| |
 |
|
 Mobile Internet use has gained a great deal of popularity over the past year, the most recent report by comScore found. The number of people using their mobile devices to access the Internet has more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009, and the number of people doing this activity on a daily basis has also increased.The report...
 |
|
|
 Shortly after Facebook Connect officially launched, the feature also began to expand. The social networking site announced that this feature will also be available on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, allowing users to connect with their friends in their favorite applications from the App Store.The system works in a manner similar to the...
|
|
|
 Facebook announced a new feature for the iPhone and iPod Touch on Saturday. Facebook Connect, the company's technology for sharing data between Facebook.com and external applications, can now be integrated into iPhone apps.Moreover, at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, Dave Morin, senior platform manager at Facebook, took...
|
|
|
 When Hulu was first announced, the reaction of some critics was: ‘oh, no! Not another YouTube wannabe!.’ But here we are, one year later, and Hulu proved to be anything but disappointing. And to properly mark this anniversary, Hulu has also announced that the website will become more social.The new feature, called Hulu friends, is...
|
|
|
 Google's new plan introduced Wednesday to track individual users' browser history to target ads was just the ticket for Democrat Rep. Rich Boucher, the newly-minted chairman of the House subcommittee on communications and the internet. The Virginia congressman said Thursday he's working on a bill that will put restrictions on how...
|
|
|
 Shortly after the Federal Trade Commission issued a report on self regulatory guidelines for the online advertising industry, Google made an announcement about more relevant ads that would create value for everyone.Google is actually planning on using additional information about the sites people are visiting in order to take online...
|
|
|
 Google Inc’s new service, Google Voice, weaves traditional phone features with Google's Gmail product, therefore allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails.The service is an outgrowth of...
|
|
|
 Google has managed to put privacy advocates on fire once more, after announcing a new online advertising initiative designed to make ads even more relevant than before. Until now, users would see ads based on the content of the page they visited, but now Google wants to go even further, by launching an interest-based advertising...
|
|
|
 Starting today, online ads shown across Google's network of partner websites and on its video-sharing site YouTube are based on the user's browsing history. Joining an industry trend that has raised privacy concerns, the company introduced a new program called "interest-based" advertising, hoping to make ads more relevant and...
|
|
|
 Legacy Locker, probably the most morbid online venture, has been launched. The service will automatically put your online affairs in order when you finally, and inevitably, kick the bucket. How beautiful is that?Due to the fact that for many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our...
|
|
|
|
