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Google has announced a new update for Google TV, which was launched last year and was not received with enthusiasm. The update brings a new operating system, Android 3.1, also known as Honeycomb, and with it comes a series of Android apps which are TV-compatible. The update also provides improved search functionality.     Some [...]

    11% of American adults now own a tablet. Three quarters of them use the tablet everyday and more than half of all tablet owners use them as a news delivery vehicle. The tablet,  is beginning to supplant PCs and print media. Pew Research has even learned that many tablet owners consume more news [...]

There has been speculation lately about whether or not Amazon will enter into the tablet wars. Amazon will not confirm any rumors, but data shows consumers are most willing to give their money to an Amazon Android-based tablet over other companies’ options. The real shock of this data is the stated preference of what consumers [...]

Walmart acquired Vudu.com in February, which is not as large as Netflix, but does provide streaming movies. Unlike Netflix and more like iTunes, Vudu offers content on a per viewing basis instead of a monthly access fee. Walmart has now announced that Vudu will be integrated into the retailer’s internet portal. Vudu is also available [...]

Google is working on an exchange — akin to other exchanges such as health insurance, etc. — for web-data. The set-up is simple, it’s the devil that is in the details. Internet users, advertising viewers, would be divided into groups and then cookies for certain data segments would be placed in browsers of those users. [...]

The firm Community 102 has released new data about the demographics of social media users. The main surprise is in the presentation of the data. It’s an infographic that makes reading easier than a report. The other main surprise is about the age group of the most active social media users. 25% of the users [...]

FourSquare will begin offering deals to customers through popular deep discounters like Groupon, Living Social, Gilt Group and some others. FourSquare has 10 million users and with its data set on many of those users the advertisements should be well targeted and see results for the participating vendors. Normally FourSquare makes no money from the [...]

The key to being seen on mobile devices is to be seen within games. New data shows that smartphone owners that have downloaded an app in the past two months have downloaded a game. Apps serving weather, social networking and maps are also very popular, but gaming is consistently the most sought after category of [...]

Google analytics is the widest used analytics tool used by webmasters. The number of metrics and comparisons offered is astounding, especially since Analytics is free. Now Analytics has updated to include metrics for social tools. Analytics will compile data about “Likes”, retweets and “+1”s. Not only is an activity report available but so too is [...]

On December 8, Android’s chief Andy Rubin reported there were 300,000 Android activations each day. As of Tuesday that number is now 500,000. That’s an impressive number and it is an impressive growth. 9to5Google.com The easy trend for mobile ad agencies is the growth of smartphones and the growth of the mobile web. Advertising needs [...]