MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali rebel group has banned the transfer and receipt of cash by mobile phone, a move the government said would stifle the economy and hurt entrepreneurs in a country where few
In a Tweet just sent from Google Mobile Ads account, the company said that its mobile ad network, AdMob, has hit a new milestone today. AdMob has served a whopping 300 billion mobile ads since 2007. The network added another 100 billion ads since May, when it posted its 200 billionth ad milestone.
To give you a perspective of how fast the AdMob is growing in terms of ads served; it took nine months to get to 200 billion ads from 100 billion in August of 2009, and only 5 months to get to 300 billion. Clearly, growth is accelerating for the network.
The updated applications
bring a much simpler user interface, various enhancements to existing tools, as well as tightened security and a handful of new features.
Clearwire has been slowly building up its WiMAX
wireless network around the country, starting with small markets and moving to big ones. But with Verizon Wireless almost ready to launch its competing LTE service, which will reportedly reach 38 major urban markets by the end of the year, the company is racing to bring their high-speed wireless services across some of the busiest U.S. cities. Specifically, Sprint has said it plans to launch its WiMAX-based “4G” service in New York City on November 1, followed by Los Angeles on December 1 and in
San Francisco by the end of 2010.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain just became the number one best-seller on Amazon. This means people have to come up with something new to say about Mark Twain 100 years after his death. Like: was Mark Twain a blogger?
There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in newspaper circulation. Some papers are growing in both formats, others are succeeding in neither. By Peter Preston
The
Internet Explorer integration is a nice feature as you can easily copy text or images from websites into Evernote for tagging. Any webpage or section of a webpage can be sent to Evernote with a simple right click. If you hit Print Sceen, it will also let you clip a portion of the screen or whole screen and saves directly to Evernote. This shot below is using their clipper.
On firday the full version of Angry Birds for Android went live, and it seems that the launch was a great sucess for Rovio Mobile, as there were a total of over 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours. This compares with over 1 million downloads of the beta release of Angry Birds on the Android platform over about a m0nth, which is pretty impressive.