Archive for 2009

Top Voice-Powered Mobile Searches Of 2009

Wednesday, 30th December 2009

Social media brands are the most popular terms searched using voice on mobile. Mobile phone “voice user interface” inventor, Vlingo, has just released a list of the 10 most popular voice-powered mobile web searches of 2009. (more…)

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Hulu Launches Video Scene Search

Tuesday, 29th December 2009

Online video service Hulu, which allows viewers to watch TV series and movies online, has recently launched a new feature called Captions Search. (more…)

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Google Doesn’t Practice What They Preach For Open Source

Thursday, 24th December 2009

Just this week Google’s V.P. of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg published a memo declaring that Google is an open source company. An insightful article on the Silicon Alley Insider points out how all Google’s talk about opennes is really just “empty posturing”. (more…)

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Mobile Web Growing Fastest In Developing Countries

Wednesday, 23rd December 2009

Everybody has been predicting that the mobile Web is set to grow bigger than it already is, and 2009 had even been called the year of the mobile Web (like almost every other year in this decade!). But it’s not just a bunch of PR hype. (more…)

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Twitter Profitable In 2009

Tuesday, 22nd December 2009

Over the last year or so, everybody has been wondering about how Twitter manages to survive without monetising the site. (more…)

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Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal

Monday, 21st December 2009

Last week it looked almost certain that Yelp would sign a deal with Google. However, sources now reveal that Yelp has decided to back out of the deal. (more…)

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Facebook Earned $1 Billion Revenue

Friday, 18th December 2009

Facebook looks all set to cross the $1 billion mark with their annual revenue for 2009. This figure is close to double the $550 million that was predicted to be their annual revenue for the year. (more…)

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X-Factor Shows Meteoric Mobile Traffic Rise

Thursday, 17th December 2009

Reality shows on T.V. really have their audiences engaged, and this spills over into increased mobile web traffic. One of the most popular shows in the UK, X-Factor proves this. (more…)

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Twitter Rolls Out Contributors For Businesses

Wednesday, 16th December 2009

For a while now, Twitter has been planning to monetise their site and has been working towards that goal. (more…)

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Google Pushing Chrome Everywhere They Can

Tuesday, 15th December 2009

Google has started marketing their browser, Chrome, quite vehemently now. Ads for Chrome are showing up on a variety of media in the UK. (more…)

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Microsoft Users Click More

Monday, 14th December 2009

Data released by advertising network Chitika should be of great interest to online marketers and advertisers. Their research revealed that Microsoft users tend to click more on ads than users of other operating systems, search engines and browsers. (more…)

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Confirmed: Google Making Own Phone

Friday, 11th December 2009

It has finally been confirmed that the rumors floating around about Google making their own phone are true. (more…)

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AdSense Publishers Can Search And Review Ads

Thursday, 10th December 2009

Since the recent introduction of the new AdSense interface, Google has continued to improve the way the Ad Review Center works. The latest improvement allows publishers to search for ads targeting their site. (more…)

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Google Real Estate Search In U.K.

Wednesday, 9th December 2009

According to reports from the Financial Times, Google is planning to start a property portal on their site by early 2010. (more…)

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Google’s All For Making The Web Faster

Tuesday, 8th December 2009

Google has just introduced 2 new services that will help make the web faster for their clients. One of them is a tool for webmasters to monitor their website’s speed and the other is a public DNS service. (more…)

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Google Friend Connect Integrates With Twitter

Monday, 7th December 2009

Google has recently announced that they are integrating their service Friend Connect with Twitter. (more…)

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1 Billion Mobile Internet Users By 2010

Friday, 4th December 2009

Analysts at IDC have made some predictions about the growth of the mobile Internet, based on usage data currently available. Not surprisingly, mobile Web browsing is big! (more…)

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Yahoo! To Integrate With Facebook

Thursday, 3rd December 2009

Yahoo! has announced that by the first half of 2010, they will integrate all their properties with Facebook via Facebook Connect. (more…)

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India To Block 25 Million Mobile Handsets

Wednesday, 2nd December 2009

With the rise in terrorist activities and threats across the country, the government of India has passed a directive to block all mobile handsets that do not have a valid identity number. (more…)

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Innovative Facebook Campaign Success For Ikea

Tuesday, 1st December 2009

The Swedish chain of furniture stores, Ikea, is creating a buzz on Facebook, for all the right reasons. (more…)

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