Archive For September 2009

Fashion magazines begin shift to ecommerce websites

3rd September 2009

Falling advertising revenues have prompted some fashion magazine publishers to look at how they can boost their income through ecommerce websites.This is according to paidContent, which reports that Conde Nast's Shop The Look ecommerce website looks set to be launched ahead of this autumn's New...

How to make the most of mobile application development

3rd September 2009

Experts on the Internet Advertising Bureau's (IAB's) Mobile Council have come up with a number of tips for businesses looking to reach customers through mobile applications.Paul Taylor of the Central Office of Information called on executives to ensure they consider users' needs as well as business...

Report: Website design to adapt to growth of mobile

3rd September 2009

A new study has suggested that companies' web design strategies will soon change as more consumers surf the internet from the mobile phones.The forecast from Forrester Research indicates that over one-third of western European consumers will use the mobile web by 2014, compared with an overall...

Twitter traffic surges to overtake MySpace

2nd September 2009

Twitter saw a surge in website traffic last week that saw it become more popular than MySpace in the UK for the first time.This is according to new figures from Hitwise, which show that Twitter accounted for one in every 400 UK website visits in the week ending August 29th to become the 27th most...

Google offers tips on mobile ecommerce web design

2nd September 2009

Web developers need to take steps to ensure they offer the best possible mobile ecommerce experience, Google has advised.Writing on the Google Retail blog, Amy Adams Harding of the Google Retail team noted that the growth of the mobile web could offer significant opportunities for businesses that...

Report highlights mobile application ad opportunities

2nd September 2009

A new forecast has predicted growth of 74 per cent for global spending on mobile advertising in 2009 as units such as banner ads take off in the sector.Some $913.5 million (£566.2 million) will be spent on mobile ads this year, with growth set to speed up in 2011, according to Gartner.However, the...

Samsung launches Android phone, readies mobile application store

1st September 2009

Samsung has made its first Android handset available to users in the UK.The i7500 Galaxy is available on O2 and features a five-megapixel camera, a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 8GB of memory and a suite of mobile services provided by Google.It is claimed to be the slimmest Android touchscreen...

Opera 10 launched with new web development tools

1st September 2009

Web development professionals can now make use of a number of new functions within the final release of Opera 10.The browser comes with Opera Turbo, a new technology that compresses web content to allow it to be delivered at broadband-like speeds even when the user's actual web connection is...

Spotify iPhone mobile application 'an unlikely iTunes killer'

1st September 2009

Apple's recent approval of music streaming service Spotify as a mobile application for the iPhone is unlikely to have a negative effect on iTunes sales, it has been suggested.Last week, Spotify revealed that Apple had finally approved its iPhone app following weeks of speculation over whether it...