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Navigation App Waze Makes Map-Building a Game for Everyone…

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The latest edition of mobile navigation app Waze has just launched in the iTunes App Store and on the Android Market Place with the Symbian and Windows Mobile versions available on the Waze website. In this updated version, the company has added even more features to their already popular “munching” game which sends a Pac-Man [...]

New Google Mobile Search Results For Movies Fans

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Heads up, movie fans – today Google launched a mobile version of new Google Search results for movies, which makes it easier to plan a trip to the movies. Just go to google.com in the web browser on your iPhone, Palm WebOS, or Android-powered device, search for “movies”, and then tap on the “More movies” [...]

Google's New Search Ad Formats

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. For example, if you want to learn a magic trick, a video showing you how to perform the trick is likely the best result. So over the past few years, we’ve blended videos, images, maps and more into [...]

Opera Mini hits 40 Million Monthly Mobile Web Users

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

We all know the Mobile web is exploding in popularity. Opera Mini, Opera’s mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August. In terms of page views, Opera Mini delivered 17.2 billion last month, a 238 percent annual increase, indicating that mobile [...]

Twitter eyes acquisitions

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday.
“That is something we are definitely interested in,” Stone told a news conference in Tel Aviv. “We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision.”
He said there was [...]