Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News articles from February 2001

Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News archives from February 2001

Local TV web sites getting more aggressive.
February 1, 2001... Television network affiliates have grown aggressive in the battle for local Web audiences, outperforming some local newspapers, according to a new study from Media Audit. The survey of both online and traditional media in more than 80 US...

Entertainment via mobile phone set to soar.
February 1, 2001... A recent report says that, thanks to the arrival of a raft of new mobile technologies, mobile phone-based entertainment (m-entertainment) services are about to enter a new phase. The study, entitled "Global mContent Markets: Paving the Way for...

Consumers balk at price of e-books.
February 1, 2001... According to a new survey by Arthur Andersen, the high cost of electronic books, and the hardware required to view them, is putting a damper on the potential growth of the market. The study found 40 percent of users were in favor e-books in...

New York times to reproduce full print version online.
February 1, 2001... By the end of this year, the New York Times newspaper will make available to computer users full digital facsimiles of its print editions. The Times has entered a five-year agreement with NewsStand, a producer of online reader software, to...

Predictive dialers and the dead ringer. (Sites).
February 1, 2001... Ever pick up your phone and nobody's there? Of course: we all have. Turns out this scourge of modern civilization is due to predictive dialers, a technology used by the telemarketing industry to dial ahead to the next number in the hopes that...

Ranks.com search engine debuts. (Sites).
February 1, 2001... After a year of development, Ranks.com is now online and billed as one of the best search engines on the Internet. The portal aims to keep it simple, offering users access to accurate indexing, concise descriptions, quality search results, and...

Multi-language e-mail translation online. (Sites).
February 1, 2001... This site allows e-mail users to route their messages via the service and see their missives arrive in the destination language. The service offers professional, rather than automated, e-mail translations in a wide variety of languages,...

More than 60% online in the US -- Are we there yet? (Editor's Corner).
February 1, 2001... The latest research shows that the United States reached a milestone in January, according to data released by Nielsen/NetRatings. The service said more than 168 million people, or 60 percent of the population, have access to the Internet...