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The rise and rise of the GPS mobile - but not for mobile advertising

I noticed a story (with accompanying video) on the BBC Click website titled Rise and rise of the GPS mobile.

Like many stories at the moment about GPS, the author makes a few generalisations.
In the closing paragraphs, the BBC reporter Marc Cieslak notes
“This location based technology does throw up the potential for annoying features however.
If retailers [...]

Google getting close in the UK to overtaking ITV1 for ad revenue

I thought it had happened already, butĀ a report in theĀ Guardian says Google is getting closer to dethroning ITV as the UK’s biggest single advertising income generator.Ā  Seven years ago, who would have thought search would have overtaken TV?

Next stop - mobile advertising…..
Google snaps at ITV1’s heels for UK ad income crown
Jemima Kiss and Mark Sweney
Tuesday [...]