MySpace and Fox Interactive are launching a big offensive against spammers. Their fired their first fusillade against Scott Richter, a self proclaimed “Spam King” who operates OptInRealBig.com, CPAEmpire.com and Media Breakaway. Continue »
Archive for January, 2007
The incredible World of Warcraft money machine?
WoW is just an economic tour de force. And for Blizzard it is literally printing money. Continue »
VoIP Getting Bigger for Avaya
Avaya’s bid to acquire SIP application vendor Ubiquity was a tip-off that Voice over IP is becoming the center of importance at the enterprise telephony provider. Tuesday during Avaya’s earnings call the company confirmed that focus, announcing that it had sold more than 1 million IP phone lines for the third straight fiscal quarter, showing that corporate adoption of VoIP shows no signs of slowing. Continue »
Verizon Tops US Wireless Data
More bad news for Sprint Nextel. A report from IDC says that Verizon Wireless now leads the category of customer spending on data services — a title snatched from Sprint. Continue »
Profitless prosperity of cheap phones
The modern mobile phone business gives the phrase, between a rock and a hard place, a brand new meaning. Continue »
Ten great web video mashups
Web video is made to be mashed up. Here are the ten best from NewTeevee. Continue »
Steve’s Case for a Health Revolution
Perseverance is one quality Steve Case has in abundance. When almost everyone had given up on America Online, he plowed ahead, somehow managing to keep going. Continue »
Twitter Goes Corporate
Your phone buzzes, and you learn your pal Suzie is out at lunch. It buzzes again, and you find out your web calendar going through an outage. The wonders of invasive-by-choice technology! Continue »
Love Thy Zon Tube
One part Amazon, one part video, and a whole lot of fun. Thanks to ZonTube, a new cool mash-up coming our way via Lifehacker. Oh the web was so made for this kind of mashery! Continue »
Nothing Remote about Control Anymore
The title of this piece is a quote from Nancy Robinson, VP & Consumer Strategist at Iconoculture (from this recent CNET article). Now that’s a great quote! It’s right up there with something a very close friend/mentor used to say in the early ‘90s… “let’s put the Me back in Media!” (That was the late John Evans, former right-hand exec to Rupert Murdoch.) Continue »
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