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Microsoft has teamed with Hollywood production company Safran to create original content available only to owners of its Xbox 360 gaming console, the two companies announced Monday. Safran has helmed the production several films, including "Scary Movie," and it has produced recent films such as "Mee...

AT&T will launch AT&T Mobile TV on Qualcomm's MediaFLO in May. The service will be available on two new handsets available exclusively at AT&T, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access. AT&T Mobile TV will offer full-length TV content and sporting events from CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does it cost to edit the picture with Photoshop? As of right now, the only cost is Internet access with a modern Web browser. Adobe Systems has launched an online photo editing tool that's free to anyone who wants to edit, store, sort and show off their d...

Microsoft has opened up its Contacts application programming interface for the Windows Live platform, which will allow third-party developers to build applications that transfer and share contact information across various social networks. The move -- part of a larger strategy to adopt an open API s...

Google, Yahoo and MySpace are forming the nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation to support Google's OpenSocial platform, which allows developers to build software that can run on different social networks. The companies want to "ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-gover...

Google has introduced a new set of tools to let Google Docs users amp up their online documents -- particularly their spreadsheets. Gadgets for spreadsheets now lets users embed graphical representations of their data directly in their spreadsheets, as well as publish the gadgets on the Web. The too...

Alec Saunders has 1,400 people he calls "friends," at least on Facebook. Some are truly friends from his real life -- many are business contacts, and some are people he met online. Until today, Saunders -- who founded Iotum, developer of the popular Free Conference Calling application for Facebook -...

There's a winner in the high-stakes mobile TV market in Europe, although the issue is far from decided in other global markets. On Monday, the European Commission said it was backing Finland-based Nokia's Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld as its choice for mobile TV technology across Europe. DVB-H...

Traditional advertising business models may not sustain the news business as companies -- and independent bloggers -- seek out niche markets, found a study conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The State of the News Media study focused on seven areas: restructuring content, emerging...

Nortel debuted a new optical network technology designed to provide four times the capacity of current systems and as much as 10 times the capacity in the future. The 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine boosts transmissions from 10 gigabits per second to 40 Gbps, and will go as high as 100 Gbps by the ...

YouTube has opened up its application programming interfaces to the world. This will let developers build what amounts to their own mini-YouTubes on their Web sites, blogs or Wikis. "We now support upload, other write operations and internationalized standard feeds," wrote Stephanie Liu of the YouTu...

After a tumultuous weekend filled with mobile social network culture clashing with panel discussions and keynotes, the discourse at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival returned to civility as attendees' attention returned to the variety of platforms available for content creat...

Paramount Pictures and developer FanRocket have teamed to bring Paramount movie clips to Facebook's user profile pages. Using the third-party developer's VooZoo application, available Monday, subscribers to the social networking site will have access to clips from a gamut of films including "Forest ...

The South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival kicked off last weekend as roughly 9,000 Web designers, Web developers, academics, bloggers and social media participants gathered for the five-day event. The 15-year-old conference features scores of panelists throughout the day, the Screen...

Mark Zuckerberg, 23-year-old Facebook founder, and technology journalist Sarah Lacy squared off with angry attendees who were upset with the direction -- and style -- of the much publicized keynote conversation. Back-channel conversations driven by the mobile messaging application Twitter -- which a...

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