Posted on October 26th, 2009 by dhirender
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media yielded to a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions emerge now new media are taken [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2009 by dhirender
Steve Jobs, has applied for a patent titled ‘Advertisement in an Operating System’, and has listed himself as an ‘inventor’ of the application (US Patent Application 20090265214), says the Business Standard. Is that the way that Operating Systems are going to go? According to the application, the “the operating system can disable some aspect of [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2009 by dhirender
The convenience of paying utility bills online, is contributing to the increasing online transactions. Telephone bills, mainly mobile bills, are primarily driving the transactions, followed by insurance premiums and electricity bills says the Business Standard. Online payments and transfer of funds from one bank to another also contributed to a 100% year-on-year growth in online [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
In yet another sign that the global economy may be on the mend, Google said that its net income rose 27% in the third quarter as brisker advertising sales lifted revenue 7%. Google reported net income of $1.64 billion, or $5.13 a share, compared with $1.29 billion, or $4.06 in the period a year earlier. [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
It seems like everyone is jumping on to the social media bandwagon to target customers and engage them in conversations. But is there any way to measure the impact? This whitepaper from Coremetrics will show you how to gain insight into performance and continually optimize the results of syndicated videos, blogs, user reviews, display ads, [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
Tata Teleservices seems extremely bullish on India. Consider this, they had committed an investment of $2 billion for the GSM services when it was launched in June this year, which was supposed to be spent by the end of the current financial year, and now, they are planning to invest an additional $1 billion in [...]
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