'Mobile' News

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile service provider Vodafone has recently announced a lot of interesting new services that will encourage the growth of new generation mobile Internet applications. This will be made possible by providing service developers with a single access point to Vodafone’s customers worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

A new mobile advertising service called tapMatch has just been launched by mobile ad solutions provider, Jumptap. tapMatch offers pay per click mobile advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

For almost a year now, Google has been in the process of porting Jaiku over to Google App Engine. The process is now complete, and the new JaikuEngine has been launched on Google Code, as an open source project that they hope will turn into a Twitter competitor. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest misuse of technology to have been discovered seems to be an iPhone and iPod Touch application that allows blackjack players to count cards. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has launched a “new” technology in beta, with the exact same features and function as QR Codes - it allows mobile users to reach Internet websites without having to type out a URL. They are calling them ‘Tags’. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

While Google has always been very particular about differentiating ads from organic search results by placing ads only at the side of the search results page or in clearly marked slots at the top of the page, the Google Operating System blog recently found Google Mobile Search displaying short text ads in the middle of the search results page. Read the rest of this entry »

For quite some time now, Mozilla has been struggling to introduce their own mobile browser. Their first offering Minimo, was wiped out and then reintroduced later as Fennec in the beginning of 2008. Even this version was not very well received as there was great difficulty in downloading it on mobile. Read the rest of this entry »

In their effort to gauge and fulfill the needs of their users, Google has launched a new website for ‘Product Ideas’ and a blog to support it. Read the rest of this entry »

Google AdWords has recently started allowing advertisers to display their regular desktop text and image ads on the iPhone, G1, T-mobile and other mobiles with full (HTML) Internet Browsers. Read the rest of this entry »

In a bid to encourage their users to access social networks through their handsets, Virgin Mobile U.S.A. has recently announced two new services.

The two services, named ‘Connect’ and ‘Mobile Lounge’, will be available to users at no extra cost. They will only be required to pay the usual internet access charges. Read the rest of this entry »

At a recent briefing held at their research center in Palo Alto, Nokia has announced that they would shortly be launching a visual search service called ‘Point & Find’. Read the rest of this entry »

Reports from Nielsen Online reveal that the number of people accessing the Web through their mobile handsets is growing fast. Not only is mobile Internet usage growing fast, but it also is growing at a rate that is much faster than that of Internet access from desktops. Read the rest of this entry »

In an attempt to keep up with the latest technology, and provide it to their users, Google has introduced a new service on the Apple iPhone - free voice-enabled search. Read the rest of this entry »