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Flander Oy, a Finnish company based wireless technology, has introduced two new wireless connectivity solutions, Socket Cordless Hand Scanner and Information Display System at CeBIT 2004 held in Hannover, Germany, 1918-1924 03 Symbian OS was developed and is marketed in Flanders by Socket Communications, Inc., and the Socket Cordless Hand Scanner.

Cordless Hand Scanner in one of the phones with Symbian OS for Nokia mobile phone to communicate with Bluetooth phones to add new functionality to a wide range of possible applications in business use.

Info display, developed and marketed by Flanders to handle advertising and information displays remotely via GPRS, which offers completely new opportunities for targeted advertising. AA ‘wireless connectivity solutions at CeBIT

It seems only a matter of time before the Internet’s version of Clash of the Titans  occurs between Google and Facebook. The latest development in this pending collision is a report that Google is negotiating with major game developers for the social media space as part of a move to launch a competitor to Facebook, which recently topped the 500 million mark in membership. Playdom, Electronic Arts, Playfish, and the Zynga Game Network are among the companies reported by the Wall Street Journal in talks with Google.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Google is huddling with game developers, especially if it intends to launch its so-called “Google Me”  Facebook alternative. Social games are hotter than a poker in a blast furnace and would be important to fattening the bottom line of any new Facebook competitor. One of Facebook’s most popular games, Zynga’s Farmville, attracts 60 million active members a month. What’s more, it’s estimated that players in Asia spend billions of dollars on the games, while in the United States, ThinkEquity  pegs social gaming revenues at $700 million in 2009 and predicts those revenues will triple by 2012. Those fat numbers are not only attractive to Google, but to entertainment heavyweights, too, like Disney, which just purchased Playdom for $563.2 million, plus another $200 million for meeting performance incentives.

An alternative to Facebook would be welcomed by many game developers, looking for a better deal for their wares. Currently, Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of the revenues made by games that use its service. Indeed, the need to diversify has motivated one of Facebook’s biggest game developers, Zynga, to cut a deal with Yahoo, and open its doors to a $100 million investment by Google.

In the pending clash of titans, the question remains whether Google can hold its own when it strays into Facebook’s turf. If the search giant’s foray with Google Buzz into Twitter’s territory is any indication of the outcome of such a clash, betting folks had best put their chips on Facebook.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu insisted the value of the Chinese yuan was not the main reason for China’s trade surplus with the US.

Mr Obama vowed to ensure that countries were not giving their currencies an unfair advantage over the dollar.

Ties between the US and China have been strained over an arms deal with Taiwan.

Tensions have also risen over reports of Chinese cyber attacks on US-run websites and a planned visit to the US by the Dalai Lama.

Trade agreements

US companies have long complained that China keeps its currency artificially undervalued, allowing a steady flow of cheap exports around the world.

At a meeting with Senate Democrats, Mr Obama was asked whether the US would cut ties with Beijing over continuing trade disputes.

He said he would continue to make sure that China and other countries abided by trade agreements, but warned it would be a mistake for the US to become protectionist.

“The approach that we’re taking is to try to get much tougher about the enforcement of existing rules (more…)

Monster, best known for its online employment website, has just announced that it has acquired Yahoo HotJobs from the Internet giant for $225 million in cash. Yahoo and Monster have also entered a 3 year traffic deal as part of the acquisition.

Yahoo’s HotJobs service works as you might expect any job website to function. However, the power of the Yahoo brand and some useful job hunting tools have made it one of the world’s largest job recruiting websites. Monster, while larger, stands to benefit in terms of traffic and new users.

The deal gives Monster control over the assets behind Yahoo HotJobs, along with a three year deal that makes Monster the official tool for career and job content on Yahoo, including on its highly-trafficked home page (more…)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will cut about 11,200 jobs at Sam’s Club warehouses as it turns over the task of in-store product demonstrations to an outside marketing company.

The move is an effort to improve sales at Sam’s Club, which has underperformed the company’s namesake stores in the U.S. and abroad.

The cuts represent about 10 percent of the warehouse club operator’s 110,000 staffers across its 600 stores. That includes 10,000 workers, mostly part-timers, who offer food samples and showcase products to customers. The company also eliminated 1,200 workers who recruit new members.

Employees were told the news at mandatory meetings on Sunday morning.

“In the club channel, demo sampling events are a very important part of the experience,” said Sam’s Club CEO Brian Cornell in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “Shopper Events specializes in this area and they can take our sampling program to (more…)

China has said that foreign internet firms are welcome to do business there “according to the law”

The statement, from Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu, is Beijing’s first response to Google’s threat to stop filtering content in China.

Google said cyber-attacks originating in China aimed at rights activists, and increased web censorship, might force it to end its China operations.

Ms Jiang insisted the internet was “open” in China.

Google announced late on Tuesday that it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine – google.cn.

The search engine said it would hold talks with the government in the coming weeks to look at operating an unfiltered search engine within the law in the country, though no changes to filtering have yet been made.

‘Holding statement’

At a regular foreign ministry news briefing, Ms Jiang said: “China like other countries administers the internet according to law.

“China’s internet is open, and the Chinese government encourages development of the internet.” (more…)