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The World Cup Making Trouble for Twitter
Twitter has it all. Official apps on the major mobile platforms, an ad network, a URL shortener and analytics tracking for its advertisers. That should just about do it for Twitter, as it moves forward with its lengthy monetization process. What more could the social microblog need? Oh, that’s right. A functioning site. The World ...
Apple iPad, the World Cup and Mobile Security
Mobile security is gaining in importance, as we turn to our sleek devices to manage oh so many aspects of our lives. Mobile devices have become our personal assistants, wallets, maps, address books, televisions and libraries. They’ve become our digital meeting grounds, our written and spoken means of correspondence, and major business tools. One false ...
Microsoft Office 2010 Gets Social and Centralized
What a year for Microsoft. Little by little, the company is reclaiming the territory lost to competitors, namely Google. From its search engine to its social efforts, mobile to the PC, Microsoft is revamping several aspects of its company in order to make a bigger appeal to consumers. Microsoft Office 2010 has amassed great reviews ...
Stay 2.0 Launches Beta Amidst Social and Consumer Convergence
More travel news this week with the launch of Stay 2.0, the beta version of this destination guide. One of the biggest points of differentiation is the inclusion of several social and personalized features. The move by Stay comes at a time when the online travel industry as a whole looks to leverage social and ...
HTC Gets Closer to iPhone Territory with Aria on AT&T
HTC is quite the growing mobile company. It teamed up with Google Android to grand success, and is now becoming more central to the discussions around the expanding mobile industry. The latest HTC debut was the Aria, an exclusive handset offered only through AT&T. From the release: “Its unique combination of compact size and beautiful ...
Video Chat: Can Kinect Connect Kin to the Xbox 360?
Microsoft’s got its own emerging chat tool, though it’s not on a mobile device, or even a phone for that matter. The new video chat integration comes on the newly revealed Kinect, Microsoft’s latest announcement regarding its Xbox 360 game system. Unveiled at the E3 Conference this week, Kinect is one of the major announcements ...
SeaMicro’s Atom Out to “Greenify” Cloud Computing
The long-awaited details of the new SeaMicro server have been revealed, complete with 512 Intel Atom chips that reduce the size of the server, as well as its load. SeaMicro, which has raised $25 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, among others, offered a peek into their high-hope project earlier this ...
TripAdvisor Says Your Friends are Smart and Important
It’s summertime and I keep hearing the anthem on the radio, reminding me that I need to get out and enjoy the warm weather. A vacation, you say? Sounds fine! And where do you recommend I go? You can tell me straight through Facebook, thanks to TripAdvisor‘s new social integration. The added feature, called Trip ...
World Cup 2010 on the Web, Cake Walk.
Stephen Colbert may have reminded us Americans how much we loath soccer, but the world wide web has brought the World Cup 2010 to every corner of the world. That includes the United States. Thanks to search engines, social networks and mobile apps, it’s increasingly difficult to avoid the World Cup hoopla. So why bother? ...
comScore Whoops! Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Still Figuring Out Search
comScore released numbers on Microsoft and Yahoo search engines this week, indicating that the two Google competitors are growing in their market share. The May 2010 U.S. Search Data report shows that Microsoft Bing/MSN and Yahoo each added around 60 bps and 30 bps, at 18.3% and 12.1% respectively. Google went down about 70 bps ...
