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Despite the lowering costs and accessibility of email marketing, many businesses are now looking at Twitter as an economical substitute, according to Deborah Collier Chief Strategist at e-business consultancy Echo E-Business.
Ms Collier explains “Email marketing offers a channel to directly target subscribers, however the return on investment, particularly for smaller businesses is still fairly low [...]

The BBC is paying Google to have its website news listed in search results.
The Corporation is using part of its £100m annual marketing budget to pay for sponsored links, the Mail on Sunday claims.
Last week, for example, the BBC paid for keyword advertising around the Mercury Music Prize, driving traffic towards its own coverage of [...]

The new ‘Borderless’ LED TV’s from LG are extraordinarily exquisite, with an elegant and bold design. We so hope the spec’s match up…..

There are two new models from this range, the SL8000 and SL9000. The SL9000 has a higher spec offering a ridiculous, but generous 3,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, backlit 1080p display, 100Hz technology and [...]

Sony in talks with Google to ship Chrome with its new Vaio PCs
In what would be a landmark deal if it comes through, future Sony Vaio systems might come with Google’s Chrome Browser preinstalled.
Traditionally, Microsoft has being shipping Internet Explorer with its Operating Systems
- a practice that enabled it to garner a lion’s share of [...]

Top mobile phone maker Nokia on Wednesday bolstered its smartphone line-up to better battle Apple and announced a new location-based service with social networking site Facebook.
The announcements at the “Nokia World” event in Stuttgart are the latest riposte from the Finnish firm, which has lagged Apple’s innovativeness as the focus of cellphone businesses shifts to [...]

Telecom major Bharti Airtel Tuesday launched the Blackberry Curve 8520 smartphone on its prepaid and postpaid platforms in collaboration with the manufacturer of the device, the Canada-based Research in Motion
(RIM).
The smartphone, priced at Rs.15,990, will be available from Aug 7.
The launch follows that of Nokia’s E-series phones that have most of the standard Blackberry features [...]

Research In Motion is keeping pace in the mobile browser race with the purchase this week of Torch Mobile, maker of the WebKit-based Iris smartphone browser.
Torch Mobile, a WebKit developer that makes the Iris mobile browser, announced Monday that it has been acquired by RIM for an undisclosed sum.
Already, observers are calling RIM’s acquisition of [...]

Cell phone users in the U.S., Spain, and Canada pay more for mobile phone service than cell phone users in other parts of the world, according to a survey published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The OECD surveyed mobile carriers in its 30 member countries. The report showed on average how much consumers [...]

URL shortening service Trim is reopening its doors, restoring service to both existing Trim links and the core of the site that lets users make new ones. A company blog post that details the change of plans says that the company will continue to run Trim “indefinitely” while a trustworthy buyer is sought out.
Trim originally [...]