Archive for June 2, 2008

Will Social Networks Remain Low-Ad Districts?

Will Social Networks Remain Low-Ad Districts?
eMarketer – New York,NY,USA
consumers to make an online purchase, for example, only 1% of respondents in a DoubleClick Performics study cited ads within social network sites.

AMD Foundation Launches ”AMD Changing the Game”

AMD Foundation Launches ”AMD Changing the Game”
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
while teaching the skills they need to be successful in our 21 st Century digital economy,” said Dirk Meyer, AMD president and chief operating officer.

 

Alibaba gets John Abraham’s voice
NDTV.com – New Delhi,India
After having tested many foreign voices, Alibaba gets to speak the desi language, courtesy John Abraham. Which only means that the lead ‘hero’ of the much

Alibaba.com Japan ‘plans to double workforce’
South China Morning Post (subscription) – Hong Kong
Online business-to-business commerce service Alibaba.com (SEHK: 1688, announcements, news) Japan plans to double its work force by March next year and may

Eurekster Back Up After 10 Days Offline; Rumors That Google Behind …

 

Eurekster Back Up After 10 Days Offline; Rumors That Google Behind
ReadWriteWeb – CA,USA
During 2007 i managed to climb from a few cents per day from Adsense to a couple of days in December when I finally broke 100$/ day barrier.

Banks and Google mailing PIN codes on pieces of paper
Inquirer – Harrow,England,UK
Mark Edwards at WinITPro recently went incandescent at Google’s new policy of verifying AdSense accounts with a phone call to the registered phone number

Digg Confirms It: Google Israel Launching “Yiddish AdSense”
Mashable – San Francisco,CA,USA
and jammed it next to an unrelated story about Google adding AdSense to RSS feeds. But, that’s ok, because it’s surely a one-off occurence.

Ad network strives to make coupons more meaningful
The Associated Press –
Gokul Rajaram, who left Google late last year, said he wanted to help out because he views Brandcaster as a logical extension of Google’s “AdSense” — a

AdSense Comes to RSS
Profy – USA
Cementing that theory is today’s announcement that its popular Adsense revenue program will now be offered in your RSS feeds, a service that has been touted

FeedBurner Finally Rolls Out AdSense
Washington Post – United States
Nearly a year after it was bought by Google for $100 million, FeedBurner is finally going to roll out Google’s AdSense as an advertising option for blogs

Gartner’s Top 10 Technologies of the Next Four Years

Gartner’s Top 10 Technologies of the Next Four Years
Canada Free Press – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Ubiquitous computing is also, funnily enough, called pervasive computing. In addition, it means that, akin to cloud computing, your information can follow

 

Gartner’s Top 10 Technologies of the Next Four Years
By Joshua S. Hill
Ubiquitous computing. 8. Contextual computing. 9. Augmented reality. 10. Semantics. Now even for me, some of these words are fine on their own, but when compared to each other, or to technology, I get a little baffled.

ISWC to Explore latest Developments in Wearable Computers
By kerry
ISWC is the premiere interdisciplinary forum in wearable technologies, bringing together users, researchers, practitioners, designers, and manufacturers from the fields of wearable computing, smart clothing, ubiquitous computing,

CFP – Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism
By Dhirender
This workshop at the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008) explores new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots

Gartner’s top 10 disruptive technologies 2008-2012
By Troy Tolle(Troy Tolle)
Multicore and hybrid processors; Virtualisation and fabric computing; Social networks and social software; Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms; Web mashups; User Interface; Ubiquitous computing; Contextual computing

Learning 2.008: Shanghai here I come!
By Julie Lindsay(Julie Lindsay)
The future is here, ubiquitous computing in conjunction with online learning modes encourages communication, collaboration and creativity. It also promotes independence and higher order thinking for problem solving in the classroom.

 

Intel previews Asus Centrino 2 notebook with WiMax

 

Intel previews Asus Centrino 2 notebook with WiMax
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
Intel, not surprisingly, is trying to build enthusiasm for Centrino 2 and WiMax. But, with chipset and WiMax delays, all this euphoria comes with qualifiers

Europe Prepares for 2.6 GHz Spectrum Feeding Frenzy
WiMax.com – Austin,TX,USA
By Jeff Orr, Senior Analyst – Consumer Electronics Twenty-seven months after the first WiMAX products achieved certification, the first Mobile WiMAX The

WiMax Works on London’s Heathrow Express
Dslreports – USA
The service maintains speeds of approximately 2 Mbps even through several miles of tunnels using WiMax technology. Initial reports indicate that the quality

Small PCs big news at Computex as slowdown looms
guardian.co.uk – UK
For the first time, Computex buyers can have a quick tour by using trial laptops that have an ultra-high-speed Internet technology, WiMax, built in when

Low-priced laptops a theme at Asia’s biggest computer fair
Economic Times – Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Also to be seen at the trade show are products featuring futuristic WiMAX products, green IT products, innovative gadgets, and new generation items.

 

Comment on US WiMAX Saved by $3.2 Billion Infusion by Vodafone
By Vodafone Station, Future Of Fixed Mobile…
[...] that prism, now you understand why AT&T honchos are always talking about Wireless and why Cable Companies are ready to spend billions to go [...]

Broadband : Wireless Broadband Is Here To Stay
By Ray Lam
WiMAX is a protocol by which signals are sent to wireless broadband users. A WiMAX base station can theoretically beam a signal as far as 50km (31 miles), meaning that a single station could potentially cover an entire city (unlike

Femtocells gets a big boost from Qualcomm
By Andy J. S.(Andy J. S.)
But how will Femtocells fight with the rising star WiMAX? Qualcomm chief operating officer and president of the QCT (Qualcomm CDMA Technologies) division Sanjay Jha gives WiMAX a pretty short shift: “WiMAX has no handoff and no latency

MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter
By Wi-Fi Networking News
The near-future certainty now that there will be multiple provides offering wired broadband speed service starting later this year with Sprint/Clearwire’s WiMax, and continuing through into 2012 with significant network buildout by

BSNL wants free access to WiMax
By Rohan Kamath
WiMax Gyaan: WiMax stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. It is the next generation of wireless connectivity, allowing high speed data transfers across distances

The AsiaTiv Hotel Reservations Portal New Affiliate Program to …

 

The AsiaTiv Hotel Reservations Portal New Affiliate Program to
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
The company has experienced a rapid expansion in the past year, and the affiliate program is a welcome addition to an already talent brimming and capable

10 Tips to Promote Affiliate Program
Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA
Here are certain guidelines and tips that would certainly help beginners to promote affiliate program and earn great profits. You must have heard people

Share Results helps Affiliates Appeal to Potential Entrepreneurs
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
(2) affiliate program management services, and (3) affiliate marketing software that retailers can use to build their own affiliate network.

Feedburner Incorporates AdSense Into Feeds

 

Feedburner Incorporates AdSense Into Feeds
WebProNews – Lexington,KY,USA
And yes, ads are also sold via Google’s AdWords program. This seems to just be the next logical step in the “Googlization” of Feedburner.

“See you in court”, furious TM owner tells Google after AdWords
IAM Blog – London,England,UK
This blog reported in April on the news that Google was changing its AdWords policy in the UK and Ireland to bring it into line with the way the programme

Online ads gaining popularity
Standard – Nairobi,Kenya
Online programs like Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Ad Center, match up advertisers regularly with targeted contents in comparison with the

How Can My Website Forge Business Partnerships?
MarketingProfs.com (subscription) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
But I am looking for a more exclusive releationship with a large company. Does anyone have any other ideas to market my product, ( other than adwords) ?

Can Yahoo save Microsoft?

 

In Hindsight: No, thanks, we’re watching our carbon footprint
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
(Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang, 24-year-old sandal-clad Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other members of the tech

Can Yahoo save Microsoft?
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
The true mark of Microsoft’s Google fear is its effort to acquire Yahoo. Yahoo is bloodied from years of competing unsuccessfully with Google.

Yahoo CEO Says Microsoft Talks Ongoing
RTT News – Williamsville,NY,USA
The Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations were cut off earlier this month following Yahoo’s continued rejection of Microsoft’s $47.5 billion bid for the

Yahoo e-mail security program gains acceptance
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
In the battle against spam, Yahoo said this week that it’s making headway in getting sites to adopt its e-mail-authenticating technology.

Lacking leverage, Urlacher stops being a Yahoo!
Chicago Sun-Times – United States
In an interview with Yahoo! Sports, he said this after teammate Robbie Gould became the NFL’s highest-paid kicker, “I know there are other guys looking to

Welcome to the Next Generation of Search

 

Search giant becomes the evil enemy to net’s little guys
Sunday Herald – Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Steve Leach, chief executive of Bigmouthmedia, one of Scotland’s biggest search engine marketing companies, told the Sunday Herald: “The 44% figure is much

Welcome to the Next Generation of Search
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
According to Warren Cowan, managing director of search-engine marketing company Greenlight, it could begin to appear within the sponsored links sections of

SIPA’s 32nd Annual Conference Showcases Latest Internet
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) May 31, 2008 — Jay Berkowitz, a leadership keynote speaker and search engine marketing services expert has been selected to present

Driving Traffic to Online Storefronts Half the Battle of Ringing
San Diego Business Journal – CA,USA
Many businesses are hiring design and marketing firms for search-engine marketing, or SEM. San Diego Internet Marketing, a division of DSD Business Systems,