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Google Earth tapped to view Bay Bridge in 3-D — Google’s mapping software proves useful in visualizing what the remade San Francisco iconic bridge will look like. [photo credit | CNET]A bitter Twitter battle rattle — Sounds like Dr. Seuss. David Carr of the New York Times sings the praises of [...]
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Mobile developer Mippin is bringing their popular news and social media aggregator application Buzz Deck to the iPhone. The application was originally developed for Android, and was also a winner of Google’s 2009 global app challenge.
Buzz Deck’s big claim to fame is its collection of auto-populated topic [...]
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We’ve known for the longest time that Apple was planning something with mobile advertisements, particularly after they purchased mobile ad firm Quattro Wireless for $275 million, but the company has been mum on specifics. As the company behind the phone that built the mobile ad market, I would imagine that it [...]
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Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes [...]
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The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it’s always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assistant would do, such as organizing your emails. Plus, you can’t just tell the app what you want, [...]
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Samsung M100S is also the first Samsung device to run Android OS 2.1 similar to earlier released Google's Nexus One smartphone. Equipped with 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA) display, Samsung M100S comes with a 5-megapixel camera. The device is further integrated with 800MHz processor, 720p video recording, WiFi (802.11n) and GPS. [...]
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New data from Experian Hitwise suggests that Facebook users are treating it increasingly like a portal — they’re using it as a source of news. Just under a year ago, less than 0.5% of visits to news and media sites came from Facebook, according to Experian Hitwise. Last week, 3.5% of [...]
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Mplayit, maker of the mobile app catalog that lives inside Facebook, will release a report later today that lists the top games in their collection. Tetris, The Sims 3, and Wheel of Fortune are among the winners. So are Tap Tap Revenge and Rock Band.
On Mplayit, users [...]
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Facebook is assuming its rightful place in the Internet ecosystem as a significant distribution channel for media properties.
Hitwise reported today that the social network now drives the fourth largest amount of traffic to media properties behind Google, Yahoo and MSN. Facebook’s public relations team also has started [...]
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Media information company Nielsen has released new data on the top 10 mobile internet sites and brands. It shows that, to a large extent, mobile internet usage mirrors total internet use, with Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Microsoft among the most visited mobile brands. Surprisingly, the AOL network ranked fifth in terms [...]
AdMob, the mobile ad network that Google plans to acquire for $750 million, announced that it’s supporting a new kind of iPhone ad — interactive video.
