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Hi-Media se renforce sur le marché du multimédia mobile avec l’acquisition de la société Mobile Trend.
Société fondée en 2003 par Damien Dupouy et Thierry Peyre, Mobile Trend est un des spécialistes français de l’Internet mobile et du micro paiement par SMS.

Cyril Zimmermann, PDG du Groupe Hi-Media, déclare « L’apport de Mobile Trend est pour nous une énorme opportunité tant en terme de compétences que de synergies. La collaboration de nos équipes respectives va permettre de décliner sur l’Internet mobile la stratégie d’Hi-Media de créer un groupe media intégré s’appuyant sur une forte régie publicitaire et la première plate forme de micro paiement. Cela fait maintenant plus de quatre ans que nous travaillons avec Mobile Trend. Les équipes se connaissent très bien et tout le monde se réjouit de pouvoir travailler main dans la main pour mettre en place les projets et les synergies déjà identifiés au sein d’un même groupe. Nous réalisons avec cette acquisition notre développement dans l’Internet mobile, un des objectifs à cinq ans annoncés lors de notre présentation des résultats 2007. »

Google goes B2B with the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of applications for organizations that want to provide communications tools to heir users without the hassle of installing and maintaining software or hardware : private-labeled email, instant messenging, calendar and website publishing using your domain name. 

Writely, the Web Word Processor recently bought by Google is now accessible in Beta version (of course) to all users. Writely is a successfull (web 2.0) online word processor. You can access, edit, share and store documents from anywhere, with a simple (recent) browser.

Read our previous article about Writely 

Typo-squatting and so-called parked domains continue to generate problems. Back in 2003, the entire DNS system was put at risk by Verisign's infamous Sitefinder. Now, it's a whole country (Cameroon) which try to subvert the DNS system, via similarities between it's ccTLD (.cm) and the .com domain.

As reported by the New York Times, Google seems to secretely build two new datacenters for thousands of servers. The article, Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power, begins like this:

"On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky."

Unless you live under a rock, you've heard about the Firefox browsers. If not, just skim trough our list of Firefox articles. There's a new browser out there, based on Firefox : Flock. It's not yet stable, but Flock Beta 1 is available for windows, linux and Mac.

Flock's originality lies in the recent "social" aspects of the web : it tries to integrate with photo-sharing applications, blogs, search engines, and other "social" websites, like digg and  delicious. If you're interested, have a look at the Flock Tour.

Google Earth beta 4 is out, as announced on the official Google Blog. Among various improvements, let's note that Google Earth finally runs on Linux (natively, no wine-emulation like for Google Picasa). Google Earth now runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

It's now localized in languages other than English : French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Maps are more accurate, resolution is highers, there are new functionnalities. Don't hesitate to give it a try, this is impressive.

• Google Blog: Happy Birthday, Google Earth
• Google: Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA) -- Download Google Earth
  

About three months ago, Google acquired Writely, the web word processor. A month later, Google Calendar was available, even with its Calendar API. It's now one step further, with the new Google Spreadsheet service.

Google announced it on it's official blog : It's nice to share, they say. You can take the Google Spreadsheet Tour to see what it looks like. If you're lucky, you can even try Google Spreadsheet, but it has limited access, on a "first-come, first-served" basis. If not, just read the Google Spreadsheet early reviews.