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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Baidu to launch video service free of charge
Baidu to launch video service free of charge
159 words
29 December 2006
Xinhua's China Economic Information Service
English
(c) 2006 Xinhua News Agency. All Rights Reserved
BEIJING, Dec. 29 (CEIS) – Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) recently announced it would reform its video services to make more than 90 percent movies on the Baidu video platform, v.baidu.com, free of charge.
Besides, its customers will also be able to use the Baidu download tool to download most of the video programs on the platform for free.
Since Baidu signed a contract with Viacom in October 2006, MTV, the underling TV station of this world leading media entertainment company, has began to provide a large amount of its programs to the Baidu video platform exclusively. At the same time, many online video service providers also reinforced their cooperation with Baidu and provide various video programs, including movies, teleplays, animated cartoons, MVs and education programs.
After that, Baidu also began to cooperate with film companies and provided free download of video segments of the films that are on view in China.
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posted by DJViBE TV @ 11:38 PM
Online Spending in China Increases
ONLINE SPENDING IN CHINA INCREASES
By Liu Baijia
435 words
11 January 2007
China Daily
English
Copyright 2007 China Daily Information Company. All rights reserved.
Chinese Internet users spent 276.76 billion yuan on Internet services in 2006, almost 50 percent more than the previous year, as their number rose to 136 million by the end of 2006, the Internet Society of China said yesterday.
The society said in its Internet Guide 2007, jointly prepared with consulting firm DDCI, that Chinese Internet users spent about 170 yuan a month on services like Internet connection, online shopping and online games last year, almost 8 percent higher than the amount in 2005.
Total consumption increased as the number of Internet users rose from 111 million at the end of 2005 to 136 million in 2006.
The report was the first released by the society on the Internet sector, which covers 50 categories and surveyed over 80,000 individuals and 900 companies.
The China Internet Network Information Center, which has so far released 18 sets of statistics on Chinese Internet users on a six-monthly basis, is yet to release its own figures.
"The result of this report shows the growth has been very strong, but this industry is still in a very rudimentary stage," said Huang Chengqing, secretary-general of the Beijing-based organization.
The report also said 20.8 million Chinese were frequent bloggers, while 101 million routinely read blogs.
Beijing-based Sina defended its title as China's No1 Internet portal, but its peer on the NASDAQ, NetEase, took over Sohu to become the second most popular portal in the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States.
"In China, integrated service providers like portals have a natural reason to exist, because the size of the market is small and Chinese users' knowledge of the Internet is highly concentrated," said Hu Yanping, one of the authors of the report.
Online advertising, the main revenue source for Internet portals, saw a sustained high growth of over 50 percent to 5 billion yuan in 2006, up from 3.3 billion the previous year.
In the highly competitive search engine market, the growth was also brisk from 1.05 billion yuan in 2005 to 1.57 billion yuan in 2006.
The report showed 80 percent of Chinese users search on Baidu, while 36 percent have used Google for searches and 26 percent use Yahoo! China.
Domestic firm Baidu had only 40 percent of the market share in terms of revenue, while Google claimed 18 percent the smallest gap of recent reports on the search engine market. Recent reports said Baidu's share was twice that of Google's in China.
(Copyright 2001 by China Daily)
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posted by DJViBE TV @ 11:28 PM
Akimbo to Carry Yahoo Video Content
Akimbo to Carry Yahoo Video Content
By JESSICA MINTZ
AP Business Writer
317 words
10 January 2007
14:03
Associated Press Newswires
English
(c) 2007. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
NEW YORK (AP) - Akimbo Systems Inc., a video-on-demand service that uses the Internet to deliver shows to television sets, said Wednesday it inked a deal to bring video from Yahoo Inc. to its subscribers.
Akimbo, a privately held company based in San Mateo, Calif., said viewers will be able to browse a regularly updated selection of Yahoo's popular videos, then watch the clips on their TV screens, without extra charge.
Video coming from Yahoo includes featured user-submitted clips selected by Yahoo editors and the most-watched clips of the week and of all time.
The most-watched clips could include professionally produced television and movie video, and Akimbo said Yahoo will clear them for copyright issues before they appear on the service. For amateur video, Yahoo's terms of service already give the online company broad distribution rights.
Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. Akimbo's service, which lets customers access more than 14,000 movies, TV shows and other video on demand, costs $9.99 per month. The latest model of its set-top box sells for $199.99 on Amazon.com.
The partnership, announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, further underscores the convergence of TVs and personal computers. CBS Corp. said Tuesday it will broadcast user-generated video from Google Inc.'s YouTube before the Super Bowl.
CBS also is working with Sling Media Inc. to let users post clips from its TV shows on the Web and share them with friends. Sling Media said it hopes to make similar deals with other networks and officially launch the service in the second quarter of this year.
Also on Tuesday, Apple's Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs unveiled Apple TV, a 40-gigabyte hard drive that connects televisions to computers and the Internet.
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posted by DJViBE TV @ 12:54 AM
Chinese Search Engines URL submission
Chinese Search Engines URL submission can be a slow process for those not in the know.. But luck for all you out there the we have compiled the following URLs for site submission to the top ten Chinese search engines. The sites are all written in Chinese, but if you can get past the language barrier, anything is possible. A key trick is to use the Google Language tools to browse the Chinese website in English. It translates the contents of the site and all links and sub-links. Very Handy tool!
Top 10 Chinese Search Engines
1. Baidu: http://baidu.com/search/url_submit.htm
2. Sina: http://iask.com/guest/add_url.php
3. Sohu: http://db.sohu.com/regurl/regform.asp?Step=REGFORM&class=
4. Yahoo China: http://cn.yahoo.com/docs/info/suggest.html
5. Google China: http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/add_url.html
6. Sobao: http://search.sobao.com/Computers_and_Internet/Personal/
7. Tianwang: http://home.tianwang.com/denglu.htm
8. China-Holiday:http://china-holiday.com/newterms/hall/it/sort.asp?sortid=259
9. Wangluobing: http://www.net7b.com/net7b_/denglu/index.asp o
10. Sunwukong: http://www.sunwukong.cn/add.php
The first six of the major players in the Chinese internet market, but the rest are minor players and may well be out of business by the time you read this (then again, you never know.). Let me know if you find any more to add to this list.
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posted by DJViBE TV @ 12:03 AM
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