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T-Mobile, HTC and Google partner to Launch Smartphone
Google is planning to launch its android software powered smartphone- developed by leading manufacturer HTC, to be provided through T-Mobile. The smartphone is to be comparable to the popular iphone, which has been an enormous success in......
Yahoo and NBC lead in Olympic viewers
NBC purchased the sole rights to broadcast the Summer Olympic Games in the United States, a distinct advantage over its competitors both in the land of television as well as online. NBC is the only media organization permitted to use the......
Google Mobile Search Front for Verizon?
Google and Verizon are in talks to secure a Mobile Search Deal, according to Wall Street Journal reports. If the deal is closed, it would make Google the default search provider for Verizon mobile devices. Previously, Verizon and......
Share Your Starburst
Trying to persuade a target audience to change their browsing habits to come to a specific website looking for content is difficult and probably futile. The web is all about ease of access, and some companies are taking this to a new level by......
Search Impression and Branding a Company
To target direct response business, search is your solution. In efforts to further explore the implications of online visibility and its effects on company branding and recognition,......
Google's Chrome
Google has unleashed its latest innovative approach to the World Wide Web-a web browser called Chrome. The concept behind creating a new web browser when there are currently a plethora of them in existence is simple-when the first and existing......
Google plans to digitize newspaper archives
Mountain View, Calif., Google has started the long process of scanning microfilm of the historic archives of consenting newspapers to enable users to search for them online. Users can initially search for historical newspaper articles on......
Flash not a future obstacle
It is no industry secret that flash is difficult to optimize, and in the past it was impossible. Like any other industry challenge, search engine optimization has risen to the occasion and......
Flash not a future obstacle
It is no industry secret that flash is difficult to optimize, and in the past it was impossible. Like any other industry challenge, search engine optimization has risen to the occasion and......
Search Engine Tools-Google’s Suggest
Peeking into Google’s innovative toy box is always interesting. The World Wide Web guru has created many products that make the online experience easier and more efficient. Built into products including Google Search, Google......
Google-Yahoo advertising deal creates stir
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) posted on Monday a detailed communiqué regarding its position against the potential advertising partnership between online giants Google and Yahoo. Feelings about the partnership remain......
Avalanche Basecamp Widget
Yahoo’s Avalanche Widget was designed to integrate with Basecamp project management website. A team of Information Systems students at Carnegie Mellon University developed the Avalanche Basecamp Widget during the spring ’07......
Web Services-are we overloaded?
A popular topic that is always interesting to theorize with others about is the amount of services available on the World Wide Web currently. When I say services I am referring to arenas such as social networking sites, ...
More on the Google & Yahoo advertising deal
As previously covered- opinions in favor of and against the proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo are strong. Those against the deal often cite the fact that Google controls roughly 70 percent of the search advertising market,......
Future search developments?
The future of search has virtually unlimited potential toward lifestyle and information advancement. In the past ten years we have experienced the essential birth of search, finding ourselves ...
Google’s targeted advertising system
You do not get to be the holder of upwards of 70 percent of the search advertising market without a clear and fine tuned strategy.The principle that Google’s advertising business was founded on is to deliver the right information to the......
Google Transit now features NYC
Google has unveiled an addition to Google Transit on Google Maps-users can now navigate the entire New York metro region including the subway system, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA), the Port......
Yahoo rethinks online advertising
Online marketing and advertising has the same basic goals as its marketing counterparts-to connect advertisers with their targeted audience. Yahoo is adapting to the times and taking an......
Adobe and Google Site Search
Google is the definition of innovation, and is always up to the challenge of maintaining this title. Always at the lead of discovering the newest and best ways to apply technology to specific business needs. Recently, Adobe......
Google and Yahoo agree to postpone advertising deal
Amid all of the controversy and press regarding the potential advertising agreement between online mogul Google and its smaller counterpart Yahoo, the two tycoons have agreed to a brief delay in proceedings. The brief delay is reportedly a......
Ask.com attempts to expand its share of search
Ranked a solid 4th place in the competitive arena of search engines is Ask.com. The top 3 search engines are Google, Yahoo, and MSN, respectively. Monday Ask.com is rolling out its latest version in order to......
Search & YouTube
Ask anyone in the search engine industry and related fields who the #2 search engine is, and they will tell you Yahoo. Not anymore! In a surprising new development, internet users are now conducting slightly......
A new toy Apple?
Apple has become predictable about unleashing their new products and true to form, they have sent invitations out on Thursday morning for next Tuesday’s press conference, where it is rumored to announce the latest......
Firefox 3.1’s Geode
Technology provides conveniences we did not think were possible in the past. Meet Geode-the web browser who browses you! Should you ever find yourself in search of a great restaurant or attraction in a new......
Ever expanding social sites
To understand the full spectrum of interactive advertising and online networking, one need only stroll down a local beach strip or theatre......
Free wireless service?
The rumor mill is spinning with speculations regarding the intentions of M2Z Networks; the start-up founded by former chief technology officer of the ill-fated @Home Networks Milo Medin and John Muleta, former chief of......
Elephant to back up Google’s digital archives
They say an elephant never forgets. A slew of nationwide libraries intend to act as that elephant when it comes to Google’s new digitized archives for newspapers and books. The libraries are working together to create what......
Welcome to the Matrix?
Supercomputers, artificial intelligence and a speed demon connection capability-some say it is the death of the internet as we know it and the birth of “The Grid”. It is rumored that the grid will connect every computer in......
Yahoo & Google advertising update
Yahoo and Google are still in the midst of controversy regarding their plans to work together in an advertising deal-wherein Google will place ads next to some Yahoo search results. Initially the online advertising......
Attention spans & online video habits
The attention spans of online video viewers are improving. Previously viewers were searching for and watching short clips online, and online content was generated based on those findings and habits. As time......
MySpace & MTV join Google’s YouTube in video advertising
Google’s YouTube has already begun to utilize its popular online public video sharing site to display advertising targeted to the type of video chosen by the viewer, and now social network MySpace is set to follow......
Google backs out of advertising deal with Yahoo
The long awaited verdict is in with regards to the long awaited proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo. On Wednesday, Google officially announced its decision to bow out of the publicly scrutinized......
Books go digital with Google
In recent months, Google has been working diligently to digitize the print world. Google has scanned millions of works and successfully digitized them for its new Book Search program, allowing for the contents of the books to be......
Online video options and advertising
Google’ YouTube is a very popular site for user-generated content. Using revenue generated by placing Google ads along-side searchable videos, the site goes further to suggest related videos and content that......
The growth of search
Many have predicted the future expansion of search. Search encompasses business listings, entertainment needs, advertising, and the latest trend is medical needs. To show how prevalent search has become in our......
The evolution of online video
Online video began as a seemingly fuzzy bright idea with relatively little structure and direction. It seems to have found its path during the presidential election, with online video streams transforming from......
Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang says adios
Yahoo announced on Monday that its chief executive Jerry Yang would step down from that role when the......
The Future of Privacy Forum
On Wednesday, it was announced in Washington that a new group, The Future of Privacy Forum, had been formed. The group, initially funded by AT&T, was founded by Jules Polonetsky and Christopher Wolf. ......
Intelligent Business Machines?
Five universities and I.B.M Research have received a $4.9 million dollar grant from the government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a long-term venture in cognitive......
Search engines & Citysearch
Citysearch was founded by Bill Gross to enable users to utilize search engines to locate Yellow Pages and newspaper listings to locate those products and services online. With Citysearch, users benefit by fast and......
We are Google
Google is the master of forging exclusive relationships. Google courted us with search,......
The ‘Is Google Evil?’ debate
As the internet and technology continue to change virtually every second, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow what every company is doing. That is, unless you are Google. When you find yourself at the top, you also find......
Facebook Connects
Facebook masses an incredible 120 million members worldwide, making it the largest social networking site on the World Wide Web. The latest feature venture by the company is causing quite the stir; its name is Facebook Connect. ......
YouTube & your privacy
YouTube is consistently evolving and increasing in popularity, with users watching longer videos. While some users enjoy broadcasting themselves, there are even more who prefer to simply watch others broadcast. ......
A secure password-free online future?
Could license plates be on their way to cyberspace? With so many online privacy issues occurring today and tensions, running high on the controversial issue, a government and technology industry panel on cyber-security......
Anatomy of a search engine
A search engine is essentially a tool whose performance level is dependent upon the amount of information it has the capacity to accumulate and draw from. For this reason, while the World Wide Web would appear to be free, it is actually......
Investor urges Yahoo to sell search to Microsoft
Recently a shareholder with 1.5 percent of Yahoo Inc., Ivory Investment Management LP, has suggested the company sell its search business to Microsoft, suggesting the business venture has the potential to double the value of......
Facebook does not embrace Power.com
Brazil’s start-up company, Power.com aims to act as a portal for users to access all of their favorite social networking sites. After failed attempts at discussing the situation with Power.com, Facebook let its......
Cisco Systems invests in Microsoft’s Xobni
Xobni is a tool by Microsoft to streamline inbox management-it is actually inbox spelled backwards. The search tool indexes email in one’s outlook inbox-searching messages for keywords, phone numbers, names and......
With TiVo, search reaches television
The world of search is changing at a constant speed, and the way we live our lives is changing along with it. A recent example of this is the beloved television company TiVo. TiVo first wowed the world when it empowered us to skip......
Search expanding into unexpected places
Search has become embedded in our routines, and is continually expanding to simplify the process of locating information, products and services. Recently at the consumer electronics show, the topic of search stole the......
Internet access in the air
Row 44 is a company who makes technology that allows people to have internet and phone access on airplanes. As early as this month, Southwest and Alaska Airlines are scheduled to begin testing a handful of aircraft......
Carol Bartz named Chief Executive of Yahoo
On Tuesday, Carol Bartz debuted as the successor to Yahoo’s Chief Executive Jerry Yang. Murmers among the masses are that Yahoo’s leadership style will become more dominant under the succinct “no no-nonsense” leadership......
The power behind a Google search
In the past, performing a search meant visiting the reference desk at the library. Today, search engines have replaced that role, providing instantaneous answers to billions of queries, and changing the face of......
Google’s Latitude
Google’s latest add on to Google maps is called Latitude.Latitude allows users to share their location with friends via their cell phones. Google recently ended its Dodgeball service, which allowed cell users to......
Google’s Latitude
Google’s latest add on to Google maps is called Latitude.Latitude allows users to share their location with friends via their cell phones.Google recently ended its Dodgeball service, which allowed cell users to share......
Blinkx is tailored to couch potatoes-Internet, television style
The internet has evolved into a fast and powerful medium, acquiring more users annually since its birth. Still, for some, the soft inviting couch is too much temptation to ward off. These individuals prefer the......
Gmail is for the multi-tasker
Late Thursday Google unveiled its latest Gmail Labs feature, allowing users to have multiple inboxes in their default Gmail view. Google has dubbed this new feature, Multiple Inboxes. As if gmail users......
Google makes smarter energy decisions
Google announced in San Francisco on Tuesday it would join forces with the growing “smart grid” movement. The term “smart grid” is the newly coined phrase within the electric business used in......
Cell phones are the future of search
Cell phones have certainly evolved since the first cellular call was placed on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, who is now chairman,CEO and co-founder of ArrayComm,Inc. At the time of the call, Martin Cooper was general......
Hulu and Boxee, or maybe not
Boxee is a software package that combines multiple sources of internet video content in a user-friendly interface that you can watch on your television set, and did I mention it is free? Very impressive. Alas, in the......
Yahoo uses search results to display ads with images and videos
The struggling Yahoo is becoming innovative, announcing plans to incorporating ads and images into their paid search results. It is a new type of search advertising that allows images and even video to appear within ...
Google to index databases
Search giant and leader Google has indexed over a trillion web addresses. While the fact that Google knows about over a trillion websites, what is even more remarkable is that figure is only a fraction of what is on the......
Baby Boomers Online
Forrester Research recently reported that more than 60 percent of baby boomers are avid social media consumers, sifting through blogs, forums, podcasts and online videos. This statistic comes as a surprise to some, who......
Google responds to the Atlantis rumors
When Google unleashed its Oceans feature for Google Earth, the rumor mill began to center on an area of odd grid-like markings on the seafloor. Many were speculating that the maze-like markings were that of the......
Google Translate enables you to translate between 41 languages
Google Translate has recently rolled out several new languages, including Thai, Turkish, Hungarian, Albanian, Estonian, Galician and Maltese. With the additional seven languages, users have the ability to automatically......
Facebook leaning toward the democratic side
Facebook has recently learned the awesome power an online community can wield. In addition, Facebook users are now learning how Facebook saves face. Following protests of members regarding changes in terms of......
A search engine to locate investors for venture capital
The challenge of entrepreneurs with a new business idea to raise enough money to start up can be daunting. Enter Angelsoft, a company who has just unveiled a search engine specifically engineered to locate......
Google offering behavioral targeted advertising
Google is set to start displaying advertisements today to users based on their interests, which are determined using their previous online activities. This form of advertising is known collectively as behavioral......
Mobile search access increasing
The amount of searches performed per day on major search engines is astounding, and on the rise. Each day approximately 91 million search queries enter Google, 60 million for Yahoo, and 28 million for MSN.People......
Tim Armstrong new CEO of AOL
Hot on the heels of the vastly unpopular Randy Falco and his chief aide Ron Grant, AOL has successfully recruited Tim Armstrong of Google to take the hot seat as the new chief executive. Tim Armstrong was Google’s......
Cloudera, Hadoop set the precedent for future
Since its inception just a couple years ago, the free software program Hadoop has conquered some of the largest......
Online advertising and you
Behavioral targeted advertising has begun-and as most issues that revolve around privacy tend to be, it is generating controversy. Those in favor recognize the value of the ability to reach your target audience without......
Microsoft and the Search Market
Microsoft is under scrutiny once again, this time for its seemingly stubborn approach to investing in the search market. Some investor’s......
Amid controversy, Facebook hires a Public Policy Director
In the midst of all the recent controversy surrounding Facebook’s seemingly unpopular decision to declare rights to all user content, and then hold a democratic-style vote among users on the matter, popular social......
The Changing Faces of Facebook
Facebook seems to have been going through a stealthy re-branding over the past months, steadily changing features, incorporating behavioral targeted advertising, attempting to alter the user agreement policy and many other......
Capture your target audience with Apture
A common mistake made on websites today is linking to other websites when it is not necessary. The attention span of potential clients who are surfing the web is mere seconds, and once you have them on your site, why......
IE8’s Web Slices
Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8, (IE8 RC1) and many have been anticipating the Web Slices feature. Similar to live bookmarks, which are periodically updated with new information, Web Slices go a step......
Google’s T-Mobile G1 Smartphone adapts to the blind
While touch screen technology has become increasingly popular among smartphone users, the sleek screens have proved to be an obstruction for blind users, who rely on tangible clues to feel their way around. A pair of......
Publishers V.S. Google
It all boils down to who is going to make the money, publishers or Google. With technology changing the news industry, publishers are now at odds with Google, and want a piece of the profits Google is receiving from its......
Google, square one for future venture capital leaders?
Another Google executive has left the nest to join a venture capital firm. Top Google sales executive for Asia-Pacific and Latin America Sukinder Singh Cassidy has accepted the position of C.E.O.-in-residence at......
Universal and YouTube music video deal, Vevo, is a go
The largest music company in the world, Universal Music Group, has reached an agreement with YouTube to create an online platform for music videos, to be called Vevo. The agreement is said to include the licensing of......
Yelp for small business
Yelp is a website with the slogan, “Real People. Real Reviews”. Users of Yelp are free to post reviews of local businesses such as restaurants, nightclubs and more, a useful resource developed with the......
Oprah Tweets
The much-anticipated first tweet from Oprah read: “HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.” Yes, Oprah made a big screaming entrance in all caps, giving the digerati......
Yahoo and Microsoft still flirting?
It has been a difficult time as of late for many companies, Microsoft and Yahoo included....
Tweets from your Tweeps, Twerps & Twitching
Oprah’s first tweet increased Twitter traffic by 43%…yes…it happened (this according to Hitwise web tracker). Twitter can thank Oprah’s tweetership for an estimated million new users joining......
General Electric’s digital breakthrough puts 100 DVD’s on one disc
General Electric announced on Monday that it has discovered a breakthrough in the form of a digital storage device with the capacity to store the information contained on 100 DVD’s, on one disc. The advance in......
Google’s Book Search still under scrutiny
Google’s controversial Book Search has been under the microscope from many angles over the past few months. Recently, the Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust implications of the settlement......
MySpace Slows Down
There are people who use MySpace, Facebook, and those who feel compelled to use both social networking sites. MySpace has the title of the country’s leading social networking service, yet has been slowly losing......
Apple sharpens Nine Inch Nails
Apple has recently shown its modest side and reinforced its stance on profanity, by rejecting a Nine Inch Nails themed app for the iPhone. As apps developed for the iPhone are on the rise, the company is under more......
Google Book Search moves along
The American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries have implored that a federal judge to pay special attention to the class-action settlement between......
New Search Tool Tackles Tough Queries
Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research and his team have been discreetly developing WolframAlpha for years. WolframAlpha is a search tool intended to answer lengthy, more in-depth queries. What Wolfram was very clear......
Personal Mobile Wi-Fi Bubbles
One day, we will giggle at the thought of driving around cities in search of WiFi hotspots, or desperately scouring the airwaves in search of an unprotected signal. We will hang out in coffee shops because we want to,......
Gremlins, Tribbles and Twitters
The Starship Enterprise had tribbles, and we have twitters. In the original Star Trek, tribbles were similar to Gizmo from the Gremlins, furry, adorable, and reproduced in the same rapid and anomalous manner. The......
Google faces class action suit regarding trademark infringement accusations
Google has found itself in murky waters over its online advertising practices. There are companies who are livid about the methods Google allows paid ad placements to operate. Google defends its practices, citing......
Yahoo, “The End of the Blue Links”
The latest ComScore results from April are not suprising, Google holds the lead in the world of search with 64.2 percent, placing Yahoo at 20.4 and Microsoft pulling in at 8.2 percent. The word dominate......
Germany data protection official threatens Google Street View
Thursday a German data protection official threatened search powerhouse Google with “unspecified sanctions” should the company not conform with the country’s strict privacy laws regarding the use of Google......
Can you Bing it?
Word is that Microsoft is striding towards progress in its plight to compete with Google’s internet search lead. (We recommend a catapult). Microsoft has dubbed its latest challenger......
Google unleashes Wave upon us-Google Wave
The innovative and ingenious creators of Google Maps, Jens and Lars Rasmussen, have been busily developing Google’s newest communication and collaboration tool-Google Wave. For the past two years, the brothers......
Privacy V.S. Progress
With all of the concern regarding online privacy and tracking, it is important to take into account the differing views and opinions involved. There are some who simply want more information provided to them about how......
Palm Pre Availability
The Palm Pre has been one of the most anticipated smartphone releases for the summer of 2009, and following its June 06th release, it was not exactly the “iPhone killer” that the masses buzzed......
Take a Bite out of Apple’s New 3GS, and Join YouTube’s Citizen News Channel
Apple Inc. has generated yet another sensational stir by announcing its latest in citizen journalism, err, smartphone technology, with the iPhone 3GS. The next-generation iPhone was introduced on Monday when Apple......
Bing off to a Respectable Start
While it remains to premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to......
Twitter Redesign to Feature Expanded Search Bar
It hardly seems possible that Twitter has already chirped its way to the third-largest online ...
Twitter Upgrades Tweet Fleet
As popular micro-blogging site Twitter propels forward, it is being groomed and tweaked to fit the needs and preferences of its dynamic user base. Recent changes include improvements to Twitter search function, and......
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