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June 19th, 2010Uncategorized
Mobile advert web Admob has unveiled its Apr 2010 Mobile River Metrics report and has compared unique devices run game the android and iPhone Operating scheme in its networkAccording to the report, the humanoid os had its greatest concentration of unique devices in North America in Apr 2010, followed by Asia and Western Europe . iPhone OS devices are more broadly distributed worldwide, but also had its greatest concentration in North America , followed by Western Europe and Asia .
In the US there was . two to . ratio of iPhone OS devices to humanoid os devices worldwide, that ratio expanded to 3.5 to unity In AdMob’s network there were 8.7 million unique humanoid os devices and 10.7 million unique iPhones in the United States in April 2010. But when non-phone devices running game the iPhone OS – the iPod touch and iPad – are included, the number of unique devices leap to 18.3 million in the the States Worldwide, there were 11.6 million unique humanoid os devices, 27.4 million unique iPhones and 40.8 million unique iPhone OS devices.

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June 1st, 2010Uncategorized
Forget about Facebook for the time being. When it semen to aspiration of world domination on the Web, the company to watch is Nipponese e-commerce giant Rakuten INC The largest and most successful e-commerce company in Japan announced its acquisition of California-based Buy.com last week, along with its goal “to become the number one e-commerce and Internet company in the world,” according to CEO Hiroshi Mikitani.With a unique attack to e-commerce, a partnership with Chinese search giant Baidu, and now a ontogenesis presence in the U.S., Rakuten is a company of billet for web watchers. In add-on to its $250 million agreement to purchase Buy.com, Rakuten’s US Government government interests also include affiliate marketing web Linkshare, which it bought in 2005.
Rakuten’s e-commerce framework has a distinctly Nipponese flavor, which it program to inject into Buy.com while retaining most or all of its U.S. government employees. The attack is one that fuse shopping with entertainment and emphasizes a more featured function from merchandiser than we see in other parts of the world.
“If we can convert it into what we do here in Japan, then it is going to be a good deal more powerful,” Mikitani said. “We believe that we have a very different business model from virago and eBay. We empower the merchants.”
Make sure that Rakuten is on your microwave radar if it's not already.
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December 15th, 2009UncategorizedGoogle has announced that several new features have been added to the Blogger Dashboard to make it easier to post blog entries from mobile devices.
At least for users in the US, the mobile service supports SMS, MMS and email posting from a registered mobile phone. It’s also possible to set up a new blog from the phone.
Of course, some advanced mobile phones (such as the iPhone) make it easy enough to add to Blogger using the standard web interface, but it’s useful to have alternative ways of getting content onto a blog while on the move, and even on smartphones, sending a text or email can be quicker and less fiddly than using the built-in web browser.
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July 15th, 2009UncategorizedGoogle’s Clout Grows as Tech Initiatives Take Shape from the Wall Street Journal outlines Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s recent technology meeting with Obama and the new US government. If you missed the news, a group of executives met with President Obama last week to discuss technology’s role in the US stimulus plan. One of those executives was Schmidt, who sat right next to Obama at the meeting.
We are all aware that Google was very politically and financially supportive of Obama during the elections. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google was the “fourth-largest corporate source of campaign cash” for Obama’s presidential race. Why is this important for Google? Because the government can issue policy that can either help Google or hurt Google.
From making it easier for more people to use the Internet to making deals like the Yahoo/Google ad deal easier to get passed to incentives on renewable energy that would lower Google’s data center costs - all these policies can either help Google or hurt Google.
Some are concerned over what appears to be Google’s tight relationship with President Obama. Jeff Chester, founder of the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer-privacy advocacy group, said:
Given the relationship of Schmidt to the campaign, I think there’s a real concern there’s a kind of open office, revolving door between Google and their goals and the Obama administration.
Even Schmidt admitted that “There is no question technology has more influence with this president,” adding that President Obama has “a personal interest” in technology. But when asked about Google’s influence with the new administration, Schmidt said, “I think our influence is moderate, not tremendous.” In fact, Schmidt turned down the CTO position offered by Obama months ago.
