Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
You just launched a new interactive ad campaign and corresponding landing page. You discussed the page design with your team. You know your customers. You’ve built out the landing page to meet their expectations and be consistent with the campaign. All done, right? Businesses undercut the potential success of their online campaigns all the time.
Sprint Nextel sustained a harsh legal blow this week that could have wide-ranging effects across the entire mobile telephone industry. A judge in California ruled that it is illegal for Sprint to charge so-called early termination fees when customers discontinue their wireless phone service before their contracts with the carrier end.
The British House of Lords has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who hacked his way into several U.S. military, defense and NASA computers, to the United States to stand trial. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since the discovery in 2002 that he was the one who broke into the U.S. government’s most sensitive networks between 2001 and 2002.
First Amazon transformed itself from simple online bookseller to general e-tailer. Then it spread into the world of Web services and distributed computing. Now the online giant is entering the alternative payments game. Amazon’s two new payment services, Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay, enter a market with existing players such as PayPal, BillMeLater and Google Checkout.
Yahoo, HP and Intel are collaborating on an ambitious research endeavor called “Cloud Computing Test Bed” — designed to support cloud computing research and education at universities. Users will be able to develop and test software, data center management, and hardware associated with cloud computing on this large-scale grid.