Apple App downloads soaring, close to 10 Billion
The Apple iTunes App store is now close to hitting 10 Billion application downloads since inception. It seems about 150 apps are downloaded every second around the world. The 10 Billionth download will result in that user winning a prize of $10,000 (USD) iTunes gift card. That’s a lot of movies, games, apps, songs etc! […]
Read More | ShareBest Techniques to Maximise Social Media Content Sharing
If you are looking to get your content shared on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter take note of these techniques to encourage social sharing. Firstly make sure you blog posts have short concise headings, keyword rich articles and stimulating material for the user to read. Twitter – Do short tweets so people can […]
Read More | ShareNokia to shut down Ovi Music Unlimited
Nokia has announced it will be shutting down the Ovi Music Unlimited service in 27 countries as the product hasn’t gained the interest Nokia would like. The Ovi Music Unlimited service provides free music downloads which are locked to your Nokia handset/device. The service will still stay live in the following countries: Brazil, China, India, […]
Read More | ShareWikipedia now 10 years old!
Wikipedia is now 10 years old. The site was founded in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The site operates as a not for profit charitable organisation – although with such huge traffic and unique visitors the site could have sold ad space on the site – however decided against this approach. The […]
Read More | ShareYahoo and Bing Australian Search Results merging this month
Last year in the USA – Bing replaced the results in a Yahoo! search queries with their own Bing results. Now later this month Bing will merge their results with Yahoo on both Bing Australia and Yahoo Australia. Therefore if you run a search on either Yahoo or Bing it should give you the same […]
Read More | ShareMySpace to lay off half their Staff
It has been reported that MySpace, will layoff half of its 1000 employees this week. The layoffs come as the social media site tries to restructure and overhaul the company in an attempt to save itself from poor financial situation. News Corporation had invested in MySapce to broaden its reach across the globe in the […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft to release Windows TV Set top boxes
Microsoft will be revealing new software to run on Set top box devices which enables a Windows TV experience. The Software will make use of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded platform and the Windows Media Center interface. The software will also be able to work with XBOX 360 devices, otherwise your computer. One of the devices will […]
Read More | ShareFacebook raises $500 Million in Funding
Facebook has raised an additional US$500 million in a new round of Venture Capitalist Funding. Goldman Sachs has invested $450 million and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies has invested $50 million. This puts Facebook at a valuation of around US$50 Billion. There has been speculation that an initial public offering (IPO) will be set […]
Read More | ShareHappy ‘Social Media’ New Year
Hello All, I would like to take this opportunity again to wish you all a happy new year and prosperous 2011 ! I hope you all had great new years eve celebrations. I certainly had an awesome time and great start to 2011. It will be interesting to see how social media in Australia (and […]
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Are we Facebook Mad?
Over the past couple years, it seems Facebook may be the biggest thing to happen on the internet. With now over 500 million users and growing daily, Facebook is no doubt one of the main website we are all thinking of and using. We are so obsessed many of us check our Facebook account from […]
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