Microsoft, you got served!
On the heels of losing one antitrust case in Europe, Microsoft is being served with another.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/technology/14opera.html?th&emc=th
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0320000139I8&nl=5
Leaping Leap
Leap Communications have agreed to buy the wireless assets of Hargray Communications Group. Because it beats having to built it yourself.
http://www.fool.com/news/associated-press/2007/12/12/leap-to-buy-hargrays-wireless-business.aspx
http://www.leapwireless.com/l1_our_cricket_service.htm
Sprint to MySpace Mobile
Sprint will be the first to offer a free link to MySpace Mobile on its mobile portal.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=72730&Nid=37405&p=910435
Webkinz Ad Backlash
Consumer group Campaign for Consumer Free Childhood is urging the children’s social networking site Webkinz to reconsider its decision to allow advertising on the site.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=72726&Nid=37405&p=910435
Apple Ads
MacWorld examines what makes Apple’s advertising so iconic.
http://www.macworld.com/article/131075/2007/12/appleads.html
AdSense Lacks Sense
People reading news articles about baseball’s steroid controversy were served with Google ads selling steroids. Google joined Barry Bonds in saying, “What? I didn’t know! I swear!”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/13/while-you-are-reading-about-the-steroids-report-here-are-some-related-products-you-might-enjoy/
Jack Ass Online
Paramount Pictures is streaming “Jackass 2.5” for free on Blockbuster.com prior to the sale of the DVD. It will be ad supported. The executives will then turn around and claim to writers everywhere that they have no idea whatsoever how to monetize the Internet.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=72696
MySpace Politics
The 2008 presidential elections may go down as the first election won or lost on a social network. I’ll be giving my vote to the first candidate to give me a “Thanks for the ad!” comment.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc20071213_093878.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories