All the stories tagged with: ads
Australian Court: Google Ads Searches misleading
04/03/2012, An Australian appeal court ruled that Google’s Ad searches have been misleading Australian customers in 2007, as back then, paid advertisements from competitors in search results for businesses were thrown into the mix. The Federal Court of Appeal in Sydney [...]
KDDI pushes ads onto Android devices
01/23/2012, While this news doesn’t affect us directly, it looks some folks in Japan have it bad with the carrier KDDI. It has been reported that the carrier recently started pushing adverts directly to Android devices of its customers after a [...]
Google now lets you block targeted ads
10/31/2011, If you’ve always wondered about why certain ads get displayed on your screen whenever you’re performing a Google search you’re in luck. Google has recently decided to be more transparent about its ad targeting services and now gives users a [...]
Nokia 800 teaser ads aired in the UK
10/24/2011, A few days ago, press shots of Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone device, the Nokia 800, started showing up. Now it looks like teaser videos of the handset have started airing in the UK which were aired 1 second at a [...]
Disable ads on your Kindle e-reader for $30
10/06/2011, The Kindle 3 was offered to the public at a very affordable rate. For Kindle 3 owners, you’re probably aware that in order to enjoy the $30 subsidy for your e-reader device, you’ve had to put up with rather annoying [...]
Advertisers look into face scan technology
08/23/2011, Advertisers are always on the lookout for the next big thing in terms of hitting their target audience, and facial recognition technology is called into play this time around. Just how will it be applied? For starters, you will have [...]
Flingo Sync Apps turns your TV into Big Brother
08/19/2011, It looks like advertisements of the future might be taken to a whole new level thanks to a company named Flingo. The San-Francisco based startup has come up with a technology to make ads more relevant and interesting to the [...]
Is Facebook thinking about injecting ads directly into your news feed?
08/04/2011, Ads on websites when appropriately placed and when relevant are ideal. In fact relevant and well-placed ads makes me want to click them to find out more. But when you encounter websites that supposedly show ads that are “relevant” or [...]
Interactive advertising for Kinect coming your way
06/21/2011, In this day and age, there is just no running away from advertising – it is everywhere you look at. For those who play plenty of games and will most probably have the Kinect in your living room, then chances [...]
Media brands should forget about creating apps and focus on MMS instead, says strategist
04/06/2011, According to a tech author and 3G strategist, Tomi Ahonen, MMS is an important platform that is being ignored right now and should be taken more seriously. Too many people are focusing on creating apps dedicated to smartphones and ignoring [...]
Windows Phone 7 app developer hits the jackpot
03/31/2011, In a recent case study released by Microsoft Advertising, a Windows Phone 7 app developer, Richard Foster, has been said to have earned $28,882 in just 4 months, using Microsoft’s Advertising SDK for Windows Phone. Now it may not be [...]
Google introduces the +1 button
03/30/2011, It looks like Google has begun to realize the power of crowd-sourcing data and has updated their search engine to reflect that. Users now have the ability to “like” a result by hitting the +1 link on a search result [...]
Rumor: YouTube might enlist help of celebrities with $100 million bounty
02/17/2011, You might think that a site like YouTube will hardly need any more promotion or advertising, and that is true, but the big question is this – how do you monetize the site? Bandwidth and storage isn’t all that cheap [...]
