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Shopping Virtuel à New York
Je serai à New York la semaine prochaine pour quelques jours, et voyageant sans mon mari, je passerai mon temps avec mes copines à faire les boutiques, dans la ville pour moi qui est la Mecque du shopping. Mais pour ne pas me disperser et pour optimiser mon temps sur place, comme avant chaque voyage, je passe d'abord du temps à visiter les grands magasins virtuellement sur Internet.

Emily Turrettini pour Les Quotidiennes

textually.org

Canadians get Vancouver Olympics Text Alerts
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Text messaging and mobile marketing companyTxT2Look has created a text message alert service and mobile website for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics beginning on February 12.

By sending the text message OLYMPICS to 77788, anyone in Canada can get instant real time alerts sent to their mobile phone. They can then choose to receive alerts for any of three categories including Canadian medals, gold medals for all countries or game by game results for Team Canada men's hockey.

People can also access the alerts by logging onto the mobile website with their phones at www.TxT2Look.com/Olympics. And a third feature of the service, people can text CANADA, GOLD or HOCKEY to 77788 at anytime to receive instant results.

[via Press release]

ringtonia.com

In India, ringtones may soon ring in taxes
The state revenue department has recommended that entertainment tax be levied on services like mobile ringtones, caller tunes and mobile. Times of India reports.

State revenue minister Narayan Rane said the recommendation will be tabled before the cabinet in the next three months.

picturephoning.com

Bar Codes Ride Again - on Mobile Phones
An interesting article in Business Week on the many ways bar codes are are being used for cell-phone users to view ads, coupons, and other information instantly.

The Weather Channel is using bar codes to deliver maps, forecasts, and severe weather alerts. Universal Pictures is using mobile bar codes to promote its coming thriller Repo Men. Later this month, a Hearst magazine will use the technology to provide additional information to readers. And mobile bar code technology in various forms has recently been used by search engine owner Google, Web portal Yahoo!, sportswear maker Nike, and packaged foods maker Frito-Lay.

WatchingTV Online

UK. Digital Economy Bill bill could 'breach rights'
An influential group of MPs and peers has said the government's approach to illegal file-sharing could breach the rights of internet users.

[via the BBC]