SEW Experts: Has Mobile Local Search Finally Arrived?
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
SEW Experts: Has Mobile Local Search Finally Arrived?
Can the iPhone and Google’s Android fix the limitations that have plagued mobile advertising and mobile search? In today’s vertical search column, “Has Mobile Local Search Finally Arrived?,” local search expert Michael Boland notes that it could take a couple years to really get moving, but after a long period of being rusted shut, it appears that the wheels are finally starting to creak forward on local mobile search.
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What’s Wrong With Microsoft’s ‘Mojave Experiment’?
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
The conventional wisdom about Microsoft Windows Vista is that it’s a mixed bag, and generally inferior to Windows XP. Problems with Vista fall broadly into categories of compatibility, performance and usability:
• Compatibility. The company launched Vista before the industry was ready, and during the first six months driver issues were pandemic. This is where the reputation primarily came from. Over time, compatibility has improved.
• Performance. Vista is a little slower than XP. This has been verified repeatedly in variety of lab tests.
• Usability. Many users — including Yours Truly — just don’t like Vista.
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FCC: Traffic Throttling Not ‘Comcastic’
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
The Federal Communications Commission voted today to rebuke the nation’s largest cable provider for slowing certain Internet traffic on its network and failing to provide adequate notice to subscribers. By a 3-2 vote, the FCC approved an enforcement order that will require Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) to change the way it manages traffic, and submit a compliance plan to the commission by the end of the year detailing those changes. The ruling does not impose any fines. “Comcast was delaying subscribers’ downloads and blocking their uploads,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said. (Read the full post about ‘FCC: Traffic Throttling Not ‘Comcastic’’…)
comScore: No Clients are Leaving Us for Google
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
comScore: No Clients are Leaving Us for Google
During their conference call announcing second quarter results, comScore addressed whether or not a new Google research product is impacting their business. Google announced their new media measurement tool, Ad Planner, in late June. So far, the program is open by invitation only (though companies can apply for an invite).
comScore CEO Magid Abraham said, “We really haven’t seen an impact so far on our business, we haven’t heard any client who’s said well use [the Google product] instead of comScore,” according to Marketwatch.
A conflict with comScore’s data doesn’t seem to be hurting the measurement company either.
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ChaCha Launches Enterprise Mobile Answers Service
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
ChaCha Launches Enterprise Mobile Answers Service
Human intelligence-based search company ChaCha has announced ChaCha 1:1, a mobile answers service designed for corporate mobile marketing campaigns. The service allows companies to utilize ChaCha’s SMS search product to initiate conversations with consumers.
“Through our sophisticated technology and human intelligence, we’re enabling anyone to harness the power of our mobile answers service,” said ChaCha co-founder and CEO, Scott A. Jones. “Now, ChaCha 1:1 Mobile Marketing Solutions ushers in the era of truly personalized mobile marketing which empowers companies to engage their target audience much more effectively.”
One of the first companies to utilize the service is Coca-Cola.
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Yahoo Meeting: Shareholders to Sound Off
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo’s annual investor meeting on Friday will be a magnet for discontent over the company’s failure to reach a merger deal with Microsoft and complaints about the company’s past performance. But any real action to reshape Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) course is likely to take place only after the meeting, once activist investor Carl Icahn and two outside nominees join an expanded 11-member board as part of a deal with the company to avoid a proxy battle. Far from a showdown over control of Yahoo, Friday’s annual meeting has the makings of a noisy media circus where the issue of whether Yahoo should remain independent or not competes with older protests over executive pay and human rights policies. (Read the full post about ‘Yahoo Meeting: Shareholders to Sound Off’…)
SEW Experts: Universal Thoughts on Local Search
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
SEW Experts: Universal Thoughts on Local Search
Local search is showing up in your Web browser, at your desk, on your phone, and on your GPS devices — and these are just the easy examples. In today’s SEM agency issues column, “Universal Thoughts on Local Search,” William Flaiz explains that the number of devices and locations for local search will continue to grow as more things become connected to the Internet.
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Landslide Looks to Take CRM to a New Level
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
Landslide Technologies has launched an update to its product for salespeople that it said goes beyond standard customer relationship management (CRM) (define) software.
Landslide Summer 2008, released earlier this week, incorporates Web 2.0 capabilities customizable portals, a redesigned graphical user interface (GUI) for easier navigation, mash-ups for background information on customers and a customizable set of best practices. The new release also includes a set of optional VIP phone support services at extra cost.
“We focus on process management for the sales force,” Saman Haqqi, Landslide’s vice president of marketing, told InternetNews.com.
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House Leader Blasts FCC Ahead of Comcast Vote
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
On the eve of the Federal Communications Commission’s expected vote to punish Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network without properly informing subscribers, the agency is taking some fire from Congress. In a letter sent today to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) questioned the commission’s legal authority to intervene and argued that the unregulated market is moving to solve the problem of network management. The expected vote at tomorrow’s FCC meeting stems from Comcast’s blocking of peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent, and its alleged failure to provide adequate notification to its subscribers. (Read the full post about ‘House Leader Blasts FCC Ahead of Comcast Vote’…)
Insider Data Thieves are the Worst
Autor admin | 01.08.2008 | Category SEO
While crime fighters are buzzing about malware (define), SQL injections (define), phishing(define) and other similarly fascinating acts by cybercriminals, the really bad guys are within the corporate firewalls.
A study conducted in late 2007 by ID Analytics, which offers identity intelligence on demand, found that from three to 36 percent of identities stolen by internal data thieves were misused. “Compared to that, only 0.01 to 0.5 percent of identities stolen in external data breaches was misused,” Cooper Bachman, an ID Analytics product analyst, told InternetNews.com.
This is because an external breach is more obvious to a company than one employee quietly stealing information on the inside.
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