AT&T iPhone Google Deal Pits Apple Against Blackberry
Pitting Apple against Blackberry, AT&T will offer a corporate plan for iPhone users, Engadget reported today. The iPhone Google AT&T alliance made news at MacWorld with the launch of new Google apps and features for the iPhone. Today’s announcement, though, may be the biggest search engine industry news to come out of MacWorld. If the [...]
Big Brother Wants Your Email Access
A disturbing report via National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell says Big Brother (that’s the US government and its NSA if you haven’t been keeping up) wants access to any email, file transfer and Web search. Their main ally so far in the security game: AT&T. read more More: continued here big brother wants your email access
AT&T Concessions Prove Meaningless
Remember how after AT&T made Net Neutrality concessions to get their merger with BellSouth approved, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was so quick to remind everybody that the FCC had no teeth to enforce that? Well, the lack of teeth is coming back to bite us. Let’s review. At the end of 2006, Martin had this [...]
Analog Cell Phone Network To Shut Down
In 2008 mobile carriers will begin shutting down the analog cell phone network. Starting February 19, 2008, cell phone carriers, including AT&T, Alltel and Verizon Wireless, will be turning off their analog networks. Other mobile carriers including Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile do not have analog networks and their customers will not be affected. read more [...]
Patent Problems Resolved Between Vonage, AT&T
Vonage lightened its legal burdens with a settlement of claims of patent infringement brought against the VoIP company by AT&T. read more More: continued here patent problems resolved between vonage att
SEW Experts: Local Search Lead Gen: Yellowpages.com Ingenio-us Strategy
Late last month, AT&T purchased pay-per-call search platform and advertising network Ingenio. In today’s Vertical Challenge column, “Local Search Lead Gen: Yellowpages.com Ingenio-us Strategy,” local search expert Michael Boland discusses what this means for AT&T Yellow Pages and, more importantly, Yellowpages.com, its Internet yellow pages (IYP) counterpart. More: continued here sew experts local search lead [...]
Top Ad + Top Organic = Buy
Searchers are more likely to consider purchasing, to remember specific brands, and to associate specific brands with keywords when ads are in the search results, according to a newly study from Enquiro. Conversely, searchers were less likely to consider purchasing a brand that doesn’t appear in on the search results page. (Editor’s Note: The study, [...]
Search Headlines & Links: November 29, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: YellowPages.com Explains Ingenio AcquisitionYellowpage.com CEO Charles Stubbs made a surprise appearance at ILM:07/ SES Local today to talk about AT&T’s [...]
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