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The International Herald Tribune
IHT.com Tech Alert


Paris, Thursday, June 19, 2008

Spielberg looks to Bollywood for cash
Executives at DreamWorks SKG are in discussions with Reliance Entertainment, part of one of the largest conglomerates in India, about a cash infusion that would allow them to split from DreamWorks' parent, Paramount Pictures.

New iPhone signals an Apple defeat
Last week Apple said it was abandoning its unconventional sales deals and demands for operator revenues. That retreat marks a subtle yet significant victory for operators.

U.S. will trail emerging markets in media growth, study says
More opportunity is seen for Internet and mobile entertainment in countries like India and China, because people will be spending more and more on entertainment.

Firefox 3 breaks Mozilla browser download record
Mozilla's new Web browser, Firefox 3, the main rival to Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer, shattered the company's previous record by attracting more than 8.2 million downloads in its first 24 hours.

CD sales falling faster than digital music sales rise
Global music sales dropped 8 percent to $19.4 billion in 2007, with CD and DVD sales falling by 13 percent - unmatched by a rise in purchased downloads.

Crude? So what? These characters still find work in ads
Big brands have been borrowing for their marketing efforts characters from "Family Guy," which has been criticized for everything from anti-Semitism and sexism to homophobia.

The rise of social networking for people who are all business
In the midst of Silicon Valley's recession-proof enthusiasm for community-oriented Web sites, LinkedIn, the most boring of the social networks, is grabbing the spotlight.

The web that time forgot
The Mundaneum Museum in Belgium honors one of the first plans for a worldwide web of information, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of computers, or "electric telescopes."



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