Posted April 26, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click Rhapsody has introduced a new version of its iPhone app that allows users to store subscription music in the phones memory and stream it when they don’t have an Internet connection. Rhapsody says it is the first U.S. service to allow people to download subscription music to the iPhone. By downloading playlists directly to the device, users can listen to Rhapsody from any location. “Today marks a turning point for Rhapsody and subscription music,” said Jon Irwin, Rhapsody’s president. “By making Rhapsody accessible anywhere people want to hear music — and not just the places where they have an Internet connection — we’re giving music lovers a new way to discover and enjoy music on the devices they love.” Using the iPhone app requires a subscription to Rhapsody for either $10-per-month, which provides access to the music service on one mobile device or for $14.99 which provides access on up to 3 mobile devices. Earlier this month, the company launched a mobile app for the Android platform. Rhapsody said it is developing a new mobile app for BlackBerry users that will launch this summer.
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Posted April 26, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click Yahoo announced a global partnership with Samsung today, which will see Yahoo services coming pre-installed on a variety of mobile devices from the manufacturer . The two companies have partnered since 2007, but that relationship is now being greatly expanded. “By making our most popular Yahoo! services available on Samsung mobile devices around the world, we’re providing consumers with personally relevant mobile Internet experiences that make it easy for them to stay connected to what’s important to them and explore the full potential of their device,” said David Ko, senior vice president, Audience, Mobile and Local for Yahoo!. “We’re thrilled to deepen our relationship with Samsung and look forward to continuing to drive the global adoption of mobile Internet services.” Dr. Ho Soo Lee, EVP, Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics (L) and David Ko, SVP, Audience, Mobile and Local, North America, Yahoo! (R), sign strategic global partnership to pre-load Yahoo! services on tens of millions of Samsung devices. (Photo: Business Wire) Yahoo services that purchasers of Samsung devices may find include: – Yahoo Mail – Yahoo Messenger – Yahoo Contacts and Calendar – Yahoo Mobile Front Page – Yahoo Search – Flickr – Yahoo News – Yahoo finance – Yahoo Weather “We want to provide our customers with the best possible services designed to enhance their mobile experience,” said Kenny Lee, vice president of content planning at Samsung. “Our relationship with Yahoo! continues to grow and benefit our global consumer base, who wants access popular Yahoo! services from their Samsung phone.” While the announcement did not reveal specifically what devices that will come loaded with Yahoo services, it did say that it will include those running the Samsung bada and Android platforms.
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Posted April 23, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click The North Carolina Department of Revenue said today it is working with online retailers who operate affiliate programs in the state to resolve issues of tax liability. The state said it will waive all back sales taxes and penalties for online retailers that sign an agreement by August 31 to start collecting sales tax. An initiative called the Internet Transactions Resolution Program is the result of discussions between the department and a number of ecommerce retailers. “We are going to be asking quite a number of them to participate in the program,” said revenue Secretary Kenneth Lay . “We have positive indications that several will sign up.” Any retailer that did not register for sales and use tax as a result of an affiliate program in North Carolina at any time is eligible to participate in the program. Retailers may resolve their prior tax liability by registering for sales and use tax and agree to collect and pay those taxes for four years, beginning September 1. The program begins today and retailers have until June 30 to register for the program. Retailers who do not register will be subject to taxes, penalties and interest.
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Posted April 20, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click Cell-phone texting has become the preferred form of basic communication between teens and their friends, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Daily text messaging among teens has increased in the past 18 months from 38 percent of teens texting friends daily in 2008, to 54 percent of teens texting daily in 2009. The average teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day, or 1,500 per month. Boys typically send and receive 30 texts a day while girls send and receive 80 messages per day. Older girls are the most active texters, with 14-17 year old girls sending 100 or more messages a day or more than 3,000 texts a month. While many teens are avid texters, a small number are not. One-fifth of teen texters (22%) send and receive just 1-10 texts a day or 30-300 a month. “The widespread availability of unlimited texting plans has transformed communication patterns of American teens, many of whom now conduct substantial portions of their daily conversations with their friends via texting,” said Amanda Lenhart, Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and a co-author on the report. “But what’s important to remember here is that this is a shift in the location and style of teens’ communication with friends, not necessarily a radical change or expansion of it.” The survey found 75 percent of those ages 12-17 now have cell phones, up from 45 percent in 2004. These cell phone users place calls on their phone much less often than texting. On average tens make about five calls per day on cells. They still to prefer to deal with their parents by calling them instead of texting them. Pew also found teens uses their cells for a variety of activities besides texting and talking including:
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Posted April 19, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click McAfee and Adgregate have partnered on what they’re calling the industry’s first secure advertising. WebProNews spoke with Brent Remai, VP of Consumer Marketing at McAfee about what this means for advertising. “The ad world is a $30B pie, and everybody wants their piece, including malicious advertisers, whose “malvertising” has become extraordinarily more sophisticated,” the company says. “Companies must instill confidence in consumers that when they click on or transact in an ad or widget application, that the ad or app is just as legitimate as the advertiser’s existing website. It’s a dirty little secret of online advertising because no one wants to admit their ad networks are vulnerable.” McAfee will perform daily site scanning that tests retailers’ sites for more than 10,000 vulnerabilities. Once they are cleared, their ads will get a badge from McAfee, which is designed to inspire trust and confidence in the consumer. “Their site is deemed totally secure,” says Remai. Rich media ads with the badge will allow consumers to complete transactions within the ads themselves, rather than having to go to a landing page – something Remai calls “pretty transformative.” Adgregate’s advertising and e-commerce partners include DoubleClick, PointRoll, EyeWonder, Eyeblaster, Linkstorm, Collective Media, Greystripe, Demandware, IBM Websphere Commerce, Escalate Retail, and others to account for what the company claims is over 99% of the rich media online and mobile ads distributed in the U.S., as well as 80% of the e-commerce fulfillment solutions for the Top 500 Internet Retailers. “The message we are sending to the market today is clear: Advertisers face huge business and legal risks with the distributed web, and their customers deserve the most secure solution available — the one now being provided by McAfee and Adgregate, the leaders in distributed commerce and security,” says Adgregate CEO Henry Wong. “Anything short of this puts a brand’s reputation in serious jeopardy.” Based on A/B testing, which took place between July 2008 and January 2009, sites that displayed McAfee’s Secure trustmark badge have seen a 12% increase in conversions. In tests from Adgregate and McAfee with select advertisers, display of the badge resulted in a 75% sales increase and a 41% engagement lift when compared with non-McAfee ads, McAfee says.
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