August 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Expect more Gmail users to start shedding their land lines soon as “Google Voice” starts to spread among users of the popular e-mail service. Google recently announced the debut of Google Voice, which turns Gmail into a phone.
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Tags: gmail, Google, Google Voice, phone calls
August 5, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The economy may be limping along, but one sector of the tech industry is booming despite the sluggish markets and stagnating growth: wireless. A new report demonstrates just how much.
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Tags: industry, Plunkett, report, wireless
August 4, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Any business that’s not using social networking to target customers is way behind the curve, say the tech analysts at Gartner, Inc. These days, most consumers rely to some extent on these networks to direct their spending.
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Tags: Gartner, marketing, social networks
July 27, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
If there’s one group of people who know how to make a mint off of public relations, it’s the British Royal Family. So the fact that this group of ribbon cutting and plaque unveiling experts has set up a Flickr account should be a message to any organization that sells itself: Grab control of your online visual images.
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Tags: British monarch, Flickr, iTunes, podcasts, Prince William, social networking, Twitter, YouTube
July 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The latest software upgrade to Amazon’s Kindle reader adds some powerful social networking capability to its stripped down, early entry into the e-book reader market: Twitter and Facebook updates.
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Tags: Amazon, Facebook Twitter, Kindle, Kindle Reader, Software, tweets, update
July 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The titanic shift in publishing that’s pushed traditional books, magazines and newspapers off their pedestal in favor of electronic copy hit a crescendo this week when Amazon announced that, for the first time, e-books outsold their hardcover competition.
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Tags: Amazon, ebooks, hardover, iPad, Kindle, sales
July 20, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Facebook’s expected to announce its 500 millionth user soon, but the news is likely to be overshadowed by a recent survey that found its current users are terribly dissatisfied with the site.
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Tags: ACSI, American Customer Satisfaction Index, consumers, E-Business Report, Facebook, popularity
July 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Don’t think you’re paying nearly enough to enjoy the glorious pleasures of airline travel these days? Well, many U.S. airlines are offering you the opportunity to pay even more — if you want to connect to the web in-flight.
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Tags: airline, airplane, GoGo, inflight, Row 44, service, Wi-Fi, WiFi
July 9, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Americans are shedding wired connections at a good clip, says a new study from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 60% of all U.S. adults connect to the Internet wirelessly these days.
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Tags: Americans, Internet, Pew Research Center, survey, Web, WiFi, wirless
July 6, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The United States leapfrogged in the annual digital economy rankings this year, moving up from No. 5 to the No. 3 spot — no small accomplishment given the lousy economy, with its stagnating employment and cautious capital investments.
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Tags: digital economy rankings, Economist
