Mobile Maps Usage Surges; Apps Trump Mobile Browsers
ComScore report that for the three month period ending April 2010, that more smartphone users accessed maps via applications, than maps via mobile browser in a month.
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LinkedIn Shares Mobile Advertising Ambitions
February 11, 2012 - 5:28 am
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During its quarterly earnings call, CEO Jeff Weiner said mobile access represents an ever-growing share of time users spend with LinkedIn. He said the company is investigating ways to monetize those page views with mobile advertising. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
[Infographic] Mapping the Tools in the Mobile Development Ecosystem
February 10, 2012 - 2:55 am
Tags: Development, Ecosystem, Infographic, mapping, Mobile, Tools
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The mobile development ecosystem is a large, complicated space. There are innovative startups making tools for native and mobile Web apps along with large enterprise-grade companies that offer solutions from cloud support to frameworks and developer environments. For a mobile developer, it can be confusing to know where to turn and what to use to [...]
adCenter Increases Ad Text Limit to 71; Adds Budget Overview, Mobile Targeting
February 9, 2012 - 2:28 pm
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To simplify importing ads for AdWords to adCenter and align with industry standards, adCenter has changed the allotted character count in ad descriptions from 70 to 71. Here’s a quick look at all the latest changes to Microsoft adCenter. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps
February 9, 2012 - 8:08 am
Tags: Apps, Brings, Foursquare, Mobile, More, Refinements, Search
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Calling it “personalized search for the real world,” Foursquare brought its mobile Explore functionality into its recently redesigned PC website roughly three weeks ago, and added some new search capabilities in the process. Those capabilities included the ability to filter places… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. View full post on Search [...]
Expect “Windows 8 for Mobile” at Feb. 29 Barcelona Rollout
February 9, 2012 - 3:55 am
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A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this afternoon that the Consumer Preview phase of Windows 8 testing is slated to begin on Wednesday, February 29, with a gala rollout event in Barcelona. That’s to coincide – for the first time – with Mobile World Congress, which has not generally been known as the kind of [...]
Daily Wrap: January’s List of Apps You Need to See and more
February 8, 2012 - 6:55 pm
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Dan Rowinski rounds up the best apps, in our opinion, of January 2012. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in [...]
New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012
February 8, 2012 - 11:55 am
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2012 started with a flourish of new apps across iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The holiday season is the busiest time of year for app publishers but the follow up in January was equally impressive. That is a testament to the growing app ecosystem and the amount of developers starting to program for the mobile [...]
How to Take Advantage of Apple’s Rise to Mobile Market Dominance
February 8, 2012 - 4:28 am
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Apple is the king of mobile. With an expanding market share, Apple is poised to break records yet again in 2012; though they must improve their iAd inventory to compete with Google. Here are the implications for mobile marketers. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
Mobile Carriers and OEMs Get Android App Testing Cloud from Apkudo
February 8, 2012 - 1:55 am
Tags: Android, Apkudo, Carriers, cloud, from, Mobile, OEMs, Testing
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When developers think of application testing, it always centers around how an app will perform on a particular device. This is especially important in the Android ecosystem that has upwards of 300 devices from a variety of original equipment manufacturers worldwide. From the inverse perspective, nobody ever thinks of the testing needs of the carriers [...]
Google: 41 Percent Of Super Bowl Ad Searches Were Mobile
February 7, 2012 - 4:08 pm
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A wide range of social and mobile data are being reported by various sources in the wake of last Sunday’s Super Bowl game. For example, ad network inMobi said 39 percent of survey respondents “used their mobile device in response to a TV commercial during the game” (discussing… Please visit Search Engine Land for the [...]