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Curse, another online company that offers social networking around multi-player online games, has received a $5 million in a first round of venture capital funding.

Curse offers gamers the standard social networking features around their games, from image and video uploading, to blogging, social bookmarking, wikis, databases, forums and guild website hosting.

The funding, which comes from France’s AGF Private Equity and other individual investors, follows more than $800,000 in angel money, the company said in a statement. It also comes as venture capitalists are pumping money into a other companies doing similar things, from Multiverse, which provides a way for developers to produce their own games, to Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning’s Rupture, a more direct competitor that also builds social networking around existing games.

Gaming remains hot. Silicon Valley angel investor Jeff Clavier recently told us he’d resumed investing in Internet companies again after a brief hiatus at the end of last year, in part because of the promise of online gaming.

Source: VentureBeat, Blogforward

Fosfor Gadgets released TOP10  of most beautiful cellphones. We will just summarize them here quickly:

I would prefer a more glossy look, but the W32H from Hitachi is still a beautiful phone. Each phone comes with some snap-on accessories that can change the looks of it. The phone is available in black, white and orange and three different snap-on accessories.
Hitachi W42H phone changes with your day [mobilemag.com]
W42H Special site [hitachi.co.jp] (Japanese)

The Samsung SGH-E900 was first shown at the CeBIT in Hannover earlier this year and it got quite a lot of attention - especially from the fashion and design oriented media. It’s a true beauty and I guess LG weren’t too happy to see this one only a few months before they introduced their Chocolate model.
Samsung SGH-E900 Trandy Phone [mobilewhack.com]

The Talby is a quite old phone. It was first shown as a product concept back in 2003 and garnered a lot of attention during a couple of years. The Tably is available in three colors, hornet green, orange orange and hole black. The Talby is only available in Japan.
KDDI Talby [kddi.com]

The O2 Ice was actually the phone that was the inspiration to this article. It’s a small stylish 3G phone that has the usual built-in MP3 player, 1.3 megapixel camera, bluetooth etc. It’ll be out in September in the UK for around $200.
O2 Ice [gadgetcandy.com]

The Samsung SGH-E870 is a nice looking clamshell phone coming in three different colors Chic White, Valentine Pink and Chilli blue. It’s primarily aimed towards girly-girls. Nice design, or what do you say?
Samsung’s Pink SGH-E870 Clamshell Phone [chipchick.com]

The Neon is one of the latest phones coming out from the AU Design project at KDDI. It’s available in three colors, light blue, pink and black. It has a built-in 1.3 megapixel camera, miniSD slot, music player, FM tuner and a 320×240 screen. I love the clean front of this phone!
KDDI Neon [kddi.com]

Black Diamond is a luxury phone that isn’t out on the market yet. It’s supposed to be launched early 2007 from a company called VIPN. On their site they promote a limited edition of the phone made out of titanium and with real diamonds - only $300 000. Crazy.
Black Diamond [jarengoh.com]

The Helio Kickflip is small and stylish, but it’s still loaded with a 2 megapixel camera, 2.2&Prime screen (320×240) and 3G capabilities. But most of all - it’s a truly beautiful cellphone!
Helio Kickflip [helio.com]

I have the pleasure of owning a LG Chocolate and it’s a pure beauty. I really love the design of it and it’s one of the most stylish phones you can get at the moment. This phone won the 2006 IF Design Award in Germany.
LG KG-800 [gadgets.fosfor.se]

The PENCK phone designed by Makoto Saito is one and a half years old, but it’s still the most beautful phone ever made. The PENCK is available in three colors, metal, milk (white), and bitter (black). Too bad it’s only available in Japan.
KDDI Penck [kddi.com]

About 500 images was published atr Funny Cats Gallery 

Check it out and don’t say you were serious while watching this.

Sony’s new NSC-GC1 Net-sharing camcorder is targeted specifically at YouTube users who want a quality picture ranging from QVGA (320×240) at 15 frames per second to VGA (640×480) at 30 frames per second. Your videos will record to Sony’s Memory Stick DUO memory cards and the included Picture Motion Browser and portable software makes uploading videos a cinch. If you like your camcorders to take still shots as well, the camcorder also doubles as a 5-megapixel still camera with a built-in flash.

Besides the basics, the Sony camcorder doesn’t capture movies in 30 fps and it doesn’t sport an optical zoom lens. But if you’re looking for a nice enough product and you don’t mind spending $200 to have it, this camcorder might be perfect for you when it hits shelves in September.

Source: AkihabaraNews

While the PDA has existed as a sort of mini-PC for years, Microsoft said it would encourage phone manufacturers to formalize the transition of the phone to a mobile PC through a research initiative called “Fone+”.

While the PDA has existed as a sort of mini-PC for years, Microsoft said it would encourage phone manufacturers to formalize the transition of the phone to a mobile PC.

Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a research project called “Fone+” that would allow the phone to work with a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video stored on the device to be played back on the television.

For Microsoft, the challenge is extending the PC platform into new applications and form factors. For many years, the WinHEC confeerence here has served as the underlying foundation for hardware initiatives for the Tablet PC and the more recent UMPC, both of which have struggled. Microsoft’s penetration into the smartphone market, however, has been more successful.

“There’s no reason that if this thing were hooked up to a large display that we couldn’t watch video in this environment,” Mundie said.

In a separate demo, Mundie showed off a hypothetical environment where an illiterate third-world mother needed medical attention for her child. Using a cell phone and icons the mother was asked who in her family was sick, what the symptoms were, and guided her to a local infirmary where a USB-enabled PC kiosk, complete with USB blood pressure cuffs and stethoscope could provide a more complete diagnosis.

A Micronics portable “lab in a box” was also shown, which can take a drop of blood and perform molecular analysis to determine whether the patient is affected by a certain type of disease. The box, a product of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation healthcare grant, will be released in the “near future,” Mundie said.

In addition, software needs to be designed in context, with a knowledge of the devices around them, Mundie said. Data must be scaled to the server or phone, while the data must be able to be interacted with via keynoard, pen or even gestures.

Mundie said that Microsoft and its other software partners will have to be redesigned to take advantage of a “manycore” environment, where constantly increasing clock speeds in the microprocessor world is being replaced by multiple cores running at a maximum speed of about 3 GHz. To meet that challenge, software must be designed to run concurrently, with many parallel threads, he said.

Finally, Mundie said that Microsoft is working on increasing speculative execution, where the PC tries to anticipate what the user will want, rather than sitting idle and passively waiting for input. One example of this is Vista’s SuperFetch, which tries to “prelaunch” commonly used applications, Mundie said.

“I think that the Microsoft view is that the PC will continue to evolve in many radical ways including the most radical architectural changes in 30 years,” Mundie said. “I think that this will occur in about five years time.” The challenge for WinHEC attendees was to make that happen, he said.

Copyright 2007 by Ziff Davis Media, Distributed by United Press International

Source: Physorg

Internet radio - a market which seems to be heating up lately - is getting another entry to the game in Freecom’s latest device. The company has just announced its MusicPal WiFi radio, which can access up to 5,000 pre-programmed internet stations (or you can add your own), stream your MP3s and WAVs from your PC or network, and can be connected to your home stereo when it’s time to really party. The petite, stylish device runs on the Linux 2.6 kernel, has 802.11b/g and wired 10/100 RJ45 connectivity, and sports a 128×64 pixel monochrome LCD display. The MusicPal goes on sale in August for €129, although the company is taking pre-orders right now. Too bad royalties are poised to kill the internet radio star this Sunday.

Source: Engadget

We’ve proud to share Arthur de Pins link to you – very much interesting and picant illustrations. 

Amid challenges getting enough foreign programmers admitted into the U.S., Microsoft plans this fall to open a development center in Canada.
The new software development center will open somewhere in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area and will be “home to software developers from around the world,” Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday.
“The Vancouver area is a global gateway with a diverse population, is close to Microsoft’s corporate offices in Redmond and allows the company to recruit and retain highly skilled people affected by immigration issues in the U.S.,” Microsoft said.
The announcement of Microsoft’s Canadian plans follows the failure of an immigration bill that would have expanded the number of foreign high-tech workers that could have come to the country each year under so-called H1-B visas.
High-tech companies have been pushing hard to get Congress to increase the number of visas they are allotted. In separate Capitol Hill appearances, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates made a strong plea for unlimited H-1B visas, while a Google executive credited the company’s success to foreigners and called for expanded ability to hire them.
But so far, a broader feud has killed two attempts by the U.S. Senate to overhaul the immigration system, including a bump in the H-1B quota from a base level of 60,000 to at least 115,000. Silicon Valley wasn’t pleased with all of the bill, but it was also counting on passage of amendments that would provide greater assurances that green cards for permanent residency come through and create new exemptions for foreigners with advanced degrees.

Now companies are left to hope that their congressional allies will pass standalone bills, severed from the larger immigration debate, to accomplish those tasks. Although a number of senators have indicated support for the tech industry’s goals, others have taken an arguably more measured approach, proposing bills aimed at curbing H-1B abuse while upping the quota.
Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said that while the immigration issue was a factor, the company would be opening the center in Vancouver even if it were not for the immigration challenges. That said, Vancouver is particularly attractive since it is a short drive from Redmond, Wash., but not bound by U.S. immigration policies.
“It does help us address that challenge we have in the United States of hiring very qualified people, many of whom are graduating from schools in the U.S., but who cannot acquire the necessary documentation to work in the U.S.,” Gellos said.
Microsoft plans to start with a couple of hundred workers, but is looking for a spot “with room to grow,” Gellos said. “We haven’t finalized the actual facility or the site yet,” he said. “Once we get an indication of where we can do the center, that will help us to clarify the numbers.”
The software maker currently has just over 900 workers in Canada, most of whom are based in Toronto, where Microsoft has its local subsidiary as well as sales, marketing and some development staff. There is also a sales office in Vancouver.

Microsoft’s move is hardly its first venture offshore. While the bulk of its workers are in the greater Seattle area, Microsoft has expanded its development efforts in recent years, adding efforts in Denmark, Israel, India, China and the United Kingdom, among other locales. Microsoft recently announced plans to expand operations in Bellevue, Wash., near its Redmond campus, and in Fargo, N.D. The company also has development efforts in North Carolina and Silicon Valley.
Microsoft Canada President Phil Sorgen said his unit had long pushed Canada as a great place for the software maker to do development work.

“We have burgeoning high-tech and software industries and a globally envied quality of life, and our cities represent exactly the kind of environment that leading information workers want to live in,” he said in a statement. “This center will help Microsoft remain globally competitive while providing strong economic benefits to British Columbia and Canada.”

Source: ExtraTech, CNET

New creative set was posted: Worth to see without any doubt!

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