Tagged: Google & News
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Google apologises over racist Obama image News
25.11.2009 Google has apologised for the presence of a racially offensive image of US First Lady Michelle Obama, which appears first in its image search results for her name. However, the...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Google, -
Mobile ads to take 11.7pc of digital ad spend News
24.11.2009 The total value of the global mobile-marketing and advertising market will grow from €1 billion in 2008 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43pc to €8.7 billion in 2014. -
Murdoch and Microsoft on brink of major news deal News
23.11.2009 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is about to do a deal with Microsoft’s Bing search engine whereby the Seattle software giant will pay Murdoch not to put his news on Google’s search... -
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Has Salesforce.com just unveiled a rival to Google Wave? News
19.11.2009 Cloud-computing player Salesforce.com has introduced a platform that will act as a "Facebook for the Enterprise" that it claims will revolutionise the workplace by leveraging... -
YouTube Direct to spawn legions of citizen journalists News
17.11.2009 Google-owned YouTube is to empower anyone armed with a camera phone to capture the news in front of their eyes and broadcast it to millions via news organisations with the...Categories: New Media -
O2 unveils new Android Galaxy Spica device News
16.11.2009 O2 has begun selling a new Android device from Samsung – the Galaxy Spica – exclusively in Ireland from 17 November. The device is priced €99 for contract customers and €299 on...Categories: Comms -
Microsoft bulks up Bing with Wolfram Alpha News
13.11.2009 When "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha was unleashed earlier this year, it was said to have the fire power to take on reigning search engine Google. While this...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Google, -
Google marches further into comms business with Gizmo5 deal News
13.11.2009 Just days after internet search and advertising giant Google acquired AdMob for US$750 million, it has emerged that the company is strengthening its Google Voice stable with the... -
Google working on HTTP replacement for web News
13.11.2009 Early stage experiments from Google research labs have shown that its SPDY (pronounced SPeeDY) web protocol can load webpages up to 55pc faster than the current HTTP standard...Categories: Digital Life -
Google acquires AdMob for US$750 million News
10.11.2009 Internet search and advertising giant Google last night nailed its colours firmly to the smart-phone advertising mast by revealing it has agreed to acquire ad display tech firm... -
Search wars – Google and MSN brandish new weapons for phone and web News
07.11.2009 A long-running turf war escalated this week with both Google and Microsoft unleashing and previewing new features in the fight to the hearts of users’ digital lives, on the PC...Categories: New Media, Digital Life -
Novell plans to bring Google Wave to the enterprise News
05.11.2009 Major enterprise software player Novell has unveiled a real-time collaboration platform that demonstrates how well Google Wave could ensure real-time social and document... -
Social-media camp tunes into the digital consumer News
05.11.2009 Having read the term "social media" repeatedly, many of us will admit that the words have lost their meaning before we even found any, so it is interesting to see online PR firm...Categories: R&D -
The perfect internet storm breaks – TV will never be the same again News
04.11.2009 Once TV had a captive audience but those days are over as the big screen will have to compete with digital natives’ laptops and mobile devices simultaneously. -
Sony Ericsson’s X10 Android is the first of many News
03.11.2009 The Xperia X10 may be Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone, but the company is already labelling it as the flagship handset for an entire family of similar devices coming out in...Categories: Comms -
Bing’s US market share stabilises, Yahoo! plummets News
02.11.2009 Microsoft’s search engine Bing recovered market share slightly in the US in October, according to web analytics firm StatCounter, but Yahoo! continued to lose market share. -
Google changes direction of sat-nav industry with Android GPS tool News
29.10.2009 Shares in sat-nav companies bombed today after internet giant Google upset their compass settings with a free sat-nav tool for Android 2.0 mobile phones.Categories: Comms, Digital Life -
Google strikes deals with MySpace, Rhapsody and Lala to make search musical News
29.10.2009 Search giant Google has gone live with its new music-search feature and has struck partnership deals with MySpace, iLike, Rhapsody, Pandora, imeem and Lala to provide a search... -
‘Broadband leadership will be a precondition for economic growth’ News
29.10.2009 Eric Schmidt has brought Google out of the recession, now he wants to conquer the enterprise.