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Ad Technology: CEO Moore On 24/7 Media: We’re A Tech Company, Not An Agency Sinclair Broadcast Group Expands Contract for Harris Corporation Media Software Solution ChaCha Partners With Adometry   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 17th 2012

Industry Buzz & News: 6/17/10

Online Ad Market: Online news commands highest CPM. HP partners with Yahoo for targeted advertisements. Mobile search is   [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 17th 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/10/09

Online Ad Strategies: Groups redirect health-care ads to cheer and jeer Democrats. Local online to grow 12% in 2009; will slow next year. Burberry looks online for ways to gain customers. Se  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

Customers Shoulda Read the Privacy Policy, Says Embarq

In response to a Congressional inquiry about its pilot test of NebuAd's services, internet service provider (ISP) Embarq insisted it revised its privacy policy at least two weeks before it integrated the platform. NebuAd partners with ISPs to serve ads to users based on their aggregate online activity. The behavioral ad firm sparked a debate over privacy in the Senate earlier this   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 23rd 2008

Comcast to Throttle Service for Bandwidth Hogs

Comcast is piloting a new, slower service for users that consume more bandwidth than others -- regardless of what they use it for. "At the busiest times of the day on our network (which could occur at any time), those very few disproportionately heavy users, who are doing things like conducting numerous or continuous large file transfers, may experience slightly longer response times for some online activities, until the period of network congestion ends," Comcast rambled in a letter to selec  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 5th 2008

AzoogleAds to Pay FL Task Force $1M for Deceptive Lead-Gen Practices

AzoogleAds has agreed to fork $1 million over to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office, a penalty for the deceptive online lead-gen ads it let run in the state. AzoogleAds is the first to face the wrath of Florida's new CyberFraud Task Force. The task force found consumers responding to offers for free mobile ringtones, a process that unwittingly registered them to subscription plans for which they were automatically billed. But AzoogleAds may not quite have to   [...]
Posted: Friday, November 9th 2007

Verizon, State of NY Settle Uncomfortable Marketing Probe

Courtesy of Verizon, $1 million be distributed to wrongfully terminated customers who held internet usage plans, according to NY attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Verizon also committed to paying $150,000 in penalties and costs to the state of New York. A major part of the settlement includes revising the marketing for its wireless internet access plans, reports ZDNet. Results of a state probe conduct  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 24th 2007

Mobile Text Advertising: US Response Rates Higher Than Europe

Though the volume of SMS ads reported by mobile subscribers is lower in the US than in the five leading Western European markets, the US has the highest response rates, according to M:Metrics, which released its July Benchmark Survey of mobile market metrics (see tables at end of article),   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 24th 2007

eBay's Skype Down 24 Hours, Attributed to 'Software Issue'

eBay's Skype went down early yesterday and up to this point (8:30 AM Eastern) has not yet been fixed. The service, comprised of online chat, video and the ability to make long-distance calls online via VoIP, attributed the downtime to a "software issue." It is unclear how many users have been affected, but The Globe and Mail reports clients in Colombia,   [...]
Posted: Friday, August 17th 2007

FTC Gives Net Neutrality the Big 'What For?'

Last week the FTC issued a report dismissing claims that the government must help preserve the fairness of online networks in the U.S., according to Ars Technica. "This report recommends that policy makers proceed with caution in the evolving, dynamic industry of  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 2nd 2007

Life, Liberty and the Legal Pursuit of Terrorists

As the 109th Congress enters the twilight of its years, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter has made a last-minute attempt at giving the Bush administration what he calls the necessary "resources" for carrying out its phone call and internet surveillance within the law. Critics remain unconvinced. The 11-page bill (  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 17th 2006

Google Forms Political Action Committee

Google confirmed on Monday that it has filed paperwork to set up a political action committee (PAC). With Google NetPAC, the search giant joins fellow tech heavyweights in an attempt to influence Beltway politics via contributions to political candidates and causes, reports CNET. Google has been at the forefront of the net neutrality debate in the context of a Senate communications bill  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 20th 2006

Google May Raise Antitrust Case if Net Neutrality Breached

Google VP and "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf yesterday said Google might file antitrust complaints if high-speed internet service providers abuse the power they are likely to receive from Congress, reports Reuters. The Senate's Commer  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 5th 2006

Senate, Too, Turns Down Net Neutrality

The Commerce Committee of the U.S. Senate nixed net neutrality rules, joining the House in dealing a setback to internet companies (e.g., eBay, Google and Amazon) and giving a boost to carriers (such as AT&T and Verizon), reports CNET. An 11-11 tie resulted in the defeat of a Democrat-backed amendment that would have   [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 29th 2006

Feds Sue NJ AG to Keep Telcos' NSA Secrets

Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Justice has sued the New Jersey Attorney General's office to prevent it from asking telephone companies whether they gave customer call records to the National Security Agency, reports Reuters. The suit was filed in Trenton, NJ, on Wednesday, one day before the phone companies - AT&T, Verizon, Cingular, Sprint Nextel and Qwest - were suppos  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 16th 2006

House Passes Pro-Telco Bill, Rejects Net Neutrality

By a more than three-to-one margin (321 to 101), the House of Representatives on Thursday passed telecommunications legislation that for the most part corresponds with the agenda of the largest telephone companies, writes the New York Times. Lawmakers also rejected, 269 to 152, a Democrat-backed amendment to ensure Net neutrality. That is, the legislation would not prevent phone and cable companies from charging internet c  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 9th 2006

AT&T Sued for Helping NSA Spy on Citizens

U.S. tech companies are again being accused of helping a government infringe on the rights of its citizens. This time, however, the government in question is that of the U.S., and the tech companies - the largest among them is AT&T - are those that have access to the phone calls and emails of citizens and have helped the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 2nd 2006

Spam Not (Yet) a Threat to Mobile Marketing

Nearly 10 percent of U.S. online customers in a Jupiter survey say they have already been plagued by text-message spam, while the same number said they have received SMS pitches that they wanted, Internet Week reports (via   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 25th 2005

Past Fraud Alleged at InfoSpace

PaidContent points to a strongly-worded investigative story on the bubble days of InfoSpace done by the Seattle Times. The Times alleges that former chairmain Naveen Jain and other senior executives deliberately deceived investors and plotted to thwart securities law restrictions that would have prevented them from cashing o  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 8th 2005

Government More Active Against DMers

An analysis of the legal issues facing the direct marketing industry appearing in DM News shows that state and federal government regulators seem to be cracking down on the industry. Some patterns emerging include the requirement for more explicit opt-in, better disclosure, more privacy control and holding supplier companies liable for the more egregious actions of their clients.   [...]
Posted: Monday, January 3rd 2005