With the popularity of the iPhone and the G1 Android phone on the rise, Blackberry has released its long expected answer, Blackberry Storm. Storm is a device that allows users to do more social things like listen to music, access MySpace or Facebook, and take photos. The device has one big innovation, in what the company refer to as a ‘clickable touch-screen,’ a screen that compresses when you tap it, in order to mimic the feeling of a real keyboard.
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The larger companies that carry brand names tend to be more popular with the youth on the internet. Younger generations are all about brand name clothing, items, and much more. If you have an internet site that sells brand name products you may have more than the competition. It is important that everyone on the internet with a business use the marketing strategies available on the net. This may mean pay per click advertising as well as other means. The important part is that you advertise correctly. (more…)

Reports on the new version of Apple’s popular iPod Touch appear to be generally positive. Apparently the new touch works better, looks better and has more features than the previous models, so much so that the gap between it and the iPhone is fast disappearing, essentially the Touch is an iPhone without the phone.

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The credit crunch has affected many sectors. It will not affect the internet marketing sector as much as other industries according to experts. Experts such as Yahoo’s chief executive believe that search engine marketing matters the most at the moment for any business with a webpage. The advertising online is based on performance. (more…)

Apple have recorded another victory against the numerous small computer makers intent on building and selling machines based on Apple software. Yesterday a judge ruled against a small computer maker who had tried to take Apple to court claiming that the company is a monopoly because of its rigorous control of who can make and design computers using Mac OS, their operating system.
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Christmas is approaching quickly. This year many retail stores are going to suffer because shoppers don’t have the money to spend on gifts. Not all retailers are going to suffer though the online market is going to increase their sales as a direct relation to search engine marketing targeting specific consumers. (more…)

Google has traditionally enjoyed a good relationship with Europe. It’s a major employer, with a base of operations in Dublin, sizable facilities in London and Zurich and smaller operations elsewhere in the continent and Russia. This relationship is important to Google as it has invested heavily into expanding its European interests over the last five years and intends to continue into the future.
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The continuing battle to be the best in the business has again been taken by Google. The company has again increased its lead over its rivals Yahoo and Microsoft. Market research companies have followed not just the monthly usage, but have data for year to date percentages. While Microsoft has still made strides over its competitors, their share has fallen since last year. Yahoo has seen a decline across the board. This sampling was based on approximately ten million internet users within a four week period. (more…)

After their meteoric nose-dive in the early nineties apple has fought back impressively, coming back from the dead to a level of influence and extreme profitability. However, it never really managed to convince the business sector to re-adopt its products, a situation that remains to this day, much to the annoyance of the top Apple execs.
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In the last few days an internet marketing conference was being held in Las Vegas. The conference was all about how to market a website as well as the large businesses attending. Some of the most successful businesses were in attendance to share their thoughts on search engine marketing. (more…)

Okay, this is a new one. We’ve had Google telling us they can they can help slow global warming, that they can get more people to vote, that they can aid space exploration, and now it would seem they can help halt the spread of disease. Once again, they actually have a point. New site Google Flu could indeed stop us getting ill.
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It seems everyone wants to jump on the social networking bandwagon these days. First, Yahoo announces plans to group their whole raft of services into one large social network, now it seems that Microsoft wants to turn Windows Live into something like Facebook.

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YouTube has revealed a new system to auction advertising on the site. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s very similar to the one used by Google. Just like Google, it will promote ‘sponsored video clips’ on the same page as organic search results.
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A recent survey created for holiday input stated about 48 percent of British consumers who have the internet will turn to online gift purchases this year. The online gifts tend to offer more rewards than going to the store. There are more discounts, coupons, and deals that you just can’t find in a regular store according to most of the consumers surveyed. They also said it will help cut costs because they don’t have to worry about fuel consumption and they will search for what they have on their list rather than seeing something else to buy. Typically consumers find things sitting strategically on shelves that they pick up at the last minute. (more…)