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IT News - November 6, 2007

Updates on: Engadget, Gizmodo, Permission TV, Harvard Business Digital, Yahoo’s Kickstart, IBM’s new security, and First Alert System Text

In the consumer-technology blogosphere, the rivalry between Engadget and Gizmodo is as lively as a big-city tabloid war. This article explores the history of these two blogs and their creators. — CNN

PermissionTV, a leading interactive Internet video technology platform provider, announced today that Harvard Business Digital, the online unit of Harvard Business School Publishing, is using PermissionTV to serve new video content featuring thought leaders and business experts on its website www.HarvardBusiness.org. — Market Wire

Wetpaint (www.wetpaint.com), the consumer-friendly wiki for collaborating and publishing online, today announced it will offer ad-free, no cost wikis to qualified educators so easy online collaboration can extend into any classroom. — Market Wire

Just how many social networking sites do we really need? At least one more, according to Yahoo. On Monday, it unveiled Kickstart, a sort of LinkedIn for the college set that aims to hook up students and recent grads with alumni and potential employers. — CNN

IBM is tackling security in a big way. Late last week the company unveiled a new strategy encompassing five broad aspects of security and launching new products, services, and research designed to address everything from data threats to physical vulnerabilities. — Campus Technology

First Alert System Text (FAST) has launched a new grant program for colleges and universities, offering no-cost implementation and service for its text message-based emergency notification system. Through the Secure Campus Grant program, 100 higher ed campuses in the United States will be awarded the notification system. — Campus Technology

Publishers in the News - November 6, 2007

Updates on: Les Echos, 4INFO, Electronic Arts

Luxury goods company LVMH has bought Les Echos, the biggest-selling business newspaper in France, from the Pearson media group for 240m euros (£167m). — BBC News

4INFO, Inc., the leader in SMS publishing and advertising, announced it has inked an exclusive publishing partnership with the San Francisco 49ers to give fans the ability to receive and access news and information about the team, games and players via their mobile phones. — Market Wire
4INFO announced that it has partnered with Maxim Digital, the fast growing family of websites and mobile properties for young men, to deliver free daily text message alerts that provide a link to Maxim’s content on the mobile web. — Market Wire

Video-game software publisher Electronic Arts swung to a fiscal second-quarter net loss, hurt by an accounting change, but shares climbed 5 percent after the company outlined a promising product lineup and said it expected to see a “great” holiday season. – CNN