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Richard Gregory joins Quixey's leadership team to help develop new revenue models and drive international growth MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Quixey, The Search Engine for Apps, announced today the hiring of Richard Gregory as Executive Vice President of Revenue. Gregory will play a key role in developing new revenue and monetization models, as well as leading Quixey's international growth. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130514/SF13316-a)...
Transition sets national records agency on path to cost savings and greater efficiency BLUE BELL, Pa., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced the successful completion of a project to transition about 4,500 users at U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to Google Apps for Government, a cloud-based email and collaboration solution. The National Archives expects the move to the cloud-based solution to allow employees to share...
Now you can text without touching, or even looking at your phone! MIJAS COSTA, Spain, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Using the phone while driving has been rightly discouraged; distracted driving is a serious hazard. However, app development company "Apps on Toast" has introduced an ingenious way to keep one's eyes on the road, and hands on the wheel while making phone calls, or responding to text messages. Ultimate Car Dock is a voice recognition app for Android smartphones, which is...
Families may not have to look very far to find extra cash for the holiday shopping season. A recent survey conducted by Gadgix, the nation’s leading high-end consumer electronics trade-in site, showed nearly 50 percent of respondents are sitting on extra cash from their unwanted consumer electronics and don’t even know it. Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) May 12, 2013 The survey, completed through Google with more than 1,500 respondents, illustrated that more than one-quarter (27 percent)...
Bidcomhomes has added Walk Score and Google Street View to seller listings for a more interactive experience for real estate agents wishing to bid their commissions on property listings. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 12, 2013 On Bidcomhomes, the website where real estate agents/brokers bid their commissions up front so that sellers can save thousands off traditional commission rates has added Walk Score and Google Street View to the seller agent experience. For agents, the site not only...
Plus.io, a platform for building mobile applications, is now expanding into Google Glass development with its new Timeline feature. Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Plus.io, a platform for building mobile applications, is now expanding into Google Glass development with its new Timeline feature. Plus.io is providing both cloud-based storage and a Restful API for communicating with Google Glass. The Timeline feature is essentially a graphical user interface that uses a workflow-style...
NGA Marketing is a well known online marketing agency based in California and established in 2008. Having in their portfolio a big name such as Wholesale Fashion Square, NGA Marketing is now happy to announce its plans to take on new customers. Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Focusing on the field of search engine marketing, optimization and e-commerce solutions, NGA Marketing can cater to local customers as well as national and international ones. They offer services in a...
Advertising for plumbing contractors has changed a lot over the past few years and My Local Leads has the knowledge and experience to help these local businesses market themselves and come out on top in this highly competitive field. Kennebunk, ME (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Local business marketing is a lot different today than what it was just a few short years ago. Today, approximately 85 percent of consumers perform local searches for business located in their area. Meanwhile, more than 60...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google is bringing it together. On Monday the search giant announced that it has modified its cloud storage allocation for regular users of its services, providing 15 GB of free storage across Gmail, Drive and Google+ Photos. For those using the free storage option, this bumps the allotment from 5GB to 15GB, providing more room for storing digital content. Google made the announcement just prior to kicking off its Google I/O...
LOUISBOURG, NS, May 13, 2013 /CNW/ - On behalf of the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canadian Minister of Labour, is pleased to announce that Parks Canada has officially launched a partnership with Google Maps to bring Street View to Canada's treasured natural and cultural places. The launch of this nationwide project coincides with the start of celebrations marking the 300(th) anniversary...
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The Kobo Arc is a tablet computer produced and released by Kobo Inc. in November, 2012. It has a 7-inch screen and uses Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. It is the second model produced by Kobo, the first was the Kobo Vox. It comes in black or white with Wi-Fi, a micro USB port, a headphone jack, and dual speakers. It has a dual core CPU, 1 GB Ram, and 16, 32, or 64 GB of storage. It has a rechargeable battery with ten hours of reading and two weeks stand by. It is capable of...
The Nexus S is a smartphone produced jointly by Google and Samsung and released in the US on December 16, 2010. In other areas of the world it steadily became available; UK December 22, 2010; Canada April 7, 2011; Serbia April 4, 2011; and Thailand April 1, 2011. The Nexus S is produced in four variations, the GT-I9020, which uses Super AMOLED, the GT-I9023 that uses Super Clear LCD, The SPH-D720 using the 4G network, and the SHW-M200 released for the Korean market specifically. The phone...
The Nexus One is the first generation of Nexus phones. It is a Google smartphone manufactured in Taiwan by the HTC Corporation. Tests began on the Nexus One on December 12, 2009, but Google did not confirm the phone to be sold at that time. However, it became available on January 5, 2010, and uses the Android open source mobile operating system featuring voice to text technology. The Nexus one features a 3.7 inch touchscreen, originally using AMOLED, but on July 26, 2010, the Nexus One...
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser that was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and fully released on December 11, 2008 as a standalone. As of November 2012, usage share is 35 percent worldwide. A mobile version for Android was released on November 28, 2012. When Google first thought of developing a web browser, chairman Eric Schmidt opposed, but after hiring several developers from Mozilla who built and demonstrated Chrome, he changed his mind....
A web search engine stores information about web pages that are retrieved from the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). They are retrieved by a web crawler, which is a web browser that follows every link on a website. Meta tags are used to extract words from titles, headers, page content, or special fields. Data about the web page is stored in an index database for later inquiries. This data can be a single word or a phrase which helps in quickly finding information about the page being...
