Reliance Industries (RIL) is gearing up to start rolling out 4G services in India as early as the beginning of next year and reach countrywide deployment by mid-2012, according to...

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Most likely you know bitly for their URL shortening services. The company says they shorten around 80 million URLs a day and track 8 billion clicks a month. The company announced yesterday they've been working on real-time search powered by bitly data for quite awhile. Their first launch is "reputation monitoring", which will help brands ...

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Apple laid out features, use cases and pricing for its iCloud service during yesterday's iPhone 4S announcement. The service is scheduled to roll out on October 12 (next week Wednesday) along with the iPhone 4S and new iPod models. Here are the details of the service.


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A couple of weeks ago, Marcus Sheridan hosted his second webinar for Spin Sucks Pro. It was a follow-up to his first webinar on creating content for pull PR and marketing. As is typical of anything Marcus does, the webinar was really good. He talked about how to force feed prospects your content so, by [...]

Read More: PR for Products vs. Services: Do They Work the Same?

Are you a frequent user of smartphone check-in services like Foursquare or Gowalla? I don't use them because personally, I don't want people to know where I am. I guess I like going incognito. Come to find out, I'm not alone. A recent study by Pew shows that only 12% of smartphone users use theses ...

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The August 16, 2011 issue of TIME magazine Economy section has a great infographic describing changes in consumer spending between between 2007 and now. Why 2007? That year preceded the so-called "Great Recession."The category with the biggest loss of consumer spending is postal and delivery services which dropped 28%. Other more obvious categories with drops in consumer spending are not surprising: Clothing repair and alteration (-19%), tobacco (-16%) and new automobiles (-12%).So, what was the [...]

Read More: What Do Spend a Lot More on Now Compared to 2007? Cell Phone Services (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

Social media is becoming a mainstream business expense however there are very few resources available to guide customers in how to purchase. Like any new industry, there is a wide range of options, a few so not ethical players in the mix, and overall, a very confused and stressed marketplace. After all, who likes buying when you feel pressured and don't really understand what it is you need or want? Such is the state of social media sales. The Honolulu Chapter is [...]

Read More: Buying Social Media Services: Help Wanted