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Google and TomTom Team Up on Portable Navigation

The Washington Post
December 05, 2007 - A deal between Google Inc. and personal navigation company TomTom will allow users to find and send business addresses to their portable devices. Customers will be able to search for business addresses with Google maps and transfer the locations to their TomTom navigation device from their home computer. The agreement is designed to help facilitate trip planning from home....
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Vivendi and Activision Announce $18.9 Billion Merger

BusinessWeek
December 04, 2007 - The chief executive officers of Vivendi Games and Activision have announced a deal that would create the world’s largest video game publisher. The new company, to be called Activision Blizzard, would be worth $18.9 billion. Activision is known for creating the hit game franchises Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and Tony Hawk while Vivendi’s Blizzard Entertainment is responsible for the massively popular World of Warcraft....
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Motorola CEO Ed Zander Resigns

The Wall Street Journal
December 03, 2007 - Ed Zander has resigned his from his position as Chief Executive of Motorola Inc., to be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown. Zander, who led Motorola since 2003, recommended Greg Brown as his successor. The company hopes to regain ground against Nokia, the world’s number one manufacturer of cellular handsets....
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Xbox 360 Shows Impressive Thanksgiving Week Sales

San Jose Mercury News
December 03, 2007 - Microsoft announced that 310,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles were sold last week during the holiday shopping rush that included Black Friday. While the holiday sales were an impressive boost for Microsoft’s console, the Xbox still trailed behind Nintendo’s popular Wii console, which sold 350,000 over the same period....
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Toshiba Offering Carbon-Neutral Laptop

Ars Technica
December 03, 2007 - Toshiba is offering customers in the United Kingdom the opportunity to pay an extra £1.18, approximately $2.43, to make their laptop purchase carbon-neutral. Toshiba will plant a tree on behalf of each customer who chooses to make a carbon-neutral purchase....
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NEC Demonstrates Mobile Phone Translation Software

WIRED
December 03, 2007 - NEC demonstrated automatic translation software at a press conference on Friday, showing translation-capable software running on a mobile phone. Containing a 50,000 word dictionary, the software can translate only spoken Japanese into English text....
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Faster iPhone to Arrive in 2008

USA Today
December 03, 2007 - AT&T has announced that it will offer a faster version of the Apple iPhone in 2008. The new version of the handset will work on the 3G network, allowing for faster Web access. The current iPhone model works on a 2.5G network, or AT&T’s EDGE network....
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TiVo Wins Victory in Digital Video Recorder Ruling

Los Angeles Times
December 03, 2007 - A regulatory ruling by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on digital video recorder patents put an end to a challenge from TiVo competitor EchoStar Communications Corp. The ruling defends a set of TiVo patents that allow TiVo boxes to record, pause and rewind live television....
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Applications Due for 700 MHz Auction

The Washington Post
December 03, 2007 - Companies wishing to participate in the upcoming auction of the 700 MHz spectrum must file their applications by Monday, December 3rd. Major companies as well as startups are awaiting their chance to bid for a portion of the wireless spectrum that will be released by the nation’s transition to digital television in February 2009. Google announced on Friday that it will bid in the auction next year....
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Japanese University to Offer Course via Cellphone

USA Today
November 30, 2007 - Cyber University, a Japanese university which offers its entire course catalog online, has begun offering a class on the pyramids that students can attend via their mobile phone. Students ‘attend’ a lecture of PowerPoint images accompanied by the professor’s voice over the handset’s speakers. ...
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