http://www.thetechupdates.com Latest Technology Discussions, Gadgets, Hardware & Software Reviews Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:36:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.thetechupdates.com/191/why-won%e2%80%99t-location-based-networks-grow/ http://www.thetechupdates.com/191/why-won%e2%80%99t-location-based-networks-grow/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:36:22 +0000 admin http://thetechupdates.com/news/why-won%e2%80%99t-location-based-networks-grow/ Loopt — perhaps the largest location-based social network, a network that uses your location to recommend places to go and inform you of friends around you — announced the acquisition of GraffitiGEO this week. Several industry observers and researchers are raving about the potential of location-based social networks for businesses and advertising. “Context awareness is [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.thetechupdates.com/191/why-won%e2%80%99t-location-based-networks-grow/feed/ 0 http://www.thetechupdates.com/155/microsoft-yahoo-deal-regulatory-update-eh/ http://www.thetechupdates.com/155/microsoft-yahoo-deal-regulatory-update-eh/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:34:31 +0000 admin http://thetechupdates.com/news/microsoft-yahoo-deal-regulatory-update-eh/ Unlike the gripping back and forth of the fight over Yahoogle last year, the approval process for the search and online advertising partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo is chugging along slowly but surely as the Justice Department has deepened its investigation by reaching out to a broad range of publishers, advertisers, public interest groups and [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.thetechupdates.com/155/microsoft-yahoo-deal-regulatory-update-eh/feed/ 0 http://www.thetechupdates.com/242/msn-changes-the-butterfly/ http://www.thetechupdates.com/242/msn-changes-the-butterfly/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:32:21 +0000 admin http://thetechupdates.com/242/msn-changes-the-butterfly/ MSN’s new home page, which you can see at preview.msn.com, is the first one that doesn’t look like it was designed by Microsoft. The new page has the same cheery look and feel as the Bing search box that perches at its top, waiting to grab your next search away from Google. The MSN butterfly [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.thetechupdates.com/242/msn-changes-the-butterfly/feed/ 0