Article: Google wants to serve you ads based on the background noise of your phone call

The patent discusses the technology to analyze the background noise during your phone call and serve up ads for you based on the environmental conditions Google picks up on. Yeah, that’s creepy. While Google isn’t technically “listening” to your calls, meaning there isn’t someone on the other line listening to your conversation, the fact that [...]

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Posted: Mar 22 2012
Tags: advertising, geolocation, Google, iPhone, mobile, mobile marketing, mobile strategy, news, smartphone, technology
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Galaxy Nexus vs. everything else

In the market for a new phone? Google is poised to launch the Samsung designed Galaxy Nexus in the next few days. If you consider the specs, it is well ahead of any other handset on the market… it’s slimmer, lighter, faster, got a bigger screen, and generally lines up better on paper vs. its [...]

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Posted: Nov 21 2011
Tags: Android, Google, mobile development, mobile strategy, Samsung Galaxy, smartphone, technology
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Google voice search experiments

Ever wanted to google voice search whether there were sharks nearby whilst underwater? Ever wanted to google voice search where the nearest toilet is whilst in the middle of the dessert? These idiots have done it.

Don’t ask me why.

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Posted: Oct 27 2011
Tags: Google, smartphone, smartphones, technology
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Google Fail – Irony wins

Our Google map presence is deleted by Google every couple of months. It’s a common problem with forums ...

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Posted: Oct 24 2011
Tags: browsing, Google, Google Maps, mobile, Nomad
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Google pushes advertisers to optimise sites for mobile

Google has been prodding mobile website owners to optimize their sites for mobile. Now, it’s taking a more aggressive step by announcing that it will consider whether an advertiser has a mobile optimized site when assessing ads quality for all AdWords campaigns.

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Posted: Sep 22 2011
Tags: Google, Google AdWords, mobile development, mobile marketing, mobile website, news, SEM, SEO, trends, web design, web development
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Google pushes advertisers to optimize sites for mobile

Google pushes advertisers to optimize sites for mobile Google has been prodding mobile website owners to optimize their ...

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Posted: Sep 22 2011
Tags: advertising, Google, mobile, mobile commerce, Nomad
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George Costanza bringing Google Wallet to a phone near you – tomorrow

Google have been running a TVC featuring the famous scene from Seinfeld where George experiences a wallet fail. The good news is that Google Wallet is launching tomorrow (Tuesday September 19). The bad news (for now) is that it seems it will only be limited to Mastercard and Nexus S 4G… but things on Android tend to move fairly quickly, so expect this to expand very soon – you’ll be tapping your phone to pay for things in no time. Google Wallet Likely Launching Tomorrow via TechCrunch

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Posted: Sep 19 2011
Tags: advertising, brands, celebrity, Google, Google Wallet, LOL, mobile payment
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Apple’s Knowledge Navigator Video

This is simply an incredible example of having a vision and sticking to it – for as long as it takes. Even if that requires waiting for someone to create the portable laptop, the World Wide Web, Skype VOIP services, video encoding, Wolphram|Alpha knowledge engines, multi-touch UIs, colour screens, miniature cameras, voice recognition and synthesis, AI...

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Posted: Sep 09 2011
Tags: Google, technology, trends, video, YouTube
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MightyText – calls & texts from Android to PC in real time

via Engadget: Have you ever missed an extremely important phone call or text because you were too busy finishing those TPS reports on your personal computing machine? There’s a Chrome add-on for that. We went hands-on with a new extension (and accompanying Android app) called MightyText, a free notification service launched today that syncs your phone’s texts [...]

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Posted: Jun 24 2011
Tags: Android, app development, beta, browser, browsing, cool, devices, email, global, Google, Google Chrome, mobile development, news, PC, plugin, SMS, technology
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Google Wallet

via New Media Age: Google Wallet takes mobile marketing to the next level Google Wallet and its use of NFC to allow both voucher transmission and redemption signals a new era for the discipline of mobile marketing. Near-fields communications (NFC)…

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Posted: Jun 18 2011
Tags: global, Google, Google Wallet, mobile commerce, mobile development, mobile payment, mobile payments, mobile shopping, mobile strategy, near field communications, news, NFC, technology, trends
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