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Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency

Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency

A vast majority of social gamers are game  to undertake a marketing action in return for virtual currency, according to new research  by comScore  for Offerpal Media which was released at the Game Developers Conference.
Alternative payment methods enable developers to monetize significantly larger portions of their user base and currently they  struggle to monetize even three percent of their users …

Google adds wiki-like features to Google Street View

Google adds wiki-like features to Google Street View

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Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its  Street View  by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It  will even allow users  to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned.
Street View was made available in UK last year  is an add-on …

Retweet.com Sells for a Whopping $250,000

Retweet.com Sells for a Whopping $250,000

The twitter bug just refuses to die down. The retweet.com domain which put itself up for sale last month has fetched a massive price of $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The sale was hotly contested with as many as 45 bids being placed for retweet.com and the eventual winner outscoring others by shelling out $48,000 more than …

YouTube adds automatic captioning to videos

YouTube adds automatic captioning to videos

Google owned YouTube which pioneered online streaming videos has started providing automatic captions to videos to make the site more accessible to the deaf and people with hearing difficulties.
At present the feature is only available for videos recorded in English and Google says that more languages will be added in the coming months.
Even though the idea and intentions are honorable, …

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion …

YouTube ‘under threat’ from Digital Economy Bill changes

YouTube ‘under threat’ from Digital Economy Bill changes

The Digital Economy Bill which was first announced  in  2009 and reportedly is designed to curtail copyright   infringement by users sharing files and media online has been criticized and condemned severely by many people, as its complicated and extremely stringent laws including the one which allows Internet Service Providers to give customer information to copyright holders who could sue customers …

Microsoft Takes on Google with Bing TV Ads

Microsoft Takes on Google with Bing TV Ads

The internet search war has just taken its ugliest turn with Microsoft leaving no stone unturned to take on Google’s supreme dominance in the UK search market. The latest step in this showdown is Microsoft’s multi-million pound TV ad campaign to promote Bing.

Buzzie Google Buzz iPhone App

Buzzie Google Buzz iPhone App

Google Buzz – Google’s latest social networking tool is now available as an iPhone app called ‘Buzzie’. Buzzie is available for download from the Apple iTunes store.

Skype Now Available on Nokia Symbian Phones

Skype Now Available on Nokia Symbian Phones

Skype is no longer a beta app for Nokia Symbian OS. Yesterday, the free Skype service for Nokia Symbian phones was moved to the Nokia Ovi Store. It is also available for download through the Skype website.
The timing of this announcement is very interesting to say the least. Yesterday, Skype had made a huge announcement to shelve its application for …

£52 Billion Down the Drain on Unused Gadgets?

£52 Billion Down the Drain on Unused Gadgets?

Recent research conducted by Sky HD reveals that the British have wasted nearly £52 Billion on gadgets which they do not know how to use or fully operate. It is astonishing that nearly 50% of the poll audience did not know that in order to get HD video on your HDTV, you need a HD device such as a Blu-ray …


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