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Advertising Trends The Popularity of the Letter 'Z' Using a "z" at the end of a name -- often in place of the "s" that would be there to indicate the plural form -- is growing increasingly popular in Internet advertising and marketing. (NY Times) On-line advertiser offers 'free' cash Cybergold has joined forces with San Francisco-based Inference, a provider of customer-management software and services, to create Cash2Register, a program that doles out instant cash rewards to Web surfers who take the time to fill out product registration forms on line. (Knight-Ridder) |
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Netsourcing Vaulting into Online Storage There are already about 20 companies making bids in the online storage market, many of them starting up in the last year. With names like Freedrive, i-drive, x:drive, Driveway, and @backup, it's easy to confuse them. The offerings are remarkably similar, too, ranging from 25 to 250MB storage lockers -- either for free or at a small cost. (Wired News) |
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Lawsuit GTE sues AT&T over Net access The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, alleges that AT&T and Comcast are illegally forcing their cable modem customers to buy AtHome's high-speed Internet service. Customers who want to use another service can get it only if they also pay for the AT&T-affiliated ExciteAtHome service, the complaint says. (USA Today) |
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Cheaper Access BT may offer cheap rates for Internet calls British Telecommunications Plc. will soon announce special cheap rates for Internet calls to lure more customers onto the Web. According to the Guardian, this would be the first time BT had made a distinction between an Internet telephone call and a voice phone call. (Internet News) |
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Well done Microsoft leads effort to find jobs for the disabled Microsoft Corp. is leading 21 U.S. companies, in an alliance with the National Business and Disabilities Council to increase job opportunities for people with disabilities. The program has also launched a Web site, Abletowork.org, to share information on available jobs and job applicants. (Techserver) Internet offers portal to freedom for disabled Charlotte-based Virtual Buddies is a nonprofit organization that solicits donations for hardware and e-mail accounts and trains people with disabilities to use the technology in their homes to participate in the Internet revolution. (Techserver) |
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Dick Tracy no - Chip Tracer yes! Newseum, Newsday unveil cyberjournalist comic on Web The Newseum, the world's only interactive museum of news, and Newsday, the nation's sixth-largest daily newspaper, unveiled the first multimedia episode of time-traveling cyberjournalist Chip Tracer on Oct. 21 at Newseum/NY. |
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