The first Monday in December is thought to be the peak and one-day sales are expected to be in excess of £350m, analysts say, and the busiest hour is between 1pm and 2pm GMT. Online signs look good. Sales are up 17% on last month compared to the same month last year, the British Retail

Live search is here – google search results will now include information from news organisations, blogs and platforms, such as Twitter, as soon as it is published. Live Search will also be available on phones, like the iPhone and handsets running the Android operating system. “Our users will get the results as they are produced,”

Twitter will charge a commercial fee to give users access to extra data such as analytics a bbc interview has revealed. Watch it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8369459.stm

What is it? A new web based operating system from Google – they’ll keep all your data on their servers though. The idea is to have a web based op system where all the apps are under a seperate tab and there is no software to download or install. They have said they wanted it to

Google has agreed a deal to purchase mobile advertising company Admob. The deal has cost Google £449m in stock allowing Google to take advantage of opportunities in the booming market for mobile devices. Admob’s platform focuses on adverts for small devices such as iphone and blackberry. Google has the android phone and may well plan

With the announcement of Google’s new sat-nav technology which promises free real-time, turn-by-turn directions for people to follow on their phones using Google Maps – we feel its more important then ever to get your Google Local listings up to date. The potential of real time search results and this application is huge. Just imagine driving

“Search is the tip of the iceberg in being able to offer a lot of different web services, but when you think about where people spend their time online, it’s in search,” Mr Bottoms, senior director of product management, told BBC News. Mr Bottoms said the company estimated that by the end of this year,

A recent report by IT group Morse says on average 40 minutes per week are spent on social networking sites such as twitter.  The survey was carried out with 1460 office workers. Although some businesses might see this in a negative light, we see it differently. Perhaps if a survey was carried out to see

Do you tweet yet? If not get an account and begin – real time search is going to be essential in search engine optimisation. Twitter has signed deals with Google and Microsoft to put messages into search indexes. This means messages could appear in Bing and Google as search results almost as soon as they

Google has reported its highest quarterly profit, suggesting that the internet advertising market is bouncing back from the recession. Shares of GOOG are at a 52-week high of $535 a share Google reported net profit of $1.64bn (£1bn) between July and September, up 27% on the same period a year ago. “The worst of the