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Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones running the Symbian OS could be vulnerable to a new botnet virus.

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90% of Searches in Latin America are Conducted on Google

According to a new report out from comScore, 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google-owned website. comScore has released the results from a study of the search engine market in Latin America. In the past year, search queries in Latin America surged up 21 percent to more than 18.5 billion queries in March 2011.



The typical searcher in Latin America conducts about 167 queries during each month.

Google-owned websites are by far the top search destination in Latin America. Searches performed at sites owned by Google account for 90 percent of all searches conducted in Latin America. The data is based on data from the comScore qSearch service.

According to comScore, "Analysis of the top search destinations in Latin America revealed that Google Sites captured the majority of the search market in Latin America with 90.5 percent market share. More than 16.7 billion searches were conducted on the property in March 2011, with the average searcher performing 153 queries during the month on Google Sites. Across each of the six markets studied, Colombia accounted for the highest share of searches at Google Sites at 92.2 percent, with Argentina accounting for the lowest share at 89.4 percent. Facebook.com ranked as the #2 search destination in Latin America with 525 million searches (2.8 percent share) followed by Microsoft Sites with 513 million searches (2.8 percent share)."

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iTunes Match Beta Becomes Available

Apple has sent iTunes developers an email titled “iTunes Match beta now available.” This is a feature of the upcoming iOS 5, announced at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in June. It lets you sync the music you didn’t purchase …

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy

Google has the money, resources and clout to compete in any market they enter fully. Problem is they also seem to suffer from a focus problem. They tend (or at least it appears to me)...

... to release features without strategy. Of late, however, it looks like they just might be getting their local strategy together and marshaling a suite new features combined with existing assets to put themselves in position to take a giant leap in the local reviews, local offers, and local social games to go with their strong local search position.



Two barely noticeable moves in the last couple weeks give hint to the this focus strategy. I took note of both and wrote quick updates - The first was the addition of optimized reviews in Places Pages and the second was the addition of reputation management features in Profile Pages. Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort.

Of course the Google Offers play - their answer to Groupon's success - has been unfolding for a few weeks, and I had my doubts they would do what it would take to slow Groupon, but hey, it's Google and you never know.

This week they slyly unleashed what could only be called City Pages - hat tip to the always informative David Mihm for tracking this down - City Pages, like this example for Portland, are a necessary piece in the puzzle if they are to compete with Groupon, but they also further the importance of claiming and optimizing a Place Page, appear to show in the Index and really put the spot light on the reviews. (Only a handful of cities are currently live.)

Business owners are invited to claim their pages, create special offers and try out ad products such as Boost right from the city home page. There's also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin, a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business.

The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff. With Google's ability marry advertising with offers and a local portal this could prove very disruptive to Groupon, but also to many local portals services such as Yelp! and CityPages.

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2 Jquery Effect in one HTML File

I put two Jquery Effect in my site but its not work what i want. Please suggest me how can do this

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Google +1 Button The New PageRank?

Let me start off by being very clear. Google is not getting rid of PageRank in favor of the +1 button. Google is, however, looking at the data from the +1 button as a signal of content quality, and +1s …

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