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Mass
E-Mailing May Have Gotten On Spam List
I resently emailed my former customers and wesite
subscribers. I also added a link at the buttom of
all the emails for people to remove themselves from
any future emails. Well now it seems any emails
to yahoo and comcast are bouncing back.
Congress
Considers Net Neutrality Fines
ust when Net neutrality seemed a lost cause in Congress,
lawmakers began to consider shifting regulatory
power to the Federal Communications Commissions
in the form of case-by-case fines of up to $500,000.
Starting
In Online Drop-Shipping
I have been looking for a second job where I could
work on my time when i started reading on drop-shipping...
wondering if anyone out there has any good drop
shippers that sell anything between computers to
network supplies, and dont charge high shipping
to make money...
Regulators,
Mount Up: A Look At IPTV
Everybody knows you can see anything you want on
the Internet. Thus far, the medium has been a bastion
of free expression. But already Congress and attorneys
look...
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04.07.06
AOL Much Ado About Mobile
 By
David A. Utter
With the ubiquitous presence of mobile phones and their ever-expanding functionality, AOL has taken steps to make its services more available to mobile phone users.
In the results of a recent survey conducted by AOL with Pew Research and AP, AOL has found the mobile phone stays on all the time for more than half of all adults. Even better, 40 percent of the richly coveted 18-29 demographic has dumped landlines in favor of their wireless phone.
To achieve a greater hold on its part of the hotly competitive mobile market, AOL has partnered with InfoGin Ltd to transcode web pages for viewing on the smaller handheld screens.
Most importantly, the expanded alliance with InfoGin extends PC browser-based search to the mobile platform. This provides AOL with greater opportunities to deliver paid search ads, particularly local business ads, to users. Local search figures to be a multi-billion dollar market in a few years.
The updates made by AOL to mobile browsing integrate with the company's current suite of mobile services. While many users want various search options at their fingertips, the Mobile Lifestyle survey shows they have other needs too.
Using mobile maps placed at the top of the list of activities Americans like to do or want to do with wireless phones. More than have of those surveyed (51 percent) cited maps as the top choice for mobile activity.
Users also like to send text messages and take photos with their phones, as nearly half the respondents listed those activities. Despite all the current hype over mobile television, watching video or TV shows on a mobile phone only attracted interest from 16 percent of respondents.
AOL also announced at CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas that it would expand the existing relationship with Sprint, and brings its mobile portal services to Sprint subscribers.
This includes access to the new AOL mobile search as well as the popular AIM instant messaging system. Users can download mobile AIM applications or connect to AIM through their wireless Internet connection.
AOL noted that "presence awareness via the mobile Buddy List feature, IM Forwarding and two-way desktop-to-mobile (IM2SMS) messaging services" would be available to those Sprint subscribers.
Soon, AOL plans to provide a mobile picture upload feature that users on any wireless carrier can access for automatic photo posting. They will also enable mobile blogging for users to place photos on AOL Journals or AIM Blogs.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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