Nintendo profits sink on Wii woes
Japanese video game giant Nintendo revealed on Thursday that the company has seen a drop in the profits and has slashed its full-year forecasts as sales of its blockbuster Wii video game console have dropped as well due to the lack of new games!
Initially quite resilient to the global economic downturn as compared to the other companies in the same industry, Nintendo, declared that the company’s interim net profit fell more than half to USD 770 million.
One of the top players in the multi-billion dollar gaming industry, Nintendo, sold 5.75 million Wii machines worldwide in this period, down from 10.1 million a year earlier. In an attempt to boost sales, Nintendo recently cut the price of the Wii by a fifth. This move also sharply affected the company’s profits.
The Kyoto-based company lowered its forecast for net profit in the full year to March 2010 to 230 billion yen, from an earlier projection of 300 billion yen, a 17.6 per cent decrease! Nintendo now expects to sell 20 million Wii consoles this year, down from a previous estimate of 26 million.
Amazon hopes to simplify Web shopping
Soon you’ll not have to go through the tedious process of typing in your name, address and credit card number when you buy things online next! Thanks to amazon.com!
Amazon.com is simplifying online purchase process by letting you shop online with short phrase codes and identification numbers! This new service from Amazon.com, called the Amazon PayPhrase was unveiled on Thursday.
This new system from the online shopping giant gives the option to store your credit card number and shipping address with Amazon. Further you can select a phrase to represent your stored information plus an ID number! Then you can enter that phrase and PIN instead of giving a credit card and address to buy things on Amazon. Some of the other online shopping websites will also accept this PayPhrase system.
Amazon says that approach is designed to simplify the online shopping process. Its simpler and more flexible as it allows the customers to set up multiple phrases and ID numbers to one credit card!
The transactions are processed by Amazon, which earns a commission each time someone uses PayPhrase on a third-party website.
Google puts songs a click away in search
Here’s something new from Google, this time for all you music lovers out there!
A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. on Wednesday will now offer the U.S. searchers music, full length song, on just one click!
This new feature from the Mountain view, California based company brings up to four top songs from the search results. Once you selected a song, it’ll be played on pop-up music players from MySpace or Lala. The search results are also accompanied by album art and links to music sites Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody. Internet users can search by artist name, album or song title and can even access a song by typing in part of its lyrics.
R.J. Pittman, Google’s director of product management says, “Within that mission of trying to make music search easier is to keep it simple, exercising great restraint in the design of this is what’s going to maximize its adoption.”
This will next also give you an option to buy song downloads from Amazon.com Inc. or Apple Inc.’s iTunes.
Sony Ericsson launches 3 smartphones
One of the top mobile maker companies, Sony Ericsson has launched three new smartphones in the Indian market, priced between Rs16,950 and Rs35,950.
With the new trensy handsets, namely, Satio, Aino and Yari, the company aims to set the trend for the new age smartphones, the president of Sony Ericsson Mobile India, Anil Sethi said.
He added that the company now aims to focus on the smart phone category for the next two-three years to boost its sales. “Once the 3G spectrum allocation happens, we can roll out more features with better network,” Sethi said.
Built on Sony Ericsson’s strengths in music, imaging, gaming, applications and content services, the new phones aim to rejuvenate the entertainment aspect for its users, the company declared.
The Satio, priced at Rs 35,950, comes with a 3.5-inch screen and offers a 16:9 widescreen format with 12.1 megapixel camera. The Aino offers services to access content stored on a PlayStation 3 from anywhere in the world through a Wi-Fi connection. In addition, this also offers remote play access to videos, television shows and photos. The mobile has an eight megapixel camera and is priced at Rs 28,950.
Yari enables users to make the moves in front of the screen and play games without even touching the phone. The Phone comes with a five megapixel camera and is priced at Rs 16,950.
Disney iPhone app makes photos the key to content
Now here is something new and exciting! The Walt Disney Co. is releasing an iPhone application that will now reward you for poking through the Disney.com website. This might also one day offer you exclusive bonuses for activities such as shopping at Disney Stores!
This free application from Walt Disney debuts in the iTunes application stores on Wednesday. This feature called Click2Life offers bonus animations to its users who follow clues to take cell-phone pictures of characters from movies such as “Up,” “G-Force,” “Ratatouille,” and “Wall-E” on the website.
Further, taking a correct picture will help you unlock an exclusive video and downloadable content such as frame images that can be overlaid on photos, or wallpaper images for cell phone screens.
In the near future, Walt Disney said it can also roll out exclusive bonus content to be delivered to phones based on their location.
Jason Davis, vice president of Disney.com, said the main purpose of the app was to deepen fan relationships with Disney characters. “We treat it just as a unique content experience.”
Google expands availability of its free voice mail
Google is brimming with ideas to woo the internet audience! In the company’s latest attempt to expand its grip and become a bigger player in the telecommunications aspect, the internet search giant is now offering people a chance to send calls to their cell phones into a free voice mail service unveiled earlier this year.
This new option by the Mountain View, California based company was introduced on Tuesday. This voice mail feature will be a part of Google Voice, a promising service striving to become a hub for phone calls to people’s mobile, home and office numbers.
Google has come up with this all new way to tie existing mobile phone numbers to its voice mail service. The process requires a few steps outlined at http://www.google.com/voice .
According to Vincent Paquet, a senior product manager, “We see this as a perfect step for getting familiar with Google Voice without a lot of change.”
However the users opting to stick with their existing phone numbers won’t be able to take advantage of all Google Voice features, such as directing calls to a home or office number. Also, among the certain other new features, Google’s voice mail service automatically transcribes messages and lets users customize greetings for frequent callers.
Google to launch Chrome OS
Google is now thinking a step forward, this time a giant leap to capture users!
After having challenged Microsoft’s Internet Explorer already with the launch of its browser Chrome, the internet search giant is now planning the launch of its very own new computer operating system to compete directly with the Windows platform!
Google’s own OS, the Chrome OS, was designed initially for low-cost netbooks. This will now offer its program code to developers across the globe and create another ‘open source’ competition for the software giant, Microsoft.
Nokia, SAP to form new company
Nokia Oyj and SAP announced on Tuesday that the two companies are looking forward to a partnership. The two announced that they would be soon establishing a new company providing brand owners technological services to fight multi-billion dollar counterfeit and private product businesses, Original1.
The new firm, Original1, will be headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and will be headed by Claudia Alsdorf, who is currently the vice president of SAP Research. The new company is expected to begin operations before the end of the year 2009.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Nokia’s general manager for Commerce, Corporate Development, Antti-Jussi Suominen said, “We see a big business opportunity in brand protection services.”
Both the companies, Nokia and SAP will hold 40 per cent of the new company, while the third partner, German firm Giesecke & Devrient, will hold the remaining 20 percent.
In the partnership, Original1’s services will rely on SAP technology and solutions, while Nokia will deliver mobile authentication software and Giesecke & Devrient will offer security solutions for the entire value chain, the companies said.
Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities
On Tuesday, Yahoo! closed its free web hosting service called GeoCities. GeoCities is known to be one of the company’s most speculated purchase for over three billion dollars that too at the height of the dot-com boom.
In a message at the GeoCities’ websitwe, the California based company announced, “We have enjoyed hosting websites created by Yahoo! users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built.”
It further added, “However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways.”
Yahoo! Also announced that the internet search giant is discontinuing its GeoCities service and instead the users can set up their new online homes at its paid web hosting service. This gives them an introductory offer of USD 5 only for the first one year.
The move to shut down GeoCities comes a week after Yahoo! reported that aggressive cost-cutting efforts from the company has helped it triple its net profit despite a 12 per cent decline in revenue in the third quarter.
The internet giant’s net profit saw a rise of more than 244 per cent in the quarter to USD 186 million from 54 million dollars as compared to the figures a year ago.
WOWD, the real-time search engine
With an aim to be identified as the Skype for search, the beta version of WOWD, the Internet’s newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
WOWD aims to distinguish itself from the popular mainstream search engines like Google and Yahoo! by identifying the most popular sites in real-time and hence wooing the internet search audience.
WOWD is a deliberate play on the word Crowd as it aims to differ from the rest by focusing on new trends, news, and popular topics and pages on the Internet.
In a method little similar to Digg, the internet users download WOWD browser application, and then every page visited by them is nominated for inclusion on the search engine’s results page.
The WOWD browser application is available for the Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The home page of WOWD offers three different tabs, Hot List, Search, and My Pages. The Hot List is available to everyone and results by popularity. Results are constantly updated giving you an update on the sites being visited by other users.
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