Archive for November 2, 2008

Boston Marketers Gear Up for Popular Search Engine Marketing (SEM …

 

Boston Marketers Gear Up for Popular Search Engine Marketing (SEM
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
the benefits and accountability of online advertising, more ad dollars are being focused on search engine optimization (SEO) and related initiatives.
The Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Strategies (SES) Chicago
MarketWatch – USA
SES beginners will quickly learn how to maximize the search engine marketing and search engine optimization opportunities to ensure they are well-versed of
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Firms — What Their Website Owners
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
New search engine optimization companies are being created all the time. Too many of them focus on keywords, page rankings and creating landing pages but
The Peloton Enlists Magnifi Online To Generate Leads through
PRLog.Org (press release) – Bucuresti,Romania
Magnifi Online, Inc. is a strategic search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) company with results-based experience increasing
Search Engine Guide
Mediapost.com – New York,NY,USA
As a search engine optimization guru, your job is to make sure searchers find precisely what they are looking for on your site. This means use keywords that

 

Find Veterinarian Websites with Veterinarian-Pages, a Leading
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Veterinarian-Pages was created with the primary purpose of increasing search engine optimization (SEO) for veterinarian websites built by sister company,

Google

Google and Yahoo: The Trouble with Trusting Frenemies
Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA
When Yahoo was being chased by Microsoft, the Web search and advertising company sought refuge in the arms of rival Google in the form of an ad alliance.
Google books
Financial Times – London,England,UK
This week’s settlement of US book publishers’ long-running dispute with Google over the search group’s plans to make millions of copyrighted books available
Early Adoption Soaring for Google Android Device
MarketWatch – USA
LONDON, Oct 31, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A surge in early adoption of the new G1 mobile handset — the first to incorporate Google Android mobile computing
Google Makes Scanned Documents Searchable
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Using optical character recognition (OCR) technology, Google will make the converted text of scanned PDFs available on its search results pages via the
Google Considers Walking Away From Yahoo Ad Deal
CRN – Manhasset,NY,USA
The often-delayed, potential Google-Yahoo ad revenue deal has taken another turn with Google saying it may drop the entire proposal rather than have the
Google may scrap Yahoo deal – sources
Reuters – USA
"Yahoo wants the deal, and they’re willing to have Google sign anything at the Justice Department to have them do it," said the source.
Google Now Indexes Scanned Documents
PC Magazine – USA
by Brian Heater Scanned documents have been popping up in Google’s search index for a while now. When you see them popping up, that’s because Google has
AFP

Google, Yahoo may walk away from ad deal: WSJ
AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Google and Yahoo may pull out next week from their proposed advertising partnership, which has been drawing close scrutiny from

First Mobile Phone With Google Operating System Debuts In UK Stores
AHN – USA
London, UK (AHN) – The first mobile phones with an open source operating system from Google Inc. started selling in the UK Thursday.
Google Yahoo Deal Crumbling, Report
Wired News – USA
By Meghan Keane October 31, 2008 | 8:26:53 AMCategories: Advertising, Google, Yahoo The Google/Yahoo search deal has been stalled in an antitrust


Google’s Gmail Chat SMS Feature Hits a Snag
eWeek – New York, NY
I published a post Thursday night on Google’s new SMS feature in Gmail chat, which allows users to send SMS messages from their desktop or laptop computers
Harvard Refuses To Open In-Copyright Books To Google
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
director Robert C. Darnton said the ramifications of the settlement were too unclear for Harvard to commit to participating in the Google project.
Speculation about Yahoo-Google deal rampant
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
By Elise Ackerman As talks between Google, Yahoo and the US Department of Justice drag on, investors are betting that the two Internet companies will walk
Deal with Yahoo! still on, Google says
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Despite reports this morning that the officials at Google Inc. are considering scuppering their proposed advertising tie-up with Yahoo! due to regulatory
Yahoo! advertising deal with Google in doubt
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
s life-saving advertising deal with Google is in doubt after talks with US competition regulators appear to have ended in stalemate.

MSN

Warner Music changes business model
Bangkok Post – Thailand
Three months ago Warner Music Thailand launched the Sound Zero Internet radio station in a collaboration with Microsoft’s MSN. MSN’s 4.25 million users in
Nextar to unveil MSN Direct-capable GPS unit at SEMA
Motor Authority – USA
Its new Q4-MD GPS navigation unit features MSN Direct support for traffic info, fuel prices and weather data in addition to its 3D-capable mapping system.
MSN and Endemol launch online sci-fi show
New Media Age – London,UK
The Krill series will run for ten episodes of three minutes each, following the stories of two characters living in a mysterious world.
New look for car and home
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Blackbird tagged with MSN Direct Alpine’s already successful Blackbird GPS line gets a boost with the new PND-K3msn, which features a 4.3-inch-wide
More product information:
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
The nüvi 680 features a colorful widescreen, hands-free calling and FM transmitter, then takes it up a notch by adding dynamic content from MSN Direct.


Microsoft Mac BU gets a new GM
tuaw.com – Santa Monica,CA,USA
He was also involved in all five releases of Office for Mac, the Mac versions of Internet Explorer and MSN, and Virtual PC. Wilfred announced the change in

Yahoo

1-in-7 Voters Still ‘Persuadable’, Study Finds
WJLA – Washington,DC,USA
Overall, the share of these voters – sometimes referred to as "persuadables" – has barely budged from levels measured in June and September AP-Yahoo News
Yahoo Ad Network Offers ‘deceptive’ Ads
PC World – USA
Deceptive advertising may be illegal in the US, but Yahoo’s ad network appears to offer it to publishers on a menu of choices when they’re deciding what ads
Yahoo offers SearchMonkey experiments
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
Programmers who might not make the cut for Yahoo’s official SearchMonkey gallery now have a new experimental option for propagating their ideas for
Google And Yahoo: Is Their Search Deal Dead?
Barron’s Blogs – USA
Several publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, are reporting that Google is considering pulling out of the proposed agreement in the
Movers: GM, Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel, Chevron, Express Scripts
BusinessWeek – USA
Yahoo (YHOO) – WSJ reports that the prospects for a Web-advertising partnership between (~ ~) and YHOO have dimmed, with both sides considering walking away
World’s Scariest Stock: Yahoo!
MSNBC – USA
Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO)? More like Ya – boo!, if you ask me. Our 120000-strong Motley Fool CAPS community appears to agree: They’re like the scared teen who’s
Mission accomplished: Google’s ad deal with Yahoo has already worked
ZDNet – USA
Google and Yahoo are reportedly close to walking away from their search ad deal after meetings with the Department of Justice.
How the AP-Yahoo Poll was conducted
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
By AP The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that is tracking the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign.
AOL and Yahoo! in due diligence
Bigmouthmedia News – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
A merger between AOL Time Warner and Yahoo! looks increasingly likely as it was announced that the two companies are in due diligence, a process through
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! join human rights initiative
Scientific American – USA
Rivals Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have joined forces with other companies and academics to stop governments (most notably China) from suppressing freedom

 

Sydney Morning Herald

The future of TV is online
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
More television shows are sidestepping the idiot box in favour of launching on the internet including a new dating series to air on the Yahoo!7 website in

Techtree.com

Netcraft exposes Yahoo vulnerability
Techtree.com – Mumbai,India
The HotJobs section of the site was being used to transmit stolen details to a remote hacker situated in the US This hacker was gathering Yahoo users’

MarketingSherpa: What works in Search

 

Southern California’s Fremont College Adds Internet Marketing
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wien,Austria
Fremont’s Search Engine Marketing course, for example, addresses such questions as: How did Google become the dominant player in such a short time?
Promotion World (press release)

MarketingSherpa: What works in Search
Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA
In twelve month span, much has changed for the search engine marketing industry and even more is expected to change in the years to come.

 

OrangeSoda Touted as “Emerging Elite” Company by Mountain West
USPRwire (press release) – UK
Founded in 2006, OrangeSoda Inc. is an online marketing technology company providing powerful, proprietary search engine marketing solutions to help small

 

Boston Marketers Gear Up for Popular Search Engine Marketing (SEM
MarketWatch – USA
News, Google Maps, Google Product Search, Technorati, Google Image Search, Flickr, YouTube, Yahoo Video, and a growing variety of other sites.
Google Is Said to Consider Abandoning Yahoo Ad Joint Venture
Bloomberg – USA
By Matthew Newman and James Rowley Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is considering dropping its proposed Internet-search advertising venture with Yahoo!
Internet Marketing News

Google: Changes to Quality Score calculation for search engine
Internet Marketing News – Lichfield,Staffordshire,UK
Meanwhile, Google, along with Yahoo! and Microsoft have signed a global code of conduct. Planned to enable the search engines to tackle and avoid criticism,

OrangeSoda Touted as "Emerging Elite" Company by Mountain West
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
"We consult with new clients, create local search marketing campaigns to fit any budget, and continuously track and optimize each campaign to maximize each
Writing Great Web Copy: Copywriting for Search Engines
Multichannel Merchant – Stamford,CT,USA
Stephan Spencer is founder/president of natural search marketing firm Netconcepts and co-author of The Art of SEO, due out in 2009.
Harvest Digital appoints new head of search
Brand Republic – London,UK
He brings five years of search marketing experience to Harvest. In his previous role he worked with clients including Virgin Money, Norton Finance,
ABCs of Search Engine Optimization
Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA
Using hyphenated keywords to name the sub-pages of a website has been known to play a role in search engine ranking. Viral marketing is a marketing strategy

 

Google and the Gambling sites will together bang the web
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wein,Austria
About the company : Rupiz Media is a global digital marketing firm that expertises in the domains of web design and development, Search engine marketing,

adCenter

Weekly Search Forum Recap – October 31, 2008: Halloween in Search
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
This week, we note upgrades in Microsoft adCenter that include improvements for campaign management, editorial improvements, user management,
Microsoft adCenter Drops Sunday Support Hours
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
We’ve seen it at Yahoo and now we are hearing about it at Microsoft’s adCenter team. adCenterRep posted a thread at DigitalPoint Forums announcing the

adSense

Akamai Snubs the Weak Economy
Motley Fool – USA
Akamai’s newborn advertising service shares anonymous user data with ad networks, potentially including Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) AdSense and Yahoo!
Google Moves to Thwart Recession With Quality Score Changes
eWeek – New York, NY
If you need any more evidence of this, read Peter Kafka’s post on AllThingsDigital, where he publishes a note from Google’s AdSense sales team imploring its
NewsOXY

Google AdSense Deal With Yahoo Looks Grim
NewsOXY – Orlando,FL,USA
By Sara Smith Google AdSense is a publisher program which would allow Yahoo to display advertisements. The partnership between the two search companies has

Is the Google AdSense Team Worrying About the Economic Downturn?
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
Yesterday, several Google AdSense publishers and I got this email. I never get anything from Google AdSense, so I found it interesting that they cared.
Can Web Developers and Internet Marketers make $1000’s per week
WebWire (press release) – Atlanta,GA,USA
I get asked a lot how I make Adsense work so well for me, sometimes I am reluctant to give out the information for the pure and simple fact that my business
Google’s Plea To Publishers: Please Keep Using Us
All Things D Blogs – San Francisco,CA,USA
note sent out to its AdSense customers. Those would be the Web publishers, large and small, that hand over some of their ad space to Google (GOOG),

adWords

Google further relaxes the adWords restrictions by allowing wine
Hit Search – Liverpool,England,UK
SearchEngineLand are reporting that Google now allow users to advertise beers and wines on it’s market leading search advertising service adWords.
Google Tweaks AdWords To Reward “Quality” (And Juice Revenues)
TechCrunch – Atherton,CA,USA
Here’s how Google explains this change in its AdWords blog: To appear above the search results, ads must meet a certain quality threshold.
AdWords Opens Bidding On "Beer & Champagne"
Search Newz – Lexington,KY,USA
It’s raining Beer and Champagne all over! Google has now opened up the restrictions for alcohol. Earlier, the only alcoholic terms that could be used in
Google adwords quality score update
browser media – Essex,UK
If you have ever managed PPC campaigns on Google Adwords, you will know that the quality score is extremely important and has a massive effect on the
Marketing Pilgrim

Google Updates AdWords Quality Score; Well, Duh!
Marketing Pilgrim – Raleigh,NC,USA
I’ll admit it, I’m not a heavy user of paid search services, but today’s Google AdWords Quality Score changes have me picturing SNL’s Weekend Update team

Google Updates AdWords Quality Score To Be “Fairer”
Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA
The Google AdWords Blog announced that two new changes to the quality score is coming in the next few days. The first change is to make the quality score
Google AdWords To Take Ad Position Into Account For Quality Score
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
Now, the quality score used by Google AdWords takes CTR (click through rate) into account as the primary quality score metric.
Google Now Allowing Ads For Beer, Wine & Champagne
Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA
Taylor Pratt discovered a very quiet change made to Google AdWords policy for handling alcohol ads. Now, Google is allowing search ads for beer,
MediaPost Publications

Judge Orders Chevron To Halt Google AdWords Campaign
MediaPost Publications – New York,USA
As part of that ruling, she ordered Chevron to stop running an AdWords campaign that used the name of the plaintiff, Larry Bowoto, to trigger ads for a

Google – Yahoo Adwords deal called “not salvageable”
Tribble Ad Agency (satire) – Minersville,PA,USA
Nonetheless the deal is in trouble… we highly doubt you’ll see the Adwords online advertising agency running on Yahoo anytime soon.

3Gstore.com Affiliate Program

 

3Gstore.com Affiliate Program
EVDOinfo (press release) – Cary,IL,USA
Join 3Gstore.com’s affiliate program today for free. You’ll be able to make some extra cash just by referring your friends and colleagues to 3Gstore.com.
Crooks can make $5M a year shilling fake security software
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
After convincing a real cybercrook to provide a recommendation to an affiliate program dubbed "Bakasoftware," Stewart accessed records that showed some
How to Protect Affiliate Commissions from Unfair Affiliates and
Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA
most simple example is the affiliate program with such link like: Let’s say an affiliate promotes his/her affiliate links using an article marketing.

Alibaba

Chinese Tech Wars: Baidu’s Pre-emptive Strike
Forbes – NY,USA
The battle between China’s two tech giants, Baidu.com and Alibaba, is heating up. As an increasingly affluent Chinese middle class moves its shopping online
Yahoo and Google may dump their deal
BloggingStocks – USA
Japan and China e-commerce company Alibaba. Yahoo! also has $3 billion in cash and will probably have an operating profit of well over $500 million this
Alibaba drops advertising on Baidu
NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA
By Steven Schwankert , IDG News Service , 10/31/2008 Alibaba is no longer advertising with Chinese search engine Baidu, but said that the decision is not

Amazon

Soulfound “Is a Rock Band” Enters Amazon.com Digital Album Charts
PR-CANADA.net (press release) – Murino,Montenegro
Mohawk Bomb Records artist Soulfound’s new CD, “Is a Rock Band”, has entered the Amazon.com digital album sales charts at #50688.
Bookmarks: LibraryThing.com
StarNewsOnline.com – Wilmington,NC,USA
(You just type in the title or the ISBN number, and the LibraryThing software enters the rest from the Library of Congress, Amazon.com or 690 other
Netbooks are ‘Must-Haves’ — But Which One To Pick?
NewsFactor Network – Woodland Hills,CA,USA
In recent months, eight of the 10 top-selling computers at Amazon.com have been netbooks, though most are Far East brands you’ve never heard of such as Asus
Overstock.com’s Four-Year ERP Nightmare
CIO – Framingham,MA,USA
"In total," Vance added, "it’s a shocking display for a supposed Internet-savvy retailer meant to compete with the likes of Amazon.com and eBay.
Consumer Reports: Amazon.Com, B&H, and Crutchfield.Com Among the
MarketWatch – USA
Online retailers continue to outscore walk-in retailers according to Consumer Reports’ latest survey of electronics stores — Amazon.com,


A Fool Looks Back
Motley Fool – USA
The software maker’s goal is to take on companies like Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), which are hosting third-party cloud computing

ClickBank

ClickBank to Utilize Global Currency Services from E4X
TMCnet – USA
By Divya Narain ClickBank has announced that it will leverage Global Currency Services from New York-based E4X to enhance the buying experience for its

eBay

Savannah Children’s Choir to hold innovative Song Dedication
Creative Coast Initiative – Savannah,GA,USA
This year, using Ebay’s technology, the Choir is opening up their Song Dedication Auction to the world! Starting on November 10th and ending on November
Who will have the most traffic – eBay or Amazon?
TameBay – Thatcham,UK
Amazon have fewer categories than eBay so look for sellers who can supply specific product lines. For the Clothing, Shoes, Jewellery and Watches sellers
Rajiv Dutta Named Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at the
MarketWatch – USA
Before running eBay Marketplaces, he served as president of PayPal, president of Skype, and eBay’s chief financial officer. Prior to joining eBay,
Make your millions on eBay
Real Business – London,England,UK
“EBay’s the perfect auction site to target these buyers,” he says. Thomson currently turns over £500000 a year. EBay is the sole outlet for his audio
eBay dispute console changes
TameBay – Thatcham,UK
On eBay.com the dispute wording has been changed and now reads “Unpaid Item Cases” and alerts in Selling Manager display “An Unpaid Item or a Cancel
Wunderlich Securities Initiates Coverage on eBay (EBAY) with a Neutral
StreetInsider.com (subscription) – Birmingham,MI,USA
Wunderlich analyst says, "We estimate a continuing fundamental deceleration in eBay’s transaction growth rate, especially the US as the company faces an
eBay style site for wine industry launches
TalkingDrinks – Kent,UK
Bid for Wine lets wine merchants who don’t have their own website trade online, and gives small producers without importers the opportunity to sell their
Woman loses $10900 in apparent eBay scam
Buffalo News – NY, United States
A Washington Street woman was the victim of an apparent scam on eBay when she paid $10900 for a car over the Internet auction site and the vehicle was never
eBay Q3 Earnings Call Transcript
123Jump.com – Miami Beach,FL,USA
Welcome to the eBay third quarter 2008 earnings results conference call. This call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over
Teacher charged with selling school textbooks on eBay
The Register-Guard – Eugene,OR,USA
of the year was indicted on theft and 43 counts of official misconduct Monday after having allegedly stolen $1000 in textbooks and selling them on eBay.

 

Killer Startups

StoreMinator.com – Amazon Vs. eBay
Killer Startups – Miami,FL,USA
The objective of this web-based service is to enable you to compare two of the most reputable online retailers (namely Amazon an eBay) in order to find the

PayPal

Elon Musk to bail out Tesla Motors with own money
Register – London,England,UK
The company’s new CEO and primary financial backer, PayPal multimillionaire and tech visionary Elon Musk, appeared to pledge his personal fortune to meeting
BBC News

No downturn for Silicon Valley
BBC News – UK
The successes included Google, PayPal and Ask Jeeves. "We were in the centre of the storm. We were highly leveraged and all of us have to admit we shut down

Tesla sees new financing, founder offers support
Reuters – USA
Musk, who became a billionaire by founding PayPal, said he would personally ensure that the San Jose, California company would have enough cash to deliver
PayPal broadens the availability of reduced fees for small online
InternetRetailer.com – Chicago,IL,USA
Online payment service PayPal has made available to merchants a pricing structure that reduces fees on all purchases below $12. The micropayment pricing had


Tesla Motors getting new money
IT Examiner – Banglore,Karnataka,India
Musk, who became a billionaire by founding PayPal, said that he would personally ensure that the San Jose, California company would have enough cash to
PayPal :The Safer, Easier Way To Pay
PRLog.Org (press release) – Bucuresti,Romania
PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 31, 2008 – PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet.
Cleversafe – Where’s my home solution? SOHO storage for the
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
Maybe they’ll accept PayPal. If you’re looking for just such a solution too, drop a comment. Or drop me an email at Taneja Group.

MVP Network, Inc. Acquires MVP Network Online Games, Inc.

 

MVP Network, Inc. Acquires MVP Network Online Games, Inc.
MarketWatch – USA
ST. LOUIS, Oct 31, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MVP Network, Inc. is pleased to announce that the acquisition of MVP Network Online Games, Inc. was successfully
PlanetBuzz enters the tight market of online directories
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
CLEARWATER — A company once focused on video production has changed course to tackle online business directories and is willing to spend some $16 million on
Salvation Army Kettles Back Online
WTVY – Dothan,AL,USA
Business Kettles – any size and any form of business can host their own online Business Kettle in a co- branded environment with The Salvation Army.
Research and Markets: CenturyTel’s Online Experience Explored: New
MarketWatch – USA
DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct 31, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d71374/centurytel_online) has announced
Market maker: GoIndustry-Dovebid plc
SmallCapNews.co.uk – UK
GoIndustry started life with a series of bricks and mortar acquisitions which it then tried to convert to an online business model.
Boo! Scary software patents are dead, dead, DEAD!
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
Brace yourselves for what amounts to overnight deregulation of online business practices … [a] cannibalistic feeding frenzy. Companies once stagnated by
Mums launch online school uniform business
West Sussex County Times – Horsham,England,UK
AN online business retailer has gained permission from two local schools to supply their school uniform. From this week onwards, parents of Oathall
Student competing with TCU bookstore by starting online business
TCU Daily Skiff – Fort Worth,TX,USA
The TCU Barnes and Noble Bookstore is facing competition from students offering to sell cheaper books and deliver them for free.


Veteran (40) Year Minister Shines Light Into Lucrative World of
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Richard L. Brantley, (40) year veteran minister and two time recipient of the prestigious ‘Joshua Award’ from the Muhlenberg Foundation for his
Atlantic Dominion Solutions Launches Online Tracking Application
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Orlando, FL (PRWEB) November 1, 2008 — Atlantic Dominion Solutions (www.techcfl.com) launched the latest Web application in its suite of online business

Web 2.0 forces firms to rethink IT strategies

 

Gulf Daily News

Batelco alert over e-mail tricksters
Gulf Daily News – Manama,Bahrain
"These e-mails contain a variety of headings such as "Confirm your Batelco E-mail Account Immediately" or "Webmaster E-mail Account Upgrading".

Batelco Warns Customers About Phishing E-Mail
SPAMfighter News – Copenhagen,Denmark
Using the title "Webmaster E-mail Account Upgrading", the message stated that old Batelco.com e-mail accounts that were not active would be deleted so that

web 2.0

Press Releases : MusicianMatch.com launches a New, Web 2.0
GuitarGearHeads.com – USA
MusicianMatch.com launches a New, Web 2.0, Vertical Social Space for Musicians, Bands, Fans, and Music Industry Professionals.
Open Text Unveils Industry’s First Records Management and
MarketWatch – USA
the latest developments and trends in ECM and Enterprise 2.0, and to gain a first-hand account of the company’s long-term strategy and product roadmap.
Web 2.0 forces firms to rethink IT strategies
Zero Strategy – Edinburgh,UK
Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way firms think about their IT strategies, a new report has found. The Enterprise Web 2.0 study published by IT
Web 2.0 to spark online retail growth despite recession
Netimperative – London,England,UK
The e-tail industry is growing strong as Web 2.0 and social eCommerce initiatives are adopted to promote customer-focused, cost-effective business in a time
Web 2.0 will see retailers through downturn, say reports
ComputerWeekly.com – UK
The reports say Web 2.0 is allowing online retailers to differentiate themselves from their competitors, by providing more "customer-centric" shopping.
Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning
ZDNet – USA
The second was Classroom 2.0, a network dedicated to, not surprisingly, using Web 2.0 tools like Ning in education. Ning has come a very long way since the


Practical Ways to Use Web 2.0 in Your Business
Customer Think – Burlingame,CA,USA
Tudor shares tips on how business managers can make more effective use of Web 2.0 and social media, including using LinkedIn to build a "networked brain
DOD deepens Web 2.0 pool
FCW.com – Falls Church,VA,USA
By Doug Beizer Wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 tools will be critical to improving communication and collaboration among Defense Department employees and
The Gordano Messaging Suite Adds Web 2.0 Client
eWeek – New York, NY
more than a passing resemblance to Microsoft Outlook. A number of additional Gizmos, along with the source code, are available from the Gordano Web site.
RedDot aims high with suite of Web 2.0 tools for large-scale
IT World Canada Blogs – Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
The Suite is available from Open Text’s Web Solutions Group, RedDot. According to Open Text, Web 2.0 tools are moving into the enterprise, but deployments
Akamai CEO: We’ll Avoid Web 2.0 Disaster
Contentinople – New York,NY,USA
During the conference call, Sagan talked extensively about the financial issues facing a number of Web 2.0 Websites, particularly those that are venture

Mobile WiMAX: Sprint’s Status And Personal Testing Aspirations

 

Wi-Fi Internet hotspots rise to 7300
News.gov.hk – Hong Kong
Speaking at a forum today Mr Mak said Hong Kong is becoming a ubiquitous computing society with its broadband wireless infrastructure developing rapidly.

Wimax

Mobile WiMAX: Sprint’s Status And Personal Testing Aspirations
EDN.com – Newton,MA,USA
With that said, I agree that Sprint and its partners have only a few-year window of opportunity to establish robust coast-to-coast WiMAX before LTE (widely
FairPoint picks Nortel for WiMAX network in Vermont, New Hampshire
WiMax.com – Austin,TX,USA
FairPoint Communications announced what the network operator believes is the largest fixed WiMAX network to utilize the recently licensed 3.65 GHz frequency
ERF Wireless Adopts WiMax Strategy for Expansion of WISP and Oil
MarketWatch – USA
ERF Wireless is currently in the process of evaluating various brands of WiMax equipment, and then will begin limited deployment of this new technology in
$1 million question hangs over Sprint’s decision to keep Nextel
Kansas City Star – MO,USA
Cowan was to get $500000 when the Sprint WiMax deal with Clearwire closes, which is on track for the end of this year. Another $1000000 was to go to him
Intel’s $11.5 Million Taiwanese Investment Puts Moblin OS In Netbooks
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
The chipmaker’s partnership with VMax could help set the stage for a wide rollout of WiMax-capable machines running on Linux in the country with PC makers