MySpace has launched its karaoke feature two years after acquiring kSolo.com. The new feature allows users to upload audio recordings of them singing everything from R. Kelly to Richie Valens to their profile page.

Recordings can be prominently displayed on one’s MySpace page and receive ratings from friends and fans. The site has between 2,000 and 3,000 songs available, all of them licensed from music publishers.

FixYa, the online source where people find and provide real-life solutions to any consumer product issue, has forged a relationship with Best Buy and Geek Squad to offer customers additional tech support at no cost. FixYa will bring Best Buy and Geek Squad customers together to provide one another with real world solutions to common technical problems. The relationship will add Geek Squad expertise and the power of 17,000 Geek Squad technicians to the extensive collection of one million solutions already posted on FixYa by its community.

Fixya’s community currently boasts more than 30,000 expert contributors, and Geek Squad will help expand that base through its own contributions.

JAJAH has been selected by Yahoo! as the outsource partner for its premium voice service. The “Phone In” and “Phone Out” service will enable consumers to make high-quality, low-cost PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC voice calls over the JAJAH network to more than 200 countries and 97 million users using Yahoo! Messenger.

Comcast Corporation has increased speeds for its Business Class Internet service tiers at no additional cost for Comcast Business Class Internet customers across the country. With download speeds up to 16 Mbps and upload speeds up to 2 Mbps, Comcast Business Class gives customers an ultra-fast broadband connection that’s more than ten times faster than standard 1.5 Mbps DSL and the phone companies T-1 lines.

With Comcast’s Business Class Internet, business customers are able to download a 220 MB file in less than 2 minutes. By comparison, downloading one 220 MB file would take 10 minutes with a 3.0 Mbps DSL connection. Downloading files gets even faster with Comcast’s patent-pending PowerBoost™ Internet speed enhancer, which provides extra bursts of speed when businesses need it most to download files such as a Software Service Pack, Digital X-Rays, or a PowerPoint presentation. Uploading files are also twice as fast with the increased Internet speeds.

GamerDNA has completed the acquisition of It Can Talk Inc., owner of the popular Xbox community website 360voice.com.

The Xbox 360 is a popular videogame console with an installed base of over 18 million units, and the 360voice.com website is a community that serves this audience. 360voice.com had the unique advantage of being an early member of the Microsoft XCDP (Xbox Community Developers Program), which enabled it to create software that “autoblogs” about an Xbox owner’s gameplay, and allows players to challenge each other in competitions for real prizes.

The founders of It Can Talk Inc. will relocate to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they’ll continue as part of the GamerDNA team. Trapper Markelz, CEO of It Can Talk, will become the VP of Products for GamerDNA.

It Can Talk is the second acquisition made by GamerDNA. In November 2006, the company acquired Uberguilds, a network of popular MMORPG community websites.

VistaPrint today announced the launch of its first electronic product: custom websites. VistaPrint’s new website solution empowers small businesses to quickly and effortlessly create an inexpensive, yet professional looking online presence that matches existing marketing materials in just minutes.

VistaPrint’s website offering is unique because it was designed to be easy to use for non-technical customers. In fact, VistaPrint created over 250 designs that match the company’s most popular business card and postcard designs. Customers that have already ordered business cards or postcards through VistaPrint can have those designs map automatically to their site, creating on-line and off-line brand consistency.

Starter packages that include hosting and customer support are just $4.99 per month. A standard package which includes a top level domain, more pages and memory is just $9.98 per month. Professional packages that include premium customer support, unlimited pages and extensive bandwidth are also available for $14.97 per month. Customers can choose whichever package fits their needs and can upgrade at any time. The first month is free with all packages.

blinkx Brings The Poker Channel’s Premium Programming to the Table

Blinkx announced a partnership with The Poker Channel, the world’s first television channel dedicated to poker and gaming entertainment. Hundreds of clips from Europe’s largest library of poker programming are now easily accessible at www.blinkx.com. Blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage and share the resulting revenue with The Poker Channel.

Wet Seal, a leading specialty retailer to young women, has launched a new fashion community. The fashion community offers customers an enhanced shopping experience through a social networking platform using the latest Web 2.0 technology.

Customers can also create original Wet Seal styles by building outfits using the entire online assortment. Key features of the fashion community include the ability to build, tag, share and purchase outfits through a personalized boutique, build a fashion network by chatting with other stylists in the message center, and rate and purchase other stylists’ outfits in “The Runway.”

Beware about cussing at work because it could cost you your career. A new survey from TheLadders.com reveals that 36% of US bosses have issued a formal warning, and 6% have fired an employee for swearing, deeming a foul mouth the most punishable of all workplace faux pas.

The poll of more than two thousand executives conducted by TheLadders.com also finds that 81.2% of senior execs find a foul mouthed colleague unacceptable to work alongside in the office.

In the current “F” Word Culture, TheLadders.com report looked at how seriously senior managers viewed manners and office etiquette. They found that 98.7% of survey respondents believed that the idea of office etiquette does exist and the majority (69.7%) said that they would fire an employee for bad office manners. The bulk of respondents (82.4%) have given an official warning for etiquette offences such as personal calls, loud talking or revealing clothing.

Of managers who have terminated employees for office etiquette offenses, the top 5 most common causes were the following:

1. Bad language (38.4%)
2. Excessive workplace gossip (36.5%)
3. Drinking on the job (35.2%)
4. Leaving the office without telling anyone (33.6%)
5. Too many personal calls (28%)

ClipBlast! unveiled ClipBlast! Playbox, a detached, cross-platform viewer frame that can play video from sources across the web. ClipBlast!’s patent-pending Playbox technology gives viewers a universal way to search, discover, watch and interact with video, while offering video content providers new audiences and new revenue opportunities.

Playbox can be launched from a web page by clicking on text and image links. When launched, Playbox “floats” on top of the page, and can be dragged and positioned as the viewer chooses. As Playbox is launched, users can watch, save and send videos; expand to full screen; see other video recommendations; and continue to scroll through web page content while the video plays – without ever leaving the site.

For web site publishers, Playbox provides the freedom and flexibility to deliver video on-site, without being constrained by video players or formats. Publishers of social networks, blogs and message boards can provide a video experience that increases visitor engagement and improves monetization. For content providers, Playbox – in combination with ClipBlast!’s Intelligent Index – provides a seamless platform from which to distribute and syndicate video throughout the web.

Major television producers like CBS, ESPN, BBC, HBO, Comedy Central, AMC, PBS, Turner Classic Movies, IFC and National Geographic stand to benefit from Playbox by gaining broader distribution of their programming, as do video hosting platforms such as YouTube, Blip.tv, Metacafe, Veoh, Daily Motion and ClipSyndicate. These and thousands of other video content providers are automatically Playbox-compliant.