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iPhone users talk on the phone less than regular cell phone users, Morgan Stanley says.

But, they spend a whopping 50% more time using their phones than average cell phone users, suggesting smart phones usage could increasingly resemble computer usage over time, threatening the PC industry.

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Twitter is in "the first phase" of rolling out paid commercial accounts for business users this year, VentureBeat reports.

The commercial accounts will initially include premium services like analytics, and later, business-oriented application interfaces.

The application interfaces will let companies...

Location is one of the features that a lot of the Twitter apps tack on using things like the iPhone’s geolocation services. It’s a cool feature, but not enough people use it. But they are likely to now that Twitter is adding native support for it with a new API.

At first, Twitter is releasing this...

Hear that? Google has just unveiled the latest addition to Google Labs, and it’s sure to crowd-pleaser for Android users. Dubbed Google Listen, the new project is an Android application that lets you quickly search through web audio content, which you can then directly download or stream to your phone....

In the recent past, the enterprise search of Google has become more strong and innovative. According to the report of June, Google has 25,000 enterprise search customers which is a considerable rise from the 20,000 customers of last year. Nearly half of the customers make use of Google’s search appliance...

Online marketing and search engine optimization firm SEO.com is expanding its services to include web design / development with the acquisition of Graphics.net, as announced yesterday for an undisclosed amount. Michael Benson from Graphics.net will join SEO.com as the vice president of Web development.

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One of the least appreciated, but smartest, moves Yahoo has made in the past year is to launch Yahoo BOSS, its open search APIs which lets developers create their own custom search engine using Yahoo’s algorithms. We use it to power search across the TechCrunch network. And we are not alone. It has become...

A study conducted by Pear Analytics showed that 3.75% of all the tweets on Twitter were spam messages. Though this number did not seem a huge threat but it definitely dumb founded several researchers as they were assuming that many of tweets would be spam or self promoting. However, one thing that the...

MySpace is on the go to acquire popular social music service iLike, as confirmed by several sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace’s first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009. The price is “around $20 million.”

iLike, which launched...