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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 8/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: E-mail expands growth by double digits, becomes fastest-growing DM segment. CBS upbeat on ad spend. Analysts cautious. Agencies and Marketing Execs: Publicis in lead to acquire   [...]

Wal-Mart, Apple Considering Digital Download Deal

After months of pressuring movie studios not to partner with Apple to make movies available for download via iTunes, Wal-Mart itself may be ready to partner with Apple over movie, music, and TV show downloads. Apple and Wal-Mart are considering an alliance that would allow consumers to purchase a digital download "coupon" that would let consumers download movies, music, and TV shows, with Apple paying Wal-Mart a portion of the proceeds, Variety   [...]

Analyst: MySpace Going Mobile

RBC Capital analyst Jordan Rohan said after meeting with the managers of MySpace that the firm is developing a mobile phone application. He also said that the site could be worth $15 billion or more in the next few years. Rohan, realizing the boldness of his claim, said it could be justified on the basis of MySpace's "raw, unprecedented user/usage growth," ZDNet reports. Rohan also based his prediction on the site's "massi  [...]

Microsoft's New adLabs Develops Video Hyperlink Ads

Microsoft announced the launch of its adCenter Incubation Lab (adLab), a joint effort between MSN's adCenter and Microsoft Research. It is "a state-of-the-art lab in Beijing with a mission to research and incubate adva  [...]

PodZinger Launches Audio Search, PPC Ad Biz Model

PodZinger on Wednesday officially launched its audio search service that's based on speech-recognition software that parent company BBN Technologies sells to super-secret government agencies, reports InternetNews. PodZinger crawls the web and daily adds podcasts to its index. Using speech-to-text technology it creates a text version of the audio index that's searchable by keyword. Searchers can click to listen from the PC, dow  [...]

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Google Seeks Mobile Click-to-Call Ad Patent

A new Google patent application hints at the search giant's plans for the mobile advertising market, with a type of ad that would result in a phone call instead of a visit to a website, reports ClickZ. A senior research scientist at Google, Shumeet Baluja, filed U.S. patent application 20060004627 for the "call-on-select" process that takes into account screen size, connection speed and input capabilities of mobile devices to determine  [...]

'Yahoo Go': Mobile, TV, PC Services without a Browser

Click to enlarge Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel is scheduled to announce today the Yahoo Go  [...]

Gates: IBM, Not Google, Top Rival; Shows off Vista Features

The good-old days... Though the news media tend to focus on Microsoft's competition with Google, IBM is its biggest challenger, said Bill Gates during h  [...]

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Verizon to Offer Wireless Music Downloads, Challenge iTunes

Verizon plans to launch, on January 16, a music-download service wirelessly, via mobile phones onto Windows PCs, writes CNET. Called V Cast Music, the service is intended to compete with Apple's iTunes and other, and it would give Microsoft, which is Verizon's partner in the project, a better foothold in mobile services. The service will be available via Circuit City, Verizon Wireless stores   [...]

FTC Says CAN-SPAM Works Well

In its report to Congress on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the law is indispensable in the war on spam but subsequent anti-spam measures must be technological, writes ClickZ. FTC officials summarized the report's findings during a press conference, during which they also discussed enforcement initiatives undertaken together with Canada and those with some southern states. However, only 2  [...]

ReplayTV Software to Record TV on PCs

Digital video recording pioneer ReplayTV will next year release software that, in combination with Hauppauge Computer Works' WinTV-PVR tuner-encoder card, will allow personal computer users to tune into and record live TV, reports Reuters. ReplayTV, owned by D&M Holdi  [...]

Google, Microsoft, Sun Fund RAD Internet Lab

Google and Microsoft have for a moment set aside their hyper-competitive tendencies and are together backing, along with Sun Microsystems, a new $7.5 million internet research laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, to help entrepreneurs introduce groundbreaking ideas to mass audiences, reports the Associated Press. The  [...]

Voila! TiVo Transformed into Online Portal

TiVo's rapid transformation into a media/communications portal continues with its announcement of new online services that extend its reach into e-commerce - in this case, t-commerce - MediaPost writes (  [...]

Verizon to Offer Broadcast TV for Cell Phones

Verizon Wireless is the first cellular carrier to take part in a broadcast TV network for mobile phones that Qualcomm plans to launch in late 2006, writes the Associated Press. The companies did not say what type of programming would be featured over the MediaFLO system, which will be broadcast to mobile phones over a different of the wireless spectrum than voice and data services. Thus far, in  [...]

AOL Mobile Search Shrinks Sites to Handheld Size

AOL has developed a new service that allows users to perform web searches on mobile phones then access any website as they would on a desktop computer, reports CNET. AOL's Mobile Search Service automatically adapts search results and web pages to handheld devices using technology from InfoG  [...]

Mozilla Lets Loose Wilier, Faster Firefox 1.5

Mozilla has released version 1.5 of the open-source Firefox browser, in beta since August, and is available for free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux from the Mozilla website, writes InformationWeek. Version 1.5 includes automatic updates, faster back and forward page viewing, drag-and-drop tab reordering, and new support for web standards, including JavaScript 1.6 and cascading style sheets CSS2 and CS  [...]

AOL Launches AIM Triton Upgrade

AOL officially launched the Triton upgrade to its AOL Instant Messenger, which it now describes as a "new front door" to digital communications, including PC-to-PC chat through voice over internet protocol (VOIP) technology that would help AOL compete with programs such as Skype, reports E-Commerce Times. "We anticipate that the AIM Triton service will accelerate the growing use of  [...]

Streaming Video via Email Skips Downloading

With the launch of a new video solution from KOTW, streaming videos can now be viewed in email messages - not as attachments and without the need for downloading and buffering - the company has announced, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. Advertisers and direct marketers now have the ability to deliver video mesages directly to the consumer a  [...]

Clear Channel, Yahoo Partner for Mall Advertising

Clear Channel Malls, a new division of Clear Channel Outdoor, will carry a network of full-motion video screens in the food courts of 10 malls in New York and Los Angeles,   [...]

Broadband for All and a Chicken in Every Pot

Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed an "innovation agenda" calling for affordable broadband access in every home within five years, writes AdAge. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) said the goal is to keep the country the "most competitive and innovative nation in the world." The plan calls for, inter alia, a national broadband policy that takes broadband to rural and underserved communities and supports new broadb  [...]