The Droid from Verizon has actually outsold the original iPhone in their respective first 74 days of launching. The iPhone sold its first million units at the 74 day point and according to Flurry in that same time span, the Droid (aka Motorola Sholes), sold just over a million by 50,000 units. This is a …
Mobile search continues to explode. According to eMarketer, mobile search spending will grow 81% over the next two years. So there’s no better time to get a jump start on your mobile search campaigns. Here are 5 key steps to launching a mobile search campaign in AdWords.
Google has just released a new mobile app for Android phones – called Google Shopper. It’s a pretty cool and robust app that lets you search product information quickly using your Android phone’s camera. The app recognizes cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, video games as well as product barcodes. In addition to image recognition, …
The Mobile World Congress has convened in Barcelona Spain and it looks like some of the news coming out could signal some upcoming laws for Internet Marketers. If this year’s MWC could be summed up it may be something like “Looking through Windows to an army of Androids“. The two main takeaways was first an …
I noticed a simple tweet the other day that prompted me to write this post. (Although, this subject has been on my mind for sometime now.) The timing is perfect, when you consider the fact that Yelp is also pushing out some new features on their iPhone App. So, what in the world is this …
Since I’m currently so into the Nexus One right now, exploring the nifty features of Google Buzz for mobile, let me follow up my previous post with another piece about Google’s mobile phone undertakings. This time, lets look into the recently released comScore report showing that trend in the smartphone industry from October-Deember 2009. According …
While waiting for Google to activate Google Buzz on my Gmail account, I decided to check out Google Buzz for Mobile on my Nexus One. I would have to say that Google did a pretty fast job of activating the mobile version rather than the web version of Google Buzz. So, the first thing I …
See? Here’s one of the many reasons why the Nexus One phone could become a better Google-centric smartphone than the iPhone. Being a Google property, it will always gets the first-hand at various Google mobile services. Take the case of the Google Maps for Mobile for Nexus One which just got a nifty feature – …
The Official Google Mobile Blog announced that phone numbers featured on some mobile ads are now clickable. This means that when you see a business phone number on a mobile ad for a particular establishment, you can simply tap on the phone number and make the call. To make this even more useful is the …
As the Internet world continues to wait for Google to fully push online its next generation infrastructure called Caffeine, its best to understand why its doing so and then how best to prepare for it. Over 5 months ago Google stated its purpose with Caffeine is to “push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, …
