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Smartphone OS Market Share Still High and Mighty

A new research update made by comScore MobiLens was published today presenting the changes that took place since June until September on the mobile market, in terms of top mobile OEMs, smartphones and mobile content usage. Samsung is the leading manufacturer of OEM mobile – maintaining its position over LG and Motorola.  On this though ...

YouTube’s Political Dues Make Waves Worldwide

After years of on-again, off-again, YouTube faces more interdiction in Turkey.  This time is not about videos considered insulting to Atatürk, but a compromising footage about the former opposition party leader Deniz Baykal. In the former incident a law court decided that the misleading videos about the Turkish leader Atatürk should be restricted. Google’s response ...

SurveyMonkey Financiered for $100 Million Debt

SurveyMonkey announced a $100 million senior debt financing in order to retire the existing one, and to cover the general purposes. The new capital will enhance SurveyMonkey possibilities for expanding and improving their services. The top tier banks that credited SurveyMonkey comprise Bank of America Merrill Lynch, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc and other participating banks ...

Facebook Updates Android Apps, Disses iPad as Non-Mobile

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied the rumors that predicted the release of a phone at the press event today. Instead, Facebook announced major improvements regarding updates for iPhone and Android apps. the updates are already available via Android Market and iPhone App Store. The platform changes will diminish the discrepancy between iPhone and Android regarding ...

Cisco SocialMiner Software Scaling the Social Media Fields

Cisco SocialMiner was announced today as a smart software for scaling the public social media’s interests. The users of Facebook and Twitter and many other public forums and blogs will be likely to be scrutinized in order to offer the companies the chance to answer proactively to their needs. Cisco’s new software is designed to ...

Zynga Poker Hits Android, by way of Facebook

Today, during the Facebook mobile event, Zynga – the notorious game developer – announced their new Android game entitled “Zynga Poker”. The Android app game supports Facebook’s new mobile single sign-in, which means that the Facebook login information can be used. To have the image of Zynga in the social gaming environment, it should be ...

Google Instant Impresses Ads’ Effectiveness

Google Instant service was released on the 8th of September and the great news is that statistics prove it is useful for the businesses that go for paid ads. According to Marin Software – a managing platform which gauges the paid search environment – Google Instant increased the number of click meanwhile dropping the cost-per-click ...

iPad Continues to Attract Business Apps – 37Signals Launches Chalk

37Signals, the small-sized web application company, has come up with an iPad-friendly application replicating a whiteboard. The product, named Chalk, is available free of charge via chalk.37signals.com, whereas Draft, their other product available in the App Store, goes up to $9.99. Chalk is a pretty convenient tool made up of HTML5 and CSS language. There ...

Google Chrome OS: Smartbooks, Printers, Browsers: OH MY!

Rumors say that by the end of this year, Google will come up with a Chrome OS smartbooks, a key product incorporating smartphone CPUs instead of netbook chips. Google has been the trendsetter in this domain, after having introduced Nexus One, the Android mobile phone. Hewlett-Packard and Acer are expected to reply with innovative products ...

Google Buzz Settles with Gmail Users on Privacy

Following the recent lawsuit filed by two law firms in California against Google, the counterparts managed to reach an agreement. On a first instance, Google will pay $8.5 million to organizations ‘promoting privacy education and policy on the web’ after having made the necessary changes to Buzz, completely removing the privacy threats. Google says, Shortly ...