At J.D. Power and Associates’ Automotive Internet Roundtable in Las Vegas this week, several speakers said they believe mobile search and services are an increasingly important part of auto marketing -- assertions backed up by J.D. Power research showing that…
A webinar put on this morning by BIA Financial Network (The Kelsey Group's new owner) delved into the main trends that are lining up to make mobile TV a reality. One enabling factor, for example, has been the growth of…
J.D. Power and Associates’ annual Automotive Internet Roundtable is being held in Las Vegas, amid an industry that is being especially hard hit by the credit industry. A bunch of dealers at breakfast this morning estimated that “90 percent to…
We knew it was coming. Mozilla just announced a Firefox add-on that will let the browser know your location. It will be called Geode, and we have word that it will use the Wi-Fi positioning technology of Skyhook Wireless (same…
Zvents, which is seeking to transform the events category to a broader “what, when and where” category that encompasses local entertainment, organizations and businesses, has announced $24 million in new funding from AT&T (i.e., wireless and Yellow Pages), Nokia Growth…
OK, we’ve got the format(s) and “best and brightest” speaker roster set for Interactive Local Media: Extending Local Channels, which is Nov. 19-21 in Santa Clara, California, next to San Jose. At the top of the list is Angie Hicks,…
After more than a year of speculation about a "GPhone," the Google-powered G1 phone was unveiled today in New York. As we reported last month, this will be a T-Mobile phone (built by HTC), and it will be available to…
Local voice search advertising is already getting promising results, with widespread reach, and high clickthrough rates, according to V-Enable CMO Craig Hagopian, who was speaking at DMS ’08. V-Enable is a San Diego-based mobile voice search company with 65 employees.…
Today's award for off-the-wall feature to get people to use an online service goes to Whrrl. The local social service is similar to the more popular Loopt in that it lets users keep track of where their friends are and…
A new report from Net Applications shows iPhone usage to represent 0.40 percent of Web hits, down from a high of 0.48 percent last week. This is up from 0.19 percent in July when the 3G iPhone was first released.…
Just seven weeks after its introduction, the iPhone 3G will sell 7 million units. It took the first generation iPhone more than a year to reach that mark, and 3G models now surpass 2G model sales. As we keep saying,…
At a pair of TKG-run sessions at SES San Jose, the value of good local data was a pervasive theme. This relates to the ongoing online-offline challenge in local media and search. The problem basically comes down to the inability…
To follow up on last week's post about a prospective Google Android-based T-Mobile phone, here is a video from MobileCrunch that demos Android. The video walks through an emulator of the operating system, which is basically a desktop version of…
Early rumors of a Google phone, before the Android platform was announced, gave the device a name of "GPhone" (remember?). That name ended up being not that far off the mark -- though Google ended up building the OS rather…
The iPhone App Store is kicking butt to the tune of $1 million in sales per day ($30 million to date) and 60 million total downloads. This from an article put out yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, based on an…
Sebastien Provencher takes an interesting look at UrbanSpoon's iPhone application and also poses the question, have we already jumped the shark with mobile local search on the iPhone? This question relates more to the volume of apps vs. early adoption…
Today, TheFind launched its anticipated iPhone application, called "Where to Shop." The biggest selling points of the application involve the product search that combines location awareness with inventory feeds from Krillion and NearbyNow. As we've written, the iPhone and its…
Frank Jules believes there is a clear shift from print to online taking place. And the best way for publishers to make a successful transition is to move from selling individual products to selling a bundle of products based on…
On Friday, we released a report that looks at the 3G iPhone and new App Store. One overall theme is how the iPhone's new features and lowered price tag will combine with easy availability of mobile apps to bring new…
An independent developer has created a Google Maps mashup that is basically another way to navigate Citysearch business profiles in Google Maps. The mashup has also recently been optimized for the iPhone. This isn't an iPhone native app that can…
