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• Mobile Predictions (and shameless self promotion)

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  Later this week, we’ll publish reports across BIA/Kelsey’s coverage areas that predict market trends and events of the coming year. Part of that involved looking back on past predictions to calibrate our handicapping abilities. There was one nugget I remembered after yesterday’s announcement that Apple will ...
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• Nexus One Officially Unveiled

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  We all knew it was coming: Google’s Nexus One smart phone was just unveiled at Google’s press event at the Googleplex. Thanks to the company’s famous “dogfooding” strategy, many of the device specs were previously leaked. It looks to be the post powerful Android-powered device yet, but that may not last ...
  1 day ago

• Confirmed: Apple/Quattro

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  After hearing whistpers from a reporter last week that Yahoo was eying mobile ad network Quattro, we started hearing similar rumors over the past 24 hours that Apple would be the suitor. Kara Swisher at WSJ then scooped the story and this morning, we’ve heard official confirmation from Quattro. This is at first ...
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• Year In Review: Local Search & Maps

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 148
  While analysts and practitioners have been prognosticating the imminent arrival of local search for the last several years, 2009 was finally the year that proved us right. A number of innovations and developments in mobile search, such as the widespread adoption of the iPhone, the release of … More from ...
  3 days ago

• HNY: ¡Felíz Año Nuevo! Bonne Année!

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Hey everyone . . . Happy New Year! I hope that 2010 is healthy and successful (however you define success) for each and everyone one of you. I haven’t been writing anything here but I’ve been posting at SEL and Internet2Go : As Verizon Implements Bing Default Search Deal Company Sees User Backlash Now ...
  6 days ago

• Vlingo Top Ten Searches Reveal Mobile Intent

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  In the spirit of top-ten lists flying at us this time of year, mobile voice search provider Vlingo has revealed what it’s seeing on its network ( via Techcrunch ). The list affirms much of what we know about mobile search behavior, including high interest in social networking. 1. YouTube 2. Facebook 3. MySpace 4. ...
  1 week ago

• Quick Thoughts about Next Year

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  This certainly won’t sound original but 2010 is going to be all about leveraging social media in the local space (or leveraging local if you’re a social media site). And mobile. Mobile. Mobile. Mobile. If you’re a traditional media publisher: Distribution: gaining exposure for yourself and your and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Citysearch Launches on Android

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Already on the iPhone, BlackBerry and the Pre, Citysearch has launched an Anroid app today. The app has much the same functionality as on the other platforms: users can write reviews and share information. They can also search and filter by various criteria, as well as find nearby places using built-in location ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google-Yelp Deal Now Off

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  180 degrees . . . apparently Google is not buying Yelp . Something changed over the weekend and Yelp rejected Google’s $500+ million offer. As I wrote last week: When Money’s on the Table, Take It . While many Yelpers — and the rest of the local ecosystem — many not have liked the idea of a Google-Yelp ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smartphones Are the New Print

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  I awoke this morning to discover that my car was broken into: driver’s side window smashed, glass everywhere. Called the police (worthless), called insurance (repair cost is below my deductible); so I wasted an hour or more with those guys. Now on to getting my window fixed . . . I was given a glass repair company ...
  2 weeks ago

• Millennial Media Makes Location a Centerpiece of 2010 Predictions

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  Millennial Media , in the spirit of its monthly SMART reports, is one of the first to join the requisite torrent of year end predictions. According to the mobile ad network, we’ll see over the next year: 1. The U.S. Mobile Web Will Reach Nearly 100M Unique Users Per Month 2. Advertisers Will Invest ...
  3 weeks ago

• ECG Integrated into iPhone Lookalike Device with Life Saving Concierge Service

  
  TechieLobang - News, Tips & Tricks — Authority: 140
  If you take a quick glance, you may have passed off this device as an iPhone as it has a single button on it. However, this mobile phone with ECG is a life saving device. Together with a 24-hours concierge service, EPI (the Singapore company that develop this mobile phone with ECG) branded it as “The Gateway to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google QR-Decal PlacePage ‘Hijacked’

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Barry Schwartz, who runs web design and development firm RustyBrick in New York, received one of the Google “Favorite Places” decals . When he went to scan the QR, after having framed it, it brought up the wrong PlacePage — one associated with a nearby restaurant rather than his business. The headline ...
  3 weeks ago

• Online Coupon Forecast: $12.7B in 2010

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  There’s a new Borrell Associates report that takes aim at the coupon and circulars segment. The firm says that online coupons constitute 5% of all coupon redemptions but 20% of the total dollar value of coupons. The total face value of the coupon market (not redemptions) on an annualized basis is more than $300 ...
  3 weeks ago

• ILM:09: Mobile Superforum

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  Kicking off this afternoon’s Mobile Superforum, BIA/Kelsey analyst Mike Boland walked through a number of key trends he sees impacting the development of mobile local search. These include rapid hardware improvement, the increasing local focus of mobile, the growing appreciate of mobile as is own form factor, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mobile search from Rummble pulls geo info from Twitter

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 557
  Local mobile search application Rummble launched for Windows Mobile devices earlier this week. I interviewed Alex Housley, VP of Business for Rummble , at the Heroes of the Mobile Screen conference in London on Monday. In this GoMo 1-to-1 we got a live demo of the service, and Alex told us about the close work ...
  4 weeks ago

• NY-Based 8Coupons Goes National

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  The coupon site that could, 8Coupons , is going national. The site began trying to sell SMBs in New York into mobile couponing directly. Yikes. The founders quickly discovered that was too much heavy lifting and so shifted into a PC to mobile couponing approach that focused on the top 8 deals (“ Ocho Loco “) ...
  4 weeks ago

• Krillion Powers Topix ‘Best (Local) Deals’ Widget

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Krillion and Topix announced a deal in which the former will provide a new “e-circular” on Topix pages that correspond to local stores (mostly big box) in specific geographies: [T]hat dynamically presents real-time deals on local, in-stock products to the thousands of people that visit the Topix local news and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mobile Takes Center Stage at Google Search Event

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 439
  In addition to “real time search,” discussed in the previous post , Google today announced new mobile products. These include improved voice search technology with additional languages supported, new product search, as well as a mobile visual search product called “Goggles.” Google VP of Engineering Vic ...
  4 weeks ago

• Google Comes to Brick and Mortar Store Windows

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 667
  In a recent article, we discussed ways the local search landscape is changing . Add another one to the list, because now Google is sending brick and mortar businesses decals to put on their windows, with barcodes that people can scan with their phones to bring up business listings on Google. Not just everybody gets ...
  4 weeks ago

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