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Napster rivals winning popularity contest
News Steve Griffin, chief executive of StreamCast Networks, which handles the MusicCity site, said the company relies on advertising revenue and serves up to 150 million ad impressions per day. But the company is looking for additional sources of...
[November 6, 2001, 9:38]
3G and Nigerian Brands
Blog Mobile Adverts can be streamed alongside a Tv programme and even Mobile users can be directed to a web site or WAP site that is dedicated to that ad. Caller Ring Back and Bluetooth marketing do not require very complex technology but yet am yet to...
[July 21, 2008, 14:03]
3G and Nigeria Brands
Blog Mobile Adverts can be streamed alongside a Tv programme and even Mobile users can be directed to a web site or WAP site that is dedicated to that ad. Caller Ring Back and Bluetooth marketing do not require very complex technology but yet am yet...
[March 14, 2008, 16:11]
Windows Server 2008 R2: a first look review
Reviews The Active Directory Administrative Centre provides a one-stop shop for all your AD management needs. We also liked the new Active Directory Administrative Centre, which delivers a kind of one-stop shop for all AD management and eliminates the need...
[July 7, 2009, 16:31]
Google profits beat expectations
News Search-ad strength The company is also eyeing new ad revenue from increasing use of the internet by people with mobile devices. Schmidt offered no new guidance on the search-ad deal with Yahoo, a partnership the companies had expected to have begun...
[October 17, 2008, 8:51]
Microsoft seeks better friends
News In both Longhorn and an upcoming version of Office for the Mac, Microsoft is using the idea of "projects" -- or ad hoc groups of people and documents that change over time. The failure to adequately stay on top of all email from friends and co...
[March 5, 2004, 8:50]
AltaVista to add free e-mail
News They need it to retain users and increase their ad revenue. AltaVista has traditionally disdained extras such as news and weather in favor of focusing on its search technology, but lately it has added such services as Web-page language translations.
[February 11, 1998, 9:49]
Microsoft to power Facebook search ads
News At the time, the two companies signed an ad deal under which Microsoft would sell and serve contextual brand ads for Facebook. In the coming months, Facebook will begin powering its web search and related sponsored text links with Microsoft's...
[July 25, 2008, 10:59]
Google wins $900m MySpace deal
News It also agreed to share search ad revenue with Dell in exchange for Dell pre-installing the Google Toolbar for PC and Web search. For Google, the deal secures an important source of traffic and ad revenue, giving it added exposure to a thriving...
[August 8, 2006, 17:45]
NebuAd in the dock
Blog Similar claims about infringement of privacy and interception laws have been made about 2006 and 2007 BT trials of Phorm's ad-tracking technology in the UK, although both BT and Phorm have denied that any laws were breached.
[November 14, 2008, 13:39]
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection beta review
Reviews With it, you should be able to shoot, edit and produce a TV-quality commercial; then repurpose those video clips for the web and mobile phone browsers as well as a companion DVD; then use the existing images, logos and text in a printed newsletter...
[March 27, 2007, 12:05]
US Report: Hollywood sees Net payoff
News Putting a "Now available in video" tag on an online movie ad will turn off movie goers in, say, Israel, where the movie is just coming to cinemas, said Paddison. One problem: Hollywood wants better anti-copying technology.
[July 30, 1998, 6:57]
Time's up for secret surfing
News The Emeryville, Calif.based company, which launched its free service last year, said the high cost of bandwidth and a lack of ad-related profits contributed to the closure. But SafeWeb needs to become profitable, so it's shifting its energy toward...
[November 20, 2001, 12:23]
Lycos lays off fifth of staff
News Sources inside the company said many members of its US ad sales team were laid off on Monday, along with the engineering and Webmonkey staff in San Francisco; employees of financial-services site Quote.com and others in the Mountain View offices...
[February 12, 2004, 15:20]
Behavioural Targeting Set To Explode
Blog Presently, throwing up an ad from an IT services company, for instance, next to a review about a desktop computer is primitive. It’s a total pain in the ass and requires lots of backend technology, but the rewards can be much greater than general...
[June 23, 2008, 9:30]
Ask Jeeves renews international quest
News It has yet to choose an ad partner for the Japanese site, Lanzone said. Ask Jeeves and Transcosmos, which own equal shares in the venture, has introduced the Web site in a beta version in order to test its search technology, which is provided by...
[August 24, 2004, 8:20]
Opera shows innovation with latest release
News Opera offers a free ad-supported version of its PC browser as well as a premium version for $39. The decision for various platform releases is now marketing-driven instead of technology-driven," he said, underscoring that the company would not...
[May 13, 2004, 11:10]
Ad-skipping feature found in TiVo
News Ad skipping is one of the main features that TiVo competitor Sonicblue promotes in its ReplayTV digital video recorder. Sonicblue's ad-skipping capability does more than 30-second jumps in programming; it can actually remove commercials from the...
[January 16, 2003, 10:16]
EC expects legal issues around Phorm to be resolved
News Legal questions around Phorm are set to be answered, and the ad-serving technology will move to the next stage, European commissioner Viviane Reding has told ZDNet UK. Phorm's technology monitors the web-surfing behaviour of users in order to serve...
[March 6, 2009, 15:31]
BT deletes Phorm forums
News BT has deleted from its user forums almost all discussions relating to the communications company's trials of behavioural ad-serving technology. The technology — created by a company called Phorm and marketed by BT as Webwise — monitors users' web...
[November 20, 2008, 12:01]
