| Title | Description |
| Google Asks Users What They Want Added To Street View |
Google Street View in Google Maps is a good service to explore just about any location. Most of Street View is focused on landmarks and roads that are accessible to Google with its Street View car. Now Google has officially introduced its Street View trike, which is aimed at photographing pedestrian only locations. The Street [...] |
| YouTube Drives Record Month Of Video Viewing |
Online video continues to gain in popularity and 161 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during August, the largest audience ever recorded, according to comScore. In August more than 25 billion videos were viewed, with Google sites accounting for more than 10 billion. Google sites remained as the top U.S. video property in August [...] |
| Google Big India And Brazil |
comScore has released a study focusing on Google’s strong position in the two emerging Internet markets of India and Brazil. Google sites ranked as the most visited Internet property globally with 854 million unique visitors in July, an increase of 18 percent during the past year. Google usage is more common in certain global markets [...] |
| Americans Embracing Digital Lifestyle |
Americans of all ages continue to adopt a digital lifestyle, according to an annual survey of consumers’ technology adoption and attitudes by Forrester Research. High-definition televisions (HDTVs) and home networks were two of the fastest-growing consumer technologies in 2008. Over the next five years, 39 million U.S. households will get their first high-definition set and [...] |
| Social Media Landing Employees In Hot Water |
U.S. companies are increasingly concerned about a growing number of data leaks caused by employee’s misuse of email, blogs, social networks and text messages, according to a new survey from Proofpoint. Forty-three percent of U.S. companies surveyed had investigated an email-based leak of confidential information in the past year. Nearly a third of them, 31 [...] |
| Bing, The Search Engine That Could |
Bing has helped Microsoft to modestly increase its search market share by 1 percent in the U.S. according to an analysis for June conducted by measurement firm StatCounter. Microsoft had 8.23 percent market share in June, behind Yahoo at 11.04 percent according to the analysis. Unsurprisingly Google still dominates the U.S. market but has fallen [...] |
| Over Half Of Americans Find Ads Interesting |
People are exposed to a variety of types of ads on a daily basis from television ads to online ads and more than half (55%) of Americans say they find current advertising to be interesting while 41 percent say it is not interesting, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive. Younger adults and those [...] |
| Top 12 Spam Countries |
The United States continues to be the leader in spam, relaying 15 percent of the world’s spam messages, according to a recent report from Sophos that examines the top 12 spamming countries. The United Kingdom has disappeared from the “Dirty Dozen” for the first time in two years, coming in at 14th overall, and sending [...] |
| Microsoft Set To Launch New Search Service Bing |
Microsoft has previewed its new search engine called Bing, formerly known as Kumo and is set to launch it on Wednesday June 3. Microsoft calls Bing a “Decision Engine” that initially will focus on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition and finding a local business. Microsoft [...] |
| Online Classified Use Booming |
The number of online adults who have used online classified ads has more than doubled in the past four years, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Almost half (49%) of internet users say they have used online classified sites, compared with 22 percent of online adults who had [...] |
