Posts Tagged ‘fort lauderdale interactive marketing’

 

With TiVo, search reaches television

Monday, January 12th, 2009

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 of programs we wanted to watch, [...]

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Mobile Video projections

Friday, January 9th, 2009

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 of live television spanning [...]

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Cisco Systems invests in Microsoft’s Xobni

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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 Cisco Systems as a [...]

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Facebook does not embrace Power.com

Monday, January 5th, 2009

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 the United States District [...]

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Update on FCC & Wireless Spectrum

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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 wireless spectrum in the 2155 [...]

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Investor urges Yahoo to sell search to Microsoft

Monday, December 15th, 2008

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 business to Microsoft.  Microsoft [...]

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Anatomy of a search engine

Friday, December 12th, 2008

A search engine is essentially a tool whose performance level is dependent upon the amount of information it has the capacity to accumulate and draw from. For this reason, while the World Wide Web would appear to be free, it is actually exchanging its service for little bits of information that are useful to businesses [...]

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