The Brand Barry

Microsoft has long said it was developing two applications for the iPhone; the first is a bit ahead of its date, I mean the browser Bing appeared in the App Store a few months ago.

It has now been MSN and Microsoft is not directly those who have already developed and offer a Messenger application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In this implementation we will have support for emoticons, share photos, and even can send voice notes, basics of desktop client.

The application was developed by MSN China so only available for that country, although it is expected that during this month appears Microsoft’s official application and that it is available to everyone.

Apple has accused HTC injured and 20 of its patents in its products that illegally – mainly Samrtphones with Goolge Android operating system – used to be.Therefore, Apple HTC has before U.S. courts and before the U.S. sued U.S. Trade Commission. HTC defends himself against charges now held by Apple. HTC refers among other things, that already longer in the mobile phone sector have to be active as Apple itself and always put on their own technologies. This is underlined by numerous patents, which run in the years HTC has registered. HTC has with a strong partner in the boat. The Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer is the world’s largest manufacturer of Android smartphones. So Google is now also expected in the case not long remain sidelined. continue reading…

Great games producers see Facebook as a communication and marketing channel. Facebook and online games such as Mafia Wars Farmville attract more and more Facebook members. 400 million Facebook members are 400 million potential players, and thus 400 million potential customers. Or so thought have in recent months, many games producers have chosen Facebook, and therefore their favorite platform. Industry giants such as EA, Ubisoft and Namco give accordingly no openings and are one of the party. Wave height of the Games: In November of last year, EA bought the forged Up Games Play fish – at a cost of approximately $ 400 million!

Playfish previously stood behind the two Facebook games “Who has the biggest brain?” And “Pet Society”. Only a short time later, EA announced savings of up to 1,500 jobs to want to. On the one hand a clear contradiction, the other a sign of how important social networks have become for the gaming industry. Even in difficult times, no way around Facebook and Co. out of this. Even further acquisitions include EA made in this connection.

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The Amazon Kindle also speaks Spanish. The world’s largest digital library, which also currently dominates the sale of digital reader’s e-books via the Kindle, announced Friday that its desktop publishing platform is also open to books in Spanish. So far their software allowed only books in English, French and German, but since this week the company is also open to Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

The announcement not only means that Spanish publishers now have the door open Amazon but also self-published authors who want and reach across the globe without leaving home and without having to be blessed in advance by a publisher can publish their books online thanks to Kindle Digital Text Platform. Like MySpace for years became one of the key platforms for self-promotion from unknown parties, Amazon now allows any author to publish his own book online and sell it at your bookstore. ”We are pleased to offer more languages in which content owners can offer their books for the Kindle growing audience,” the company said in a statement released yesterday. Just have a customer account at Amazon and can prove ownership of copyright in order to upload to the virtual library’s own work. On its website describes step by step how to do and how to resolve any doubts.

Amazon’s announcement comes just days after important news for the market of e-book: the entry of 40,000 titles from Amazon in the world of Blackberries. With that decision, and marketing with the same titles for iPhone, Amazon starts to open trade horizons beyond Kindle. Following the successful presentation of the iPad, the e-reader from Apple, which presumably will become the main competitor to the Kindle, Amazon has chosen not to close down and open your store e-books to other digital tools. Both iPhone and blackberries are much more ubiquitous today than digital readers and despite efforts to commercialize e-reader, remains to be seen what the gadget who wins the battle and imposing on the rest.

One of the schools in China accused by the U.S. media have launched cyber attacks against Google has denied any responsibility for the facts to thin earlier this year the relationship between the multinational and the Asian giant.

Lanxiang Vocational School, cited as one of the managers by the newspaper The New York Times, recently said the official publication Global Times did not have the equipment necessary to make cyber attacks of this calibre. The media information indicated that the U.S. assault on Google and 30 other companies were hatched in a specific class, taught by a Ukrainian teacher. The school has ensured that “never has invited foreign lecturers.

The article also noted a connection to the Chinese Army, to what a military expert quoted by the Global Times said that “if the fact that students enlist centre means that trains soldiers, then all the world are supported by the armies. “ The New York Times then obtained testimony from experts who claimed that electronic espionage attacks from China, and more particularly, the elite university in Shanghai and the aforementioned Jiatong Lanxiang. The experts left the door open for teams to be manipulated from outside the country since the charge was not the Chinese government. Google reported on 12 January that he had been the target of cyber attacks, probably from China, to access the correspondence of dissidents and stealing from the company code and trade secrets. The multinational therefore threatened to abandon the Chinese market, the worlds largest with 380 million Internet users. The search still continues to operate in the People’s Republic.