Protect Family Members From Online Dangers And Keep Digital Information Safe

 

Studio One Launches 'Your Security Resource' Worldwide in Multiple Langauges

Symantec Exclusive Sponsor of Global Editorial Program Online

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 30, 2007 -- Studio One Networks announced the first international distribution of its new Internet program, Your Security Resource, which will deliver valuable information on how to protect family members from online dangers, and keep digital information safe and secure. The target audience for Your Security Resource is parents, grandparents and new home computer users.
       
Your Security Resource will be available to more than one billion Internet users worldwide (source: eMarketer). The program will be presented in Traditional Chinese (您的安全資源), Simplified Chinese (您的安全资源), Dutch (Uw Beveiligingshulp), English (International and American), French (Vos Ressources De Securite), German (Ihre Informationsquelle Zum Thema Sicherheit), Italian (La Tua Risorsa Sulla Sicurezza), Japanese (セキュリティリソース), Korean (사용자를 위한 보안 리소스), Portuguese (Seu Recurso De Segurança) and Spanish (Su Recurso De Seguridad).
       
Your Security Resource will include topical features such as "Seniors on the Internet," "Easy Ways to Stop Identity Thieves," "Instant Messaging the Safe Way" and "The Ten Golden Rules for Computer Safety." Other informative content will also be available in the program including "Expert Q&A," "Tech Tips," "Security Polls" and an interactive reader quiz called "The Security Quiz."

Andrew Susman, CEO of Studio One Networks said, "It's appropriate that Symantec, the global leader in information security, is the exclusive presenter of what may be the first consumer-oriented, valuable content to such a vast audience."

"We strongly believe that education is an important compliment to security software to help consumers protect their PCs," said Marian Merritt, Internet Safety Advocate for Symantec. "Now we can utilize Studio One's global footprint to reach out to the billion of online users and provide them with the information they need to have a safe and secure Internet experience."

About Studio One Networks
   
Studio One Networks, Inc. is the leader in digital program syndication for major corporate sponsors and media partners. Studio One Networks' diversified stable of programs and exclusive sponsors include Your Baby Today (Nestlé Infant Nutrition), CIO Strategy Center (Symantec) and Driving Today (Bridgestone), with over 350 media partners ranging from AOL to Wal-Mart. Visit us at www.studioone.net.

Alan Baker - Tel. 212.213.2332 ext. 209
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Website: www.studioone.net

Something About Splenda?

Is there something we should know about Splenda?

Johnson & Johnson owns:

splendasucks.net, .org, .biz, .info
splendakills.net, .org, biz .info
splendatruth.com , .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendapoison.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
thedangersofsplenda.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
thefactsaboutsplenda.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
thesplendadangers.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
thesplendafacts.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
victimsofsplenda.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
thetruthaboutsplenda.net, .org, .biz, .info
thesplendatruth.com, .net, .org, ,biz, .info
splendatoxicity.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendatoxicitycenter.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendavictims.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendahealth.com
splendaandyourhealth.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendaandyourfamily.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz
splendamyths.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendaalert.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendafacts.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendasafety.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
truthaboutsplenda.info, .biz
splendasideeffects.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
aboutsplenda.com
allaboutsplenda.net
banonsplenda.com
bittertruthaboutsplenda.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
factsaboutsplenda.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
mythsaboutsplenda.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
officialsplendasite.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendadangers.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendadiabetes.com
splendaisnotsafe.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendaisnotsosweet.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info
splendasucralose.com
thetruthaboutsplendasafety.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info

Tate & Lyle owns:

sucralosepoison, com, .net, .info, .org, .biz, .us
sucralosekills.com, net, .info, .org, .biz, .us
sucralosesucks.com, .net, .info,.org, .biz, .us
sucraloseandyourhealth.com , .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us
sucralosesafety.com , .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us
sucralosefacts.com, .net, .org, biz, .info, .us
sucralosetruth.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us
truthaboutsucralose.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us
chlorosucralose.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us
sucraloseandyourhealth.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us

Links:

http://www.sustainableisgood.com/blog/2007/03/image_is_everyt.html
http://www.splenda.com/
http://www.tateandlyle.com/
http://www.jnj.com/
http://www.splendaexposed.com/

There are quite a few good splenda domains available including a lot that were previously registered at one point and then dropped. The above list doesn't include an domains with hyphens, so I wouldn't be surprised to find anything you want. In fact, only found four .com domains with "splenda-" registered. I hate Splenda. Learn what it really is and you may not like it either. I wish I had a feeling for the possibility that it will turn out to have bad health effects in the future. It's amazing to me how many chemicals we produce and then eat with our food, to say nothing of all the stuff that then makes it's way into the environment...

Next Generation of Threats and Solutions At Spam Summit

FTC To Host "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions"

The Federal Trade Commission will host a two-day public event, "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions," in Washington, DC on July 11 and 12, 2007. The summit will bring together experts from the business, government, and technology sectors, consumer advocates, and academics to explore consumer protection issues surrounding spam, phishing, and malware.

(PressZoom) - The Federal Trade Commission will host a two-day public event, "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions," in Washington, DC on July 11 and 12, 2007. The summit will bring together experts from the business, government, and technology sectors, consumer advocates, and academics to explore consumer protection issues surrounding spam, phishing, and malware.

Some e-mail filtering companies have reported that the amount of unsolicited e-mails they process has been rising. According to the reports, the increased volume of spam is coming primarily from botnets, which are networks of hijacked personal computers that spammers use to conceal their identities and send spam and viruses.

In addition, the Commission's recent investigations suggest that spam is being used increasingly as a vehicle for launching harmful downloads, such as phishing and malware. This type of malicious spam goes beyond mere annoyance to consumers - it can result in significant harm by shutting down consumers' computers, enabling keystroke loggers to steal identities, and undermining the stability of the Internet.

As a follow-on to the Commission's 2003 Spam Forum, the two-day public summit will analyze malicious spam, shifts in spamming incentives and tactics, strategies for protecting consumers and businesses, and countermeasures for stopping malicious spammers and cybercriminals.

Topics are expected to include:

Defining the Problem: Earlier findings indicated that most spam was fraudulent, deceptive, and offensive. How has the nature of spam shifted? Is spam now being used for malicious and criminal purposes? Is this spam reaching consumers' inboxes or being filtered by internet service providers' filtering software?

New Methods for Sending Spam: To what extent, if any, have email address harvesting, dictionary attacks, and open proxys been replaced by botnets, zombies, and spam that uses images instead of text as the primary methods of spam distribution?

The Covert Economy: What are the financial incentives for malicious spammers? To what extent does stolen information, such as government-issued identity numbers, credit cards, bank cards and personal identification numbers, user accounts, and email addresses, play a role? What is the cost along the email chain to consumers, businesses, internet service providers, and networks?

Deterring Malicious Spammers and Cybercriminals: What are the investigatory challenges faced by law enforcement as spammers mask their identities and use obfuscatory techniques? What are effective countermeasures?

Emerging Threats: What emerging threats are occurring in media other than email including spam over instant messaging - SPIM - systems, spam over internet telephony - SPIT, and spam to mobile devices?

Putting Consumers Back in Control: How can we empower consumers and businesses in the fight against spam and malware?

Technological Tools for Keeping it Out of the Inbox: During the FTC's 2004 E-mail Authentication Summit, co-hosted with the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the FTC initiated efforts to spur the development and wide- scale adoption of domain level e-mail authentication. Where does the implementation of e-mail authentication stand? What are other key spam-reducing tools?

Stakeholder Best Practices: What best practices should stakeholders adopt to reduce malicious spam and minimize its impact?

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the FTC's satellite building conference center, located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC Members of the public and press who wish to participate but who cannot attend can view a live Webcast of the summit on the FTC's Web site. Pre-registration is not required.

The Commission invites interested parties to submit requests to be panelists. The requests should be submitted electronically to SpamSummit@ftc.gov on or before May 18, 2007. The Commission asks interested parties to include a statement detailing their expertise on the issues to be addressed at the summit and complete contact information. Panelists selected to participate will be notified by June 1, 2007.

Any person also may submit written comments on the topics to be addressed at the summit. Comments must be received on or before May 18, 2007. For further information about the Summit and for specific information on sending comments, participating as a panelist, the Summit agenda, and contact information, please consult the FTC Web site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/spamsummit/index.shtml.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP ( 1-877-382-4357 ), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,600 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Claudia Bourne Farrell,
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2181
STAFF CONTACT:
Sana Coleman Chriss,
Bureau of Consumer Protection
202-326-2249

How Botnets Generate Spam and Steal Your Identity

The Zombies Want Your Computer: How Botnets Generate Spam and Steal Your Identity

WASHINGTON, April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery today released the following media advisory.

WHAT: Brown Bag Lunch Briefing

- Presented by ACM and Microsoft

- Hosted by the Senate Science and Technology Caucus

- Hear academic, industry and law enforcement experts explore the growing threat of botnets and how they fuel criminal activities

WHEN: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.

WHERE: U.S. Capitol Senate Chambers
Room SC-4
Constitution Avenue and New Jersey Avenue

WHO: Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT)
Edward Felten, Princeton University, on How Botnets Form and the Scope of the Threat
Phil Reitinger, Microsoft, on How Industry is Dealing with Botnets
Scott O'Neal, FBI, on How Law Enforcement is Fighting Botnets

WHY: Robots are alive and well today, but they resemble nothing you've seen from science fiction or in a lab. They are hiding on millions of computers around the world.

Known as "bots," they are programs installed on computers without the knowledge of their owners. They can turn computers into "zombies" under the control of a hacker or "bot herder" and are used for malicious activities. When linked, they form a botnet - a network of compromised computers.

These networks are a serious and growing risk to consumers' privacy, business operations, e-commerce and the Internet itself. They can be used to spam, cripple websites, steal personal information, and attack other computers.

HOW: This is a public event but space is limited.
RSVP to David Bruggeman by April 24
Tel. 202-659-9711
Fax 202-667-1066
Email david.bruggeman@acm.org

ABOUT ACM
ACM (http://www.acm.org ) is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.

Internet Regulator Unanimously Approves Innovative .Tel Domain

Internet Regulator Unanimously Approves Innovative .Tel Domain

LONDON, England - May 15, 2006 - ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) unanimously approved the creation of the new .Tel Top Level Domain (TLD) and awarded the contract to Telnic Limited.

"The .Tel domain offers the first genuinely different use of domains since .com was first created. It will provide seamless integration of existing methods of communication with emerging technologies like Voice over IP (VoIP). This places the .Tel domain at the core of the next phase of Internet development," said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic.

"The days of needing to remember several telephone numbers, numerous VoIP or instant message identities and other points of contact for our social and professional networks are over. By leveraging innovative DNS (Domain Name System) technology, the .Tel domain will allow anyone to publish and control, in real time, how they can be reached."

The .Tel domain will enable people to reach a business from any Internet enabled device (computer or mobile) simply by typing, for example, "Hertz.tel". The user will then be able to connect directly to a Hertz representative or navigate through a list of services that Hertz may offer. Businesses can easily extend their brands into this new space and enhance the way customer inquiries are handled.

In addition, individuals can use the .Tel domain to publish and update their contact information directly in the DNS. These individuals will decide, in real time, by what means their friends and colleagues will be able to reach them. This could include: VoIP, conventional telephony (fixed-line or wireless), email, SMS, Skype, AIM and many more.

Telnic will release free applications to allow .tel domains to be integrated with the commonly used address books found in computer systems and mobile phones. This innovation will offer a unique experience distinct from any other top level domain.

About Telnic Limited
Founded in 1998, Telnic Limited is a UK-based technology company developing and delivering cutting-edge technology and solutions for the emerging Internet communications industry. For more information regarding the .Tel domain or Telnic Limited, please visit www.telnic.org.

Press inquiries to: Benjamin Blumenthal, Director of Marketing, Telnic Limited, 8 Wilfred Street, London SW1E 6PL, UK, Tel: +44-20-7828-0000, Fax: +44-20-7828-7007, Email: info@telnic.org

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Mail And Document Management Solutions

Pitney Bowes Showcases Mailstream Solutions at AIIM/On Demand in Boston April 17 - 19, 2007

ON DEMAND Conference & Expo 2007
Pitney Bowes Booth #901

April 11, 2007 - STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pitney Bowes Inc., (NYSE: PBI), the mailstream technology firm, will showcase a comprehensive portfolio of its mail and document management solutions for organizations of all sizes at the AIIM/ON DEMAND Conference and Exposition, to be held April 17-19 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. On display at the Pitney Bowes booth #901 will be solutions that help transactional mailers and direct marketers increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their customer communications.

Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software will showcase software solutions to enable Communications Intelligence, including its Customer Communication Management (CCM) portfolio for accelerating intelligence across the enterprise. Attendees will learn how Group 1 Software's CCM editions enable the creation of real-time communication for in-person interactions, as well as the generation of high-volume, high-quality business documents across the document workflow.

Pitney Bowes' Emtex Software will demonstrate a strong convergence model that includes not only print-on-demand applications, but also a broad range of transactional, transpromo and digital production printing. Emtex is a robust and flexible output management technology that offers format versatility to handle the convergence of different workflows. The VIPT and VDET solutions can input AFPDS, Metacode, DJDE, PostScript, PDF and PCL data streams. Based on customer requirements, print data will be generated for virtually any device compatible with IPDS, Metacode, PostScript, PCL or IJPDS. Digital documents can also be generated in AFPDS, PDF, XML or TIFF. As a result, customers are not limited by their data streams, but gain the freedom to send any print job to the device or delivery channel best suited for it. Emtex also has solutions for automated reprint, common accounting, integrated viewing, dynamic document manipulation and concurrent multiple input and output capabilities for any document environment.

Pitney Bowes Global Mailstream Solutions will be exhibiting products including its DI 950 Integrated Document Printing Solution, which provides outstanding levels of security and process integrity within the reach of mid-size mailers. With integrated printing, the DI 950 can help optimize the mailstream by creating, formatting, printing, inserting and metering in one solution.

Pitney Bowes will be featuring its recently introduced AddressRight® Pro DA75S Printer, which offers black-and-white and color printing capabilities to mailers of all sizes. The printer allows users to print addresses, graphics and barcodes and personalized messages almost anywhere on the envelope utilizing a wide variety of mailing materials including envelopes, postcards, booklets, folded newsletters, flats and catalogs. Used in tandem with Pitney Bowes' SmartMailerT or AddressRight® Pro, businesses can target customers with powerful, easy-to-use software that cleanses and updates existing lists while helping make full use of critical customer data.

Experts from the Pitney Bowes Postage Discount Program will educate attendees about solutions for reducing costs and maximizing opportunities in the new postal rate environment.

Art Fiordaliso, President Pitney Bowes AAS/pmh, a Pitney Bowes Marketing Services company, will be participating as a speaker in a session on "Web to Print Solutions: Enabling New Business Models," on Tuesday April 17, 2007 at 12:00 noon.

John Schloff, Vice President, Marketing and Global Strategy for Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies will be a panelist on "New Opportunities with Transpromotional Documents" on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 11:10 am.

About Pitney Bowes:

Pitney Bowes provides the world's most comprehensive suite of mailstream software, hardware, services and solutions to help companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages to improve communication. Pitney Bowes, with $5.7 billion in annual revenue, takes an all-inclusive view of its customers' operations, helping organizations of all sizes enjoy the competitive advantage that comes from an optimized mailstream. The company's 86 years of technological leadership have produced many major mailstream innovations, and it is consistently on the Intellectual Property Owners Association's list of top U.S. patent holders. With approximately 35,000 employees worldwide, Pitney Bowes serves more than 2 million businesses through direct and dealer operations. More information about the company can be found at www.pb.com.

Contacts
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Carol Wallace, 203-351-6974
carol.wallace@pb.com

Web Marketing Association Report On Legal Web Sites

 

Best Legal Web Site Trends Detailed in New Report from the Web Marketing Association

New Web Marketing Association' Internet Standards Assessment Report includes historical data derived from a decade of hosting Internet Award Competition, WebAwards, and provides Best Practices for 'Legal Web Design'.

West Simsbury, CT (PRWeb) April 16, 2007 -- www.07webaward.org - The Web Marketing Association, host of leading web site awards competition WebAwards, released the Internet Standards Assessment Report (ISAR) to help the legal industry learn to create more effective and engaging web sites.

"As the standard of excellence for web sites continues to increase, consumers (and WebAward judges) are increasingly picky about what they consider to be an effective web site," said William Rice, president of the Web Marketing Association, Inc. "Lawyers are not known to be risk takers and many of their web sites reflect that philosophy. The best legal Web sites are thought leaders for their areas of expertise, using corporate logs to write about important topics."

The WebAwards competition judges legal web sites on seven criteria that combined create award-winning web sites:
•    Design
•    Innovation
•    Content
•    Technology
•    Interactivity
•    Copywriting
•    Ease of use

Legal web sites are generally in line with overall Web Development, although there is a tendency to be slightly below the ISAR Index.

According to the ISAR study, content, design, copywriting and ease of use are legal web site's strong points, and they meet or exceed the 3-year criteria benchmark in ease of use. They tend to have the lowest scores for innovation and technology.

The 2006 WebAward for Best Legal Web site went to Thomson-FindLaw for Yanowitch Law, P.A.

Other past winners include:
•    2005 Frost Brown Todd LLC for Frost Brown Todd LLC
•    2004 Pierce Atwood for Pierce Atwood - Attorneys at Law
•    2003 Pepper Hamilton LLP for www.pepperlaw.com
•    2002 Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP for Lanepowell.com

A complete list of past winners can be found at http://legal.webaward.org

Companies and organizations wishing to have their legal web site evaluated against the ISAR Index and be considered for a WebAward, which can help boost a Web site's credibility and marketing efforts, can learn more at www.07webaward.org.

To request your copy of the 2007 WebAward ISAR report, please visit: http://www.webaward.org/isar_report.asp

The Internet Standards Assessment report and the 2007 WebAwards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: Burst Media, PRWeb, Misukanis & Odden, Small Army, SimpleFeed, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, eComXpo, MediaPost's OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, OTOlabs, Internet World UK, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Legal, Rovion's InPerson and eMarketer.

2007 WebAward Call for Entries
The Web Marketing Association is now accepting entries into its 11th annual international WebAward Competition. The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks that the Internet Standards Assessment report is based upon. The legal industry represents an important category in the WebAward competition, and the Web Marketing Association will again be honoring the Best Legal Web site of 2007. The deadline for entry is May 31, 2007 and the WebAward Web site is located at www.07webaward.org.

About the WebAwards
Now in its 11th year, the annual international WebAwards competition sets the standard of excellence in 96 industry categories by evaluating Web sites and defining benchmarks based on the seven essential criteria of successful Web site development. The goal of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective Web sites on the Internet today. Entrants benefit from a Web site assessment by a professional judging panel and the marketing opportunities presented to an award-winning Web site. For more information, visit www.07webaward.org.

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Press Contact: WILLIAM RICE
Company Name: WebAward
Email: Email Us Here: http://www.prweb.com/emailmember.php?prid=519024
Phone: 860-558-5423
Website: www.07webaward.org

How Do I SPAM thee? Let me count the ways...

Voicecasting®  - Voicemail spam, answering machine spam, voice message spam, recorded spam message
http://voicelogic.com/voicecasting.html

They put marketing sales messages into residential telephone voice mail boxes or answering machines. And they say they do this without ringing the phone...! Like getting email spam, but not hearing the message "You've got mail". WTF, where did THIS come from? Honey, I thought you checked the machine, it says there's a message...!

Talk about your stillborn ideas....!

Don't tell me that we are going to need a CAPCHA for our answering machines and voice mail? "If you're human, press F-O-U-R. If you want to leave a message, press the number that completes this famous line: '... god, indivisable, with liberty and justice for all'. If you want to leave a message in our blackhole spam bucket, press 2. To be connected to the FTC, press 3."

I just got a junk fax from these guys and went to their site before I reported the fax to www.efax.com.

As usual I am late to the rantfest:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1679258
http://www.spamblogging.com/archives/000690.html
http://www.dmn.ca/Articles/Articles/2004/Nov/crtc1104.htm
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2004/dt2004-65.htm
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8622/r11_200514936.htm

Attempt to ban voicemail spamming

Rogers Wireless Inc. appeals to Canadian Radio-television and Telemarketing Commission for a ban on voicemail spamming.

Canadian wireless operator Rogers Wireless Inc. is appealing to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ban the marketing practice of voicemail spamming.

The process the company objects to is known as 'voicecasting' and involves the use of an automated dialling device to transmit marketing messages directly into the voicemail accounts of mobile telephones. Because the messages are transmitted directly to the voicemail accounts, the telephone does not ring, so consumers don't realise they've received the advertising messages until they retrieve their voicemail.

In a complaint filed with the CRTC, Rogers Wireless argued that mobile phone customers should not have to pay airtime charges to access marketing messages that have been disguised as legitimate voicemail. The company also pointed out that the costs are even higher for customers who retrieve messages while abroad, when roaming or long-distance charges also come into play.

Somewhat surprisingly, the man credited with inventing voicemail spamming says he agrees with Rogers Wireless. Cesar Correia, founder of Infolink Technologies Inc., the largest provider of voicecasting services in Canada, said: 'Customers should not be incurring charges when somebody is sending a voicecast to a cellphone. It's unfair to the public'.

Telephone companies and consumer groups will be hoping that Rogers Wireless has put together a strong case - in 2001 Bell made a similar complaint to the CRTC about voicecasting, but the regulator ruled that there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the practice was a nuisance to consumers. This time the CRTC is expected to issue a public notice and seek comment on the issue.

03 January 2006
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/spam_news/2006/01_03a.xml

Electronic House Magazine

Electronic House

by Larry Dobrow, Tuesday, April 10, 2007
EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH-END home audio and video kicks more than a thimbleful of tush. Our wall-sized televisions, for instance, grandly affirm the righteous indignation of a fat-suited Tyra Banks, while our supersonic stereos deliver the mellifluous trills of Coldplay in all their girly glory. So why don't most home-theater magazines occasionally acknowledge that this stuff is, you know, fun?

Electronic House may be the worst offender that I've encountered. Never mind the March/April issue's typos (a story on page 15 is listed on the contents page as running on page 115; the seller of a featured item is billed as "Staple's") or the press releases masquerading as stories (from a piece on Windows Vista: "[It] includes a special HotStart mode that instantly starts movie, TV or music playback without requiring the full operating system to boot up. This allows you to enjoy the feature-rich benefits of a computer in the entertainment room without paying the penalty of waiting for the computer to fire up"). No, the real issue here is that the magazine fails to convey a modicum of excitement about the subject at hand. It's the Bataan Death March of enthusiast publications.

The piece on a pimped-up Lexus sound system joylessly notes its features, while the six featured home-theater spreads do little beyond provide laundry lists of components. The mag, in fact, accomplishes the near-impossible by somehow draining all vitality and cool factor from a piece on an indoor pool converted into a home theater (some big ol' pix next time around, maybe?). Even the editor's note, that reliable bastion of we-are-fabulous boosterism, doesn't get any more involved or engaged than "I can't wait to receive much more HD content." Separately, rumor has it that the editor of Astronomy Today can't wait to buy more telescopes.

I also don't have the slightest idea who Electronic House is written for. Anybody with more than a cursory interest in home theater will dismiss the mag's shallow, detail-light content without a second look, and anybody who doesn't care about home theater won't pick up a title like this in the first place. Who's left? "Home theater for retards" isn't an especially compelling editorial hook.

That's neither politically correct nor particularly articulate, I realize, but I don't know how better to characterize the March/April issue's hodgepodge of dim and dimmer items. The cover feature on "The New HD" rehashes information long ago covered in Home Theater and Sound & Vision, supplementing it with a next-generation-audio sidebar so in-depth that it only fills 65% of a page (the rest is left blank). The how-to on selecting a home-theater designer stresses that readers should "expect top-notch professionalism from each and every one" -- like Home Smart Home's marketing director Chris Stanfa, who inexplicably finds his way into a photo accompanying the story.

Not that anybody expects eloquence from an electronics mag, but the stories are alternately filled with big-picture pronouncements that have been beaten to death elsewhere ("like it or not, TVs are becoming PCs, and PCs are becoming TVs") and ones that practically beg to be taken out of context ("racks come in all shapes, sizes and prices"). Don't look for help from the mag's two columnists; one wastes his 500-word allotment on a dry discussion of "Batman Begins," "The Constant Gardener" and other mega-timely content he enjoyed during the past year.

I think I've made my point, if a bit more humorlessly than usual. Do not read, peruse, advertise in, make eye contact with, or otherwise engage Electronic House. OK?


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Sacramento, Ca. (PRWeb) February 5, 2007 -- EmailDirect.com, a web based email list management and delivery company, is reinventing the way Northern California restaurants interact with their diners. By communicating via smart email marketing, restaurant managers are empowered to reach thousands of diners simultaneously through personalized email messages.

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A recent Pitney Bowes survey of more than 500 business executives nationwide indicated that 79% of respondents are unaware of the changes in postal rates and regulations. This widespread lack of knowledge about an important business event cuts across all organizational sizes and all regions of the country.

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Damn the PR, Full Submit Ahead!

Damn the PR, Full Submit Ahead!

I just read an article here that says what I have been saying for quite a while. The author talks about submitting to smaller directories even if their PR is zero or very low. The reason is that even if they are small now, there is a good chance that they will grow and get bigger in the future. This is less likely if everyone just ignores them.

If people were not always so short-sighted, they might realize that directory submissions is a two way street, and this goes for the directory owner as well as the person submitting a site.

A good, well-written submission may be small, but it can still be good content and have value. An average directory listing provides value as a way for visitors to that site to find it, AND also provides a link back to the site which may have some value.

Good Listing =  Good Content = Good Link

Those that are submitting sites and those that own directories and search engines should have the attitude that they both need each other and show proper respect. Just as poor quality submissions and ignoring posted submission rules show no respect, so to does excessively fussy rules, return link requirements, and most listing fees. It is not realistic to expect someone that is submitting their site to pay even $1 to do so at all the sites that they have to choose from. By not charging a fee, directory owners allow themselves to get much more good content for their site and attract those that click, which continues long after a site has been submitted.  (hris
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