Google has created another way your web surfers can find your business, and it requires a few worthwhile minutes from you.Google Places is another way interested individuals can pull up all important information about your business; including address, website, services provided, coupons, etc.All you need to do is click here and enter your business data to get started.Watch the video below to see the full potential.
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My colleague Narek Karapetyan blogged recently about Google's Android mobile operating system, suggesting the business model and development platform was more inviting to developers wanting to build mobile applications.I remember reading it thinking "anything with such widespread developer, or geek, following, is bound to succeed in our industry".This week, Nielsen has released data revealing that Google Android-powered mobile phones have outsold iPhones and Blackberrys in the United States of America over the last 6 months.Importantly, the period in which this data was collected included a full month of Apple's release of its latest iPhone offering - iPhone 4.The Nielsen report says:Among all smartphone owners, Blackberry still holds the dominant share with 31 percent of the market, though its lead over Apple is declining. Twenty-eight percent of smartphone owners have Apple iPhones, compared to 19 percent who have Android devices.I would like to come back to my point earlier and tie
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Google has made Google Voice available as a button on Gmail! This means that without downloading a desktop application, you can make VOIP calls.Better still, you can make calls to the USA and Canada for free for the remainder of 2010! Skype better watch out... Google Voice looks a serious competitor!See CNET video below...
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Those who know me would attest that I would have been following the 2010 Federal Election very closely regardless of what was topical on the policy front. I am a political tragic and a lover of the much-criticised 24 hour news cycle - and my wife is the authority to affirm that fact. However, regardless of the result this weekend, all of us in the internet industry have to be delighted that for five weeks, our world and our concerns were shared with the masses. Fibre, wireless, megabits, open internet, filters, etcetera became part of the vernacular of politicians who don't even know how to turn on a computer, let alone Tweet or use Facebook.  Due to the broadband debate, more Australians now know that parts of the world have connection speeds up to 100 times faster than we do here downunder.  Most also understand that this is due to fibre-optic cabling; something no commercial enterprise has decided to build in Australia due to our small population an
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The United Kingdom is known best known for its Royals, football, bad teeth, bad weather and the Beatles.Now a video produced by UK social media firm Simply Zesty shows how the phenomenon has spread across the masses in the monarch.In the last few weeks, the world saw Facebook users reach 500 million in population, meaning 1 in 14 people globally maintains an active Facebook account.More locally for UK audiences, as well as Commonwealth folk like us down here in Australia, Queen Elizabeth herself became a member of a social network - in her case, photo sharing website Flickr.It is little wonder when you see the stats revealed in the video below. Most astoundingly, 64% of Brits have Social Media profiles while 60% admit to reading blogs. Enjoy all the numbers!
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