So Far, eBay Sticks to Its Guns

Nobody's certain except Google and eBay how much money left Google's bottom line with eBay yanked its AdWords campaign. But one thing is certain, though Google tried to make a concession early, eBay means business and has continued not advertising on Google for a solid week.

LG Google Phone Will Soon Land In Europe

A Google phone will soon arrive.  Unfortunately for many Webproworld readers, it will not (yet) arrive in America.  And unfortunately for everybody, it doesn’t incorporate any breakthrough features or technology.

Snail Mail vs. Email Study Yields Mixed Results

There are a number of questions not readily answerable about this survey, but some of the results make intuitive sense to me at least. The survey was conducted by International Communications Research (ICR) and concludes that customers overwhelmingly prefer promotional messages via snail mail (but that doesn't mean they are persuaded by them).

“Bad” Internet Words Include Blog, Wiki

A new study has found that the words “blog” and “wiki” tend to make people upset, as do “cookie” and “netiquette.”  To be honest, I’m not sure what we - the owners of blogs, the users of wikis - are supposed to do with this information.  But there you have it.