Headlines for June 16th, 2009
Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by [modern media mom] in Lastest Headlines, Latest News, Links & Resources
- Two to Love | Wii Tennis Scores Style – TWO NEW TENNIS GAMES FOR Wii: “Grand Slam Tennis” from EA Sports features 23 pro characters, including 11 retired legends like John McEnroe, rendered in his prime with big hair, short shorts and a wooden racket, and Chris Evert, wearing a blue hair bow, bangs and retro kicks. “Virtua Tennis 2009″ from Sega has contemporary pros, photorealistic graphics and the creepy ability to engineer cyborg-like players down to their eyebrows (choose from eight contemporary shapes). But what may be the best new feature for Wii-obsessed fashionistas comes from “Grand Slam Tennis”: a calorie counter.
- Here come the mobile payment wars – “Some would say our cell phone bills are high enough already. But two emerging start-ups are hoping to make mobile devices a hub for one of the hottest trends on the Web: micropayments.”
- Google scrambles over Microsoft Bing – Reports have it that Google co-founder Sergey Brin was so rattled by Microsoft’s Bing search engine that a team of top engineers have been assembled in put together some “urgent upgrades” to Google’s search engine. Underscoring the difference this time around, the New York Post spoke to an anonymous insider, who noted, “New search engines have come and gone in the past 10 years, but Bing seems to be of particular interest to Sergey.”
- More Americans Go To Facebook Than MySpace – “Facebook bypassed MySpace in terms of total U.S. visitors for the first time in May, as Facebook’s popularity in terms its user base continued to rise.”
- Senators press FCC to examine exclusive cell phone deals – “Are you annoyed that you can’t get an iPhone on Verizon, or an Android G1 on Sprint? So are certain members of the US Senate, who have written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking it to review the legality of wireless exclusivity agreements. If the FCC finds that such agreements limit competition and choice, Congress may consider passing legislation to help balance things out.”
- Opera Unite Puts File Sharing in the Browser – “On Tuesday, Opera released Opera Unite, a technical preview of a service that turns the Opera browser into a Web server for file sharing and streaming.”
