What is Mobile? Part1: A Developer’s Perspective

November 18th, 2011

What is mobile? It seems almost ridiculous to ask this question. Right now, there are over 5 billion mobile phones in use across the globe. It’s an astonishing figure, given that it’s been only 28 years since the first cellular network (the 1G) was launched by Ameritech in 1983 in Chicago. Three decades and billions…

Google+ Rolls Out Pages for Businesses

November 11th, 2011

It seems like Google+ Pages for businesses have been a long-time coming, even though Google+ was released into “invite only” field testing on June 28th of this year and just officially rolled out to the general public on September 20th.. That’s not even five full months at this time. Weird, huh? But it really seems…

Google Rolls out New Ad Placement At the Bottom of Search Results

November 11th, 2011

Location, location, location. After many months of test marketing, Google has decided that AdWords, their main advertising and revenue product, would benefit from placing ads in a new location on the search engine results page: at the bottom, just below the organic search results. Up until this recent change, AdWords ads were always featured at…