comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older,

Google is launching ads on the home page, search page, and browser page on the mobile version of YouTube in the U.S. and Japan. "This is a great way for advertisers to reach YouTube viewers across multiple platforms," says Google Strategic Partner Development Manager Taylor Cascino. "In fact, at launch YouTube will immediately provide one of the largest audiences for a mobile ad campaign anywhere on the mobile web. And because YouTube mobile attracts early adopters,

Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc. From the structure tree, a new text could be generated in the target language. The precise details of Google's translation algorithms are not published, but the structure tree is not the main mechanism. Instead, there is a corpus - an enormous database of parallel works.

While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement , here's a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider - biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps. Google has been gathering these bike trail data for quite some time now and now that they've gathered as much data as possible,

Google has partnered with Rails-to-Trails (RTC), a nonprofit focused on creating a network of trails from former rail lines, to add biking directions to Google Maps. Google Maps now has biking route details for more than 150 U.S. cities covering more than 12,000 miles of trails and bike lanes. Google says it plans to continue to add new trail information to Google Maps and is requesting feedback from riders via the " Report a Problem " tool.

Clicking on links that different people send can often be a cross-your-fingers experience, considering that there are malicious tricksters, unknowing victims, and hijacked accounts to watch out for. So Twitter's attempting to make the experience less dangerous by checking (and sometimes rewriting) the links found in direct messages and email notifications. Del Harvey, Director of Trust and Safety at Twitter, explained on the official corporate blog ,

Actor Corey Haim, best known for roles in movies like the Lost Boys, License to Drive, and many others (a number of which also featured Corey Feldman), has reportedly been found dead of an apparent drug overdose. The LA Times reports: The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San Fernando Valley. Details of his death were not immediately available. The L.A.

Last night at Campfire One, Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace , where developers can create apps that integrate with Google Apps and sell them to users. According to Google, they can reach over 2 million businesses and 25 million users. Right off the bat, the Google Apps Marketplace launched with over 50 applications from companies like Intuit and Atlassian, with more coming soon from companies like NetSuite and SuccessFactors, a Google spokesperson tells WebProNews.

A lot of today's top copywriters got their start in direct mail, broadcasting and catalog pieces.  Back then, the medium was strictly rooted in the "Push" era â?" we shovel out the content, you take it all in and buy this widget. When the web started coming of age, people realized that they didn't have to "take it all in" â?" they could comparison shop, read reviews and judge ratings.  Even in the last few years we've gained the ability to ask friends,

Xmarks is one of those FireFox plugins that I've been using for ages. I mentioned it in my one of the first FireFox tool overviews and I still find it awesome. With some (arguably) great "social" features added Xmarks has turned a cool search engine as well. I find it quite relevant and precise. Sure, the database is not as huge as Google's but what it currently has is the best of the best.