Mtv Canada Partner On Multi-Platform Music Access
- May
- 27
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Face Time Instead of Facebook Time
- April
- 25
Medium of Isolation
“In this sample, the Internet was used extensively for communication,” according to the authors of the study. “Nonetheless, greater use of the Internet was associated with declines in participants’ communication with family members in the household, declines in the size of their social circle, and increases in their depression and loneliness.”
However, there is [...]
OPINIONMicrosoft, Sun Taking the Right Interop Path
- March
- 18
Making Progress
Now, today, we’re part more of the way there. It’s still the Microsoft roach motel — service message calls go in but they can’t come out. But there seem to be more ways for the roaches to move around, which may lead to even more openness if the little buggers can chew long enough.
The [...]
AOL Service Cuts Paper Out of Coupon Equation
- March
- 18
A New Approach
Manufacturers can also buy banner ads to accompany the coupon listings at Shortcuts.com.
The new service, the latest aimed at distributing paperless coupons online or by cell phones, comes as Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) AOL continues trying to boost advertising revenue to offset steep declines in subscriptions for dial-up Internet access.
Although AOL expects [...]
A Journey Into the Automated Abyss
- March
- 14
Testing, Testing
Depending on which study you read, customer call centers have improved a bit. However, we hate to take anybody’s word for it. So we conducted a very small and wholly unscientific study.
I rustled up some guinea pigs (i.e., begged friends and family) to help make calls. We chose obvious companies like the cable and [...]
Salesforce.com Marshals Unstructured Data With Spring ‘08 Release
- February
- 12
Content and Ideas
Salesforce.com Content provides content management , while Salesforce.com Ideas offers a Web 2.0 environment for collaboration in the enterprise.
Content includes such Web 2.0 technologies as tagging, subscriptions and recommendations to help users manage documents and unstructured data directly in the Salesforce application. Ideas provides an internal forum that lets employees and partners submit, [...]
Starbucks Serves Up AT&T, Takes T-Mobile Off Menu
- February
- 12
Staying Connected
Customers with Starbucks purchase cards will be able to use the WiFi service for free for up to two hours a day and then purchase unlimited access to all AT%26T hotspots for US$19.99 per month or $3.99 for two-hour blocks.
AT%26T’s 12 million broadband Internet subscribers will have unlimited free WiFi access, and it will [...]
Ban music thieves from web, says U2 manager
- January
- 29
He called on them to adopt a “three strikes and you’re out” enforcement policy under which illegal downloaders would have to start paying for music or face having their ISP subscriptions terminated.
“We must shame them into wanting to help us. Their snouts have been at our trough feeding free for too long,” Mr McGuinness [...]
Can Healthy Web Site Traffic Save Newspapers?
- January
- 28
The Audience Is There
“It’s showing that there is an audience there, certainly,” said Mike McGuire, vice president of research for the media industry at Gartner (NYSE: IT) .
However, raw numbers don’t really tell the full story — particularly whether newspapers are profiting from the uptick in visits to their sites, McGuire told the E-Commerce Times.
“The [...]
Can Healthy Web Site Traffic Save Newspapers?
- January
- 28
The Audience Is There
“It’s showing that there is an audience there, certainly,” said Mike McGuire, vice president of research for the media industry at Gartner (NYSE: IT) .
However, raw numbers don’t really tell the full story — particularly whether newspapers are profiting from the uptick in visits to their sites, McGuire told the E-Commerce Times.
“The [...]
