Archive for the ‘Technology News’ Category

 

Interactive Barcodes Increase Interest for Brands

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Brands are using interactive barcodes in their marketing strategies to amplify consumer interaction and interest in movies, retail and entertainment. Universal Pictures, Brooks Shoe Company and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have all started to increase their use of interactive barcodes such as QR codes that typically require download through a Smartphone. Marketers place the QR [...]

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Facebook Places: The Newest Location-Based Social Media App

Friday, August 20th, 2010

On Wednesday, August 18, Facebook launched Places, their location-based social media application – which is gradually rolling out to all U.S. users in the next few days. Like other popular location-based social media networks, you can check in from your mobile device to immediately share where you are. Facebook Places also allows you to share [...]

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iPhone 4: The Big Announcement

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Apple held an invite-only press conference in Cupertino, California at 9am Pacific Time to discuss the iPhone 4 and issues with the phone’s reception.  Since the phone was launched three weeks ago, it has sold over 3 million units. In the last few weeks, the iPhone 4’s reported antenna problems have spurred rumblings of dissatisfaction [...]

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Zynga Expands its Social Media Marketing

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Anyone that enjoys the games and applications on Facebook knows the enormous popularity of Zynga’s games Farmville, YoVille and Mafia Wars. Nearly 64 million people play Farmville each month, which is how parent company Zynga brought in $490 million in revenue last year, according to CNET News.
Taking the Facebook games’ popularity and bankability one step [...]

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Follow the World Cup on Smartphones, Search Engines and Twitter!

Friday, June 11th, 2010

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and you can enjoy the games while getting up-to-date information and interaction on social media networks! You can follow the World Cup on TV and on your Smartphone as well as on all the major search engines and Twitter.
In search news, Yahoo has introduced search shortcuts for [...]

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Smartphone Industry Has Lots of Room for Growth This Year

Friday, May 7th, 2010

It may seem like everyone today already uses a smartphone to text, email, Facebook and Tweet, but a report by comScore indicates some surprising findings. The report detailed the U.S. mobile phone market for the first three months of 2010 among users aged 13 and up. As far as what Americans are using their phones [...]

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ICANN Globalizes the Web by Allowing Custom Internet Domain Extensions

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Although already known as the World Wide Web, Internet has truly gone global now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process.
What does this mean?
You’ll be seeing internet addresses containing non-Latin and non-Western characters (Keep an eye out for Arabic or Chinese characters) in the Internet extension [...]

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