UpSnap As Brian Smith, who runs the ComparisonEngines.com site that focuses on online shopping services notes, wireless shopping is not a new idea. He tells us that PriceGrabber offered its first mobile version more than six years ago.
San Diego, 4Info, UpSnap, 1800-Free-411), SMS, WAP-based search and mobile applications will chip away at consumer-pays wireless DA to the point where it's got very limited usage. Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal...
UpSNAP Partner, Marketing Pilgrim Today From The SEW Blog. Daily SearchCast, May 10, 2006: Yahoo Livesearch: Answers Before You Finish Typing! Yahoo Will It Be Google Rather Than Vegemite Sandwich? Yahoo Yahoo and Google try to woo IE7 users...
Postscript 1: For another interesting mobile service, check this post from last week where we talk about mobile search provider UpSnap now providing audio (news, music, etc.on your phone. Matt Marshall's article: Silicon Valley start-ups rush to...
In a nutshell, MBN and now UpSnap allows the user to have audio content delivered by simply dialing a US phone number. The UpSnap home page today includes links to how to access this streaming audio content like this rock music "station.
Yahoo Go Puts Yahoo Services Into Cell Phones, TV Upsnap.com Acquires XSVoice, Now Offering Streaming Audio on Your Phone or Device - Mobile search provider 4INFO and media giant Gannett informs us that Gannett is making a minority investment in...
UpSnap Bob Tedeschi's article in the New York Times: Those Born to Shop Can Now Use Cellphones, takes a look at how eBay, Amazon, and others are allowing shoppers to purchase items via their mobile phone or device.
UpSnap, Synfonic and In addition, Yahoo has expanded its web search service designed for mobile users to work with WAP-compatible browsers. Running an Yahoo SMS search is easy. Simply send a text message to Y-A-H-O-O (92466) and enter the required...
UpSnap The InfoWorld news brief: Yahoo launches cell phone shopping in Japan lets us know that the service has just gone live. Presently, the Yahoo Mobile service here in the U.S.doesn't offer an interface to Yahoo's shopping database.
UpSnap In today's Forbes article about search: Calling All Web Search, Arik discusses mobile searching, a topic I've been posting on quite a bit in the past few weeks. Here's a list of some of the companies featured in the article (with links to...
UpSNAP! If so, that's a huge, untapped market that's ripe for the picking for search marketing professionals. Research: Do Keywords In URL Influence Your Rank? Search Engine Watch Forums I decided to find out the real importance of keyword presence...
UpSNAP, the SMS-based search tool Chris wrote about last month has announced a partnership with Looksmart. The company [UpSNAP] will offer its customers a new way to extend their reach off-line and directly to consumers via text-enabled cell phones...
In today's SearchDay we're introduced to a new SMS-based local directory search service named UpSnap. Chris mentions that SMS and wireless search is really "heating up" with several new services going live.
UpSnap turns your cell phone in to a search tool, offering free directory assistance lookups using SMS text messaging. Using the service is simple and straightforward, either from your SMS-enabled cell phone or via UpSnap.com.
