McLean, Va. - Mobile Posse, a mobile technology company, announced that it has partnered with STATS, the world's leading sports information provider, for availability of sports content on Mobile Posse's mobile advertising delivery platform. Under the deal, STATS will provide Mobile Posse with up-to-the-minute information for MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, College Football, College Basketball and NASCAR events. The product automatically updates real-time data and information on every player, team and event played.

Last night, the much anticipated Twentieth Century Fox movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan premiered in London. Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen showed up on the red carpet in full Kazak character as Borat and told reporters he also had another reason for being in London:

"I have come here with Bilak, my 11 year old son, his wife and their child, and we are hoping maybe to put some chocolate make-up on the child's face and sell him to Madonna. I am hoping that Madonna will be a very good father for it."

While increased competition on digital music front is coming, Apple’s Chief Executive Steve Jobs can continue to smile all the way to the bank for at least a little longer. Apple shipped 8.7 million iPods in the fiscal fourth quarter 2006, up 35 percent from the year-ago period. A good back-to-school season also helped Apple ship a record 1.6 million computers, up 30 percent from a year earlier. This lead to good financial results that beat market estimates and pushed to Apple shares up in extended trading.

I have read a lot of speculation about what to make of Yahoo!’s recent statements about seeing a slowing growth in Internet advertising spending. On Tuesday the company reported a 38% drop in profit as sales growth fell to the lowest in four years. Is Yahoo!’s problems company specific? If not, does it mean that Google will disappoint too when the company releases its earnings on Thursday? 

The blog search engine Technorati, which currently reports tracking 50 million blogs, lists Mel Gibson as the number one blog subject being searched on Monday. You can see in this graph how the interest in the actor increased over the weekend after it became known that Gibson was arrested in Malibu early on Friday for driving under the influence.

Posts that contain "Mel Gibson" per day for the last 30 days.

After a six years sales decline and negative PR surrounding lawsuits against 15,000 individuals, a recent experiment by Pearl Jam offers a glimmer of hope that major record labels and their customers may be reconciling.

Nielsen SoundScan figures through the week ending July 2 show that sales of digital albums soared 126% during the first half of the year, while digital tracks rose 77%. This does not make up for the decline in physical album sales, but it shows that the prospect of getting paid for music online, despite of P2P? services offering the same pirated albums and tracks for free, is not that far-fetched after all.