Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video sharing site, today announced a partnership with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization established to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world. Under terms of the agreement, Dailymotion and OLPC will explore collaborations involving Dailymotion’s technology and selected educational content to benefit underprivileged children globally.
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Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced a new multiyear agreement to provide an integrated, co-branded Verizon-Yahoo! portal as a preferred starting point for new Verizon broadband subscribers. This new agreement extends the relationship between Yahoo! and Verizon that began in 2005.

Under the terms of the new agreement, the customizable Verizon-Yahoo! portal will be offered as the first portal choice option for all new subscribers to Verizon’s FiOS Internet and High Speed Internet services. Customers who choose the Verizon-Yahoo! portal will get Yahoo! Search, and co-branded e-mail, Instant Messenger and Toolbar applications. Yahoo! also will provide search and display advertising on the co-branded portal and e-mail application, and both companies will share the search, advertising and e-commerce revenues generated by users of the co-branded portal.

“In addition to providing consumers the fastest upload and download broadband connection speeds available, Verizon offers features and services that enhance our customers’ Internet experience,” said Eric J. Bruno, senior vice president, Verizon Corporate Marketing. “Allowing customers to select a portal and personalize their content is a key part of the Verizon broadband experience.”

Beyond news and information, the co-branded Verizon-Yahoo! portal offers access to content and tools from Yahoo!, including e-mail previews, to-do lists, sports updates, weather, finance portfolios and TV listings, as well as photos and videos from Flickr, one of the world’s leading online photo and video-sharing communities. It also offers direct, one-click access to Verizon.net and other select Verizon and third-party sites. Key features include:

* Customizable Personal Assistant, where users can quickly check in for key information during their daily Internet routine, and get easy access to their own priority features, such as e-mail previews, daily horoscopes and local weather.
* Top Picks from Your Page module that highlights key stories, chosen based on articles that a user has read on My Yahoo!.
* Flexible customization tools and controls, such as on-page personalization options, easy drag-and-drop modules, and a variety of layout choices.

“Yahoo! is thrilled to further enhance our partnership with Verizon to deliver our industry-leading consumer experiences to Verizon’s new broadband customers,” said Jim Schinella, senior vice president, Corporate Partnerships, Yahoo!. “Our new multiyear agreement offers greater choices for consumers while enabling both companies to unlock greater monetization opportunities.”

Verizon’s 50 Mbps (megabits per second) downstream and 20 Mbps upstream FiOS Internet connection, provided via the company’s all-fiber-optic network, is the fastest available to U.S. consumers, and the company’s 20/20 symmetrical service is the first of its kind commercially available to U.S. consumers on a mass scale. Pioneering a new category of broadband for the American consumer, Verizon’s symmetrical FiOS provides the ultra-fast, two-way speeds crucial for such burgeoning online activities as video conferencing, social networking and super-fast uploading of electronic photo albums or home videos, as well as multi-player gaming and online work collaboration.

Verizon High Speed Internet service, based on DSL technology, provides the best value in broadband with up to 7 Mbps delivered on a dedicated line from Verizon’s central switching office to the customer’s home or business. Verizon High Speed Internet is backed by live, 24 x 7 customer service and technical support.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that customers can now instantly watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs with Amazon Video On Demand, Amazon’s digital video service offering thousands of movies and television shows. Previously, customers could only download titles and watch them on a PC (using the Amazon Unbox application) or on their TiVo box. Now customers can either watch instantly within their web browser or download using the Unbox application and watch anytime. Additionally, customers can now rent or purchase Amazon Video On Demand movies and TV shows directly through Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link device on compatible BRAVIA® television sets (currently in beta). Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link device seamlessly streams Internet video content directly to compatible Sony HDTVs through a broadband connection.
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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced its next generation of digital television (DTV) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions designed for digital video broadcast (DVB)-based platforms to address European and Asian markets. By supporting global connectivity standards such as a digital video broadcast-terrestrial (DVB-T) demodulator, phase alternating line (PAL), sequential color with memory (SECAM) video support, and near instantaneous compounded audio multiplex (NICAM) audio support, Broadcom’s latest single-chip SoC allows TV manufacturers to create products that offer distinguishing features and aid in the evolution of the DTV from a commodity display device to a highly differentiated entertainment system.
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Location Takes Advantage of Region’s Strength of Innovation and Quality to Collaborate on Solutions for Green IT, Enterprise SOA and Virtualization; Joins Original Lab in Palo Alto to Foster Co-Innovation with SAP Ecosystem of Partners and Customers

SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) today announced the opening of a second SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Ohtemachi, Tokyo, Japan. Joining the first co-innovation lab, located in Palo Alto, California, the addition further broadens efforts by SAP to work with software solution partners, technology partners, service partners and customers to accelerate the innovation and delivery of solutions designed to address industry-specific business issues for companies around the world.

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TMS320DM335 processor features advanced image capture and HD display capabilities to provide rich content for new class of portable electronics

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced its lowest-cost digital media processor, the TMS320DM335 device, for applications driven by advanced image capture and display requirements. Consumers will now be able to have enhanced interaction with their electronic devices such as Internet radio, e-books, video surveillance products and digital telescopes through feature-rich graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Powered by an ARM926EJ-S(TM) core up to 270 MHz, the DM335 digital media processor integrates a video processing subsystem (VPSS) so developers can easily add high-definition video display at 720p on their new class of portable applications.

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Phoenix Technologies Ltd., the global leader in core systems software, today announced support for the new energy-efficient 45nm Intel Core2 Duo Processor T9400 optimized for embedded applications.

Intel’s new hafnium-based 45nm Hi-k silicon process technology enables even more processor performance by doubling transistor density and increasing cache size by up to 50 percent. The Intel Core2 Duo processor T9400, validated with the Mobile Intel GM45 Express chipset, provides excellent processor and graphics performance, storage speed, system memory and reliability, making it ideal for a broad range of embedded applications.

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InPlay Technologies (NASDAQ: NPLA) has received a conditional purchase order for its dual-mode, digital pen-and-touch solution from a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer. InPlay’s technology has met a full range of rigorous testing and is designed into an updated line of rugged tablet PCs. The purchase order is contingent upon successful completion of pre-production qualification.

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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown came into office in 2006 pledging to reduce his city’s crime rate. Today, two years later, city police are using a wireless video surveillance system that goes well beyond traditional security cameras. The rapidly deployable, real-time video surveillance solution from Firetide and Avrio Group helped police make their first five arrests while the installation was still in progress. The suspects were caught on camera burglarizing a convenience store just ten hours after the police camera was installed nearby.

“The response to this program has been positive from day one as citizens have seen an immediate impact from it,” said Mayor Brown. “We plan to expand the system with 40 additional cameras by the end of the year.”

The city has received more than 50 calls from Buffalo citizens requesting cameras on their street corners. Other municipalities that have publicly announced installations of Firetide wireless surveillance networks include Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, West Palm Beach, Fla., and Los Angeles County.

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Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX), a major supplier of semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment and services, today introduced the 2300 Versys Kiyo3x conductor etch series. Innovative Kiyo3x technologies deliver CD uniformity of 1 nm across the wafer, which provides enabling capability for managing the challenging CD and overlay budgets of emerging double patterning applications. Kiyo3x field-upgradeable options provide a flexible, cost-effective approach for addressing a rapidly diverging range of challenging etch applications, including high-k/metal gate, hardmask open, shallow trench isolation, and strained silicon.

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