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Google Eyes Email-based Ad Delivery
Talkback I hope that Google runs message boards, and the E-mail service runs well. I think that anything which can bring more competion to the internet, particularly to companies like Yahoo & MSN is a very good thing.
[April 1, 2004, 11:39]
A Year Ago: AltaVista Offers Free Net Service
News Other firms, like NetZero, Surfree.com and Tritium Networks are offering similar ad-based, free ISP services. NetZero uses the same ad-based model as 1stUp. The company today launched a free dial-up Internet access program that offers unlimited Net...
[August 13, 2000, 7:10]
AltaVista Offers Free Net Service
News Other firms, like NetZero, Surfree.com and Tritium Networks are offering similar ad-based, free ISP services. NetZero uses the same ad-based model as 1stUp. The company today launched a free dial-up Internet access program that offers unlimited Net...
[August 13, 1999, 9:32]
Free Google Email Service To Launch 'in Weeks'
News The company is wary of announcing a launch date for the service until beta testing is complete, but according to Kate Burns, managing director of the Google UK's Ad Sales business, it will be widely available to consumers in a matter of weeks...
[April 1, 2004, 13:45]
VoIP Search And SFX App Launched
News For the price of tailored advertisements, an Internet ad company is peddling free add-on features, including search capabilities, for conversations on Skype and other voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. People can also buy the software ad-free for about...
[March 29, 2005, 9:55]
Yahoo! Breaks In Live Stock Quotes
News s exposure to the online ad slowdown has hurt the company considerably. In March, it drastically reduced its revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2001 largely because of the ad slowdown. has made claims for some time that non-ad services...
[April 3, 2001, 10:08]
Hailstorm May Mean End Of Free Email
News The ad-based model is basically a failure," said Prudential Securities analyst James Lucier. Analysts said that if the HailStorm model is widely adopted -- and if people will pay a premium for security -- the days of ad-subsidized Internet services...
[March 23, 2001, 7:53]
AOL Tests Standalone Email Product
News The tests for AOL Communicator come as the company seeks to right itself following a period of declining subscriber growth, dwindling ad sales and an internal audit that led the company, a division of AOL Time Warner, to recently wipe $190m in...
[November 25, 2002, 8:41]
Net Fraud Site Details Credit Card Crime
News The handbook to Internet fraud is provided by a US-based company called Ad Cops. Ad Cops claims that its "Fraud Museum" helps online merchants stay ahead of Internet fraudsters. Adcops is an ally of merchants worldwide," reads a company statement...
[March 5, 2001, 10:22]
Yahoo! Drops Fees On Payment Service
News But as the economic model underlying free sites cracked, Net publishers introduced a host of paid services to reduce dependence on weak ad sales. in the last week removed some fees from PayDirect, an online service that lets people exchange money...
[August 20, 2002, 8:50]
Microsoft Reveals Plans For Online Services
News Office Live will come in both ad-based and subscription versions that augment the popular desktop productivity suite. Many of the Live releases will have payment tiers, Gates said, with the lowest levels free and ad-supported, and higher-end...
[November 2, 2005, 8:10]
New Mozilla Name Rises From Ashes
News New to the release are features including a download manager, bookmark improvements, and enhancements to Mozilla "extensions," which are small applets that do things such as remove ad banners, check spelling and search popular sites.
[February 10, 2004, 7:30]
Corporate World Gradually Embraces Web 2.0
News To promote ad hoc networking, each employee has a profile page where they keep information on ongoing projects, Sheth said. Promoting ad hoc collaboration and multiple modes of communication can be beneficial, but employees need policies and IT...
[September 21, 2006, 9:55]
Google Links Search To Location
News Switchboard licensed Google's text-based ad service, AdSense, to serve up promotions that are tailored to specific pages. In mid-July, the company teamed with Switchboard, a telephone directory site, in one of the first local-ad deals for a major...
[September 23, 2003, 10:10]
Pop-ups Add New Twist
News Because online travel has such widespread appeal, ads that "roll over" directly to the site hold value for many people, according to the company's interactive ad agency, Otherwise. Several interactive media buyers say the tact of delivering an...
[December 23, 2002, 7:40]
Google Guns For Microsoft
News It does represent by Google a step onto Microsoft territory and yet another reason for Microsoft to try to cut off Google's ad-driven air supply," said Rob Helm, director of research at the analyst firm Directions on Microsoft.
[June 7, 2006, 9:30]
Microsoft Prepares To Take Office Online
News It is also planning an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works, has trialled prepaid cards for time-limited versions of Office and is exploring still other approaches to offer Office in as many ways as it can without overloading customers.
[October 1, 2007, 8:32]
MSN Turns Users Into Spammers
News Several users of the beta software have complained to Microsoft in a public forum, requesting that the company pull the ad-based email before the software goes gold. Users of the MSN Explorer beta may inadvertently be sending their friends...
[September 27, 2000, 8:15]
Apple Targets SMEs With .Mac Upgrade
News Mac users shouldn't have to send an email with an ad on the bottom and they shouldn't have to set up their groups site on Yahoo. Subscribers will now be able to invite others to upload and share files, calendar and contact information; build email...
[September 21, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft Ready To Spend, But On What?
News Its biggest bet in that area has been its decision to switch from Yahoo's ad-serving technology to its own homebrewed alternative, AdCenter. Credit Suisse estimates Microsoft has moved from an ad network of 300,000 advertisers to one that, for now...
[May 3, 2006, 16:15]
