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Lycos, PlayPhone Offer Up Mobile Content

Lycos has announced the launch of its new mobile marketplace. PlayPhone, Inc., a company that specializes in direct-to-consumer wireless distribution, will power the online store.

Lycos Cinema Now Offering Indie Music

World Digital Media Group, L.L.C., (WDMG) today announced a partnership with LYCOS, Inc. to become the first music content provider for its newly launched proprietary entertainment platform Lycos Cinema.

Lycos Launches Social Networking for Cinema

In an effort to reinvent itself as an online entertainment portal, Lycos has launched a new service that combines streaming video and real-time chat. Lycos Cinema will allow users to simultaneously watch and comment on films in the confines of a virtual screening room.

Lycos Giving Power To Ask.com

This is one of those smaller type announcements that I'd rather blog quickly here so my co-workers know about it (on their own time) rather than interrupting anyone for even a few seconds by mentioning it to the guy at the next desk.

Ask Search Share May Climb With Lycos

If Lycos as a name does not grab your attention right away, you may be missing the size of the scope of the deal that has Ask replacing a couple of pretty big names on the Lycos network.

Lycos Blinkx Back Into Existence

Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake admits that Lycos has been "out of the glare" for quite some time, largely due to foreign ownership. But Lycos reminds the industry the portal still has 25 million daily visitors, and plans to increase those numbers through a partnership with blinkx to launch "the new Lycos broadband search experience."

Lycos To Broadcast PermissionTV

The portal site will use the PermissionTV platform to deliver DVD quality video content to its visitors over broadband connections.

VoIP Choices Ringing Off The Hook

Skype, Microsoft, AIM, Yahoo, Lycos, all of those companies have or will have options for doing phone calls from the computer; at stake is the biggest prize of all - keeping a person using a given provider's other services.

Lycos-Qumana Launches Blog Tool

The desktop blog tool from Lycos-Qumana works with Qumana Q-Ads integrated ad program to insert ads into blogs.

Oodle Embeds With Lycos, Backpage

The two charter members of Oodle's Partner Network will use APIs to connect to Oodle's index of classified advertising and display those search engine results.