9 Ways to connect with Santa Claus on the Web (Mashable) (Yahoo!)

You don't have to head to the North Pole to connect with Santa this year. There is a sackful of online options that will help your toddler to connect with Christmas in the comfort of your home.

If you want to write to Santa Claus online, receive calls and personalized video messages or to prove that man in red is real, we found that new sites and services for you help.

So if you have children or you're just a big child yourself, get in the spirit of Christmas and have a read below to find the sites that are sorting your father online must this holiday season.

Is an excellent service online, you get immediate results that anyone who is eager for toddlers know can be a good thing. Complete letter "Dear father," draft standard, and moments later, you'll have one custom of the great man himself reading on screen or print.

After a relatively quick Q & A session requesting the name, age, choice of gift (with some response options fun in drop-down menus), this service-backed Google will generate sound quality "call" to the rugrat (s) in your life. In its reply, they can leave a message for Santa via a toll-free number.

You do not subscribe to this service to Disney, but it is worth only, or when you see the look on the faces of children as show them the names and photos up to on Santa's monitor because it checks to see if they are on the nice list. They are, of course.

"Dear father," download the Smilebox makes your young star of the show. You can customize the clip with personal info, and then add your child beautifully charming film lisping by his own Christmas wish list. Sharing options make it easy to send to the worship of the grandparents, aunts and uncles too video.

It is in the spotlight the Elves take children from 12 questions to verify whether they were good enough to get a nice list here. Service is the password you will need to submit your email to get a "key", but once you do you can check new anytime to make sure that your child is always on the nice list.

Another custom video message from Santa, PNP offering takes you through a few global issues for clip full features adapted for toddlers and older children and, Yes, even grown ups too. Santa Claus is beautiful with a rather splendid beard and authentic required manner. Recommended.

Ideal for rainy day (or snow!) activities during the school holiday period, this site is full of Santa Elf, Rennes, interactive stories on the theme of the North Pole and educational games for fun online. Recipes, crafts and printed matter for vacation offline activities ideas amuse children too.

Thanks to the NORAD and Google, you can track Santa's journey around the world on Christmas Eve, something guarantee get very excited children. This long tradition has been given a new lease on life life last years with the participation of Google, add a little magic positional millions of Christmas Eves throughout the world.

If you need a "proof" that Santa Claus exists (and do not have the skills of Photoshop to create your own), then fee, you can download your own photos and paste on a father Santa Caught Christmas of I. It'll cost you a penny under $10 via the site or from $0.99 via iPhone app - 9 Tools Web to keep your business running smoothly for the Holidays
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Tron: Launch of Legacy Tie-ins iAds iPad project of Yahoo Search & blank magazine (Search Engine Watch)

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New Walt Disney Co. Tron: Legacy film proved to be a strong marketing for technology companies that want to promote the potential of their products display online vehicle. Disney has established a partnership with Apple, Yahoo & Virgin in a movement that seems to launch the concept of advertising which mark the future of brand advertising.

Apple has launched its first iAd for iPad has adapted to the big screen touch report BtoBonline.

Advertising promotes the new Tron: legacy begins today in the theatres movie. IAD for iPad includes 10 minutes of video, to show times and you can buy singles of the Daft Punk soundtrack via iTunes. Also, a much discussed feature is the ability the announcement via email to friends of advertising.

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Recently, Yahoo in partnership with Disney to the grid game shows features new and faster - research as the film info area.

And earlier this month, multimillionaire and owner of Virgin Galactic (commercial vessel first in the world), Richard Branson, has launched a new concept in magazines specifically for iPad, called project. Jeff Bridges featured on the cover, with an interactive feature on the follow-up of Tron.

DRAFT coverage video magazine project on Vimeo.

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Yahoo prepares to lay off 600 to 700 workers (PA) (Yahoo!)

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE technology AP Writer Michael Liedtke, Ap Writer - Tue 14 December at 12 p.m. he technology

SAN FRANCISCO--holiday ornaments Yahoo Inc. include 600-700 layoffs in shake-up last Internet company triggered by poor growth.

Employees may be notified of job cuts as soon as Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the plans of yahoo. The person asked for anonymity because Yahoo had not made an official announcement.

The planned reductions represent approximately 5% of the Yahoo 14,100 employees labour market. It will mark fourth mass layoff of Yahoo over the last three years.

The two last housecleanings have current CEO company, Carol Bartz, a veteran Silicon Valley has committed more than two years, despite his lack of experience on the Web or in advertising - main source of income at Yahoo.

Round this week reductions is supposed to be concentrated in American product group of Yahoo, which already has undergone a redesign since Bartz hired former Microsoft Corp. Executive Blake Irving to perform the division last spring.

Job cuts come as a shock. New of the impending layoff was the first month last two popular technology blogs, TechCrunch, and All Things Digital.

Low financial growth at Yahoo, stagnant stock prices and recent no-shows management have raised questions on the issue of whether Bartz itself could be the door before the expiry of his contract in January 2013.

Revenues of the company had edged up in less than 2% to $ 4.8 billion in the first nine months of the year, reflecting the difficulty that yahoo was selling ads while the other Internet companies such as Google Inc. and Facebook are booming.

Google revenues rose by 23% to nearly $ 21 billion in the first nine months of the year. Private company Facebook disclose its results but it is growing so fast that it had to spend more general headquarters of the earlier this year.

Yahoo stock prices fell 31 cents to close Monday for $16.70, below a few cents, where completed last year. Meanwhile, technology Nasdaq composite index rose by 16 per cent this year.

Malaise has spurred speculation that opportunistic companies redemption could implement a takeover bid for Yahoo, possibly in partnership with another beleaguered icon Internet, AOL Inc.

Bartz, 62, has repeatedly urged yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, is moving in the right direction, although it warned that it might be a year or two before there is a significant improvement in financial results for the company.

Google apologize to the New Zealand Wi - Fi data (AFP) (Yahoo!)

WELLINGTON (AFP) - giant Internet Google said sorry New Zealand Tuesday for the collection of personal data for its "Street View" mapping service wireless networks in the last of a series of apology.

The company stated that it did not realize until earlier this year that cars used to photograph the public streets were also gather information commonly referred to as "data payload" sent on systems not secured Wi - Fi.

Sent non-encrypted information about Wi - Fi are not password-protected systems potentially contains personal information, including the content of emails.

Google said as soon as he realized his mistake, he cars Street View garage and began working with New Zealand Commissioner Marie Shroff on ways to solve the problem.

"Our payload data collection has been an error we are truly sorry and we? d like to apologise to all New Zealand, "Google said on its blog New Zealand."

Google announced in May that its Street View car take pictures of towns with more than 30 countries were inadvertently gathered data sent over unsecured Wi - Fi systems, sparking complaints by data regulators around the world.

In Britain, Google has agreed to remove the private emails and passwords, in Australia, was found to have broken laws for the protection of personal information, but no penalty may be imposed.

The company has continued to United States, while in Germany, he agreed to allow people to opt out of Street View, to privacy, in which case their homes would be rasterized.

On his blog New Zealand said Google the company had never used the data payload of its products or services, but recognized there were public concerns on its actions.

He said: "some people thought that we should have been more explicit about what we were gathering."

"We also believe that we should have had a greater transparency of our initial collection of the information network Wi - Fi publicly broadcast." Us? Re sorry realization not this sooner. »

Shroff welcomes an apology from Google but warned his initial actions were "not enough good" when it has collected them popular communications content.

"It is important for Google to ensure that these errors not keep the case," she said in a statement.

"Technology succeed, people need to trust it." If they do not trust, they use. »

Shroff said that Google is committed to improving the training of personnel on issues of privacy and verification of new products carefully until they were released.

Privacy Commissioner referred the matter to the police in June and officers of cyber crime experts reported three months later that they do not believe that an offence has been committed.

However, they said case emphasized the need for the Internet users put in place security measures when you use systems of Wi - Fi.