Android Market goes live

Greg Sterling reports on SEL that the G1 Arrives, So Does Android Market. It marks the second inning in the game of mobile search uptake and promises to open up the market for end users and developers. These are exciting times for mobile search. The development of powerful hand held mobile computing devices with a choice …

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Google Maps: Polling location information goes live

In late September, Google Maps rolled our Map.Google.com/Vote to provide a single source of voting information for every location within the United States. However, two critical pieces of the voter information program, polling location and directions, were promised for a mid-October rollout. The polling information is now live in Maps, and the Voting Maplet. Google …

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Local Links of Interest

Verticalized mobile search wins over horizontal mobile search – Dev Khare, devkhare.com Since (2005/6), I think Google and Yahoo! have cemented their lead in the horizontal mobile search space and Nokia has appeared as a strong contender, especially outside the US with its D2C strategy.   Google and Yahoo! have been duking it out across the world …

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