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“…we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.”

Sony – http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/latest-info-on-playstation-network-status/

Flat-fee deals for mobile broadband will be a thing of the past if global networks are to meet their full potential, according to Ericsson chief executive Hans Vestberg, who compared the mobile market today with that for electrical power in its early days.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20100216/ttc-mwc-2010-flat-fee-mobile-data-under-6315470.html

Although netbooks are small today – maybe 10% of the PC market at most – we believe over the next several years that could completely change around and that could be 90% of the PC market

Warren East (ARM CEO)

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction. By 150, it’s clear that that’s not going to scale, and you’ve got to find some way to keep everybody going in productive directions when you’re not in the room.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31corner.html

Im Moment würden weltweit täglich eine Milliarde Videos über das Portal angeschaut; bei einem Siebtel davon – also eine Milliarde Videos pro Woche – flössen Werbegelder an YouTube und darüber an die Rechteinhaber der Videos.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/YouTube-plant-Streams-von-Live-Konzerten-gegen-Gebuehr-912027.html

There will be over 360mn households worldwide which own the components necessary to access over-the-top (OTT) video services on their TV by 2014

The Diffusion Group

The problem we have today with flat-based usage is that you are trying to encourage customers to be efficient in use and applications but you are getting some people who are bandwidth hogs using gigabytes a month and they are paying something like megabytes a month. That isn’t long-term sustainable. Why should customers using an average amount of bandwidth be subsidizing bandwidth hogs?

Dick Lynch, EVP & CTO, Verizon Communications

China overtook Germany as the world’s top exporter after December exports jumped 17.7 percent for their first increase in 14 months, data showed Sunday, in another sign of China’s rise as a global economic force.

Associated Press

Once Google is finished rolling Gizmo5 into Google Voice, the resulting product on Nexus One will raise Google’s profile as a carrier- and network-independent provider of IP-based telephony services (voice, voicemail, SMS, directory services, etc.).

Arstechnica

Zum ersten Mal seit 2002 haben US-Verbraucher im vergangenen Jahr wieder mehr Geld für Kinokarten ausgegeben als für Filme auf DVD. Laut bisher unveröffentlichter Zahlen von Marktforschern sei der Umsatz an den Kinokassen 2009 um 10 Prozent auf 9,87 Milliarden US-Dollar (6,9 Milliarden Euro) gestiegen

Heise Online