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Technology helps reinvent cell phone ads
Aug 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with subscribers _ more than 2 billion of them and counting worldwide. Yet the advertisers' two-liner text pitches have largely fueled a growing hate club, with recipients quickly equating the messages with spam they abhor on desktops.
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Technology helps reinvent cell phone ads
Aug 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with subscribers _ more than 2 billion of them and counting worldwide. Yet the advertisers' two-liner text pitches have largely fueled a growing hate club, with recipients quickly equating the messages with spam they abhor on desktops.
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Technology helps reinvent cell phone ads
Aug 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with subscribers _ more than 2 billion of them and counting worldwide. Yet the advertisers' two-liner text pitches have largely fueled a growing hate club, with recipients quickly equating the messages with spam they abhor on desktops.
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Technology helps reinvent cell phone ads
Aug 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with subscribers _ more than 2 billion of them and counting worldwide. Yet the advertisers' two-liner text pitches have largely fueled a growing hate club, with recipients quickly equating the messages with spam they abhor on desktops.
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Distraction looms for Dell in SEC probe
Aug 17 2007 6:50PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Dell's internal investigation into its accounting problems is over, leaving up to a $150 million hit on earnings in its wake. Now, it may be the feds' turn.
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Distraction looms for Dell in SEC probe
Aug 17 2007 6:50PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Dell's internal investigation into its accounting problems is over, leaving up to a $150 million hit on earnings in its wake. Now, it may be the feds' turn.
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Compact Disc celebrates 25th anniversary
Aug 17 2007 6:46PM (CT)
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday _ and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.
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Compact Disc celebrates 25th anniversary
Aug 17 2007 6:46PM (CT)
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday _ and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.
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Airline sues Google over keyword ads
Aug 17 2007 5:47PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines is suing Google Inc. over the Internet company's sale of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks.
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Nokia seeks import ban of Qualcomm chips
Aug 17 2007 3:33PM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday that it has asked the United States to ban imports of chipsets made by Qualcomm Inc. along with phones and other products made with those chipsets.
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Nokia seeks import ban of Qualcomm chips
Aug 17 2007 3:33PM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday that it has asked the United States to ban imports of chipsets made by Qualcomm Inc. along with phones and other products made with those chipsets.
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Chinese cyber-dissident jailed for 4 yrs
Aug 17 2007 1:54PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese cyber-dissident has been sentenced to four years in jail after he was convicted of "inciting the government's overthrow," a press freedom group said Friday.
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New challenges for EMC after VMware IPO
Aug 17 2007 1:37PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - EMC Corp. can't celebrate too long after spinning off a 10 percent stake of its VMware Inc. software unit in what became the biggest technology stock offering since Google Inc. went public three years ago.
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New challenges for EMC after VMware IPO
Aug 17 2007 1:37PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - EMC Corp. can't celebrate too long after spinning off a 10 percent stake of its VMware Inc. software unit in what became the biggest technology stock offering since Google Inc. went public three years ago.
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New challenges for EMC after VMware IPO
Aug 17 2007 1:37PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - EMC Corp. can't celebrate too long after spinning off a 10 percent stake of its VMware Inc. software unit in what became the biggest technology stock offering since Google Inc. went public three years ago.
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Pirated 'Simpsons' tracked to Australian
Aug 17 2007 10:09AM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The first known pirated copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police Friday, authorities said.
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Skype says some users can connect again
Aug 17 2007 9:40AM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Users of Skype in Asia and parts of Europe were able to log on and use the free phone service Friday, nearly 24 hours after a software bug hit the popular program.
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