Google advertising appearing in iPhone applications?Tuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Google wants its ads to appear everywhere — and today we’re seeing some on iPhone applications. Specifically on restaurant review app Urbanspoon. We’re also hearing that they’re appearing in another application, Backgrounds. They don’t seem to be working too well though — they’re not targeted to the right city, in some instances we’ve seen. When you [...] Read more |
Google advertising appearing in iPhone applications [confirmed]Tuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Google wants its ad engine to serve up ads everywhere — and today we’re seeing some on iPhone applications. Specifically on restaurant review app Urbanspoon. We’re also hearing that they’re appearing in another application, Backgrounds. [Update: I just got off the phone with Urbanspoon creator Ethan Lowry. He confirmed that his company and Google have just [...] Read more |
4 Tips for Getting PR Approval on Optimized Press ReleasesTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Online Marketing Blog | Category: Marketing [Editor note: Please welcome TopRankMarketing.com Senior Account Manager Jolina Pettice with this guest post that addresses a common issue with Search Engine Optimization engagements: Getting SEO recommendations implemented!] Optimizing press releases can be an important part of any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) program. It#8217;s usually pretty easy to convince clients of the need to optimize news content since [...]img height="1" width="1" src="http://services.nuconomy.com/i.nsi?methId=logprojTok=f7c786c3-83ownus=Jolinasver=WordPress%2F1. [...] Read more |
Did Google Chrome Just Get Even Faster?Tuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pOne of the few Google products that isn#8217;t a perpetual beta, Google Chrome, has just gotten a beta branch, which lets users get a a href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-chrome-has-new-beta_17.html" target="_blank"taste of things to come/a. /p pSo, what does a Google Chrome beta bring? Speed, and lots of it. According to Google, it#8217;s 25 percent faster than the stable build of Chrome, which is nothing short of amazing given that Chrome is already blazing fast. /p pOther new features are form autofill, full page zooming and autoscroll, as well as a way to get a side-by-side view by dragging out tabs to the side of the browser window, which you can see in the amazingly short video below. [...] Read more |
SXSW Cloud Computing Panel: Clouds Still Need WorkTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Cloud computing and cloud services are real, but this is only the beginning. This was the message the guys who helped build Amazon Web Services, Google’s App Engine and Microsoft’s Azure clouds conveyed in Austin, Texas, this morning at South by Southwest’s only cloud computing panel. It was packed. Given that between one-quarter and one-third of [...] Read more |
Samsung starts making new kind of indoor displaysTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Samsung Electronics said today it has begun producing a more economical breed of digital displays for indoor applications where round-the-clock use isn’t needed. The so-called Basic Digital Information Displays, (B-DID), will widen the market for digital displays, the South Korean company said. The displays can be used in stores, restaurants, schools, museums and other places. These displays [...] Read more |
ATT Angles for a Piece of the Smart Grid Market PieTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media AT&T may have a lot of issues to work out with its data networks, but that’s not stopping the largest U.S. cell phone company from using its wireless network to angle for a piece of the smart grid market, which is set to grow rapidly this year due to billions of investment from the stimulus [...] Read more |
After re-architecture, Apple finally ready to push Push NotificationsTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology At its iPhone 3.0 event today, Apple gave some details about what is coming in the new version of its software development kit (SDK). There are a ton of changes, but one of the most anticipated is that its Push Notification system is finally ready to go. If you recall — and we’ll forgive you if [...] Read more |
After complete re-architecture, Apple finally ready to push Push NotificationsTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology At its iPhone 3.0 event today, Apple gave some details about what is coming in the new version of its software development kit (SDK). There are a ton of changes, but one of the most anticipated is that its Push Notification system is finally ready to go. If you recall — and we’ll forgive you if [...] Read more |
iPhone 3.0 event: 30 million sold — now that’s a game platformTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology With more than 29 million Xbox 360s in the market, no one debates whether Microsoft has succeeded in creating a viable video game platform anymore. Developers have flocked to it. Now Apple has proven that its mobile platform is just as viable. The company announced this morning that it has sold more than 30 million iPhones [...] Read more |
30 million iPhones sold — now that’s a game platformTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology With more than 29 million Xbox 360s in the market, no one debates whether Microsoft has succeeded in creating a viable video game platform anymore. Developers have flocked to it. Now Apple has proven that its mobile platform is just as viable. The company announced this morning that it has sold more than 30 million iPhones [...] Read more |
Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?Tuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pBefore anyone gets me wrong, I know that everything that was in the old Facebook, prior to the a href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/11/facebook-new-homepage-goes-live/"latest redesign/a, is still there. But it#8217;s less visible; so much so that I#8217;d go so far that many of Facebook#8217;s features are rendered useless. /p pI intentionally waited a couple of days before assessing the new Facebook; I wanted to give myself some time to get accustomed to it. After all, despite a huge community backlash to the major redesign of 2008, I was a href="http://mashable. [...] Read more |
Apple Introduces More Ways for iPhone Developers to Make MoneyTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pApple is unveiling version 3.0 of its iPhone operating system today, introducing a handful of new features for both users and developers. One of the early pieces of news coming out of the company’s live event is new pricing options that can be used by developers to monetize their applications./p pAccording to a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090317/na_tec_us_apple_iphone.html?.v=2" target="_blank"the AP/a, “software developers now will be able to create applications that have items for sale within them, such as electronic books or additional levels of a video game. [...] Read more |
App Store: 25,000 apps, 800 million downloadsTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology At its iPhone 3.0 software preview event in Cupertino, California, Apple gave out some pretty huge statistics for the iPhone platform so far. The two big ones: There are now over 25,000 apps in the App Store, and those apps have been downloaded over 800 million times. It took Apple just 8 months to reach the [...] Read more |
Phone Apps Hit 800 Million DownloadsTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology Some new stats from the Apple press conference going on live right now: There are now more than 25,000 iPhone apps in the iTunes Store. iPhone apps have been downloaded 800 million times. 96 percent of all apps are approved The developer SDK has been downloaded 800,000 times 50,000 companies have joined the program 13.7 million iPhones were sold in 2008 Read more |
iPhone Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads, Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid, Adds Key New FeaturesTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology iPhone apps have been downloaded 800 million times, and there are now more than 25,000 apps in the iTunes store. Apple is detailing some of the new features in the next version of the iPhone OS in apress conference going on live right now. The new OS, iPhone 3.0, will support 1,000 APIs. Apple seems to be giving a lot of extra love to paid apps, which will gain the ability to sell additional levels, subscriptions, virtual goods, or extra content from right within the app. Some stats from the press conference: There are now more than 25,000 iPhone apps in the iTunes Store. [...] Read more |
Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid On The iPhone, Adds Key New Features. Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads.Tuesday, March 17, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology iPhone apps have been downloaded 800 million times, and there are now more than 25,000 apps in the iTunes store. Apple is detailing some of the new features in the next version of the iPhone OS in apress conference going on live right now. The new OS, iPhone 3.0, will support 1,000 APIs. Apple seems to be giving a lot of extra love to paid apps, which will gain the ability to sell additional levels, subscriptions, virtual goods, or extra content from right within the app. Some stats from the press conference: There are now more than 25,000 iPhone apps in the iTunes Store. [...] Read more |
iPhone Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads, iPhone 3.0 To Open Up More Ways To Get PaidTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology iPhone apps have been downloaded 800 million times, and there are now more than 25,000 apps in the iTunes store. Apple is detailing some of the new features in the next version of the iPhone OS in apress conference going on live right now. The new OS, iPhone 3.0, will support 1,000 APIs. Apple seems to be giving a lot of extra love to paid apps, which will gain the ability to sell additional levels, subscriptions, virtual goods, or extra content from right within the app. Some stats from the press conference: There are now more than 25,000 iPhone apps in the iTunes Store. [...] Read more |
iPhone Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads, Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid, Adds Cut-And-PasteTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology iPhone apps have been downloaded 800 million times, and there are now more than 25,000 apps in the iTunes store. Apple is detailing some of the new features in the next version of the iPhone OS in apress conference going on live right now. The new OS, iPhone 3.0, will support 1,000 APIs. Apple seems to be giving a lot of extra love to paid apps, which will gain the ability to sell additional levels, subscriptions, virtual goods, or extra content from right within the app. Some stats from the press conference: There are now more than 25,000 iPhone apps in the iTunes Store. [...] Read more |
Two New Ways To Find A Job: Auction Yourself Off At JobaPhile Or Do A TwitterJobSearchTuesday, March 17, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology In this economy, looking for a decent job is no easy task. If you find yourself on the hunt, you have to try every avenue possible. Two new job search options came across my inbox this morning. The first one is Jobaphiles, which bills itself as the "eBay of jobs." Started by some college students in Boston, now it is trying to expand nationwide. The site is really geared towards students looking for jobs, but could be applied to freelance work or any job that pays by the hour. Employers list jobs along with hourly pay, and job seekers then bid on those jobs. [...] Read more |
