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According to comScore, Facebook has hit 141 million unique U.S. visitors in June of this year, breaking all previous traffic records. Facebook has almost doubled in traffic every year. In the same month last year, Facebook had about 77 million unique U.S. visitors. Facebook is quickly catching up to Google in traffic according to comScore. Google had 179 million monthly unique visitors across their websites in May 2010. [Mashable]

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Google, OS

Smart Maps – Seattle 1.5.1

Category: Travel
Price: $.99, Version: 1.2.1 -> 1.5.1 (iTunes)



Description:

✪ Offline Map ✪ Offline Search ✪ Real-Time GPS Tracking* ✪ Bookmarks ✪ Offline Help
✪ SALE! The price is reduced for a limited time! Don’t miss your chance!

Smart Maps offers you an offline street level map of Seattle, allowing you to search or navigate without an Internet connection. It’s the perfect solution for your iPod touch! If you have an iPhone, Smart Maps will save you the money you pay for expensive data roaming charges or additional costs for local Internet traffic.

If you are a tourist or a local, it doesn’t matter! Smart Maps is just right for you because is so easy to use! Smart Maps was ranked:
#1 Paid App in Romania
#2 Paid App in Ireland, New Zealand and Czech Republic

Features:

✓ Offline map (No Internet connection required)
✓ Offline search for streets, landmarks, parks, attractions and much more!
✓ Real-Time GPS tracking*
✓ Suggestion list as you type
✓ Bookmarks
✓ Easy to zoom in and out, just like Google Maps
✓ Scale display (using the metric or the English system)
✓ Map legend
✓ Offline help

* GPS tracking is available for iPhone only.

Unlike other offline maps, Smart Maps covers a very large city area. We recommend using iTunes or a reliable WiFi connection when installing, due to the large app’s size.

✪ Thank you for downloading Smart Maps!

What’s New

+ Fixed compatibility issues with iOS4 and iPad
+ Map update


Smart Maps – Seattle

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Android, App, Download, Google, Iphone, ITunes, OS

Some of you might be familiar with Amazon Prime, but it is a service that offers unlimited free two-day shipping and $3.99 for one-day shipping.

It normally costs about $79 per item, but Amazon is offering this service free to college students. Sort of like Google Voice. All that is required is that you validate your .edu email address and enter in a major.

If you are interested, then check it out here.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Free, Google, Hack, OS

The BerryReader can be considered the Google Reader for BlackBerry handsets, which basically is the easiest way to follow and read a blog/site via RSS feeds. Most people that read sites via RSS know how important and easy to use is the Google Reader, and this application will make life easier to follow RSS feeds on your BlackBerry handset.

With that being said, BerryReadre comes with a free-trial offer and provides the following features:

- access to all items (including shared, starred, and others);
- automatic update set by duration: 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes or 3 hours;
- being able to easily add and remove feeds;
- offline mode so you can read content when there isn’t internet coverage;
- shows a BerryReader icon when a new item is published;
- and much more;

BerryReader costs $10 and is available at the app store.

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Android, App, Application, Free, Google, Hack, OS

Mobile ad network company InMobi has raised $8 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. After this round of funding, InMobi now has $15.6 million in total venture capital. InMobi launched in 2007 and serves ads in 108 countries across 179 million consumers. Below is the full press release:

InMobi Raises $8 Million in Series B from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures to Fund Expansion and Mobile Customer Discovery Technology

SAN FRANCISCO AND LONDON: July 13, 2010: InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, today announced that it has secured $8 million in its Series B round from its existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. With this new round, InMobi will focus on its recent US expansion, launch in Japan and continue to grow existing operations in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Africa. The company will also double its engineering staff to further enhance its mobile advertising technology platform globally.

This new round brings the total funding to more than $15 million. With 16.9 billion impressions monthly reaching 179 million consumers in 108 countries, InMobi offers advertisers, developers, and publishers a dependable global mobile advertising alternative to Google and Apple. From the beginning, InMobi has invested in building a highly scalable, mobile customer discovery ad network leveraging its unique analytics engine AdROItTM to optimize ad serving in real time. The results provide unmatched performance to its current list of marquee partners including Reebok, Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Quaker Oats, Yamaha, Barclays, and Yahoo.

“Since our launch in 2007, we have focused on building global expertise in mobile ad serving technology with a highly scalable platform. After market launches in the US and Europe and further expansion in Asia and Africa, our global ad impressions increased from 7.5 billion to 16.9 billion monthly in just six months – it is clear our strategy is working.” said Naveen Tewari, CEO and Founder of InMobi. “This additional funding will help us capitalize on our early success and enable us to aggressively compete in major advertising markets globally.”

At the core of InMobi’s innovation is its technology. Further product developments will redefine the way advertisers, publishers and developers reach consumers and measure performance including detailed analytics that inform the ad serving process in real-time, automatically enhance ROI, and help advertisers maintain a targeted buy at scale globally.

“InMobi is a great example of the media transformation taking place due to mobile technology. We support their vision to provide high reach, transparent, performance-based mobile advertising to all corners of the globe,” said Ajit Nazre, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

“InMobi has exceeded our expectations every quarter since the company’s inception,” said Sandeep Murthy of Sherpalo Ventures. “They’ve not only developed a truly disruptive and leading edge technology, but applied flawless execution to deliver a market changing ad network platform that will achieve new levels in the industry with this funding.”

[TechCrunch]

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Google, OS