Mobile Search News
Will Apple Put Bing On iPhone?
29th January 2010
With the recent release of Google’s smartphone, the Nexus One, their relationship with Apple seems to be changing. The competition that the Nexus One provides to the iPhone is causing some friction between the two companies.As a result, Apple might sever ties with Google and find a new provider for search on the iPhone. More »
Mobile Internet Access To Overtake PCs In 2013
19th January 2010
Analysts have long predicted that mobile Internet access will overtake the PC. Gartner has now predicted when this will happen. More »
Google Announces Nexus One
5th January 2010
Google has confirmed the launch of the Nexus One mobile phone at a press event held at their Mountain View headquarters on 5 January 2010. The phone will be available to buy and use immediately, direct from their website. More »
Top Voice-Powered Mobile Searches Of 2009
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 »
Google Doesn’t Practice What They Preach For Open Source
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 »
Confirmed: Google Making Own Phone
11th December 2009
It has finally been confirmed that the rumors floating around about Google making their own phone are true. More »
Is Mobile Marketing Heading For Trouble?
18th November 2009
Even though the number of mobile Web users has been increasing steadily over the years and marketers have pitched every year as “the year of the mobile”, mobile marketing now seems to be facing some serious hurdles. More »
Google Acquires AdMob
10th November 2009
Google announced yesterday that they have signed an agreement to acquire the mobile display advertising company AdMob. More »
Google Launches Go Mobile! Site
6th November 2009
Google AdWords recently launched a new resource to help marketers reach mobile Internet audiences more easily. This service is called Go Mobile! More »
Sources Of Local Business Information
19th October 2009
The results of the Annual Local Search Study conducted by TMP Directional Marketing and comScore have been released. Additionally comScore has also conducted a comparative study of media trends and consumer behavior regarding local search over the last 3 years. More »
Yahoo! Makes Search Ads Mobile
2nd October 2009
With the number of mobile web users increasing at such a great speed, it definitely makes good business sense for Internet service providers to start serving up ads on mobile phones, and that is exactly what Yahoo! has already started doing. More »
Working Moms Work The Mobile
30th September 2009
It would be reasonable for most people to assume that the demographic of people who use the mobile phone the most, would be the typical high profile executive, or the youngsters in school and college who like to chat with and SMS their friends constantly. But, surprisingly, according to a survey by Scarborough Research this is very far from the actual facts. More »
Google Shares Mobile Search Volumes For The First Time
24th September 2009
Google’s new keyword tool, currently in beta has a lot of good new features – integration with other tools, filtering options and categorisation – but the best feature is almost un-noticeable: The ability to see stats for mobile searches. More »
Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
8th July 2009
If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. More »
SmartPhone Market Share April 2009
5th June 2009
A report comparing the respective market share of SmartPhones by operating system, as against the market share of the mobile web and application usage during the month of April 2009 has recently been released by AdMob. More »
How Soon Will Mobile Search Catch Up With PC?
1st June 2009
When search services were first started on mobile phones, they were very basic, almost rudimentary in nature. However things have changed with emerging technology, and now search patterns on the latest mobile handsets are getting closer to those on PC’s. More »
China Telecom Selects mInfo For Mobile Search
25th May 2009
China Telecom was recently on the look out for a partner to provide search solutions to their subscribers. They have now announced that they have chosen Shanghai-based company, mInfo, as their partner to provide mobile search services to users all over China. More »
Mobile And Social Network Advertising Predicted To Grow
30th April 2009
According to the results of recent studies conducted by Forrester Research, mobile advertising and social network advertising are set to grow at a phenomenal rate in the USA. More »
Yahoo! Tops Mobile Search Site Benchmark
23rd April 2009
Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. More »
Jumptap Launches tapMatch Mobile Ad Platform
16th April 2009
A new mobile advertising service called tapMatch has just been launched by mobile ad solutions provider, Jumptap. tapMatch offers pay per click mobile advertising. More »
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