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• Mobile magic
  Across a few pockets in Hyderabad, Internet search giant Google is looking to re-tool the way people access information on the Internet. While most people use PCs to Google their search requirements, Google is trialing a new voice-based search technique that, it hopes, will help spread its dominance into the mobile phone market. Google today gets almost all its $5.37 billion in revenues (for the quarter ended June 30, 2008) from PC-based Internet search, but is keen to latch onto the fast-growing mobile phone market, too.
• Touching the future
  Computing: Touch screens are becoming an increasingly popular way to control mobile phones and other devices. How does the technology work, and where is it heading? THE proliferation of touch screens in electronic devices over the past two or three years has been so rapid that you may have found yourself trying to press an on-screen button or icon when sitting at your computer only to realise, much to your frustration, that it is not a touch screen. Many mobile phones, most famously Apple?s iPhone, now have touch-screen interfaces, as do satellite-navigation systems and portable games consoles. Confusingly, however, most computers do not—so far.
• Joost to launch browser-based player
  Finally, Joost is going to correct the error that badly hobbled the Web video service many once considered to be a serious YouTube competitor.

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Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business
September 5, 2008
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl DVD, Blu-ray
Warner will deliver Kit Kittredge: An American Girl on DVD and Blu-ray Oct. 28 (prebo...
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MEDIA WONK
Paul Sweeting, Media Wonk, ContentAgenda
September 5, 2008
McCain campaign turns Heart-less
As soon as I heard the opening guitar riff to Heart's "Barracuda" rumble ov...
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BETWEEN THE LINES
Marcy Magiera, Editor in chief, Video Business
September 5, 2008
How much is too much?
Amid post-Labor Day reports about the summer box-office’s sunny performance, Th...
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THE DOWN LOW
Jennifer Netherby, Reporter and Writer, Video Business
September 4, 2008
HD TV downloads and other iTunes rumors
It's iTunes rumor time again, with Apple planning a press event for Tuesday and ever...
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DVDIALOG
Laurence Lerman, Product Digest Editor, Video Business
September 4, 2008
Mischa Barton Enters Virgin Territory
Just released on DVD by Anchor Bay, the lush period piece Virgin Territory tells of t...
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BLU STATE
Susanne Ault, Senior Reporter, Video Business
August 29, 2008
NASCAR Fans Can Win Blu Gear
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A 'Private' party
The cast and crew of Private Practice celebrated the series’ first season DVD release at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on Sept. 2. Disney’s Private Practice: The Complete First Season—Extended Edition streets Sept. 16.

What a Sight
Monterey Media hosted a premiere of The Sensation of Sight at New York’s Pioneer Theatre on Aug. 22 with the filmmakers and cast. The DVD streets Sept. 2.

Swingin' good time
Fox and Los Angeles radio station KROQ held a “Swinger’s Party” on Aug. 24 in Las Vegas to promote the DVD release of What Happens in Vegas, which stars Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz.

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