In-Flight Wi-Fi Not A Must For Business Travelers
With more airlines testing Wi-Fi and other communication technologies more than half (56%) of business travelers say they don’t feel the need to be connected while flying according to an Orbitz For Business Traveler Survey.
StumbleUpon & Discovery: It’s What’s For Dinner
Long ago a little old lady asked, “Where’s the beef?” These days, Hollywood writers have a beef with the studios, and people turned to the web to discover entertainment in greater numbers.
Shocking Numbers for Super Bowl Ads on Video Sites
The year 2008 brings the Superbowl commercials of about 40 advertisers, running about 60 ads (Anheuser Busch has booked 10 slots and several others have more than one).
Google Leads Others In CPC Inflation
Google takes in nearly 77% of the total search advertising spend, as of Q4 2007, and raked in 97% of all ad spend increases, according to a study by Efficient Frontier. Despite Nielsen’s recent report that Google search share had slightly decreased, numbers like these on the advertising revenue side could mean good things for a flagging Google stock price.
ZVents Announces Blended Results
Zvents announced their launch of a new, blended search results page for local content. Now, when you do searches on their site, they’ll bring back results for various businesses, events, performances, movies, store sales and more in your local area. Here’s a screengrab of the newly-blended results page:
MySpace Profile Lands School Cop In Hot Water
An on-campus police officer for a Florida middle school is under a criminal investigation because of his MySpace account.
One of the people on his friends list had a link on their profile that led to an Internet porn site. Gulf Middle School resource officer John Nohejl is being investigated by the New Port Richey Police Department and the Florida attorney general’s cyber crimes unit for making the site available to underage children.
Man Charged In eBay Sale Of Historic Items
A New York State Department of Education employee has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents from the New York State Library and selling them on eBay.
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday announced the arrest of Daniel D. Lorello, 54 and charged him with three felonies, third-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, and first-degree scheme to defraud.
U2 Manager: Pay Up, Google
Paul McGuinness wants pretty much every company to toss some coin back to musicians, and sees pursuing individual file sharers as less important than the ISPs and other services that need to be pursued.
Spam Taking Advantage of Trust
I am going to go on record offering you this powerful life-changing advice that will be the most valuable information you ever consumed. Sound familiar? If you pay attention to spam you can view the trends and see where it is going before it even goes there. One of the big trends that is rarely talked about is how hard spammers hunt hard to find credible sounding words. In spite of being on the do not call list, every day I get a call from the message center, the card center, the consumer center, or the national consumer protection foundation, etc.
Google Has New Views On Search
Alternative views of search results received a test last May, and Google recently updated some features for these different visualizations.