Plum Organics, a company that makes baby food, has issued a voluntary recall of a "small portion" of its Apple & Carrot Baby Food in Portable Pouches. The reason is that a routine test determined the formulation was incorrect.
Google And Virgin America To Offer Free WiFi During The Holidays
Virgin America has partnered with Google to offer free in-flight WiFi to all of its passengers during the holidays.
From November 10 to January 15, 2010, passengers on all Virgin America flights will be able to access email, shop online and visit social networks free of charge. In May Virgin became the first airline to offer Gogo Inflight Internet service on every flight.
Does Size Matter in Display Advertising?
Eyeblaster released its Research Global Benchmark report for 2009, which provides an analysis of the performance of different types of display ads like banners and rich media ads. The research found that while clickthrough rates for standard banners improved with an increase in size, size did not factor into the performance of clicks on rich media ads.
"In rich media, size is only one component of banner visibility on the site," says Eyeblaster.
Internet OK for Some Courts (In Some Cases)
Update: According to FOX News, the Federal Court in Australia will leave it up to individual judges to decide if court cases can be covered live on Twitter.
Original Article: A California court is making jurors sign a declaration that they will not use the Internet to look up details about facts related to cases. This comes apparently at the request of a San Diego lawyer.
Majority Of Consumers Want To Interact With Brands Online
The majority (78%) of new media users interact with brands via new media sites, an increase of 32 percent from 2008 (59%), according to a new report from communications firm Cone.
Facebook Groups Get Walls
Facebook has changed the design of its Groups feature. Now Groups look similar profiles and Pages. They have a wall.
Google Gets Serious About Marketing Apps
Update: Google has expanded the campaign to additional countries: U.K., France, Canada, Japan, Australia and Singapore.
2nd Largest Search Engine Gets Real-Time Search
Update: YouTube has officially announced the feature:
Consumers Not Happy with Mobile Web Sites
Web app company Gomez, Inc. released the findings of a study on consumer mobile web experiences today, and found that most of them aren’t happy with the performance of mobile web sites in general.
Google Launches New Display Ad Measurement Tool
Google has launched a new tool in the US and the UK to measure the impact of display ad campaigns across the Google Content Network. It’s called Campaign Insights.
Google says the tool can give reliable data about how a campaign has raised brand awareness or active user interest, in a particular product or service. It calculates the incremental lift in both online search activity and website visits resulting from a display ad campaign.