David Correll
Editor and Founder of SocialMediaNews.com.au. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work and Social Media Management. Connect with me: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook or contact me here. Alternatively, you can send me an email at david@socialmedianews.com.au
BlackBerry Australia Blockparty
BlackBerry Australia is hosting a big party in the launch of their new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone on the 17th of June. My first smartphone was actually a BlackBerry pearl and at the time seemed to be way ahead of the competition (well there wasn’t any competition really to BlackBerry a couple years ago). I’d […]
Read More | ShareGoogle to fight FTC if AdMob deal blocked
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said his company is prepared to fight the U.S. government if the FTC blocks their acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob. A decision is expected in a few weeks from the FTC. Google purchase Admob in November 2009 for US$750 million. Apple was also throwing up and offer but Google […]
Read More | ShareFacebook launches optimised mobile site
Facebook has launched a new mobile optimised site that is designed for speed and very low data cost – 0.facebook.com Facbook has around 100 million users globally accessing Facebook from their mobile, so this does seem like a smart move to service countries with low data services. This service is not available in Australia just […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft to revamp Hotmail
Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a major upgrade to their web based email system – Hotmail. Hotmail is the most popular web based email product in the world. Microsoft is updating several areas such as look and feel, more ajax features, better photo and document integration, increased account secuirty, full-session SSL, multiple […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million
Yahoo has purchased Associated Content, a US media company for US$100 Million. Associated press is a media company where contributors get paid to create and submit articles, videos, stories, audio and images on any topic or subject. Currently there are over 350,000 Contributors and 60,000 subjects. This is a smart acquisition for Yahoo as they […]
Read More | ShareApple to patent Facebook iPhone integration
Apple has submitted a patent to integrate the Facebook application into the iPhone as a native application, instead of a 3rd party application. The patent specifically show how to add a contact as a Facebook friend. You can begin by connecting to Facebook and sending a friend request to one of your contacts (target device). […]
Read More | ShareMySpace ups security in wake of Facebook privacy concerns
MySpace has announced that their privacy options are changing which will result in user profiles to be defaulted ‘private’ only sharing personal information to friends. This seems to be the exact opposite of Facebook’s current strategy. MySpace, Co-President Mike Jones comments: “We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and privacy, and never push our […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine rankings – April
As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day
Foursquare is now getting 600,000 checkins per day from users worldwide. In March they were getting 400,000 checkins per day, and in February was generating 1 million checkins per week. Foursquare is growing fast. Apparently Yahoo has walked away from their previous to buy Foursquare for $100 million, but may be back with a lower […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to release new security features
Amid all the controversy of Facebook’s privacy policy lately – the company realises more and more scammers and hackers are trying to use the site for identity theft. With a globally user count of over 400 million is not surprising. As a result the Facebook security team have come up with a raft of new […]
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