Hulu Continues Rapid Growth

Google Product Search Gains Barcode Scanning Ability

Star Trek fans and recession-conscious shoppers take heed: Google Product Search for mobile is going all next-generation.  Barcode scanning has been integrated into the product search homepage such that users of Android devices can easily find more info on many UPC-bearing items.

150,000 Facebook Spoofs

At least 200,000 websites designed to spoof social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter exist on the Web and are growing, according to research by Websense Security Labs. Most of them, about 150,000 target Facebook users. With the aim of phishing for information, spreading viruses and malware, propagating spam, or avoiding email filters, the phony domains piggyback on the popularity of social networks and depend…

Smartphone Users Recalling More Mobile Ads

More than a third (38%) of U.S. mobile phone users remember seeing advertising on their cell phones in the first quarter of 2009, with smartphone owners recalling 59 percent of mobile advertising according to a new study by GfK Technology conducted on behalf of social networking service Brightkite. For smartphone users, the top format is mobile advertising, while for regular phone users, it is SMS.…