From this week, Google will make images for "almost all of the UK's roads, both rural and urban" available on the Street View service.The tool, available on Google Maps, offers a 360-degree photographic treatment that users can explore and move around online.

11/03/2010

The adverts, which are part of a £2billion marketing campaign, feature the slogan ‘Bing and decide’ – which appears to be a sly dig at rivals Google.Using the tagline 'Bing and Decide', the campaign features people suffering from "information overload", and, as such, positions Bing as the search engine which delivers the more accurate, effective and streamlined search results. The ads will run for 3 months, and will be complemented by an online campaign.

10/03/2010

The European telecoms carrier plans to cut 500 staff from its headquarters in Newbury as part of a cost-cutting drive.

Vodafone, which has around 9,000 staff in the U.K., said "the roles affected are in a number of areas, across a number of locations, primarily in back office functions."

It also cautioned that there will "also be additional changes as further efficiencies and natural attrition in these functions take effect."

09/03/2010

Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell hopes WPP will do better than flat revenue growth this year but has budgeted conservatively after being "once bitten, twice shy" on forecasts in 2009. The company has said that digital services will make up two-thirds its revenues in “three or four years” and that it expects 2010 to be a stable year. WPP reported an 11 percent drop in profits to £663 million ($1 billion) after a “brutal” 2009 and a particularly low second quarter. New media sales accounted for 27% of the advertising and marketing group’s revenues, or $3.6 billion.

08/03/2010

The US launch date comes slightly later than originally announced. Unveiling the touchscreen multi-media device on January 27, the California company behind the iPod, iPhone and Macintosh computer had said the iPad would be "available in late March worldwide." Apple said it would be accepting pre-orders from US customers at its online store from March 12 for the iPad, which allows users to watch video, listen to music, play games, surf the Web or read electronic books.

08/03/2010

Set to begin this Autumn, the UK internet industry (including the Internet Advertisising Bureau) has joined forces to agree an extension to the CAP Code to claims on companies’ own websites, which would extend the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) remit in digital media. This code is designed to ensure that the marketing industry adopts the same self-regulatory standards for all marketing communications on the internet as it does across traditional marketing channels.

08/03/2010

The tool supports multiple editors, track conversations, assign roles and create follow-up tasks. The company has a growing client list, including Whole Foods, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Ford, Dell, Pepsi, Sprint, Intuit, Salesforce.com, USA Today and Coca-Cola.The deal will see ExactTarget incorporate Co-Tweet’s technology, creating a tool for marketers to manage social media, email and mobile communications. CoTweet will operate in San Francisco as a business unit of ExactTarget and will lead the company’s social media product development.

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The broadcaster increased its online revenues to £24m, excluding Friends Reunited, in 2009. Video views across itv.com reached 215m, up from 85m in 2008, and monthly unique users grew by 33% to 8.7m.

04/03/2010

Sales of HTC handsets that use the techonology could be blocked in the US if Apple's lawsuit is successful, though not in the UK. Although Apple has not named Google in the suit, many of the named patents relate to operating system processes. Google’s Nexus One handset is expected to launch in the UK in April.

04/03/2010

Pre-tax profits at the media group tumbled to £72.7m, from £124.2m, with revenues down 11.8% to £763.3m. Trinity's chief executive Sly Bailey said she was still cautious about prospects for 2010.

04/03/2010

04/03/2010

In a recent interview with New York Magazine, a senior media executive claims Murdoch is ready to see the search giant in court. "He’s pretty tightly wound up over Google and has been ready to sue them,” the executive claims. “He doesn't trust them at all.” Another unnamed executive from MySpace, the flagging social-networking site that Murdoch paid 580 million U.S. dollars for in 2005, claims Murdoch is ill at ease in the internet sphere.

03/03/2010

The deal will see Digital Window and Buy.at combine their technology and serve customers in territories such as the UK, USA and Scandinavia. Perfiliate’s clients include the AA, Barclays and Marks & Spencer.

03/03/2010