Google End Image Extensions For Search Ads
It has been revealed that Image Extensions for Google PPC Ads, which were released as a Beta in June 2013, will be bought to an end on August 1st. These extensions provided three images above a PPC ad when in the top position, and provided…
Brand New Foursquare, coming to a Smartphone near you!
As a loyal Foursquare user with over 5,000 check-ins under my belt, I have been through a lot with the location based social network and local search app. But it’s not just the heated battles to be mayor of the office, or the competitions with…
Nokia Shocks with New Android Phone Range
The Finnish smartphone maker, Nokia are well known for their quality hardware. A few years ago, Nokia announced plans to revamp it’s smartphone range by introducing a new OS on it’s hardware. This excited many Android fans with the possibility of Nokia’s quality hardware mixed…
Seen this? Vine
Six seconds doesn’t seem like much time. For vine, this is all you need to collage together a series of snapshots into a quick video to share. The iPhone (and just recently added Android) app, Vine ,is still a fun novelty to many of its users yet…
Zombies vs Rural England
Awesome ad by Giff Gaff, a new mobile network trying to show that different doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Great brand positioning and good use of Youtube ads to bring the theme of friendly/ helpful zombies to life!
Beam Me Up Speccy!
Don’t be offended by the title now, as a glasses wearer myself, I am merely referring to the bespectacled future of search that is ‘Google Glass’ and the technologies that are being developed for it! Back in March, our Social Media Director Ben posted about…
900m Android activations and counting
900m Android devices have been activated to date according to Sundar Pichai, who runs SVP, Chrome and Apps at Google. “Google is very fortunate to have two large open platforms … two fast-growing platforms,” Roughly 2 years ago Android just clicked 100m activations and a year ago Android had…
Facebook Home
Mark Zuckerberg announced the new mobile operating system “Facebook Home” yesterday which adds a “social layer” (driven by Facebook) that you can add to your Android phone. Facebook also launched a HTC phone (in tandem) called the “HTC First”. It’s being marketed as the first Android…
The mobile phone celebrates 40 years
40 years ago today the first mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973. The first call was made by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola who called a rival colleague at another telecoms company to tell him that he was speaking…
YouTube Introduces One Channel Design
Since early February, YouTube have been testing a new revamped channel page with a focus on uniformity across devices. Yesterday they released it to the public for anyone to use on their channel. Users of Google Plus will feel a bit of deja vu as they have…
