Cynopsis: DIGITAL

 

06/07/10

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Google has given in and agreed to hand over the data it collected in Europe via its Wi-Fi Street View cameras. CEO Eric Schmidt said the company would forward the data to German, French and Spanish data protection agencies after initially refusing a request from German officials, reports the FT.  “We screwed up. Let’s be very clear about that,” Mr Schmidt was quoted as saying. “If you are honest about your mistakes it is the best defense for it not happening again.”
 

 
Verizon Wireless has added AETN content on its VCAST mobile video service, offering programming from A&E, History, and Lifetime. Each brand will contribute 10 hours of content on the service including A&E shows Gene Simmons: Family Jewels and Intervention; History’s Ax Men and Ice Road Truckers; and Lifetime’s Army Wives and “Homeless to Harvard”. VCAST currently serves nearly 2MM subscribers.
 
Universal Pictures’ aging Mummy franchise has given birth to a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). Gaming developer Bigpoint has partnered with Universal Partnerships & Licensing to work on the free-to-play The Mummy Online, set in Egypt during the first half of the 20th century. It’s due on late this year.
 
Look for more silliness from Oxygen’s Scali family with Oxygen.com‘s “Fluff Me” channel, debuting for Jersey Couture’ new Tuesday, June 8 episode. Based on the popular primping “Fluff Me” service offered at the Scalis’ family-owned store, Diane & Co., fans can enjoy a virtual “Jersey Couture” makeover and submit photos of their own outrageous outfits.
 

 
Social gaming company Zynga acquired another gaming company, Austin, TX-based Challenge Games. The company is known for virtual goods games such as Warstorm, a collectible card game set in a fantasy universe, and the Facebook game Ponzi that allows you to build a corporate empire in the way Mafia Wars asks you to recruit gang members. Challenge launched in 2007 with backing from Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners.
 
Kazaa, Skype and Joost founders and Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are launching yet another subscription-based digital music service dubbed Rdio. Still in the planning stages, the service will feature elegant sharing and recommendation features and offer access to a catalog of major and indie label songs for $5/month, with an option to listen from your smartphone for an additional $5/month.
 

 
Yahoo Introduced a new ad for Fidelity Investments built in HTML5 and accessible through Yahoo! Mobile Finance, Yahoo! Mobile News and Yahoo! Mobile Mail on the iPhone.  The ad features an in-page animation of the Green Line in motion, anchored by a fixed banner integrated into each these sites. A short animation is displayed around the banner itself as the iPhone is rotated from portrait to landscape display modes.
 
Internet Broadcasting reports that its new collapsible “Hover Ad” unit introduced in late March has delivered better-than-expected results for advertisers, with local client websites already racking up over 1 million impressions using the ads.
 

                                                                              
Location-based social network Foursquare has learned that certain locations illicit harsh responses. The Chinese government has blocked access to the service across the country after users began utilizing Foursquare to “check in” to Tiananmen Square and leave “sensitive comments” on the TS page for others to see, reports China-based Techblog86. Anyone who did manage to sneak in before the ban automatically received the “Swarm” and “Player Please” badges.
 
City-owned EPB Fiber Optics in Chattanooga, TN announced it will complete its fiber-optic connections to all of Chattanooga, East Ridge and Red Bank residents by the end of the month. EPB will be able to offer video, phone and super high-speed 150 Mbps internet to all 145,000 of its residential electric customers by the end of the year.
 

 
Samsung was the leading mobile handset manufacturer in the U.S. for the first 3 months of 2010, edging out LG and Motorola, according to ComScore‘s most recent MobiLens report. Subscribers using apps comprised 29.8% of the mobile audience, up 3% from 3 months prior. Accessing of social networking sites and blogs also continued to grow, increasing 2.8 percentage points to 19.9% of mobile subscribers. Verizon remained the top carrier with 31.1% of the U.S. market.
 
Top Mobile OEMs
3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2010
Total U.S. Age 13+                      
                                         Share (%) of Mobile Subs                            
                                    Jan-10     Apr-10    Point Change
Samsung                      21.1%      22.1%        1.0
LG                               21.7%      21.8%        0.1
Motorola                       22.9%      21.6%       1.3
RIM                                7.8%       8.4%        0.6
Nokia                             9.1%       8.1%       -1.0
Total Mobile Subs       100.0%     100.0%        N/A
Source: ComScore MobiLens
 
Mobile Content Usage
3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2010
Total U.S. Age 13+
                                                           Share (%) of U.S. Mobile Subs
                                                       Jan-10     Apr-10    Point Change
Sent text message to another phone    63.5%     64.6%         1.1
Used browser                                     28.6%     31.1%         2.5
Used downloaded apps                        26.7%     29.8%         3.1
Played games                                     21.7%     22.4%         0.7
Accessed social networking site or blog 17.1%     19.9%         2.8
Listened to music on mobile phone       12.8%     13.8%         1.0
Total Mobile Subscribers                   100.0%     100.0%        N/A
Source: comScore MobiLens
 

 
Multi-function, web-connected Blu-ray players continue to become more affordable. Toshiba unveiled a pair of new Blu-ray players last week that stream Netflix, Blockbuster and Vudu movies in full HD 1080p/24 frames per second resolution, come bundled with Bonus View and BD-Live and also up convert standard DVD to 1080p resolution. The BDX2500 ($179) requires an optional adapter for wireless broadband streaming and the BDX2700 ($249) comes with built in Wi-Fi capability.
 
Movie-themed listing service Flixster launched a new free iPad app featuring trailers, showtimes, sharing features and reviews sourced from Rotten Tomatoes.
 

 
Internet Broadcasting hired Marisa Woodbury as VP/Network Product & Operations. She will be based in the company’s New York office, where she will be responsible for improving process efficiency, developing best practices for optimizing campaigns, and developing product and technologies around the IB Local Network.
 

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A new website with some sharp political minds behind it (including advisory board members James Carville and Frank Luntz) launched a sneak preview at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York last week and is currently beta testing in 9 swing states: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington. Calling it the Facebook for politicos is a bit simplistic. Vote iQ organizes groups and discussions around issues and acts as a conduit to voters who can find candidates to vote for by matching voting records and position statements with their own stances on the issues. The site profiles thousands of politicians and provides online tools to help voters organize, protest and enact change in a technically savvy way. There’s even a Foursquare-like feature; users are encouraged to participate in local events by receiving points and awards. Anything to get younger users interested in the political process can’t be a bad thing.
 
Clarification : G4tv’s.com “Feedback” web show is not the site’s first web show, it’s just the first one to be featured on G4’s air. The gaming-themed show airs Tue., June 15 and Wed., June 16 at 9:30 pm.
 
Later – Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
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06.07.10

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