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After many delays, Swiss phone incumbent, Swisscom finally launched a rudimentary form of their Microsoft-based IPTV system. Bluewin TV, as it is called is promises 100-plus TV channels, 70 radio channels, and a whole slew of services. Of course if you are using the service over ADSL, then you can watch one channel and record [...]

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Compete.com, a six-year-old analytics firm, is formally debuting its public data tool tonight. Searchers can input any site on the web to get numbers and trend graphs for total U.S. visitors (absolute, not relative), rank among all sites, pages viewed per visit, and average length of stay. The company gets its data from a panel [...]

Jangl hooked up with Match.com, it seems. The dating site announced that it has launched an anonymous voice chat service called matchTalk. Valleywag had posted about this possible pairing a little while ago.

Who says video-sharing sites can’t go public? GoFish (which has reshaped itself as destination instead of a search engine these days) said today it had taken sold $12 million worth of stock as part of a reverse takeover by the publicly traded Unibio. Look for it at OTC:GOFH.

The well-funded MVNO Amp’d Mobile says it will make some mobile entertainment content available to Japanese carrier KDDI’s subscribers. Japanese cell phone users like mobile data and Amp’d needs customers — last time we checked it had 50,000 subscribers but expects 100,000 by the end of the year.