Novasys apporte à France Télécom, l'opérateur du service de renseignements téléphoniques 118 712, un nouveau service de réservation de chambres d'hôtels par un simple appel au 118 712. Novasys réalise cette nouvelle offre en coopération avec son partenaire HRS, leader européen des portails de réservation hôtelière en ligne. Toute personne souhaitant réserver une chambre d'hôtel de manière facile et sûre peut simplement appeler le 118 712 et demander le service de reservation d'hôtels. Un membre de l'équipe spécialisée se chargera alors de rechercher l'hôtel répondant à ses critères et d'effectuer la réservation aux meilleurs prixnégociés du WEB. Le service sera prochainement étendu aux autres media de 118 712 (Internet, SMS, iPhone).

Novasys brings to France Telecom, the 118 712 Directory Assistance (DA), a new Hotel Booking solution through a simple call to 118 712. Novasys is bringing this new offer in cooperation with its Partner HRS, European leader of online hotel booking portals. 

Any person wishing to book a hotel room, easily and securely, can just call 118 712 and ask for the Hotel Booking service. A member of the dedicated team will then look for the best hotel matching the needs of the person and will manage the booking at the best negotiated price on the WEB. 

The service will soon be extended to other 118 712 media (Internet, SMS, iPhone).

 

Photo sharing site Flickr has created a new service Flickr2Twitter, which enables users to upload their existing Flickr pictures directly into Twitter. Flickr users can also use email to upload Flickr photos to Twitter via a special '2Twitter' web address, which sends out an automatic tweet. The move will make it difficult for Twitter’s existing photo client TwitPic’s to remain in the lead. While most of the photos uploaded to Flickr are taken with a “real” camera, the Canon Digital Rebel XTi, the iPhone is close to overtaking the Canon as the most popular photo device. (Source: Brand Republic)

Would the British foreign secretary comment on Twitter about the death of Michael Jackson? At least six British newspapers, including The Times and The Telegraph, but also the Sun, thought he would and published a touching message from David Milliband. However, the tribute was not posted by Miliband but rather by two young recent university graduates in Britalin who had established a fake Milliband account and updated it regularly – sometimes with very funny “tweets”. And although foreign secretary David Milliband has no Twitter account the Foreign and Commonwealth Office does have one. (Source: Guardian)

 

Facebook may be closer to either trying to make money or to launch a public offering -  IPO - on the stock exchange, when it was announced that the company had hired David Ebersman, an experienced financial manager from the US biotech group Genentech as CFO. He will start at Facebook in September.

TV usage is supposed to go down in favour of online, but a new report from US research company Nielsen found that adolescents are watching more TV than ever - up 6% over the past five years. Another surprise: teens spend less time online than mature adults. Nielsen's study on the state of teen media usage finds that teens spend 11 hours and 32 minutes per month online - far below the average of 29 hours and 15 minutes for which adults are presently responsible. While teens spend 35% less time watching online video than adults in the age group 25-34, they remember the video ads better than when they watch the same ads on TV. (Source: Online Media Daily)

 

Herold Business Data GmbH, publisher of the Austrian Yellow Pages and operator of http://www.herold.at, recently acquired 24 percent of http://tupalo.com/de/, the international provider of Social Yellow Pages, and secured an option for the acquisition of a majority stake. Tupalo.com’s Social Yellow Pages were launched in Vienna in 2007. Users have the opportunity to discover, rate, and describe various businesses, locally as well as worldwide. Reviews and ratings by local residents are collected, providing a helpful source of information for locals as well as for tourists in search of the best restaurants, clubs, bars, pubs, shops, etc. Even now, Tupalo.com’s platform offers information on more than 25.000 spots, such as restaurants, bars and shops, to urban users.