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Thursday’s NGT News Round-up

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Nintendo Says Its Wii Game Will Remain in Short Supply [NYT]
Nintendo predicts the Wii console will remain in short supply; meanwhile, Sony announced that sales have doubled of PS3 since they cut the price to $500. In 2008 Nintendo will launch Wii Fit, a fitness game that will come with a board that measures BMI.

Let’s Talk. Let Me Outline the Ways [NYT]
Text message. Cell. E-mail. People are as picky about their communication preferences as they are about their Starbuck’s Coffee.

Mobile Content on the Rise, Driven by Video [Moco News]
Revenues from mobile content are expected to more than double to $44 billion by 2011. Currently, ringtones take the lead as biggest revenue makers, but mobile video is predicted to grow quickly in the next few years.

Widget Industry Struts Its Stuff At 1st WidgetCon [Media Post]
40.3% of Americans online had some interaction with widgets in April. Widgets are also about to experience a huge boom as older users discover them.

College Humor Has Way Better Facebook Stats Than Comscore [TechCrunch]
Last Friday we told you Comscore news about Facebook’s users rising 89% in the past year. Since then College Humor conducted a much more enlightening survey about what those users are really up to, like how often they FWI (Facebook While Intoxicated).

MySpace - Still the King [TechCrunch]
MySpace put out a press release this morning to show that even with all the “Facebook hype,” MySpace is still the leader of the pack, with 46 billion page views a month. Related: MySpace Losing High Schoolers to Facebook? [Mashable]

Warner Drops Suit, Makes Deal With imeem [WSJ]
Warner was going to sue music sharing site imeem, but dropped the suit when they set up a revenue-sharing deal.

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