Archive for January 31st, 2010

31
Jan
10

Djuice and Redbull Streetstyle 2010 Grand Finale

For the first time in Pakistan, djuice and Redbull streetstyle 2010 has brought together the best of freestylers in Pakistan. The competition is a Worldwide Soccer Contest which is not just considered as a sport but also as a lifestyle. Competition is based on free style football maneuvers where 16 qualifiers from Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi will battle it out for the top position.

The Grand Finale has been scheduled on 31st January (4pm) at Forum, Karachi. The winner of the event will fly to South Africa where they will face the global competition of Red Bull Street Style 2010.

More to be reported on this soon.

31
Jan
10

Micro SD cards move up a notch!

Samsung have stuffed more memory in a tiny package than seemed possible a few years ago and announced their 32GB microSD cards. For integrated memory, they are readying chips with double that capacity – 64GB.

The previous best achievement in microSD cards capacity was 16GB but now that has been doubled. This feat of doubling the capacity of the previous generation seems to be the norm for flash memory. Continue reading ‘Micro SD cards move up a notch!’

31
Jan
10

Everybody Wants a Piece of the Mobile Advertising Market – Opera Acquires AdMarvel

It seems like everybody is scrambling to secure a piece of the mobile advertising market these days. Google is still sorting out the details of its AdMob acquisition, but barring any regulatory snafus, the acquisition should go through in the next few months. Apple acquired the relatively unknown mobile advertising network Quattro earlier this month. Today, Opera announced that it has acquired AdMarvel, a San Mateo-based mobile advertising company.

According to Opera’s new CEO Lars Boilesen, about 50 million people access the web through Opera on their mobile browsers. Continue reading ‘Everybody Wants a Piece of the Mobile Advertising Market – Opera Acquires AdMarvel’

31
Jan
10

Under-aged Texting: Usage and Actual Cost

The anecdotes documenting the love affair between teenagers and texting are countless. Many parents can attest that their offspring text rather than talk, even when they sit next to each other in the back of the car. Their children text in the morning before they brush their teeth and continue late into the night with the last text messages, also called SMS, sneaked in under the covers right before they close their eyes to sleep. Until now, there has been very little firm data available about how pervasive texting has actually become among the under-aged.

Continue reading ‘Under-aged Texting: Usage and Actual Cost’

31
Jan
10

Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82%

social-media-timeAccording to The Nielsen Company, global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. In addition, the overall traffic to social networking sites has grown over the last three years.

Globally, social networks and blogs are the most popular online category when ranked by average time spent in December, followed by online games and instant messaging. With 206.9 million unique visitors, Facebook was the No. 1 global social networking destination in December 2009 and 67% of global social media users visited the site during the month. Time on site for Facebook has also been on the rise, with global users spending nearly six hours per month on the site. Continue reading ‘Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82%’




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