The remake of Total Recall illustrated an interesting concept for the future of communication technology. People could embed electronic circuitry into their hands and use their palms as smartphones. Insert your joke here about where they embedded fax machines. The interesting and relevant cinematic device...
The 2012 reboot of the sci-fi classic Total Recall illustrated an interesting concept for the future of communication technology. The envisioned future portrayed a time in which people could embed electronic circuitry directly into their hands and use their palms as smartphones. Insert your joke here about where they embedded fax machines. What’s truly remarkable, …
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The window hasn’t been slammed shut on Windows phone users just yet. Following recent confirmation that it would end consumer support for Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync protocol on January 30th (yesterday), Google reconsidered the matter. As a result, Google is pushing the cutoff date to late summer in a move that will allow mobile users to …
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On Tuesday, Google gave us plenty to consider with a new report on the impact of the Olympic Games on our mobile search behavior. As widely anticipated, the 2012 summer games from London exerted dramatic influence on what we talked about on social media networks and also what we searched for on Google. At the …
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Apple is reportedly planning to dump its relationship with Google Maps for the launch of iOS 6. If so, what will be in Google’s place? According to John Paczkowski of All Things D, Apple could unveil at the company’s WWDC next month an amazing 3D Maps service and platform that will wow smartphone users like …
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Internet search giant Google revealed this week that mobile search ad request volume doubled in late 2011 when compared to the same time frame in 2010. In a new interview with Tech Crunch, Google’s mobile search ads chief Surojit Chatterjee admits that mobile search has increased five-fold in the past two two years alone. Chatterjee …
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According to prominent Wall Street analyst and leading tech market watcher Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray, Google’s mobile ad revenue may exceed $4 billion in 2012. Munster says AdSense for mobile and the AdMob unit have been huge cash generators in the past and 2012 will be no different. Unlike Apple, however, which continues to …
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Google today announced new mobile ad-units along with some interesting new stats in regards to mobile search. According to the company, 40% of all mobile searches coming to Google are local in nature at this point, which continues to trend upward. As such, the search giant also announced that “physical location,” or the proximity of …
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It was announced today that Google will begin adding +1 buttons to their Web and mobile display ads in early October, adding user photos and recommendations to the ads themselves. The buttons were recently added in the same way to Google search results. On its “Inside AdWords” blog today, Google said that +1 buttons have …
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Despite the insistent – but ultimately incorrect – predictions by some, it no longer appears that Google has given up on its social networking ambitions by any stretch of the imagination. Called the Google+ project, the Internet search giant has raised the curtain on a beta version of a social networking platform that makes it …
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