Monthly Archives: May 2011
Google Releases Mobile Wallet, PayPal Sues
It’s been months since we first started predicting Google’s NFC payments project. It’s not as though the company was particularly stealthy about the ordeal: they bought NFC companies, especially those working on mobile payment processing, and developed their Android OS to handle NFC tech. The details are now out, however, along with another fun announcement: PayPal is […]
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Bing Travel Unrolls Place Page Updates
Earlier today we posted an update on Google’s new flight schedule search widget and its importance in one specific arena: competing with Bing’s ever-growing Travel section. Not to be outdone by Google, Bing has swung back into action with the release of updates to their Places pages. They’re also taking the opportunity to remind users […]
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Google Adds Flight Schedules to Search
We’ve known for a long time that Google has a high priority on getting travel information to its searchers. After all, they offered ITA$600 million and persisted through the legal earthquake that resulted to get access to flight data. Now we’re seeing the first in what’s expected to be a long list of new travel-oriented features: […]
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Google Scribe Adds Autolinks, Fix-As-You-Go, and More
There are so many Google products out there that even I, a professional Google enthusiast, sometimes miss a few. One of the neat products that I’d never heard of before is Google Scribe. While this cloud service is superficially a writing tool, Scribe goes beyond that by offering autocompletion of your text (at the word, phrase, and […]
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Gmail Adds People Widget, Another Step Toward Social
Google is kicking the competition all over the board in some arenas (70% search share, anyone?), but there are also sectors where the race is tight or where Google is clearly losing. One good example of an ongoing race is the free webmail services battle. Here Microsoft is in the lead with 364 million users as of […]
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How To Tweet More Content From Anywhere On The Web
As of today, there has been an interesting update coming from Tweet publishing Tool Buffer. The app was reviewed here on SEJ a few months ago. It allows you to add tweets to your Buffer which are then posted at conveniently spread out intervals throughout the day. So you can add a lot of tweets […]
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Hacking for Good: Three Ways for Devs to Get Involved
If you’re a developer and you’d like to use your powers for the greater good, we have three ways for you to use your unique talents… Continue reading
U.S. Net Ad Revenue Grows To $7.3 Billion In Q1
As further evidence of an industry-wide recovery, domestic Web ad revenues hit $7.3 billion during the first quarter of the year, according to new data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.Year-over-year, that represented … Continue reading
U.S. Net Ad Revenue Grows To $7.3 Billion In Q1
As further evidence of an industry-wide recovery, domestic Web ad revenues hit $7.3 billion during the first quarter of the year, according to new data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.Year-over-year, that represented … Continue reading
Use Your Voice to Search with Google Multilingual Voice Search
Another Google search option has been made a little more internationally friendly. Back in March, Google Chrome added support for the HTML speech input API. This API enables developers to give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice straight to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon […]
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Use Your Voice to Search with Google Multilingual Voice Search