The Washington Post writes that “[i]n a bid to keep up with its competition, Yahoo yesterday launched a system to let marketers tailor advertising content to individual users, theoretically making the ads more effective and, therefore, more lucrative for Yahoo. Yahoo's advertising service, SmartAds, uses behavioral, demographic and geographic information [...]
The International Herald Tribune reports that Apple is facing a rebellion over iTunes, with “[t]he Universal Music Group of Vivendi, the world's biggest music corporation, last week [notifying] Apple that it would not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes.” According to Wired, “[a] political battle is raging [...]
Washington – Today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division posted a new draft of its open format proposal as part of a periodic revision to its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM). In response to the new draft, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) president Jonathan Zuck made the following statement: [...]
Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT and avowed Apple zealot, waits relatively patiently for his pretty new iPhone at the local Cingular/AT&T Store. He's number 6 in line…let's just hope that the store has more than 5 phones to sell. I don't want to be anywhere near him if he [...]
MSNBC today has as an interesting article on how technology is empowering Chinese citizens. A recent text messaging campaign by Chinese environmentalists that resulted in the construction of a chemical plant being halted “marked a rare instance of public opinion in China rising from the streets and compelling a change [...]