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Archive for February, 2008

Finnish company Nokia has started on-line game service N-Gage for mobile devices. Through service N-Gage users can communicate with friends, read reviews, load demonstration versions of games and buy the liked software products (mobile phones Nokia N73, N81/N81 8GB are supported, N95/N95 8GB and a number of other models, which list will extend).

Service N-Gage should open in November of the last year. Then start of a site has been transferred on the end of December and again postponed prior to the beginning of current year, informs Reuters.

Simultaneously with start N-Gage new social network Share on Ovi has been opened allowing users to exchange a various content by means of a mobile phone or an ordinary computer. Service is constructed on the basis of technologies of American company Twango which Nokia has got in the past to year. Universal platform Twango, enables users to organize, transfer and store multimedia files, and also allows developers to create accompanying appendices and to integrate them with other on-line services.

Let's remind, that game service N-Gage and social network Share on Ovi are a part of platform Ovi (in Finnish means "door"). Within the limits of project Ovi company Nokia plans to give to users access to various interactive a web-services. One of components of initiative Ovi - new musical shop Nokia Music Store.

Corporation Microsoft has suggested to get for 44,6 billion dollars of one of leaders the Internet-search company Yahoo. Decision Microsoft is caused by necessity to make a competition of company Google on which share it is necessary more than 60 % of search inquiries on the Internet. Search service Yahoo 13 % of users, and Microsoft - use almost only 2,9 %.

For each action Yahoo president Microsoft Steve Balmer has offered 31 dollar that exceeds market cost of securities popular the Internet-portal on 62 %. Steve Balmera's offer promoted growth of the price of actions Yahoo in one and a half time, informs АР.

Bill Gates's company has suggested shareholders Yahoo to exchange the actions either for cash, or on actions Microsoft. In case of the consent the Internet-giant, half of sum of the transaction half - cash will be paid by actions, and.

Experts in the field of the Internet-marketing consider that tandem Microsoft-Yahoo " basically can become competitor Google in the given segment of the market (search systems), however on it greater expenses " be required. Thus experts have declared, that association of the companies can " introduce set of innovations that is good help " on the market.

Last years company Yahoo gradually loses the positions. In 2007 the net profit of the company has decreased on 12 % in this connection management Yahoo has declared the future reduction of staff.