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comScore Releases October 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2011Technologyamericans, aol, ask network, bing, Comscore, comscore qsearch, core search market, digital world, Google, google sites, Microsoft, powered by google and bing, u.s. search marketplace, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, November 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search

Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent market share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.8 percent (up 0.1 percentage point). Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent. (more…)

Exploring the Ocean in Our Brains with Jaron Lanier

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2011Technology100 most influential people of 2010, 3d environment, avatars, back to nature, cyberspace, digital maoism, gadget, geometry, hollywood, human, human machine interaction, jaron lanier, kinect for xbox 360, manifesto, Microsoft, microsoft research, minority report, motion sensing camera, optimist, sex in movies, silicon valley, somatic cognition, thinking about technology, time magazine, triangle, video game store in california, Wall Street Journal

*Jaron Lanier has spent decades thinking about technology and the ways we use – and misuse – it. He also has been thinking long and hard about using avatars to access the untapped potential of our brains.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 9, 2011 – One evening last November, Jaron Lanier queued up outside a video game store in California and counted down the minutes until he could buy Kinect for Xbox 360. Lanier – a technologist, computer scientist, composer, and one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2010 – was just as excited to get his hands on Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera as the other gamers in line, most of whom he quickly realized were half his age. He was only slightly embarrassed by the observation.

“As a grownup and as a father I can’t believe I did that,” said Lanier, a partner architect for Microsoft Research. “But I was just so amazed it was really happening.” (more…)

Yahoo! en Español and Ram Truck Launch ‘La Banda Ram’ — First Online Mexican Regional Music Channel

By Guest PostNovember 7, 2011Technologya todo, armando rodriguez, banda, blogs, chrysler de mexico, con todo, duranguense, fred diaz, grupero, hispanic, la banda ram, latin america, latino audience, latino music fans, latino population, music, music genres, music is a universal bond, norteno, photo content, ram country on yahoo music, ram truck brand, us latino audience, yahoo en espanol

*New music website offers Latinos exclusive programming with a mix of music, blogs and video content*

MIAMI & AUBURN HILLS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)-– Yahoo! en Español, the premier digital media company, and the Ram Truck brand today announced the launch of La Banda Ram, the first dedicated Mexican regional music channel. Accessed from on Yahoo! en Español’s omg! site, La Banda Ram offers fans exclusive programming, music news, and lifestyle-relevant Ram Truck brand integration. The site debuts today and can be found at: es-us.omg.yahoo.com/la-banda-ram/

Focused on engaging the U.S. Latino audience with premium content, La Banda Ram connects consumers to an entertaining mix of music, blogs, exclusive photo content, originally produced video programming, and the latest news and updates from established and up-and-coming artists of the Norteño, Banda, Duranguense and Grupero regional music genres. (more…)

comScore Reports September 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2011Technologyamericans, apple, blogs, Comscore, google android, Microsoft, mobile devices, mobile phone, mobilens data, motorola, oem, rim, Samsung, smartphones, Social networking sites, symbian, us mobile phone industry

*More Than 40 Percent of Subscribers Use Browsers and Applications*

RESTON, VA, November 4, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending September 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.3 percent market share. Google Android continued to gain ground in the smartphone market reaching 44.8 percent market share. (more…)

Coming Soon to a Server Near You: Fewer Internet Delays

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2011Technologyinternet delays, internet latency, optical fibers, optical networking technologies, transmission speed

Researchers at the UA-led Center for Integrated Access Networks, the largest optical research center in the U.S., are developing methods to improve transmission speed, efficiency and reliability of Internet content, including everything from cell phone calls or texts to emails and television.

If you’ve ever received an email or text hours after it was sent and privately raged at having missed a deadline, or twiddled your thumbs while waiting for a webpage to load, then you’ve been a victim of Internet latency. (more…)

Yahoo! Statement

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2011Technologyboard of directors, company, one of 9 directors, rumor and speculation, shareholders, transactions and strategic planning committee, Yahoo, yahoo shareholders, yang

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Yahoo!, Inc. today issued the following statement:

“Yahoo’s Board of Directors’ objective is, and always has been, to serve the best interests of all the company’s shareholders. The Board’s comprehensive strategic review is being properly managed for the benefit of all shareholders and is guided by outside counsel for the independent directors and investment bankers retained separately by the Board. The Board of Directors (eight independents and Mr. Yang) controls the strategic review process and has directed its Transactions and Strategic Planning Committee (comprised of four independent directors) to manage the process day-to-day and report regularly to the Board. (more…)

Bing Social Search Team Makes Search ‘Less Lonely’

By Guest PostNovember 3, 2011Technologyamerican sitcoms, bing, bing experience, buffy the vampire slayer, cd of mp3s, christina aguilera, cliff claven, electronica music, Facebook, florida, german, Google, jack tripper, knight rider, maroon 5, Microsoft, microsoft news center, mnc, paul yiu, sean suchter, silicon valley, silicon valley campus, social networks, social search, social search team, sonic youth, Technology, the carpenters, the cranberries, the terminator, tim harrington, visuals and animations

*Three members of Bing’s social search team chat with Microsoft News Center about working in the exciting technological frontier of search – and what they do when they’re not hard at work.*

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Sean Suchter’s last name is a misspelling of the German word for searcher, which has to be one of the greater aptronyms in the technology industry.

Suchter heads up Bing’s social search team on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, where he relishes his job as a frontiersmen in the field of search, particularly social search. (more…)

The Genographic Project Confirms Humans Migrated Out of Africa through Arabia

By Guest PostNovember 2, 2011Science, Technologyafrica, ajay royyuru, analytical method, anthropology, arabia, archaeology, bab el mandeb strait, DNA, dna chromosomes, egypt, Europe, evolutionary history, genetic diversity in southern india, genographic project, history of human migration, history of humankind, human genome, human population genetic data, human populations, laxmi parida, mathematical modeling, migratory genealogy, modern humans, national geographic society, out of africa, project, spencer wells

*New analytical method approaches the unstudied 99% of the human genome*

WASHINGTON, D.C., – 02 Nov 2011: Evolutionary history shows that human populations likely originated in Africa, and the Genographic Project, the most extensive survey of human population genetic data to date, suggests where they went next. A study by the Project finds that modern humans migrated out of Africa via a southern route through Arabia, rather than a northern route by way of Egypt. These findings will be highlighted today at a conference at the National Geographic Society.

National Geographic and IBM’s Genographic Project scientific consortium have developed a new analytical method that traces the relationship between genetic sequences from patterns of recombination – the process by which molecules of DNA are broken up and recombine to form new pairs. Ninety-nine percent of the human genome goes through this shuffling process as DNA is being transmitted from one generation to the next. These genomic regions have been largely unexplored to understand the history of human migration. (more…)

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