Tagged Joins Interpolls Rich Media Pricing NetworkPR Newswire (press release), NYSAN FRANCISCO, April 29 /PRNewswire/ — Tagged Inc. announced today its inclusion into the Interpolls Rich Media Pricing Network. Tagged is experiencing tremendous growth and is now the third largest social network in the US, as measured by comScore, …
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Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Tellme voice app to search Windows Mobile — Everybody chuckled when Tellme, a mobile voice company snapped up by Microsoft almost two years ago, released its smartphone voice search application for BlackBerry, instead of for Windows Mobile. Thanks to a new native application that will be released …
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Marion Maneker / The Big Money:
Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For — Bono and the unlikeliest private-equity shop ever. — The imminent release of the Palm Pre—the most exciting smart phone launch this year—has brought about unexpected hopes for a revival of the nearly left-for-dead smart phone maker.
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Are you a businessperson needing a bit more power, intrigued by yesterday’s HP ProBook s-series unveiling but not impulsive enough to spend your business’s hard-earned money without a full review? Better fire up that expense report, because according to Laptop the ProBook 4510s is a solid investment. Its styling and performance get high marks, and [...]
Go Social With CPRS Toronto Web 2.0 PR PanelMarketWatch (press release)What: CPRS Toronto hosts a social media forum with top communications specialists discussing where Web 2.0 is taking us. Get the goods on the latest 2.0 tactics and find out what it means to PR practitioners, media and audiences alike. …
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See that? This dowdy looking sedan is the very symbol of hope for GM and perhaps the US auto industry as a whole. Although this Volt prototype is technically a mule — an engineering hybrid that crosses the body of a Chevy Cruze with the Volt’s Voltec powertrain — it still gives “an 80-plus percent [...]
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft finishes Vista SP2 — Yesterday’s rumors were true: Microsoft has released to manufacturing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 R2. — SP2 hit the torrents on April 28, hours before Microsoft officially announced it was done (via a posting to the Windows [...]
Nissan’s EVs are coming, but if people are really going to buy them in droves they’re going to need somewhere other than the rusty outlets in their garages to charge them. So, the company has been working like mad forming partnerships with municipalities around the world, from California to China, to get city-wide charging stations [...]
Gamasutra
The Social Network Game BoomGamasutra, CAby Sande Chen With over 150 million people registered on Facebook, the most popular social networking site, and millions, millions more on similar sites like MySpace, Bebo, and Hi5, social networking has become a part of daily life. …Social TV: Watch Hulu with Your Facebook and myspace FriendsMashableFeature: 'The Social Network [...]
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Wolfram/Alpha’s demo: Search results meet analytics — Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed “computational knowledge engine” at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing …
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We don’t have a formal unveiling for Motorola’s Verizon-bound A4500 world phone just yet, but an operation manual and some snapshots of its dress rehearsal from the FCC should suffice in the interim. From what we glean, it supports CDMA for VZW’s network and quad-band GSM for SIM-packing Vodafone customers and other overseas roaming needs. [...]
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
After Being Upstaged By Google, Wolfram Alpha Fires Back With A Leaked Screenshot — Today was supposed to be a big coming out party for stealthy search engine Wolfram Alpha. Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram gave the first public demonstration of his knowledge mining search engine at Harvard.
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Despite Obama's Web 2.0 efforts, e-user satisfaction slipsComputerworld, MABy Sharon Gaudin April 28, 2009 (Computerworld) Despite the Obama administration's efforts to update government Web sites, satisfaction with them has fallen for the first time in a year, a survey of 280000 users of government Web sites found. …Customer Satisfaction with E-Gov DeclinesDestination CRMall 22 news articles
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The New MySpace Isn't A Social Network, It's A Content Portal (NWS)The Business Insider, NYAnother says Jon knows "the social network game is over" and that "Facebook has won." So instead, expect Jon to lean on News Corp and turn MySpace into a "content portal." A source close to the team says, "I don't want to [...]
Vinyl has been on the verge of a big-time comeback for ages now (and for some of us, it never ceased to be the format of choice anyway), so we’re pretty happy to see that even the land of zany iPhone / iPod apps is no longer immune to its charms. The spinning vinyl app [...]