fort lauderdale web design: 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 web design: Twitter Redesign to Feature Expanded Search Bar - 06/15/09 10:46 AM
It hardly seems possible that Twitter has already chirped its way to the third-largest online social networking service, riding the draft winds of Facebook and Myspace, according to Compete. The majority of Tweeters initially signed up for the service in 2008, thus giving Twitter an impressive online traffic increase of almost … (1 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Yelp for small business - 04/17/09 09:16 AM
Yelp is a website with the slogan, "Real People. Real Reviews". Users of Yelp are free to post reviews of local businesses such as restaurants, nightclubs and more, a useful resource developed with the customer in mind-think TripAdvisor.
In a surprising move, Yelp is scheduled to begin allowing small business … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Capture your target audience with Apture - 04/03/09 09:42 AM
A common mistake made on websites today is linking to other websites when it is not necessary. The attention span of potential clients who are surfing the web is mere seconds, and once you have them on your site, why would you open a door for them to exit and likely … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Online advertising and you - 03/23/09 09:00 AM
Behavioral targeted advertising has begun-and as most issues that revolve around privacy tend to be, it is generating controversy. Those in favor recognize the value of the ability to reach your target audience without the need to funnel funds into an abyss hoping for a bite and those opposed cite … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Tim Armstrong new CEO of AOL - 03/16/09 03:46 PM
Hot on the heels of the vastly unpopular Randy Falco and his chief aide Ron Grant, AOL has successfully recruited Tim Armstrong of Google to take the hot seat as the new chief executive. Tim Armstrong was Google's top sales representative, running the sales department successfully since 2000.
The surprising move … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Google responds to the Atlantis rumors - 03/02/09 09:22 AM
When Google unleashed its Oceans feature for Google Earth, the rumor mill began to center on an area of odd grid-like markings on the seafloor. Many were speculating that the maze-like markings were that of the legendary lost city of Atlantis, thinking that the markings looked like the outlines of a … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Google to index databases - 02/25/09 12:02 PM
Search giant and leader Google has indexed over a trillion web addresses. While the fact that Google knows about over a trillion websites, what is even more remarkable is that figure is only a fraction of what is on the entire World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web holds a vast … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Gmail is for the multi-tasker - 02/13/09 10:58 AM
Late Thursday Google unveiled its latest Gmail Labs feature, allowing users to have multiple inboxes in their default Gmail view. Google has dubbed this new feature, Multiple Inboxes.
As if gmail users were not spoiled to begin with, we may now have access to multiple viewing panes simultaneously, without having to … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Google's Latitude - 02/06/09 11:17 AM
Google's latest add on to Google maps is called Latitude. Latitude allows users to share their location with friends via their cell phones. Google recently ended its Dodgeball service, which allowed cell users to share current location information via text by virtually any phone.
With Latitude being an add-on to … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: 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 web design: The power behind a Google search - 01/21/09 08:50 AM
In the past, performing a search meant visiting the reference desk at the library. Today, search engines have replaced that role, providing instantaneous answers to billions of queries, and changing the face of business. Google is able to provide this service, and provide it using energy efficient data centers.
Google is … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Carol Bartz named Chief Executive of Yahoo - 01/19/09 09:49 AM
On Tuesday, Carol Bartz debuted as the successor to Yahoo's Chief Executive Jerry Yang. Murmers among the masses are that Yahoo's leadership style will become more dominant under the succinct "no no-nonsense" leadership style of Ms. Bartz. This style of dominant leadership will come in sharp contrast to the soft-spoken style … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: Search expanding into unexpected places - 01/14/09 02:22 PM
Search has become embedded in our routines, and is continually expanding to simplify the process of locating information, products and services. Recently at the consumer electronics show, the topic of search stole the show-as it becomes integrated into nearly every device connected to the internet.
New search strategies include a Ford … (0 comments)
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fort lauderdale web design: 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 web design: 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 web design: 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 web design: 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 web design: 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 web design: 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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