[Mobile] The move toward flat-rate, unlimited calling plans by three of the major U.S. wireless carriers this week could help spur the growth of mobile media and advertising, say industry analysts and mobile marketing executives. ...Read the whole story
[Search] Search rebounded at the start of 2008, with Americans conducting more than 10 billion "core" searches in January, up nearly 9% from December 2007, according to comScore. In contrast, search volume had slid downward in December, with an almost 4% dip in queries versus the previous month. ...Read the whole story
[Video] Testing a cost-per-engagement model, Web video technology company VideoEgg has launched a network offering advertisers a more measurable way to reach engaged consumers using video and rich media. ...Read the whole story
[Music] Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker known as "DVD Jon" for creating software that bypasses copying restrictions on DVDs, has now unveiled a program that enables people to get rid of digital rights management restrictions on iTunes. ...Read the whole story
[Research] Early in the millennium, "convergence" was the buzzword for how the Internet would alter devices by making television an extension of the Web. New devices, as IDC points out in a new study, show that convergence means a proliferation of devices--many of them mobile. ...Read the whole story
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YouTube's success at bringing video to the online masses has been commendable; however, they have provided us with little in terms of models with which ... ...More
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