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Headlines From Across Profectio & PR In Canada
Update: Wind Mobile Could Launch As Early As Next Week
Former Colour VP Launches New Agency
Wind Mobile Gets The Green Light, Will Become The Forth Wireless Provider In Canada
Facebook Fun: What Would You Get Tiger Woods For Christmas?
Metro iPhone Add Goes Bilingual
DAVE Wireless Kicks Off “Competition is Coming” Campaign
Who Is Canada’s Fastest Wireless Network? Should Canadians Sue Bell, Rogers And TELUS?
Campaign Corner – Your Work, Your Results
Golf Town Launches 12 Tweets of Christmas Campaign
Knowledge Center
Hitwise Says Google Has 71.6% Market Share of Search
Gadgets & Gear
Google Chrome For Mac Goes Prime Time, Google OS Will Be Next Step
Deal Flow – Mergers & Acquisitions
Stalemate With Cosmos Group, We Will Not Submit A Higher Bid To Acquire Cossette
Apple
Looks like Apple is getting ready for a battle as they announced they have counter sued Nokia who originally filed suit alleging that the iPhone infringes on GSM and wireless LAN related patents owned by the Finnish company.
Facebook Connect celebrated its 1st birthday and over 60,000 users worldwide. Facebook Connect is a system developed by the social networking site that can integrated into websites and blogs (any online property) that allows users to by-pass registration and leverage their Facebook profile id.
The social networking giant also updated their privacy tools for users, this caused quite a stir with security “experts” who question what will become of users information. Founder Mark Zuckerberg is also trying to show us that Facebook is safe as he’s made his profile publicly available.
One of their new services is Googles, which allows the user to take a phone using their mobile device Google will return search results of what the image is that you just sent. It is currently is only available on Google Android phones.
Speaking of Google and phones, more and more stories (and images) are starting to surface all over the Internet of what the Google phone will look like.
Last Monday they also announced a deal had been signed with Twitter to join the real-time web “revolution” and start to share search results from Twitter.
Microsoft
After Microsoft picked up an early Christmas gift for it self last week as they acquired Opalis Software, a maker of IT process automation technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Research In Motion
RIM, maker of the world famous Blackberry smartphone has followed Apple’s lead and signed a deal with to also sell their device in China as the manufacturer has signed with China Mobile.
Yahoo
Yahoo announced they are integrating Facebook Connect on their sites; it makes sense with 350+ million people around the world using Facebook why not make it as easy as possible for them to use and share information on Yahoo properties.
Taking a page of the Google play book, Yahoo also signed a deal with Twitter start and show search results from Twitter.
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