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by Rob Lewis
on Fri, February 10, 2012 10:05 AM
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In October Techvibes reported that Google Wallet would be coming to Canada in early 2012. No word yet on when the official launch will be but it looks like its introduction to Canada could be delayed because of a number of reported vulnerabilities.
According to Security Watch's Neil Rubenking, if Google...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Thu, February 9, 2012 12:18 PM
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What kind of smartphone - or "superphone" you have as Bell is calling some of these feature-laden mobile devices these days - is a hot topic of discussion at a social event.
The person struggling for a conversation piece takes out their phone and the guy next to them goes: "I...
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by Knowlton Thomas
on Fri, February 3, 2012 2:13 PM
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For the first time in history, smartphones are outselling PCs worldwide.
Canalys released its full report on smartphone and PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the numbers are incredible. Over 158 million smartphones were shipped globally in Q4, blowing away PC shipments—which include notebooks, netbooks, and even tablets!...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Wed, February 1, 2012 9:22 AM
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This past fall and just recently, we've talked about a various number of newer advertising optimization technologies on Techvibes as part of our advertising technology series. One of them is known as eye tracking which produces a heat map in the image to your right. Mediative, a division of Yellow...
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by Knowlton Thomas
on Mon, January 30, 2012 3:51 PM
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Tennis fans will have had their eyes glued to the boob tube these past couple of weeks, which saw several epic matches, crowned by a record-breaking finals match between the world number one, Novak Djokovic, and the world number two, Rafael Nadal. As the sport of tennis continues to delve...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Fri, January 27, 2012 12:02 PM
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There were echoes in the advertising industry last year that search advertising which Google has dominated in so many ways over the past decade was about to decline in terms of revenue in the wake of mobile, the sudden return of display advertising and real-time bidding advertising networks.
Bloomberg reported these...
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by Techvibes Newsdesk
on Wed, January 25, 2012 8:38 AM
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A group of engineers has built a bookmarklet that redirects Google's new social search to results that include all social networks—including Twitter, Tumblr, and even MySpace—versus just Google+. Led by Facebook developer Blake Ross, the plugin is called "Don't Be Evil"—Google's now controversial mantra—and is hosted on a website called...
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by Knowlton Thomas
on Mon, January 23, 2012 3:03 PM
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Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed today at the Digital Life Design Conference in Munich that his blogging platform is visited by over 120 million unique users per month, resulting in more than 15 billion pageviews. Tumblr is now host to nearly 42 million blogs.
These numbers stack up well to...
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by Knowlton Thomas
on Thu, January 19, 2012 2:46 PM
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Search engine and software behemoth Google released several big non-financial numbers today during its Q4 earnings report. (The financial numbers, while decent, actually fell short of Wall Street expectations, causing the stock to tumble 9% in afterhours trading.)
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Chief executive officer Larry Page said during the company's earnings call that its social...
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