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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 ...
T-Mobile’s Free Handsets, the Latest Hat Trick?
T-Mobile (in the U.S.) is still just one of the “others.” You know, not AT&T. Meaning, you won’t find any iPhones here. But that hasn’t put T-Mobile completely out of the smart phone game. Taking advantage of newcomer Android and its line of HTC devices, the wireless provider helped revive the company–a tactic that Sprint ...
HTC Evo and Android Out to Save Sprint
Sprint is still struggling to regain a foothold in the treacherous mobile wars, which get especially gruesome around this time of year. Steve Jobs’ annual iPhone upgrades are becoming regular events around which mobile service providers now brace themselves for. Sprint CFO Robert Brust noted the summer flight of customers to AT&T with a freshly ...
Apple Spoils Mobile Ads for Google
For some reason, mobile companies have fallen to advertising battles, despite the industry’s similarities to the early growth of the web. Instead of learning from past lessons, it appears that Apple is looking to recreate the system–in its favor. The company’s proposed terms revision for its mobile advertising platform keep ad analytics under lock and ...
AT&T’s iPad Security Breach a Lesson for Mobile Industry
It’s bad enough AT&T was shafted during Steve Jobs keynote at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference on Monday, when the slow network lead to heckling and a suggestion for the iPhone to move be available through Verizon (the grass is always greener). But a security breach at AT&T has revealed private information about some iPad ...
Twitter Fail Whale Returns, in So Many Ways
When’s the last time you saw the Twitter fail whale? OK, it may not have been that long ago, but something is definitely astir at the Twitter offices today. The microblogging company finally acknowledged the site’s technical difficulties, which trickled through the site and down to third party apps. Though the problems were reportedly resolved ...
Microsoft Purposely Lays Low on Web Apps Launch
With the pubic launch of Microsoft Office 2010 looming, the software giant readies the market for all the potential it’s about to unload onto consumers. Appealing to both business individuals and enterprises, Microsoft is taking this week to roll out a number of indirect products to accompany the upcoming Office 2010. Using a surprisingly little ...
Voice Navigation in Europe: the Google Maps Party Pooper
Google may be celebrating its worldwide expansion of Maps with voice navigation, having launched the tool in Spain, Germany and several other European countries, as well as Canada. But some people aren’t nearly as thrilled about this kind of Google growth, particularly those unhappy with the methods behind collecting the data necessary for Google to ...
Y2K Bug Deja Vu: Y10K Bug Hits German Banks
Y2K seemed like a real threat to us all, and that was only ten years ago. Now a 2010 bug has affected millions of German bank customers, rendering their credit cards useless until the glitch was fixed. A real life scare, based in a technological overlook. It seems as though the German banks would have ...
Microsoft’s Mobicast Heralds a New Twitter Generation
The new wave of the Twitter generation is upon us. A new project from Microsoft’s Labs in Egypt are working on a video synthesis product that recognizes when uploaded content from multiple cell phones are being recorded from the same location. Called Mobicast, the service would then combine the videos in order to create ...