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AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, media and advertising briefs
Feb 13, 2012 (AME Info - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
PRINCE ABDUL AZIZ LAUNCHES PORTAL FOR TRANSLATED BOOKS IN SAUDI: Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Public Library has launched an online portal for translated books, Arab News has reported. The portal is the third launched by the Arabic Union Catalogue (AUC), after the portals of the UAE and Sudan. The library is intended to compile all the intellectual products into a single database, which would help researchers and translators. It contains 120,000 books translated to Arabic and other materials.
GOOGLE PLANS NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM TO CHALLENGE APPLE: Google is building a home entertainment system to let users stream music throughout the home wirelessly, The Wall Street Journal has reported. This comes months after Google unveiled a streaming music server that let users tap a CD against a device to scan the music into Google's Music storage locker. Dubbed 'Project Tungsten,' the experimental product is expected to leverage Google's Music streaming service and work with Google TV, the company's web-based television service.
ICTQATAR ENTERS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH YAHOO!: ictQATAR has entered into a strategic partnership with Yahoo! to collaborate on the development of digital media and content in Qatar, with a look to promoting the generation of Arabic language content, Gulf Times has reported. As part of the agreement, Yahoo! Is to collaborate with ictQATAR's incubation centre to help entrepreneurs and start-ups develop, distribute and monetise their content. The move is also part of efforts by Yahoo! to improve the quality of its non-licensed Arabic language content on the Yahoo! Maktoob website and add locally sourced content to make their Maktoob service relevant to users in any location in the region.
MIDDLE EAST SONG DOWNLOADS HIT BY PIRACY: Online music services in the Middle East have decided to abandon iTunes-style song downloads, with one saying the business model is unsustainable because of the region's endemic piracy problem, The National has reported. Music Master, a Saudi Arabian online music service that went live last year, said selling individual songs and albums had not proved to be sustainable, the reluctance of consumers in the Middle East to pay for music for the decision to suspend the site, blaming the reluctance of consumers in the region to pay for music for the decision to suspend the site. "Piracy is still a big factor," said Saeed Elajou, the managing director of Music Master. "Consumers here are just not prepared to ... pay for music. I personally think there's just not enough regulation here in terms of combatting piracy."
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