org, would "prevent arms and drug traffickers from accessing significant humanitarian aid and peacekeeping funds."

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Enrico Chiesa, associate director at IDmage, is gearing-up for the launch this year of a new web portal - http://www.africafilms.tv - that will bring African films back on screen...via VOD. He is also pioneering a new way of getting cinema to viewers in a way that will pay back revenues to film-makers. Russell Southwood and Sylvain Beletre spoke to Chiesa about these two path-breaking projects. allafrica.com | 4/17/10 11:17 PM

The blind and those who are visually-impaired can now browse some government Web sites. Recently, a government Web portal – shanghai.gov.cn – together with the Web sites of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, Shanghai Bureau of Justice and Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, began to offer "trouble-free browsing" services to make it more convenient for the blind and the visually-impaired to access information and services. 　 According to sources, the pilot progr ... english.people.com.cn | 4/14/10 9:08 AM

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Questions, comments, snide remarks? Please, tell us what's on your mind by filling out a form and dropping it in the suggestion box on your wait out the door. While such items may be rather common at certain retail establishments, finding such a direct line to the people that run America's largest automotive companies... well, that's just a new idea entirely, no?

Today at the SAE World Congress, Mark Fields, Ford president of the Americas, announced just such a program, which includes a new web portal that allows consumers to leave suggestions for the Ford Motor Company and even lets other users log in and rate the submitted ideas. Currently at the top? A suggestion to bring the ECOnetic diesel engines to America. Agree? Click here to let Ford know what you think.

We'll throw a vote in the direction of more diesels in America any day of the week. And as long as we've Ford's attention, how about offering rally-spec Focus hatchbacks in the States? We'd also be more than happy to see a Super High Output version of the Fusion , complete with the 365-horsepower EcoBoost engine and all-wheel drive system from the Taurus SHO . Oh, and just one more thing... nice work on the SVT Raptor . Click past the break for the complete press release.

[Source: Ford]

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Today is a big day in Asia's Internet industry. Earlier today, Korea's NHN said it will buy major Japanese portal Livedoor , and now Tencent , China's largest Internet company, has announced [PDF] it plans to invest $300 million in cash into Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST). DST itself has been in the news repeatedly over the last few months , especially after investing $200 million in Facebook and $180 million in Zynga last year. On its homepage , the firm claims its portfolio companies command 70% of all page views on the Russian speaking web. Tencent racked up $1.8 billion in revenues last year [PDF], with operating profit reaching a staggering $882 million. The Shenzhen-based company's key service is instant messaging platform QQ, which boasted no less than 523 million active users at the end of last year. Tencent also operates a web portal (QQ.com), a social network (Qzone) with nearly 400 million active users (self-reported), a gaming portal (QQ Games), a search engine (SOSO), and a number of other services. Tencent will get a 10.26% stake in DST, 0.51% of total voting power and the right to nominate "one observer" to DST's board of directors. Both companies also said they'll be entering a strategic partnership, without providing details. techcrunch.com | 4/12/10 7:33 PM

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planning agency, called for stronger regulation on the real estate market and more effective risk-monitoring on the yuan exchange rate in an article published on the Chinese Central Government's Official Web Portal (Gov.cn) yesterday. The NDRC also urged the establishment of the multi-level capital market and the expansion of direct financing scales of the services industry. &$&$Regulation on the real estate ma ... english.people.com.cn | 4/7/10 11:50 AM