After online carpools, this would be the inevitable step - especially in today’s economic scenario, where everyone is out to save as much as they can.
CabEasy allows people to post a public listing of their upcoming taxi travel plans, and pair up with someone else who is traveling a similar route to split the ride.
The [...]
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Looks like the hunt for business models, and managing costs is starting to effect a lot more companies.
Twitter, the darling of the digital generation, who forgave all it’s downtime and problems, has now announced that it will no longer support outbound SMS to Canadians, citing its “out of control” Canadian SMS costs which have been [...]
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eMarketer draws upon the 2008 elections to show the importance that online video is gaining in our lives.
In the 2008 campaign season, primary debates were co-sponsored by YouTube, and questions from the public were submitted through the video-sharing site.
Footage of Sen. Obama’s election night victory speech received 500 unique online placements within 36 hours. That [...]
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A great site, and an example in simplicity, Goingtorain.com from Superblock automatically gathers your locations from your IP address, and tells you whether or not it is going to rain in your city along with the temperature. Simplicity at its best, it does not need any input from you, unless it got your location wrong [...]
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YouTube of course, and that too, more than 55% of them in August according to Compete.
All four networks made it into the top 10, but market share for each is dwarfed by YouTube. NBC, in third place, garners a mere 3.9% of visits, but this marks the first time NBC has been in the top [...]
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Rediff.com has launched WebInMail, a new service that would fetch web pages for users to allow them to read online content in their Inbox. Targeted largely at people who’s office regulations do not allow them to access external websites, this is quite an interesting concept, which deserves to be watched.
To use the service, all ones [...]
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Playing doctor on the Web often leads people to mistakenly believe that they are suffering from rare illnesses, according to a study by researchers at Microsoft [Via].
Web search engines have the potential to escalate medical concerns or “cyberchondria,” says the study, which describes cyberchondria as “unfounded increases in health anxiety based on the review of [...]
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Fox Interactive, the digital arm of News Corp, has rolled out its digital advertising services in India with the launch of its online ad network, called .FoxNetworks says afaqs.
Globally, .FoxNetworks offers various services to advertisers, which include serving display and video ads, carrying out lead generation campaigns, performing search marketing and optimisation and running affiliate [...]
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In a first of its kind collaboration, TravelGuru has partnered with travel search engine iXiGo.com to power its flights search.
All airline searches and bookings on Travelguru will now be powered by iXiGO’s travel search engine, allowing travelers to search for lowest airfares and then book them directly on airline sites, says this release.
With the airlines [...]
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Gartner expects cellphone sales in 2009 to fall ‘in the low-single digits’ from this year as the economic slowdown hurts consumer demand in countries around the world.
Sales of mobile handsets in the largest region, Asia Pacific, rose 13.8% in the third quarter but Gartner warns that the growth would come to a halt in the [...]
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