Search Headlines & Links: January 3, 2008
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: ChaCha launches text service at Sundance Film FestivalThe “human-powered search engine” now lets users text questions of any kind to [...]
Search Headlines & Links: January 3, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: ChaCha launches text service at Sundance Film FestivalThe “human-powered search engine” now lets users text questions of any kind to [...]
ChaCha launches text service at Sundance Film Festival
ChaCha, a “human-powered search engine”, today announced a new service that allows users to text questions of any kind to 242242 (which is ChaCha on a phone keypad) and receive text answers on their cell phone. The answers are sent by a live person, called a ChaCha guide. Click to read the rest of this [...]
Analog Cell Phone Network To Shut Down
In 2008 mobile carriers will begin shutting down the analog cell phone network. Starting February 19, 2008, cell phone carriers, including AT&T, Alltel and Verizon Wireless, will be turning off their analog networks. Other mobile carriers including Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile do not have analog networks and their customers will not be affected. read more [...]
Wireless Spending Exceeds Landlines
With more Americans ditching their landlines, 2007 is on pace to be the first year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, according to industry and government officials. read more More: continued here wireless spending exceeds landlines
Google Mobile Search G-Force: Android Trojan Horse?
Google Android software stack: Google’s gift to the telcos. Or Trojan Horse? Adam Soroca, GM of Jumptap, sees dangers in mobile operators inviting Google inside their castle walls. With Sprint sprinting to join the Open Handset Alliance and T-mobile mobilizing to ride the Android wave, who will own the valuable search real estate on mobile [...]
Mobile Marketing Receives Low Response
Close to one-quarter of mobile users are interested in mobile marketing, according to a recent study by the Mobile Marketing Association. Sweepstakes and voting campaigns were the most common types of mobile marketing that respondents had participated in. The MMA predicts that marketers will start to focus on mobile phone features such as cameras. Camera [...]
H3tec “Gaining Traction” on Google Deal
Utah-based H3tec has spent years developing its new technology, which can detect any element or compound up to two miles away. But it looks like this new technology is going to pay off in other dividends as well. After running a full-page ad in USAToday in October, they’re currently “gaining traction” on a deal with [...]
Open Source vs. Walled Gardens
Open vs. Walled – let the best win. Recently in Boston, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, was pushing a theme that is dear to many of us. The Mobile Web should grow with open standards. The Walled Garden approach should be abandoned. The mobile Internet needs to be fully and completely [...]
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