Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.ChaCha - heard of 'em? - claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message. And...
Google Inc. has taken its Street View service to mobile.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company launched a new version of Google Maps for mobile that includes the same street-level photo images it offers on desktop computers. Google also added a beta version of walking directions...
Yahoo Inc. will serve as AT&T Mobility's on-deck search vendor, and will aggregate both Internet information as well as listings from the carrier's content catalogue - including ringtones, wallpaper and games - into its search results. Yahoo replaces InfoSpace Inc. as AT&T Mobility's search...
AOL L.L.C.'s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL's Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, iPhone-optimized ads through sites within Third Screen's mobile network, Advertising.com's online network or any...
Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.'s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve as an unrestricted storefront where registered developers can offer their wares simply by uploading their applications and posting descriptions. Google...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.As adoption of the wireless web grows, so too does the Holy Grail of advertising:...
Google Inc.'s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition - well, what passes for competition - continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based players moving to the new platform, wireless is the wild, wild West.The Mountain View,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
On a sunny afternoon back in June 2007, members of the media, academia, and the tech industry gathered to watch Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin drive a white Prius around the parking lot of the search giant's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters. It...
Web users have gotten very good at finding what they're seeking online. But with today's proliferation of mobile phones, PDAs, and palmtop computers that can access the Web, search becomes much more challenging -- and interesting.
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Today, Thrrum announced that its MMS search product is now available to subscribers of T-Mobile's and Verizon Wireless's networks. If you see something that you'd like more information about, take a picture of any sort of text that is associated with it (such as...
Electronics retailer pcRUSH.com has joined the growing number of merchants with an m-commerce site. The web-only retailer has used the popular "m" URL naming convention to launch its site, m.pcRUSH.com.
Google Inc. joined Apple Inc.'s iPhone-application frenzy with a free search offering.Google Mobile App uses a text box and a virtual QWERTY keyboard to allow users to search the Internet or through contacts on the phone. The application remembers past searches and offers typing...
You know what Google Inc. does on the Internet, right? Sifting through billions of destinations to help people find what they're looking for? That's what Sense Networks executives want to do for every city on the planet.A New York-based startup that will emerge from...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will let customers, academics and even rivals build customized Web search services on top of its own technology, introducing a resale model into a major Internet market where it ranks a distant No. 2 to Google Inc.
