More than 1 million calls were placed from Gmail's free calling service in its first 24 hours, according to Google, which launched the service Wednesday. When we tried it out, we found that Gmail calling has remarkable ease of use, making it almost phone-like, despite originating from an e-mail program.
CanadianListed.com, a new online classifieds site, is presenting consumers and businesses with a more effective way to sell and buy products and services within their cities, towns, or even within the ultra-local confines of their neighborhoods. CanadianListed.com is the only free site offering a highly localized or hyperlocal approach to buying and selling products and services online today that offers a user-friendly experience when viewing or posting an ad. Additionally, CanadianListed is committed to providing a family-friendly online selling arena.
EBay site Mobile.de is Germany’s biggest classified site for used cars. Now the company wants to focus more strongly on the new car sales. According to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Mobile.de is currently negotiating intensely with manufacturers and dealers.
Verizon unveiled a series of new video applications today, including an upcoming iPad app that will allow FiOS subscribers to watch the same linear programming that is available on their TV screens on their tablet devices. The new app is expected to be rolled out early next year and Verizon expects to have all of its content partners on board by the time the app launches.
Apple Inc. is facing some early challenges in its closely watched mobile advertising foray, with some ad campaigns experiencing delays as agencies attempt to learn the new system amid Apple's tight control over the creative process, according to ad executives.
Askeers is a new classifieds website that offers full geolocalization through Google Maps. This makes it extremely easy to sell and buy items in a hyper-local setting, and also list services that you are capable of rendering. As a matter of fact, a platform like this one even makes it possible to keep everything in your neighborhood if that is what you want.
eBay is launching its rewards program today: eBay Bucks, which allows any eBay shopper who lives in the U.S. and is a registered member of the marketplace, to earn 2 percent cash back on most items purchased through the site with PayPal.
Nokia Beta Labs has taken the wraps off a new service, Nokia Listings, that is currently available only in the Indian market. Listings are available for three main classifieds formats – Jobs (from ‘Maid who can cook’ to ‘legal’), (Hyper) Local Services, and products (Buy and Sell). However, the ability to browse existing listings does not exist, and I think that is primarily down to Nokia using SMS as a carrier instead of GPRS: thus, live results aren’t available. Nokia Listings primarily targets the Series 40 handsets, but also works for non-touch screen Series 60 (S60) handsets.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 27, 2010) - OLX today introduced the OLX application available for free from Apple's iTunes app store. OLX users can now search local classified ads, reply to listings, & post ads with just a few simple taps and, as always, the use of OLX is completely free. OLX has been already available to mobile internet users for over three years with its mobile-friendly site accessible at http://m.olx.com and is now launching its application for all major mobile operating systems, beginning with the iPhone.
Quick Pitch: Why buy when you can borrow? Save money and resources by sharing with your friends and neighbors on this online community.
Genius Idea: You know how Polonius was all, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” in Hamlet? Well, homeboy wasn’t weathering recession times. Unless you’re a total Spartan, you probably have a ton of stuff piled up in your closet that you hardly ever use.
NEW YORK (AdAge) - Skype is hoping to dial up a few ad dollars with a new pay-per-call ad unit, which will turn phone numbers into little ads for the 560 million users of the service.
Skype users have long been able to call, text or video chat with one another for free. Skype makes money by charging a few pennies to call land lines and mobile phones from their computers.
eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), a leading online destination for fashion, today introduces the eBay Fashion app for the Apple iPhone, delivering a personalized shopping experience where shoppers can browse, buy — and virtually “try on” — items from the world’s largest online selection of new, designer, branded and vintage merchandise - virtually anytime, anywhere.The new app, available for free via iTunes®, delivers an enhanced tool for customers to shop fashion on eBay and unlock the incredible value and selection available on eBay’s Marketplace, right from the palm of their hand.
Navigating the sea of online classifieds has just become even easier with Dealfish. Still offering the same great opportunities to buy and sell online, a slick, new, streamlined site has relaunched to offer an even easier to use, faster, more convenient service to help you secure the object of your desire.
Twitter has launched the new @earlybird account, dedicated to announcing special deals and discounts to followers. Maybe this new angle will turn out to make the social networking site some actual money. Or maybe not.
OLX announced the launch of its free classifieds site OLX.lk (http://www.olx.lk) for the Sri Lankan population. The objective is to bring the best classifieds' user experience to the Sri Lankan consumers who want to buy and sell locally. OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds sites, offering jobs, housing, cars, goods, services, personals and much more.
Friday, August 27, 2010
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