With or Without the FTC, the Mobile Ad Market Will Be Unrecognizable in Five Years
Mar/100
Right now the mobile ad market is tiny – and largely dominated by Apple’s apps. Just ask Google, which has protested the anti-trust inquiries into its proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob. Its…
Google Throws Retail Inventory into the Local Mix
Mar/100
Google has introduced a new application that lets mobile users search local retailers’ inventory to see if a particular item is in stock. Only a handful of stores are participating – Best Buy, Sears,…
San Francisco’s BART Adds Augmented Reality
Mar/100
San Franciso’s subway system, the BART, is the latest entity to use augmented reality to grab customers’ – or in this case, riders’ – attention with a message.
Developed by metaio, the application – …
Target Unveils Scannable Mobile Coupon Campaign
Mar/100
Target is entering the increasingly crowded retail mobile coupon arena, launching a new national program that allows customers to receive coupons directly on their mobile phones and redeem them by…
Mobile Marketing Popularity Rapidly Grows
Mar/100
Mobile marketing is steadily progressing toward much greater significance, according to [pdf] a new study from marketing technology provider Unica.
One-Third of Marketers are Mobile
When asked if…
Industry Buzz & News: 3/12/10
Mar/100
Ad Technologies:
Instant ads set the pace on the web.
Jumptap mulling mobile ad licensing program.
E-Commerce:
E-tailers should act fast to comply with Colorado’s new law.
Search:
Google…
Serious Error in SSL Certificates GeoTrust and RapidSSL
Mar/100
SSL Certificates of GeoTrust and RapidSSL are incorrectly issued, because of a wrong update in the system of VeriSign, manager of both providers. Certificates issued from March 3 till March 12 are standard valid for the root domain as well. Networking4all, Dutch provider of security certificates, have made a tool to verify whether a certificate is affected. (PRWeb Mar 12, 2010)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/error-ssl-certificates/geotrust-rapidssl/prweb3721194.htm
Retweet.com Sold for $250,000 on Flippa.com
Mar/100
Retweet.com – a service that aggregates Twitter to help people find real-time news on popular stories – has just sold on Flippa.com for $250,000. (PRWeb Mar 12, 2010)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3713404.htm
Adgregate Markets and Interpublic Emerging Media Lab Join Forces to Promote Distributed Commerce to IPG Ecosystem
Mar/100
Strategic partnership provides preferred partner status for Interpublic agencies, clients for industry first social commerce solutions. (PRWeb Mar 12, 2010)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Adgregate-Markets/IPG-Mediabrands/prweb3717794.htm
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Harmony 5.0M13 and Apache Harmony 6.0M1
Mar/100
The Apache Harmony development team are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the next regular 5.0 stream milestone, labeled 5.0M13, together with the first ever milestone release of the 6.0 code stream -- Apache Harmony 6.0M1. Apache Harmony is the Java runtime project of the Apache Software Foundation. The new Apache Harmony 5.0M13 milestone contains a number of important fixes and enhancements to both implementation and test suites, resulting in the most stable build yet. A full list of issues fixed in this milestone is available at http://tinyurl.com/yzudmsj. Milestone 6.0M1 is the first milestone build of the 6.0 APIs code stream, and while there are still known missing APIs, this first milestone is already very capable. Source code, binary builds, and Debian packages for both milestones are available from the project download site: http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi Apache Harmony welcomes your help. For more information on how to report problems, successes, and to get involved in Apache Harmony visit the project website at http://harmony.apache.org The Apache Harmony Team