fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Google Simplifies Our Lives. Again. For Free. - 06/29/09 09:28 AM
In March, Google announced Google Voice, a new addition to the company's toolbox of technology crafted to improve and simplify the way we manage our phone calls, texts and voicemail. The concept stems from GrandCentral, bought by Google a few years ago.
The tool enables users to use a single number … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Google faces class action suit regarding trademark infringement accusations - 05/22/09 10:58 AM
Google has found itself in murky waters over its online advertising practices. There are companies who are livid about the methods Google allows paid ad placements to operate. Google defends its practices, citing the effectiveness of competitive trademark usage.
Geico, American Airlines and other large corporate entities have filed suit … (1 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Microsoft and the Search Market - 03/25/09 09:59 AM
Microsoft is under scrutiny once again, this time for its seemingly stubborn approach to investing in the search market. Some investor's shareholders are questioning aloud why the company is willing to spend billions to compete in the dominated search market, continuously losing money and market share.
Recently Steve Ballmer, CEO … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Google Translate enables you to translate between 41 languages - 03/04/09 09:33 AM
Google Translate has recently rolled out several new languages, including Thai, Turkish, Hungarian, Albanian, Estonian, Galician and Maltese. With the additional seven languages, users have the ability to automatically translate between 41 languages and 1,640 language pairs-and reach a staggering 98% of internet users.
Everyone knows Google Research moves quickly, and … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Former Yahoo executives absorb rival spots - 02/09/09 09:37 AM
It has become a pastime these days to watch where former Yahoo execs are ending up. With the new leadership of Carol Bartz as Chief Executive, Yahoo is in transition. During this transition, several ex-Yahoo execs are scoring important roles at rival companies, a surprising trend in the internet and … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Remote African Villages online - 02/04/09 09:26 AM
Deep in Masai country of Africa, the road to Nairobi weaves approximately 100 miles. Of those 100 miles, the asphalt eventually gives way to a dirt road and finally a simple dirt track that scales broken hills and plunging desert flats. Welcome to Entasopia, Kenya.
In November, Google financially backed the … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Internet access in the air - 01/16/09 08:54 AM
Row 44 is a company who makes technology that allows people to have internet and phone access on airplanes. As early as this month, Southwest and Alaska Airlines are scheduled to begin testing a handful of aircraft using the Row 44 technology. If things proceed as planned, the North American customers … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: With TiVo, search reaches television - 01/12/09 08:41 AM
The world of search is changing at a constant speed, and the way we live our lives is changing along with it. A recent example of this is the beloved television company TiVo. TiVo first wowed the world when it empowered us to skip through commercials and set up a queue … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Mobile Video projections - 01/09/09 10:11 AM
It is predicted that many will be watching the presidential inauguration on January 20th on mobile devices, as lives become increasingly busy and mobile. No matter where people are, they are able to access information and events via smart phones and other devices.
This creates an opportunity for MobiTV, a broadcaster … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Cisco Systems invests in Microsoft's Xobni - 01/07/09 11:00 AM
Xobni is a tool by Microsoft to streamline inbox management-it is actually inbox spelled backwards. The search tool indexes email in one's outlook inbox-searching messages for keywords, phone numbers, names and photos and categorizing them. Xobni announced on Monday that it has closed a $7 million dollar round of financing with … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Facebook does not embrace Power.com - 01/05/09 04:19 PM
Brazil's start-up company, Power.com aims to act as a portal for users to access all of their favorite social networking sites. After failed attempts at discussing the situation with Power.com, Facebook let its opinion of the situation created by the new company be known by filing a complaint against Power.com in … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Update on FCC & Wireless Spectrum - 12/17/08 01:30 PM
The topic of the 700 MHz FCC wireless spectrum auction that began on January 24, 2008 has stirred up much controversy. The FCC recently canceled the meeting where the vote was to take place on the free internet plan, wherein it would decide if it should auction off 25 megahertz of … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Investor urges Yahoo to sell search to Microsoft - 12/15/08 08:46 AM
Recently a shareholder with 1.5 percent of Yahoo Inc., Ivory Investment Management LP, has suggested the company sell its search business to Microsoft, suggesting the business venture has the potential to double the value of Yahoo. Ivory Investment proposed via letter to Yahoo's board that revising plans to sell the search … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: A secure password-free online future? - 12/10/08 09:18 AM
Could license plates be on their way to cyberspace? With so many online privacy issues occurring today and tensions, running high on the controversial issue, a government and technology industry panel on cyber-security measures is suggesting that moving away from passwords may be the solution to online security issues.
The panel … (1 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: YouTube & your privacy - 12/08/08 09:11 AM
YouTube is consistently evolving and increasing in popularity, with users watching longer videos. While some users enjoy broadcasting themselves, there are even more who prefer to simply watch others broadcast. The view-only users may be sharing more than they are aware of, as their information is also publicly available.
YouTube users … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Facebook Connects - 12/05/08 09:09 AM
Facebook masses an incredible 120 million members worldwide, making it the largest social networking site on the World Wide Web. The latest feature venture by the company is causing quite the stir; its name is Facebook Connect. Through Facebook Connect, Facebook will allow users to log onto other websites using their … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: The ‘Is Google Evil?' debate - 12/03/08 03:49 PM
As the internet and technology continue to change virtually every second, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow what every company is doing. That is, unless you are Google. When you find yourself at the top, you also find yourself involved in situations that can become cumbersome.
Currently, Google is amid an … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: The Future of Privacy Forum - 11/21/08 12:07 PM
On Wednesday, it was announced in Washington that a new group, The Future of Privacy Forum, had been formed. The group, initially funded by AT&T, was founded by Jules Polonetsky and Christopher Wolf. Polonetsky is the former chief privacy officer of AOL and prior to that DoubleClick, and Wolf is a … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang says adios - 11/19/08 09:04 AM
Yahoo announced on Monday that its chief executive Jerry Yang would step down from that role when the company decides on a replacement. Mr. Yang is a co-founder of online mogul Yahoo and had assumed control of the company from Terry Semel approximately a year and a half ago.
In a … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale interactive marketing: The evolution of online video - 11/17/08 01:14 PM
Online video began as a seemingly fuzzy bright idea with relatively little structure and direction. It seems to have found its path during the presidential election, with online video streams transforming from random assorted video clips to a one-stop destination for all things political. Online video seems to have become a … (0 comments)
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