comScore: Mobile Internet Usage Doubles In Popularity
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...

comScore: Mobile Internet Usage Doubles In Popularity

Facebook Extends Connect Feature to iPhone, iPod Touch
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 Extends Connect Feature to iPhone, iPod Touch

Facebook Connect Makes Friends With The iPhone And iPod Touch
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...

Facebook Connect Makes Friends With The iPhone And iPod Touch

Hulu Gets Social Networking Features On Its First Anniversary
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...

Hulu Gets Social Networking Features On Its First Anniversary

Google's Behavioral Ads May Not Have a Bright Future After All
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...

Google's Behavioral Ads May Not Have a Bright Future After All

Google’s Behavioral Advertising Raises Privacy Concerns
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’s Behavioral Advertising Raises Privacy Concerns

The “Complex Voice” Behind Google Voice
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...

The “Complex Voice” Behind Google Voice

Privacy Advocates On Fire Over Google’s Behavioral Ad Initiative
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...

Privacy Advocates On Fire Over Google’s Behavioral Ad Initiative

Google Introduces '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...

Google Introduces 'Interest-Based' Advertising

Everyone Can Now Find Out What You Were Up to While Navigating the Internet
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...

Everyone Can Now Find Out What You Were Up to While Navigating the Internet

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New App for iPhone, Takes Old-Style Flip Clock to another DimensionNew App for iPhone, Takes Old-Style Flip Clock to another Dimension
A new application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch is now available for download through the App Store. The app’s name is Night Stand and it is an alarm manager, but...

New App for iPhone, Takes Old-Style Flip Clock to another Dimension
 
 
ZTE Releases Its Own Solar-Powered Cell PhoneZTE Releases Its Own Solar-Powered Cell Phone
On Wednesday, during the GSMA Mobile world Congress in Barcelona, the Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE announced that it would release a phone model that is powered by...

ZTE Releases Its Own Solar-Powered Cell Phone