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  • Mobile Web 2.0 apps market to be worth US$18.9bn by 2014

    Mobile Web 2.0 apps market to be worth US$18.9bn by 2014

    18.03.2010 Driven by the next wave of apps and services like Presence, Geolocation and Social Web, revenues from mobile access to Web 2.0 apps and services will be worth US$18.9bn, analysts have forecast. more...

  • Facebook overtakes Google, Twitterers prefer social to news

    Facebook overtakes Google, Twitterers prefer social to news

    18.03.2010 Facebook has overtaken Google in the US to be the most visited website, according to analysis from Hitwise. In related news, Twitter is exploding in terms of upstream traffic to social media sites over news and media sites. more...

  • Twitter spreads further with @anywhere

    Twitter spreads further with @anywhere

    16.03.2010 Twitter has taken its already open technology a big step further with @anywhere, a new framework that will allow the microblogging service to be embedded anywhere on the web. First stop, YouTube. more...

  • XML inventor joins Google, jabs Apple’s mobile web vision

    XML inventor joins Google, jabs Apple’s mobile web vision

    15.03.2010 Acclaimed software developer and entrepreneur Tim Bray who until recently was Sun Microsystems’ web chief, has become "developer advocate" at Google and has hit out at Apple’s Disney-fied vision of the mobile internet’s future. more...

  • Major US broadband policy plan to be revealed

    Major US broadband policy plan to be revealed

    15.03.2010 Regulators in the US are set to roll out an ambitious broadband policy plan that will see the average American experience increases in speeds up to 25 times faster than what they currently experience. more...

  • iPad insanity as Apple takes early orders for new form factor

    iPad insanity as Apple takes early orders for new form factor

    13.03.2010 As it emerges Apple has begun taking early orders for its eponymous iPad, estimates are figuring orders at the rate of 20,000 per hour are being sustained. more...

  • Telcos warn post codes essential to future of comms

    Telcos warn post codes essential to future of comms

    12.03.2010 Independent licensed telecoms providers in Ireland have added their voice to the call to prioritise the introduction of postcodes which will be vital to future GPS and location-based e-commerce services. more...

  • Opera Mini 5 arrives on Android

    Opera Mini 5 arrives on Android

    11.03.2010 Software company Opera has released a version of its speedy mobile web browser for the Android phone and Opera Mini 5 is now available for download in Android Market. more...

  • Google opens new apps store for businesses

    Google opens new apps store for businesses

    11.03.2010 In a move aimed at fueling the momentum so far with 2m businesses now adopting Google Apps, the internet giant has opened a new Apps Marketplace chock-full of third party cloud apps like payroll and productivity software. more...

  • Urgent need for new online metrics

    Urgent need for new online metrics

    11.03.2010 Top-right-oriented-graph-itis is a particularly nasty condition, prevalent amongst many busy middle and senior managers; it gives them symptoms of a warm and fuzzy feeling that all is well, when actually they don’t know if all is well or not. It manifests itself in a desire to view graphs which generally rise from bottom left to top right, with the issue of what is being measured, and how, simply secondary to have a graph conforming to the... more...

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