Y0uTube wedding vide0 sends Chris Br0wn t0 charts (Reuters)

RealNetw0rks p0sts wider 2Q l0ss as sales slip (AP)

SEATTLE -

Digital recreation consort RealNetworks Inc. posted a wider expiration for the ordinal lodge on Thursday, impact with declining income and write-offs on the continuance of its assets.

The consort forfeited $188.3 million, or $1.40 per share, in the threesome months ended in June. That compares with a year-earlier expiration of $1.3 million, or a centime per share.

Results included a $175.6 meg friendliness decay charge, which companies verify to statement for the declining continuance of nonmaterial assets. The consort did not feature how such the one-time calculate strained earnings per share.

Sales dropped 11 proportionality to $135.7 million.

Analysts polled by composer Reuters, who typically eliminate one-time charges from their estimates, due a expiration of 6 cents per deal on income of $138.4 million.

The consort declined to provide a limited prognosticate for the underway quarter, citing "uncertainty regarding consumer spending, orbicular scheme trends, external nowness mercantilism evaluate fluctuations and assign markets."

RealNetworks said it expects third-quarter income to rise from the lodge before but start on a year-over-year basis.

Y0uTube wedding vide0 sends Chris Br0wn t0 charts (Reuters)

LG Intr0duces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (PC W0rld)

At LG’s ordinal period season distinction exhibit in New royalty City, the consort introduced digit newborn telecasting lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my tending for their tending to design.

The SL90 LG had on pass was ease a prototype; the consort flew the pass organisation in especially for its media showcase. And modify though this image had a wrinkled bounds or two, it understandably showed soured the possibleness for this TV to alter the organisation genre for LCD HDTVs.

The 47SL90 on exhibit uses a Super IPS LCD panel, and has seamless, edge-to-edge glass. The gist is highly effective: The render color of the commission stretches elegantly from digit lateral to the other, with a thin (less than one-inch) bezel. The edge-to-edge render looks rattling striking; LG is the prototypal to substance this technology. Slim HDTVs were every the anger at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2008, but the disturbance died downbound and some products prefabricated it to market.

The LS90 Series (available in 42-inch and 47-inch concealment sizes)uses diode backlighting profession with topical dimming. The LS90 Series supports 120Hz for reinforced fast-motion performance, but not LG’s modify meliorate 240Hz technology. LG’s Tim Alessi, administrator of newborn products utilization for bag entertainment, says that the LS90 LG could exclusive be produced with 120Hz profession because the edgelit backlighting utilised by the LEDs can’t be utilised in union with the scanning backlight profession utilised by the company’s move to 240Hz.

Because the LS90 Series uses diode technology, though, the ordered is extremely thin: It measures meet 1.15 inches in depth.

The SL80 Series, also introduced today, is a lowercase deeper: This thin CCFL-based pass measures 1.8 inches deep. The SL80 otherwise looks the aforementioned as the SL90, with edge-to-edge backlighting, and it uses LG’s 240Hz profession for direction alacritous action. The SL80 module be acquirable in 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch concealment sizes, and module circularize a $200 payment over the LG LH55 Series, the company’s underway high-end 240Hz series. The SL90 module board in October; pricing has still to be announced. The SL80 module board at the modify of August.

Twitter and Faceb00k make Afghan electi0n debut (AFP)

KABUL (AFP) -

Afghans haw be desperately poor, mostly unlettered and without electricity, but that does not kibosh would-be presidents candidature in cyber expanse on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Mimicking tactics prefabricated famous by US President Barack Obama, digit of the crowning contenders to conception Afghanistan "tweets" on blistering micro-blogging assist Twitter and has a showy website where supporters crapper attain donations.

Of 41 statesmanly candidates stagnant on August 20, whatever trumpet policies on ethnic networking place Facebook, patch video-sharing website YouTube carries clips of crusade rallies from crossways the war-scarred nation.

As exclusive 10 proportionality of the estimated accumulation of 26 to 30 meg hit admittance to energy -- permit lonely a machine with cyberspace admittance -- it haw seem same a squander of resources.

But Evangelist Cholerton-Bozier, who heads London-based digital media authority Red Narrative, says that modify in a land where at prizewinning fivesome proportionality of grouping hit cyberspace access, that ease effectuation 1.5 meg possibleness voters.

"The cyberspace has Brobdingnagian possibleness to change elections in the nonindustrial world, as it does in richer countries," he told foetoprotein by email.

"Those some grouping that do hit computers or cyberspace admittance are feat to be the types of grouping who are essential amongst their peers, and so it's essential to acquire their hold for the election," he added.

His authority handles online strategy for Asian statesmanly anticipative Ashraf Ghani, who blogs on Twitter and has his possess YouTube page.

Another of the crowning three contenders, ex-foreign rector Abdullah Abdullah, has a worldly website with picture galleries and videos.

Incumbent President Hamid Karzai's online strategy lags behindhand his digit important rivals, with his website "down for maintenance" meet weeks before he stands for added constituent in the country's ordinal statesmanly poll.

Karzai, who is tipped to win, does ease lie broadcasting news -- a antecedency in a land were 70 proportionality of grouping cannot read, his crusade spokesman Waheed Omer said.

"The cyberspace and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and every these things, they hit a restricted conference here in Afghanistan," Omer said.

"I don't wager how using Twitter or using Facebook for warning could intend anyone a material sort of votes or a material bounds in the voting... the cyberspace is a newborn abstract in Afghanistan."

Indeed online hold for candidates appears lacklustre.

A Facebook tender for Karzai -- though blurred whether authorised -- logs exclusive 528 supporters. Ghani clocks in 824 on his follower page. Abdullah wins the vie with a ease underwhelming 1,216 Facebook backers.

Ghani's Twitter tender has 63 mass -- kinda worthless compared to Obama's 1.8 meg Twitter devotees.

Cholerton-Bozier says that a key intend of the online campaigns is to accomplish discover to the better-off Asian diaspora experience every over the world, who crapper donate money to the candidates' campaigns.

And it is not meet semipolitical candidates who command the noesis of the cyberspace in Afghanistan.

The US expeditionary has a Twitter journal and Facebook tender extolling its activeness against the Taleban in Afghanistan, bill photographs of grinning soldiers diverting Asian children and conversation to turbaned elders.

On the another lateral of the fence, the Taleban fresh revamped its website before it was ostensibly condemned offline this week. The place has been closed individual times, commonly reappearing presently afterwards baritone a newborn field name.

But in the cramped booths of a Kabul cyberspace cafe, patrons tapping absent at their keyboards materialize unmindful or indifferent in the politician websites, and some hit modify heard of Twitter and Facebook.

"No, I do not ingest those sites, mostly I'm meet reaching to check my email," said Arash Perzai, a 22-year-old scrutiny profession student.

He said he did not modify undergo the statesmanly candidates had websites: "I don't hit some interest. Mostly I intend my aggregation from the TV."

Sherahmad Hotak, a 35-year-old cerebration consort owner, says the cyberspace is getting on among his peers as it is more sure than sound lines in a land where stock is game by decades of war.

The International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency, puts cyberspace admittance as baritone as 1.5 proportionality in Afghanistan.

Hotak haw ingest the Internet, but he is ease in the Stygian most Facebook: "I hit heard of it, but I don't ingest it. I don't undergo how it operates."

Twitter and Faceb00k make Afghan electi0n debut (AFP)

KABUL (AFP) -

Afghans haw be desperately poor, mostly unlettered and without electricity, but that does not kibosh would-be presidents candidature in cyber expanse on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Mimicking tactics prefabricated famous by US President Barack Obama, digit of the crowning contenders to conception Afghanistan "tweets" on blistering micro-blogging assist Twitter and has a showy website where supporters crapper attain donations.

Of 41 statesmanly candidates stagnant on August 20, whatever trumpet policies on ethnic networking place Facebook, patch video-sharing website YouTube carries clips of crusade rallies from crossways the war-scarred nation.

As exclusive 10 proportionality of the estimated accumulation of 26 to 30 meg hit admittance to energy -- permit lonely a machine with cyberspace admittance -- it haw seem same a squander of resources.

But Evangelist Cholerton-Bozier, who heads London-based digital media authority Red Narrative, says that modify in a land where at prizewinning fivesome proportionality of grouping hit cyberspace access, that ease effectuation 1.5 meg possibleness voters.

"The cyberspace has Brobdingnagian possibleness to change elections in the nonindustrial world, as it does in richer countries," he told foetoprotein by email.

"Those some grouping that do hit computers or cyberspace admittance are feat to be the types of grouping who are essential amongst their peers, and so it's essential to acquire their hold for the election," he added.

His authority handles online strategy for Asian statesmanly anticipative Ashraf Ghani, who blogs on Twitter and has his possess YouTube page.

Another of the crowning threesome contenders, ex-foreign rector Abdullah Abdullah, has a worldly website with picture galleries and videos.

Incumbent President Hamid Karzai's online strategy lags behindhand his digit important rivals, with his website "down for maintenance" meet weeks before he stands for added constituent in the country's ordinal statesmanly poll.

Karzai, who is tipped to win, does ease lie broadcasting news -- a antecedency in a land were 70 proportionality of grouping cannot read, his crusade spokesman Waheed Omer said.

"The cyberspace and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and every these things, they hit a restricted conference here in Afghanistan," Omer said.

"I don't wager how using Twitter or using Facebook for warning could intend anyone a material sort of votes or a material bounds in the voting... the cyberspace is a newborn abstract in Afghanistan."

Indeed online hold for candidates appears lacklustre.

A Facebook tender for Karzai -- though blurred whether authorised -- logs exclusive 528 supporters. Ghani clocks in 824 on his follower page. Abdullah wins the vie with a ease underwhelming 1,216 Facebook backers.

Ghani's Twitter tender has 63 mass -- kinda worthless compared to Obama's 1.8 meg Twitter devotees.

Cholerton-Bozier says that a key intend of the online campaigns is to accomplish discover to the better-off Asian diaspora experience every over the world, who crapper donate money to the candidates' campaigns.

And it is not meet semipolitical candidates who command the noesis of the cyberspace in Afghanistan.

The US expeditionary has a Twitter journal and Facebook tender extolling its activeness against the Taleban in Afghanistan, bill photographs of grinning soldiers diverting Asian children and conversation to turbaned elders.

On the another lateral of the fence, the Taleban fresh revamped its website before it was ostensibly condemned offline this week. The place has been closed individual times, commonly reappearing presently afterwards baritone a newborn field name.

But in the cramped booths of a Kabul cyberspace cafe, patrons tapping absent at their keyboards materialize unmindful or indifferent in the politician websites, and some hit modify heard of Twitter and Facebook.

"No, I do not ingest those sites, mostly I'm meet reaching to analyse my email," said Arash Perzai, a 22-year-old scrutiny profession student.

He said he did not modify undergo the statesmanly candidates had websites: "I don't hit some interest. Mostly I intend my aggregation from the TV."

Sherahmad Hotak, a 35-year-old cerebration consort owner, says the cyberspace is getting on among his peers as it is more sure than sound lines in a land where stock is game by decades of war.

The International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency, puts cyberspace admittance as baritone as 1.5 proportionality in Afghanistan.

Hotak haw ingest the Internet, but he is ease in the Stygian most Facebook: "I hit heard of it, but I don't ingest it. I don't undergo how it operates."

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S0ny Adds Netflix Streaming Vide0 (PC W0rld)

Sony Electronics was primeval to substance HDTVs confident of conjunctive to the Internet, but the consort has been absent digit rattling manifest moving recording provider-until now. Today Sony undraped its stylish noesis partners, the most worthy of which is Netflix.

Netflix's Instant Queue video-on-demand is already acquirable on devices from Microsoft (Xbox360 mettlesome console), LG Electronics (Blu-ray players and HDTVs), Roku (Digital Video Player) , Samsung (Blu-ray players), TiVo and Vizio.

In apiece of those instances but the Xbox 360, Netflix was a celebrity feature of a newborn figure a consumer would hit to purchase. Sony's partnership with Netflix is momentous because it effectuation that most Sony televisions from the time digit eld power be harmonious with the service.

Sony says some Bravia cyberspace Video-capable telecasting power be healthy to appendage the Netflix assist when it comes online this fall. That includes the currently transport W5100, Z5100, and XBR9 program (available in 40-, 46-, and 52-inch concealment sizes), and some HDTVs harmonious with Sony's Bravia cyberspace Video Link, a $199 add-on power acquirable for most of Sony's broadcasting free in the time digit years. The cyberspace Video Link provides admittance to noesis from over 25 providers, including noesis from over 25 providers including Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube, Sports Illustrated, Sony Pictures, Crackle, Slacker, Epicurious.com, Concierge.com, Style.com, and Dailymotion

The Netflix Instant Queue power impact similarly, but not identically, to another implementations we've seen. Sony says you'll requirement to prototypal go online to Netflix and alluviation up your Instant Queue with acquirable movies and video; then you crapper superior Netflix from the TV's crossmedia bar, and you'll hit admittance to the queue. However, Sony says its show and programme for accessing the Instant Queue is its possess design. "We conceive it's a lowercase more elegant," noted a Sony spokesman.

Potentially, this could unstoppered up Netflix to a super accumulate of HDTVs already in the market: According to NPD Group's data, Sony's TVs hit hierarchical ordinal in organisation volume deal for the time digit years. Even though the Bravia cyberspace Link costs $199 (about $100 more than the Roku Digital Video Player), cyberspace Link offers a ton of player functionality beyond meet adding Netflix Instant Queue playback.

In constituent to the Netflix partnership, Sony declared it was adding noesis from Demand Media (which includes Golflink.com, Livestrong.com, and eHow.com) and from ON Networks(Golf Tips, Play Value, and Beautiful Places).