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Newspapers and Magazines Coming to Amazon’s Buy Once, Read Everywhere Kindle Apps – Starting with Kindle for Android

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2010TechnologyAmazon, android, android-powered devices, Google, iPhone, kindle app, kindle books, kindle for android, kindle newspapers, magazine, new kindle, newsweek, russ grandinetti, the atlantic, the new york times

*All of the features customers love about Kindle newspapers and magazines coming to Kindle for Android, including convenience of automatic overnight delivery of subscriptions, buy once and read across multiple devices and platforms, full text search and instant Wikipedia and dictionary lookup*

SEATTLE, Dec 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon today announced that Kindle for Android is the first Kindle app to receive an update that enables users to buy, read, and sync over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and many more. Kindle for Android users can now buy a single issue or subscribe to the most popular newspapers and magazines, have them automatically delivered to their Android-powered device, and enjoy a full color reading experience optimized for the touch interface of Android-powered devices. Additional new features include the ability to seamlessly buy and download Kindle books and periodicals within the Kindle for Android app, share reading progress via social networks, and zoom closer to images and other graphics. Kindle for Android is the first major e-book app to offer periodicals on the Android platform. The new Kindle for Android app is available from Android Market. Customers who have already downloaded Kindle for Android will receive the update automatically. Learn more about Kindle for Android at www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid. (more…)

comScore Releases November 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2010Technologyadap, americans, aol, break media, brightroll video network, Comscore, comscore video metrix, cwtv, digital world, Facebook, Google, hulu, online video content, scanscout network, television, tremor media, tv, us internet audience, us internet users, vevo, viacom digital, video ads, Yahoo, YouTube

*Viewers at Google Sites Watch Average 4.5 Hours of Video During Month*

RESTON, VA, December 16, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 172 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in November. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in nearly 5.2 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. (more…)

Delhi International Airport Partners with IBM to Create a Smarter Air Terminal

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2010Technologyairlines, airport project development, backbone, delhi airport, delhi international airport, dial, i prabhakara rao, ibm india, infrastructure, intelligent cable management system, it, managed network infrastructure, mni, new delhi, passenger, sameer batra, terminal 3, world class

*Largest network infrastructure project of its kind in India to improve passenger satisfaction*

NEW DEHLI – 16 Dec 2010: Delhi International Airport (P) Limited (DIAL) has partnered with IBM India to establish a common-use infrastructure in New Delhi’s Passenger Terminal Building 3 that will automate its operations and improve customer satisfaction to give the airport a competitive edge through quality service. The unified network solution integrates all of the communications across Terminal 3 and its facilities so that airport operations, airlines and other tenants can better share and exchange key information across their related operations to more efficiently deploy their resources and meet the growing demands of the India aviation market. (more…)

comScore Releases November 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2010Technologyamericans, aol, ask network, bing, bing organic results, Comscore, comscore qsearch, Google, google instant search, Microsoft, monthly, powered by, qsearch, search marketplace, sites, US, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, December 15, 2010 – 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 November with 66.2 percent of searches conducted.

The November 2010 qSearch figures represent the third month of results including the impact of Google Instant Search, a Google search feature that delivers results in real-time while users type their query. To learn more about how comScore is measuring search activity as users engage with Google Instant Search, please read our blog post on the subject: https://blog.comscore.com/2010/10/comscore_september_qsearch.html (more…)

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Named ‘Person of the Year’ by Time

By PravdaDecember 15, 2010Culture, Technologydefinitions of privacy, earth, editor, founder of facebook, harvard university, Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace, News Corp., person of the year, richard stengel, social networking site, sophomore, t-shirt-wearing head-of-state, third largest country, time magazine, Wall Street, zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook Inc., was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” today for “creating a new system of exchanging information” and “changing how we all live our lives.”

Zuckerberg, 26, began the world’s largest social-networking site in 2004. The service, with more than 500 million users, has helped people connect with each other and changed definitions of privacy, Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel said in a letter on the magazine’s website. (more…)

IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2010Technologyamerica, benchmark, brad rutter, computing system, david ferrucci, emmy awards, favorite quiz show, guinness book of world records, harry friedman, ibm, ibm founder, ibm power7, ibm scientists, jeopardy, ken jennings, million dollar masters tournament, sony pictures television, thomas j watson, thomas watson, tournament of champions, ultimate knowledge, ultimate tournament of champions, watson

*Competition Scheduled for February 2011*

ARMONK, N.Y. & CULVER CITY, Calif. – 14 Dec 2010: IBM and America’s Favorite Quiz show® Jeopardy! today announced that an IBM computing system named “Watson” will compete on Jeopardy! against the show’s two most successful and celebrated contestants — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

The first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition will air on February 14, 15 and 16, 2011, with two matches being played over three consecutive days. (more…)

19.2 Million Spanish Internet Users watched 2.9 Billion Online Videos in October 2010

By Guest PostDecember 14, 20101 commentTechnologybrand building budgets, internet population, online videos, spain, spanish internet users, youtube video

YouTube Leads Ranking with Nearly 3.3 Hours per Viewer During the Month

Madrid, Spain, December 14, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from its recently launched Spanish comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 2.9 billion videos were viewed online in Spain in October 2010. (more…)

IBM Helps Corpus Christi Build a Smarter City

By Guest PostDecember 13, 2010Technologycorpus christi, ibm business partner, ibm software, one call center, smarter city, working with ibm

Data analytics provides the city with actionable intelligence

ARMONK, N.Y. – 13 Dec 2010: IBM today announced that it is working with the city of Corpus Christi, Texas to continuously improve efficiency and sustainability for the city’s more than 280,000 residents. (more…)

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