Recent ‘News’ News Stories

Google Still Top Global Brand

Thursday, 7th May 2009

Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. (more…)

Tags: apple, at&t, brand, china-mobile, google, iphone, microsoft, mobile, ntt docomo, o2, orange, t-mobile, verizon, vodafone, yahoo
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The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. (more…)

Tags: ad, advertising, european-union, internet, marketing, Phorm, uk
Posted in News, internet | 5 Comments »

What’s New With AccuraCast?

Wednesday, 15th April 2009

A lot has been going on outside of our main website, and I thought I’d write a quick post to update our readers about some of these new developments. (more…)

Tags: AccuraCast, france, india, mobile, multilingual-seo, ppc, seo
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Google Latitude Ushers New Era In Mobile Social Activity

Friday, 6th February 2009

Google Latitude, the latest service from the UK’s favourite brand, was launched this week. Users can find out where their friends and contacts are and can send and receive status messages via their mobile handsets. (more…)

Tags: google, google mobile, Latitude, mobile, mobile-applications, mobile-maps, mobile-social-network, privacy
Posted in News, Technology, mobile, multilingual, social media | 2 Comments »

Young People Abandoning Email And TV

Wednesday, 4th February 2009

Change, they say, is the only constant. This seems to apply to the findings of studies conducted on the modes of entertainment pursued by youngsters – teenagers in particular – today. (more…)

Tags: audio, email, internet, News, Print-Ads, radio-ads, social media, tv, tv-ads
Posted in News, internet, social media | 2 Comments »

Will eBay Sell Skype? Should Google Buy It?

Monday, 2nd February 2009

As if the blogosphere was not already rife with rumours of mergers and acquisitions, the latest rumors to add to the lot are that eBay may actually sell off Skype if they get a good offer. (more…)

Tags: business, ebay, google, mergers-and-acquisitions, news-search, skype
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Google About To Push The Pedal On Gdrive

Friday, 30th January 2009

Stories about the launch of Google’s online data storage solution, dubbed GDrive, have started appearing in the tech press once again. According to various sources the GDrive should finally be launched in 2009. (more…)

Tags: data-storage, gdrive, google, hard-drive, internet, news-search
Posted in News, Technology, google, internet | 1 Comment »

AOL Rumoured To Sell Bebo

Thursday, 29th January 2009

The latest rumors doing the rounds are that AOL may be planning to sell Bebo for about $200 million, less than a year after it acquired the social network for $850 million. (more…)

Tags: aol, bebo, business, facebook, mergers-and-acquisitions, myspace, news-search, social media, social-network
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YouTube Allows Video Downloads

Wednesday, 21st January 2009

For the first time since its inception, YouTube has decided to allow users to download content from their site. (more…)

Tags: obama, tv, video, youtube
Posted in News, video | 1 Comment »

It’s Not Web TV, It’s Connected TV

Thursday, 15th January 2009

When Web TV was first introduced in the 1990s, the TV set was connected to a keyboard and a set top box. Back then, it did not succeed quite as well as expected. But now it seems to be making a comeback in a modified form, with the keyboard and set top box built into the TV itself; And it’s now called Connected TV. (more…)

Tags: advertising, connected-tv, samsung, tv, Web-TV, Widgets, yahoo
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