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Media Year 2007 – Online Outstrips TV

Germany's media industry closes 2007 as a historic year: For the first time, consumers spent more time on the internet than in front of the television. This also confirms the forecast by media experts surveyed by MedienRat a year ago.
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28.11.2007
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ARD and ZDF Spent Too Much Money on Online

According to calculations by the KEF fees commission, the public-service broadcasters spent more money on internet- activities than they had granted themselves. ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio are said to have violated their self-commitment not to spend more than 0.75 percent of licence fee revenues on online
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28.11.2007
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The Rhine-Main area on demand: rheinmaintv introduces new video portal

With the website rheinmaintv-video.de, the regional television station based in Bad Homburg now offers the possibility of watching the majority of programs on demand on the Internet. In addition to the regional news program "rheinmain aktuell", magazines such as „rheinmain szene“ or „Around the Airport“, for example, are also available to viewers at any time after their television broadcast.
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16.11.2007
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German websites win “World Summit Award 2007”

Two German websites were honored this week in Venice with the “World Summit Award” (WSA). Both the German Bundestag website (e-Government category) and the Hessischer Rundfunk topic website about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials “End of Silence” (e-Culture category) are thus among the best websites in the world.
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12.11.2007
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9th International Eyes & Ears Awards

Around 700 guests celebrated the 32 prize winners and 96 finalists of the International Eyes & Ears Awards last Thursday. For the ninth time, industry association Eyes & Ears of Europe presented the distinction as part of Medientage München. The two special prizes "Innovation" and "Effectiveness" went to 20th Century Fox and ProSieben respectively. Robert Wilson received the Eyes & Excellence Award.
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12.11.2007
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MMOG phenomenon

Between social interaction, competition and marketing: The online worlds of Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) at GAMEplaces on November 21.
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12.11.2007
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ARD wants to further expand Internet offerings

ARD wants to further expand its Internet offering despite criticism from private broadcasters and newspaper publishers. «Public-service broadcasting cannot be forbidden from taking place online,» said ARD Chairman Fritz Raff. At the convention of the German Journalists’ Association (DJV) on Tuesday in Saarbrücken, he warned against «cutting public-service broadcasting off from the coming generations.»
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08.11.2007
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Official music video by Fantastischen Vier created by a MyVideo user for the first time

In an unprecedented campaign, Die Fantastischen Vier, together with MyVideo.de, Vodafone, ProSieben and Radio Energy, had the official music video for the new single from the album “Fornika” filmed by fans and creatives. Since the call two months ago at fanta4.myvideo.de, more than 300 clips were submitted in the first, three-week phase, a huge response when one considers the effort behind an animated video.
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07.11.2007
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WEB 3.0 – new Internet age. German company decodes Semantic Code

It sounds like a miracle: A German Internet user sits in front of his screen and searches for a special French wine from a very specific winegrower. The problem: He does not speak a word of French. A Spaniard searches for a bratwurst-manufacturer in Germany. His problem: He does not speak a word of German. The Arab searches for a special vodka in Russia, but does not speak Russian.
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26.10.2007
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Microsoft with strong increase in sales and profit

The world’s largest software group, Microsoft Corporation, sharply increased sales and profit in the first quarter of the current 2007/2008 financial year thanks to excellent business with its Vista operating system, Office software and entertainment division.
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26.10.2007
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King.com one of the fastest-growing companies in Great Britain

With a revenue increase of 184 percent compared with the previous year and annual revenue of more than 13 million pounds in 2006 (19 million euros), King.com has been included in the list of British TECH TRACK 100 companies for the first time. Innovative game ideas as well as the constantly growing popularity of online games are reasons for the record revenue.
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19.10.2007
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Virtual shopping mall has arrived in the present

Tradoria GmbH, a provider of online shopping solutions from Bamberg, presented a new portal especially for small and medium-sized companies at DEMO Germany in Munich. Via www.tradoria.de, retailers can not only operate their own online shop, but also centrally manage incoming payments and shipping processing at the same time.
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18.10.2007
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Used-car buyers rely on StolenCars24

StolenCars24 is developing into an important information tool both for buyers of used cars and for theft victims. Europe’s first database for stolen vehicles already recorded around 1,500 research queries in September, only three months after launch. In addition, the database grows by about 100 vehicles each month.
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18.10.2007
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Moviepilot finds films to the user’s taste

The new movie recommendation community moviepilot wants to become the first personalized, comprehensive Electronic Programm Guide (EPG) for cinema, DVD, TV, video-on-demand and IPTV. A first step has been taken with the cooperation with Internet giant T-Online.
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18.10.2007
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Internet hype 2007: The return to madness

Internet companies with unusual names, low revenues and few customers can once again be sold at high prices, writes the New York Times (NYT) according to pressetext. It seems as if investors have already forgotten the effects of the burst dot-com dreams from the beginning of the millennium.
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18.10.2007
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New service offerings for video e-mail solution

MailPerfect Europe AG, provider of Videonize, the next-generation e-mail system for sending video messages simply and directly, presents its customers and interested parties with a new pricing structure: With Videonize 1 YEAR FLAT, Videonize Mails with a recording length of up to 10 minutes each can be created and sent. Until December 31, 2007, the company charges an annual flat rate of 29.95 euros. Anyone who recommends Videonize and gains new customers in this way is rewarded with five euros for each new 1 YEAR FLAT customer.
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17.10.2007
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Web TV for consumer electronics launches

Digital Life TV, Internet television for the consumer-electronics industry, is online. In short TV reports and spots, the latest trends, innovations and developments in the industry are communicated internationally. Modern broadcasting technology and community mentality support international trade, connect decision-makers and at the same time offer the consumer a contemporary information tool.
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16.10.2007
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Legal music downloads grow by 37 percent

The boom in legal music downloads continues. In the third quarter of 2007 alone, 9.3 million digital products were downloaded from the Internet, media control reports. "The past quarter was the strongest single quarter in history," says Ulrike Altig, managing director of media control. The increase corresponds to 37.1 percent compared with the same period of the previous year.
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15.10.2007
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Spin.de rises into the top 3 social networks in Germany

The social network spin.de (spin.de) has now also officially risen into the top 3 German communities. According to the latest IVW evaluation, page impressions in September more than doubled compared with the previous month. This puts spin.de in third place in the social networks segment after StudiVZ and Lokalisten. With 309 million reported page impressions, the platform is among the top 15 of all German web offerings.
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15.10.2007
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Microsoft hesitates with Zune player in face of «difficult German market»

Microsoft will not compete against Apple’s iPod with its Zune music player in Germany in the short term. «The German market for MP3 players is one of the most difficult in the world». Stephan Brechtmann, who is responsible for the «Entertainment & Devices» division at Microsoft Germany, said this on Saturday at an information event in Kitzbühel.
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14.10.2007
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BIGPOINT receives the “Deloitte Technology Fast 50”- Award

Hamburg-based Bigpoint GmbH, a leading provider of browser-based online games (browser games), took second place at the “Deloitte Technology Fast 50” awards ceremony. With the “Deloitte Technology Fast 50”, auditing and consulting company Deloitte honors German companies that have demonstrated special entrepreneurship and innovative strength at a rapid pace.
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11.10.2007
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Concerns about ARD’s planned online «media library»

The «media library» planned by ARD is meeting with concerns at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery, which has the leading role in media policy. It must be examined whether the project for free downloading of television and radio programmes from the Internet is covered «in peripheral areas» by the state treaty.
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09.10.2007
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Kaspersky Lab presents its email top 20 for September 2007

The September rating was unable to confirm some forecasts by the virus experts at Kaspersky Lab: Contrary to expectations, the active spread of the Trojan Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.brk in August did not lead to the creation of a botnet, and the Warezov family is entirely absent from the September top 20.
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09.10.2007
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animago Trailer 2006 Online

The trailer for the animago AWARD 2006 has gone online and whets the appetite for this year's most important German-language 3D award. We have put the 2006 trailer online again.
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08.10.2007
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