Facebook, Google and Yahoo want to know as do all their advertisers. Google dominated the web in the era of interlinked Web pages. Every link from one Web site to another counted as a vote, determining the most relevant pages for any search term. The result: An unbeatable search engine. Except that links between Web [...]
Imagine the possibilities of a geo-location social network app with an in-dash navigation system? Ford just released SYNC AppLink – a downloadable software upgrade for Ford SYNC systems that will allow hands-free voice control of popular applications for the BlackBerry and Android smartphones. With AppLink, BlackBerry and Android users can access and control their applications [...]
Kathmandu, is the gateway to Nepal. It is also the location of Mt Everest and a debate as old as the mountain itself. China believes Everest measures about 29,017 feet high. Nepal, however, believes it to be about 29,029 feet. Why the difference? China limits its measurement to the mountain’s rocky peak, while Nepal includes [...]
With your participation, Foursquare and Gowalla along with other apps like Loopt and Lattitude, share your location with their advertisers fusing the once distinct disciplines of editorial, advertising and promotion into one engagement. The value of this fusion is that marketers are now invited to push advertising cloaked as an editorial game which in reality [...]
Top 10 Highest Grossing and number 6 on the top 25 List! Yankee Group: “Nearly one-third of apps downloaded are purchased, up from 18% a year ago. Further, individual app prices have risen. The average paid app costs $2.85, compared with $1.99 last year.” According to the analysts at research firm Gartner, mobile application stores [...]
ABI Research expects 2010 to be a big year for mobile applications, with almost 6 billion mobile applications to be downloaded, up from an estimated 2.4 billion in 2009. According to ABI, two new smartphone platforms will debut in 2010; Samsung’s Bada OS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series. Both platforms will have proprietary application [...]
