Posted on April 15th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Highlights USC study says rapid-fire Twitter and news updates are too fast for brain Scans show humans respond rapidly to pain, but not compassion, admiration Scientists say reliance on news snippets could harm moral compass Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, Search Marketing, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Could the eighth edition of Microsoft Internet Explorer really be the last of its breed? There were several such reports circulating on the virtual grapevine in recent days, including Randall Kennedy’s post at InfoWorld, Scott Fulton’s post at Beta News, iAurora’s post at JCXP and others. It’s not yet clear what Microsoft’s replacement for IE [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, Search Marketing, Web 2.0
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Google has become the utility of the digital age, something we click on as much as we flick on a light switch or turn on the water tap. Now the search giant is literally getting into the utility business with the development of smart grid software that gives consumers real-time information on their electricity consumption. [...]
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Filed under: Enterprise Agility, Global Technology Market, Search Marketing
Posted on February 9th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Google Opens New Chapter With iPhone, Android Book Search Google has made available its electronic library of classic books (around 1.5 million) to users of Apple’s iPhone and T-Mobile’s G1 with a mobile site optimized for the browser type both phones use (Google Android). Amazon also is looking to port its Kindle collection to mobile [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, Search Marketing, Web 2.0
Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Anyone using Google between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. EST on Saturday saw an interesting message pop up alongside nearly all their search results: “This site may harm your computer.” Users may indeed know that Web sites sometimes harbor suspicious computer code that can dump spyware or worse on their computers, and that Google will raise [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Search Marketing, Web 2.0
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by
Zohaib
Closure is one of the most ‘overemphasized’ aspects of any marketing pitch. In your honest opinion, how does closure contribute to sales when it comes to internet marketing? Would you prefer: a) a pitch where your intention is to ‘inform’ your prospect, and let them make a sensible, informed decision: b) a traditional ‘closure’ pitch [...]
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Filed under: Search Marketing
Posted on November 7th, 2008 by
Zohaib
Google has decided to abandon its advertising partnership with Yahoo to avoid having a “protracted legal battle” with regulators. The deal involved Google providing some of the advertising around Yahoo’s search results and would have been worth $800m (£494m) a year to Yahoo. It was originally announced in June but has faced anti-trust objections. Yahoo [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, Search Marketing
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