Yahoo takes on Facebook Connect with ‘Y Connect’
Yahoo! is planning to launch Y Connect, letting users share content across multiple websites, in a similar way to Facebook’s connect platform.
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Nissan launches ‘first Flash enabled app’
Nissan has launched what it claims to be the world’s first Flash application for Android mobiles.
Angry Birds comes to Android: GetJar App store crashes due to demand
Mobile app store GetJar has exclusively launched the full Android version of the popular Angry Birds game for free, funded by advertising.
Bing gets personal: adds Facebook ‘likes’ to search results
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has begun showing users which sites and products their Facebook friends like.
Police Tweet all 999 calls to protest Govt. cutbacks
Greater Manchester Police have completed a Twitter hashtag campaign, as a means of protesting Government cutbacks by revealing the sheer number of incidents they face in a single day.
Google beats forecasts as mobile business begins to pay off
Google, the search engine giant, registered a 32 per cent jump in profits, beating market expectations and highlighting the success of its emerging businesses.
23 million Brits have used phone to make purchases
New research from the Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade association for online and mobile advertising – reveals that mobile commerce has already become widely adopted in the UK, with 51% of mobile owners (23 million people) using their device to make payments, redeem coupons or research products and services.
Top Tips: Getting marketing emails read
Marketers must realise that they are in complete control of the success, and failure, of their email marketing campaigns. The crux starts with their email sender reputation. Margaret Farmakis, Senior Director of Response Consulting at Return Path, offers a guide to getting your recipients’ attention.
Augemented reality app lets users try on ‘virtual jewellery’
Technology firm Holition has partnered with high end jewellers Boucheron to launch an app that lets web users ‘try on’ jewels in real time.
Public sector-only travel site launches
A new travel portal, borne out of a two-year university consultancy project, has launched exclusively for organisations and employees within the public sector in the UK and Ireland.