Archive for the ‘World Wide Web’ Category

Germany’s market leader for bonus collecting has just released a new version for its application for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The latest Payback-App, in cooperation with Das Örtliche, now offers users theme channels for local search.
Payback customers that download the latest version of the app in the Apple Store will find a new point in the menu: clicking on “Extras” can show users where the next ATMs are, where the next movie theater is, or when the next cultural event is. The data is delivered by Das Örtliche. Payback is trying to expand these kinds of local services, according to the app. This ambition is confirmed by DeTeMedien, the carrier for the online directory. Read the rest of this entry »

Das Telefonbuch did it about three weeks ago, now Gelben Seiten is following suit: with the new application, the iPhone or the iPad can become a navigation system – for free. Integration with the V-Navi-App from the cooperation partner Map and Route makes this possible, much like the app for Das Telefonbuch. Read the rest of this entry »

On July 14th, 1881, the first telephone book was released under the cumbersome name “Verzeichnis der bei der Fernsprecheinrichtung Betheiligten” [lit. “Directory of Involved Parties of Telephone Installations”]. What began with 187 entries was smirked at as the “Book of 99 Mockeries”, is now an essential institution: Das Telefonbuch is one of the most-used directory medias in Germany. And despite the digital age, 80 percent of the people in the country use the print version, according to Telekom speaker Niels Hafenrichter. Read the rest of this entry »

The self-proclaimed largest couponing marketplace in Germany Coupies is now offering in addition to its apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Nokie, as well as the operating system Windows Mobile and Java, a new web standard HTML5 based browser-application. This is hardly different to the iPhone app, claims the company, but does have one advantage: it works on many more devices and allows more people to use the mobile discounts. With the release, Coupies is delivering material for speculation about the general production of applications. Read the rest of this entry »

For quite some time, the Google recommendation button with which users could rate websites or search results with “this is cool” was only available on the English version of google.com. As of this week, the search engine giant is making the +1 button available worldwide, starting with google.de, google.co.uk, and google.fr. More countries should be made available soon, according to the Google-Webmaster-Blog. As if that weren’t enough: at pretty much the same time, the company started up its social network project Google+ as an alternative to Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though the total number of users has gone down, according to US media reports, Facebook’s winning streak is holding up: the social network is expecting to double its 2010 profits through display advertising, launching the site to become the largest advertiser on the net, according to the research of eMarketer. Yahoo, the previous front-runner, will fall to second place, followed by Google in third. Read the rest of this entry »

The Internet giant Google introduced two updates for its mobile version at the Inside-Search-Event in San Francisco: shortcuts simplify the local search according to providers in the vicinity and suggested terms save the annoying process of manually typing in everything out, especially useful for longer searches. Read the rest of this entry »

Nowadays, who really even needs a directory to find a local service provider? – Eight out of ten U.S. residents! This is displayed in the recent Local Media Tracking Study from Burke researchers. So, enough with the speculation that search engines can outdo the Yellow Pages. Read the rest of this entry »

The search engine giant has updated its Transit feature both in the mobile as well as the internet version of its local search Google Maps: starting immediately, the service will display departure times from busses and trains in realtime. Read the rest of this entry »

Shortly after the optimized app for the iPhone and iPad, Das Telefonbuch has also added some new, useful features to its mobile internet version. Read the rest of this entry »