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Search engine ask.com has unveiled a new version of its site - one that reverts to the Q&A format of the past when Jeeves the butler served as the company icon. The idea is for users to ask a simple question to find out what they are searching for, as opposed to using a string of key words to search...

Written by Kris McElhinney. The number of users browsing the Web from a mobile device continues to rise , yet most web developers still don’t design versions of sites targeted specifically for devices such as the iPhone,Blackberry, or other smartphones. The reason? There remain a number of pitfalls...

The IMRG/Capgemini index (which tracks ‘online sales’), has revealed that there was a 15% rise in online sales in March 2010, compared to the same period last year. This 15% increase translates to hundreds of millions of pounds in an industry worth billions of pounds annually. Shoppers spent...

When it comes to pushing pizza sales online, the folks at Domino’s are leveraging social networks to good effect. The fast food company has attributed strong growth in online sales to its use of promotions on location-based mobile application Foursquare and social media after revealing a 29% surge...

Checking Facebook has become a primary part of the morning routine of one in five young women; many citing this as the first thing they do upon waking. In a poll last month of 1,605 U.S. adults who use social media, 40% of respondants told NBC Universal’s Oxygen Media that they are self-described...

Technorati Tags: seo , sem , search , marketing , twitter , social network , isle of man People are making 800 million search queries each day with Twitter’s search service , according to co-founder Biz Stone . Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival , Stone said that the number of queries handled...

Technorati Tags: Pew , social networks , facebook , twitter , foursquare , research , social media The Internet has mostly been a positive force in peoples' social lives, according to a survey of technology stakeholders and pundits by Pew Research Center and Elon University. Social benefits of Facebook...

Europe's Court of Justice has just made a ruling that could have wide-reaching implications for online marketing. Companies using competitors' names as Internet advertising keywords are not infringing European trademark laws, according to the ruling. This is good news for users of the Google Adwords...

In February 2010 Adobe Photoshop celebrated its 20 th anniversary. Over the past 20 years, the program has become an indispensable tool for amateur and professional designers, hobbyists and artists alike. The program was first developed in the ­autumn of 1987, when Thomas Knoll, a PhD student wrote...

A lot of people are confused or unaware of the differences between Facebook profiles, pages and groups so here’s a breakdown: Facebook personal profile With a Facebook profile, individuals can add friends, send messages and keep people up to date with their lives by posting updates, text, photographs...