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Whole Foods Launches Mobile Website

Posted on December 10, 2009 by cgseo

Whole Foods Market has unveiled a new website aimed at mobile users. The company says it provides users with the same features as its non-mobile site. Visitors to the mobile site can access Whole Foods selection of over 2,000 recipes, store information including hours, driving directions, store specials and a calendar of events for their local store. "Whether they are at home, work, or out and about, our customers can now easily access store information and what's on sale at their local Whole Foods Market ," said Bill Tolany, global coordinator of integrated media for Whole Foods Market. "Shoppers can also use their handheld devices to create shopping lists and save their favorite recipes to 'My Recipe Box,' a popular feature on our website." The mobile site also features a store locator where customers can use a ZIP code search to find the nearest Whole Foods Market store. Continue reading →

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The iPhone Gets a New Google Mobile App

Posted on December 10, 2009 by admin

Google announced that the new version of its Google Mobile app for the iPhone was approved and is now available in the App Store. The new version includes a redesigned search results display that shows more results at once. It also opens web pages from the results within the app. "For those less utilitarian and more flamboyant, we've exposed our visual tweaks settings called 'Bells and Whistles' - some of our users had discovered this already in previous versions," says Google software engineer Alastair Tse. "You can style your Google Mobile App in any shade: red, taupe, or even heliotrope. If you're on a faster iPhone, like the iPhone 3GS, you may want to try the live waveform setting which turns on, as the name suggests, a moving waveform when you search by voice." "On the subject of searching by voice, you can now choose your spoken language or accent," adds Tse. "For example, if you're Australian but live in London, you can improve the recognition accuracy by selecting Australian in the Voice Search settings. And now both Mandarin and Japanese are supported languages as well." Continue reading →

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40 Million Reasons You Need a Mobile Web Presence

Posted on December 7, 2009 by cgseo

Opera is reporting that usage of its Opera Mini mobile browser has jumped 11% in just a month, around the world. In addition, they say data transfers have gained 16%. About 40 million people used Opera Mini in October, according to the company. That's an 11.3% increase from September 2009 and more than 155% compared to October 2008. page-views and data transfers increased at an even more impressive rate. Opera says that because of this, consumers can save 9.4 billion USD per year just by using Opera Mini. If you want to know how this translates to you personally, Opera has a cost calculator in its new State of the Mobile Web report . "Because Opera Mini compresses data by up to 90%, people everywhere can reduce the amount they pay each month for mobile data," says Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner. "By making the Web accessible and affordable on mobile devices, we can usher in a communications revolution on an unprecedented scale. Opera Mini is helping to spur this change — potentially affecting the lives of billions — not just by making mobile browsing possible, but by making it affordable, as well." The 39.6 million people using Opera Mini in October viewed 17.2 billion pages. From September, page-views increased 14.8%. From October 2008, they increased 238%. A few more interesting stats from Opera's report include: Continue reading →

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