– Glu (NSDQ: GLUU) Goes D2C: Glu is selling its games direct to consumers with Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Dark Knight and Family Feud available immediately and others planned in the coming weeks. Glu is using Movaya‘s PlugNPlay and TryNBuy solutions to do so. The system lets customers sample games and gives Glu a new distribution platform.
— ImpreMedia To Sell Televisa Content: ImpreMedia has signed a deal to sell ringtones, wallpapers, music, games and other downloads based on Televisa programs to US-based Hispanics. Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the content will range in price from $0.99 to $4.99.
— Fring Adds Music: Mobile community fring has launched a Last.fm music radio add-on, which will let people using its service tune and listen to streamed music channels including their own Last.fm library, tag favourites or ban disliked tracks, view album artwork and take their Last.fm music account mobile. Friends will be able to view in real-time what each other are listenting too.
— Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Approves Stripped-Down App: Apple has approved for the iPhone App Store a stripped-down version of an application that it previously rejected. The application which was rejected — Podcaster — let users stream video and audio podcasts to an iPhone or iPod touch without having to sync with iTunes. The version which was approved — RssPlayer — is designed to play audio files attached to RSS feeds, but “Several features are missing…The podcast directory is gone. The look of the screen that plays the netcast is different — before it looked very similar to Apple’s own app … the underlying code has been changed to be more stable, and I also follow Apple’s human-interface guidelines much closer.” It has some features that Podcaster didn’t have, like remembering the play position of a streamed or downloaded audiocast. (NewsFactor)
— Fighting Digital Bullying: Hype aside, most people have realised for a while that the biggest problem children face in the digital world is not from “predators” but from other children. The Family Violence Prevention Fund, the Office on Violence Against Women and the Ad Council have banded together to launch thatsnotcool.com, a site which aims to give kids advice about what to do if they’re harassed with too many text messages or pestered to send nude pictures or something like that. It’s got some “callout cards” which people can send to various internet sites, but not to mobile phones which is a bit strange considering that a lot of the inappropriate behaviour is via mobiles.
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