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Announcements | Technology

Google Adds New Social Feature +1 to Search

By andy | March 31, 2011

Google is adding a new social feature to its search in form of a “+1” button. Rivaling Facebook’s immensely popular “like” feature, Google’s newly introduced social tool will allow the search engine users to recommend sites and ads to their contacts on Google profiles. To use Google’s new recommendation feature, you have create a Google [...]

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Announcements

Google Launches Think Quarterly Online Magazine

By andy | March 24, 2011

Google has launched Think Quarterly, its own 62-page online magazine, out of the company’s offices in the U.K. and Ireland. Google says that this publication is created for its business partners and advertisers, not customers, and its printed version has been sent to 1,500 of them. The online version, though, is available to everyone. Google’s [...]

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Mobile | Technology

Sprint Adds Google Voice Integration

By andy | March 23, 2011

Sprint will be the first carrier to offer its customers integrated Google Voice experience on their mobile phones. Sprint customers will be able to set their existing phone number as their Google Voice number without the issues and costs of number porting. Sprint customers will be able to access to this new service through their [...]

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Announcements | Mobile | Technology

RIM Partners With Microsoft to Offer Cloud Services to Corporate Customers

By andy | March 21, 2011

RIM is partnering with Microsoft to deliver a hosted version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Service for Office 365. This service will be part of the Microsoft Office 365 offering and will be hosted by RIM. Microsoft is already offering a hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) for a price of $10 per user per month. BlackBerry [...]

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Social Media

Twitter Adds Always Use HTTPS Option to Improve Security

By andy | March 16, 2011

Twitter made an important advance towards making user accounts more secure by adding a new settings option that permanently enables HTTPS. Users can enable this option by selecting “Always use HTTPS” in their Settings and their connection will be encrypted when accessing their account. HTTPS is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the [...]

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Social Media | Social Networks

Twitter Reveals Usage Stats Marking Fifth Anniversary

By andy | March 15, 2011

Twitter released interesting new statistics in a post on Twitter Blog to mark its fifth anniversary. According the post entitled Numbers, the first tweet was sent March 21, 2006. Among the numbers that show Twitter’s growth is the fact that it took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day for the microblogging site to reach [...]

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Announcements | Technology

Apple Launches Next Generation iPad

By andy | March 3, 2011

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs revealed new iPad 2 at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. The new tablet is lighter, thinner and faster than its predecessor. The pricing will remain the same with the basic model, the Wi-Fi only 16GB iPad 2, starting at $499. The iPad 2 features a new 1 GHz Apple A5 dual-core [...]

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Announcements | Mobile | Technology

US Army Launches Army Strong Stories App for the iPhone

By andy | March 1, 2011

US Army has been using social media to engage potential recruits for some time now with active presence on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube. They are now making a step further in social media space with the release of free iPhone application and mobile website for the Army Strong Stories blogging platform that will enable [...]

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News

Obama to Meet Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

By andy | February 17, 2011

President Obama will visit San Francisco, California today and have a private meeting with a number of business leaders in technology including Facebook’s chief Mark Zuckerberg. In his State of the Union address, the president mentioned Facebook as an example of American innovative and successful business concepts. “We are the nation that put cars in [...]

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Announcements | Mobile | Technology

Google Launches Google Translate App for iPhone

By andy | February 9, 2011

Google has launched Google Translate application for the iPhone that is now available for download from the Apple app store. The new app has all the features of the HTML5 web app including the ability to view dictionary results for single words, access translation history even when offline, plus some significant new additions designed to [...]

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Marketing & Sales | Software as a Service

Webinars as Efficient Sales and Marketing Tools

By andy | January 28, 2011

Webinars are great tools for reaching your target audience and can be of tremendous help in increasing the sales of your products or services. They can also be an effective way to complement your company’s lead generation efforts. Internet marketers are integrating webinars into their marketing strategies to educate potential customers about the products they [...]

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Internet | Marketing & Sales

Google Preparing Groupon Competitor Service

By andy | January 24, 2011

Search giant Google is preparing its new offer called Google Offer with the goal to compete in the booming online local advertising market. Google made the move after recent failure to purchase the fastest growing deal of the day company Groupon. Google’s six billion dollars offer was rejected, and now the search company plans to [...]

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Buying | Retail | Selling | Tips & Advice

Cost to merchants for offering deal of the day

By andy | January 6, 2011

Deal of the day websites gained huge popularity in the past few years among online shoppers.  These websites are based on the concept of selling one item a day until they are sold out. The featured item is available for 24 hours for a special discounted price which inspires shoppers to make quick purchasing decisions and buy [...]

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