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If you haven't played Farmville yet, you have surely heard of it. With 70 million users spending 70 million hours a week, Farmville now competes with prime time television. In aggregate, 40 percent of the 700 billion minutes spent every month across the world on Facebook are spent on social games. Users are spending long stretches of time at one go in these games. For instance, an average session on the game Bejeweled Blitz lasts 43 minutes. 

While games might be one of the largest time sinks on the Internet, they are not the only ones. Users of the Internet radio service Pandora spend more than an hour and a half per day on the service, and half its usage comes from mobile devices like the iPhone.  Many other mobile apps have seen high user engagement, and an average session on an iPhone app lasts 9.6 minutes.

All of these point to a trend that Internet consumption is shifting to apps, instead of webpages. Unlike webpages, apps are optimized for a proprietary platform (think Apple's iOS, or Facebook's app platform). Wired famously, and perhaps very prematurely, hailed the emergence of apps by announcing that the Web is dead, and The Wall Street Journal recently talked about the appification of everything.  While some of these pronouncements may be ahead of their time, there is no denying that apps are giving webpages and the World Wide Web a run for their money.

App user versus website visitor

This trend has significant implications for marketers, and in many ways they will have to treat apps and app users differently from visitors to websites. For instance, in a world where users are willing to significant amount on time with apps, and a world that doesn't involve loading multiple pages, traditional metrics like page views are no longer as important as earlier.  Another departure from the world of webpages is that ad engagement on apps can often be very high. Greystripe, a rich media mobile ad network, found that users engage for an average of 22 seconds on their iPhone ads.

It's still early days for app-advertising, and advertising-revenue is still a small portion of app revenues. The amount of money mobile apps are projected to make from app-purchases far exceeds the projected $600 million in advertising revenue. On Facebook apps, primarily social games, traditional advertising is projected to be a small percentage of revenues (however, "indirect payments" for virtual currency, i.e., advertising in the form of offers linked to virtual currency, have been a more successful form of advertising on these games).

However, even in these early days, some advertisers and ad networks have achieved strong success with app-advertising. Based on their experiences, some insights are starting to emerge on how to market to app users:

Engage with the user within the app.

Don't make the users click out: Advertising on the Web is often focused on getting the user to click through to the advertiser's website as quickly as possible. However, in the world of apps, users are highly engaged with the app, and advertisements have to allow them to get back to their app without losing any context. When Apple launched its in-app ad network, iAD, earlier this year, it quickly gained market share to pull even with the leading ad networks on mobile devices despite some initial hiccups. 

Clicking on ads opens up a full screen ad within the app instead of opening a session on a browser. Apple makes it easy for users to interact with very rich ads, and at the same time makes it easy for them to return to the app. On the Facebook Platform, Rockyou recently rolled out an ad format called the Deal of the Day.  The Deal of Day blends an ad or an offer inside the game experience. Users can view brand advertising in the form of videos without leaving the game and earn virtual currency for doing that.

For advertisers, the key is to understand how to derive value from these in-app advertisements. Brand advertisers are well positioned to take advantage of these placements, but direct marketers will have to innovate in order to leverage these opportunities.

Become a part of the app's experience.

Better still, enhance the experience. Since app users have a very high engagement with the app, they are more likely to listen to a marketer's message if the message is part of their experience with the app.  A great example of this is Starbucks' campaign on Pandora that creates custom playlists for users based on their beverage tastes.  Another example is that of Mytown, a location based app from Booyah, that partnered with H&M to offer location-sensitive virtual goods.  The Rockyou Deal of the Day we mentioned earlier adds to users' experience with games by rewarding users with virtual game points.

Build a presence on the app platform.

Many of the best ways to advertise on apps are around acquiring users for the advertiser's own presence on the same platform. Juicy Fruit created a humorous iPhone app to drive brand awareness and engagement, and drove "awareness of the app through targeted advertising that includes text, banner and rich media." This is a great way to advertise in-app to drive users to your own app or other presence on the platform. Platforms are beginning to understand this as well. For instance, Twitter, having experimented with an advertising format called Earlybird that drove traffic to other websites, has now started focusing on "promoted tweets," a way for advertisers to promote their own presence on Twitter. In this case, advertisers don't need to build a Twitter app, but they can build their presence on the Twitter platform by actively tweeting.

The world of app-vertising is fertile ground for creative marketers. Advertisers who break the old rules and optimize for the app experience will be able to connect with a highly engaged audience.

Vijay Chittoor is a co-founder of Mertado Social Deals. He was previously director of product management at Kosmix. A former McKinsey consultant, Chittoor is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.  He shares his thoughts on technology at his blog.

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Immediately after the recession took a dramatic dive in
September 2008, the Bernanke Fed implemented a policy that continues to
further damage the incentive for banks to lend to businesses. On
October 6, 2008 the Fed's Board of Governors, chaired by Ben Bernanke,
announced it would begin paying interest on the reserve balances of
the nation's banks, major lenders to medium and small size businesses.

 

You don't need a Ph.D. economist to know that if you pay
banks ¼ percent risk free interest to hold reserves that they can obtain
at near zero interest, that would be an incentive to hold the
reserves. The Fed pumped out huge amounts of money, with the base of
the money supply more than doubling from August 2008 to August 2010,
reaching $1.99 trillion. Guess who has over half of this money parked
in cold storage? The banks have $1.085 trillion on reserves drawing
interest, The Fed records show they were paid $2.18 billion interest on
these reserves in 2009.

 

A number of people spoke
about the disincentive for bank lending embedded in this policy
including Chairman Bernanke.

 

***

 

Jim McTague, Washington Editor of Barrons,
wrote in his February 2, 2009 column, "Where's the Stimulus:"
"Increasing the supply of credit might help pump up spending, too.
University of Texas Professor Robert Auerbach an economist who studied
under the late Milton Friedman, thinks he has the makings of a
malpractice suit against Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, as the
Fed is holding a record number of reserves: $901 billion in January as
opposed to $44 billion in September, when the Fed began paying interest
on money commercial banks parked at the central bank. The banks prefer
the sure rate of return they get by sitting in cash, not making loans.
Fed, stop paying, he says."

 

Shortly after this article appeared
Fed Chairman Bernanke explained: "Because banks should be unwilling to
lend reserves at a rate lower than they can receive from the Fed, the
interest rate the Fed pays on bank reserves should help to set a floor
on the overnight interest rate." (National Press Club, February 18,
2009) That was an admission that the Fed's payment of interest on
reserves did impair bank lending. Bernanke's rationale for interest
payments on reserves included preventing banks from lending at lower
interest rates. That is illogical at a time when the Fed's target
interest rate for federal funds, the small market for interbank loans,
was zero to a quarter of one percent. The banks would be unlikely to
lend at negative rates of interest -- paying people to take their money
-- even without the Fed paying the banks to hold reserves.

 

The next month William T. Gavin, an excellent economist at the St.
Louis Federal Reserve, wrote in its MarchApril 2009 publication:
"first, for the individual bank, the risk-free rate of ¼ percent must
be the bank's perception of its best investment opportunity."

 

The Bernanke Fed's policy was a repetition of what the Fed did in
1936 and 1937 which helped drive the country into a second depression.
Why does Chairman Bernanke, who has studied the Great Depression of
the 1930's and has surely read the classic 1963 account of improper
actions by the Fed on bank reserves described by Milton Friedman and
Anna Schwartz, repeat the mistaken policy?

As the
economy pulled out of the deep recession in 1936 the Fed Board thought
the U.S. banks had too much excess reserves, so they began to raise the
reserves banks were required to hold. In three steps from August 1936
to May 1937 they doubled the reserve requirements for the large banks
(13 percent to 26 percent of checkable deposits) and the country banks
(7 percent to 14 percent of checkable deposits).

 

Friedman and Schwartz ask: "why seek to immobilize reserves at that
time?" The economy went back into a deep depression. The Bernanke Fed's
2008 to 2010 policy also immobilizes the banking system's reserves
reducing the banks' incentive to make loans.

 

This is a bad policy even if the banks approve. The
correct policy now should be to slowly reduce the interest paid on
bank reserves to zero and simultaneously maintain a moderate increase
in the money supply by slowly raising the short term market interest
rate targeted by the Fed. Keeping the short term target
interest rate at zero causes many problems, not the least of which is
allowing banks to borrow at a zero interest rate and sit on their
reserves so they can receive billions in interest from the taxpayers
via the Fed. Business loans from banks are vital to the nations'
recovery.

The fact that the Fed is suppressing lending
and inflation at a time when it says it is trying to encourage both
shows that the Fed is saying one thing and doing something else
entirely.

I have previously pointed out numerous other ways in which the Fed is working against its stated goals, such as:

• Reinforcing cyclical trends (when one of the Fed's main justifications is providing a counter-cyclical balance);

• Increasing unemployment (when the Fed is mandated by law to maximize employment); and

• Encouraging financial companies to make even riskier gambles in the future (when it is supposed to stabilize the financial system).

And see this.

Postscript: If the Fed really wants to stimulate the economy, it should try Steve Keen's idea.

About a third of the top grossing apps in the Apple App Store are now making their money through the sale of virtual goods within the application after being free to download, according to research done by tech blog GigaOm.

The free-to-play model has so far served as a good way to entice users with free apps and then make money off the sale of virtual goods. Apple finally caved to developers and created a system to allow iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users to make purchases from within apps last fall. The design allows developers to create a free app and then get the user to purchase a very cheap virtual good, such as a better weapon in a game. It then becomes much easier to convert a non-paying user into a paying one.

Freemium applications are making a good bit of money. In January, mobile analytics firm Flurry said that the freemium games it tracked generated revenues of $9 per user per year, on average. In June, that number had risen to $14.66 per user per year. Previously, these games were generating around 99 cents to $1.99 per user per year. 34 of the top 100 apps are free, but make their money through in-app purchases of mostly virtual currencies as well as other premium features, according to GigaOm’s report.

Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all purchases made within applications. That’s the same amount that Facebook, another large host of social games (including Zynga’s Farmville), charges its game partners.

Apple’s App Store now has around 300,000 apps for sale and for free download. And the App Store is growing by around 1,000 apps every day. The Android marketplace, which has applications for phones running on Google’s Android operating system, only has around 113,000 applications according to some metrics.

Score another one for social games developer Zynga, which first brought the freemium model to the forefront as a significant source of revenue for games and other applications. Its games have become insanely popular, and the company is now worth as much as Electronic Arts — one of the largest publishers in the world — by some metrics from its virtual good sales alone.

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Immediately after the recession took a dramatic dive in
September 2008, the Bernanke Fed implemented a policy that continues to
further damage the incentive for banks to lend to businesses. On
October 6, 2008 the Fed's Board of Governors, chaired by Ben Bernanke,
announced it would begin paying interest on the reserve balances of
the nation's banks, major lenders to medium and small size businesses.

 

You don't need a Ph.D. economist to know that if you pay
banks ¼ percent risk free interest to hold reserves that they can obtain
at near zero interest, that would be an incentive to hold the
reserves. The Fed pumped out huge amounts of money, with the base of
the money supply more than doubling from August 2008 to August 2010,
reaching $1.99 trillion. Guess who has over half of this money parked
in cold storage? The banks have $1.085 trillion on reserves drawing
interest, The Fed records show they were paid $2.18 billion interest on
these reserves in 2009.

 

A number of people spoke
about the disincentive for bank lending embedded in this policy
including Chairman Bernanke.

 

***

 

Jim McTague, Washington Editor of Barrons,
wrote in his February 2, 2009 column, "Where's the Stimulus:"
"Increasing the supply of credit might help pump up spending, too.
University of Texas Professor Robert Auerbach an economist who studied
under the late Milton Friedman, thinks he has the makings of a
malpractice suit against Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, as the
Fed is holding a record number of reserves: $901 billion in January as
opposed to $44 billion in September, when the Fed began paying interest
on money commercial banks parked at the central bank. The banks prefer
the sure rate of return they get by sitting in cash, not making loans.
Fed, stop paying, he says."

 

Shortly after this article appeared
Fed Chairman Bernanke explained: "Because banks should be unwilling to
lend reserves at a rate lower than they can receive from the Fed, the
interest rate the Fed pays on bank reserves should help to set a floor
on the overnight interest rate." (National Press Club, February 18,
2009) That was an admission that the Fed's payment of interest on
reserves did impair bank lending. Bernanke's rationale for interest
payments on reserves included preventing banks from lending at lower
interest rates. That is illogical at a time when the Fed's target
interest rate for federal funds, the small market for interbank loans,
was zero to a quarter of one percent. The banks would be unlikely to
lend at negative rates of interest -- paying people to take their money
-- even without the Fed paying the banks to hold reserves.

 

The next month William T. Gavin, an excellent economist at the St.
Louis Federal Reserve, wrote in its MarchApril 2009 publication:
"first, for the individual bank, the risk-free rate of ¼ percent must
be the bank's perception of its best investment opportunity."

 

The Bernanke Fed's policy was a repetition of what the Fed did in
1936 and 1937 which helped drive the country into a second depression.
Why does Chairman Bernanke, who has studied the Great Depression of
the 1930's and has surely read the classic 1963 account of improper
actions by the Fed on bank reserves described by Milton Friedman and
Anna Schwartz, repeat the mistaken policy?

As the
economy pulled out of the deep recession in 1936 the Fed Board thought
the U.S. banks had too much excess reserves, so they began to raise the
reserves banks were required to hold. In three steps from August 1936
to May 1937 they doubled the reserve requirements for the large banks
(13 percent to 26 percent of checkable deposits) and the country banks
(7 percent to 14 percent of checkable deposits).

 

Friedman and Schwartz ask: "why seek to immobilize reserves at that
time?" The economy went back into a deep depression. The Bernanke Fed's
2008 to 2010 policy also immobilizes the banking system's reserves
reducing the banks' incentive to make loans.

 

This is a bad policy even if the banks approve. The
correct policy now should be to slowly reduce the interest paid on
bank reserves to zero and simultaneously maintain a moderate increase
in the money supply by slowly raising the short term market interest
rate targeted by the Fed. Keeping the short term target
interest rate at zero causes many problems, not the least of which is
allowing banks to borrow at a zero interest rate and sit on their
reserves so they can receive billions in interest from the taxpayers
via the Fed. Business loans from banks are vital to the nations'
recovery.

The fact that the Fed is suppressing lending
and inflation at a time when it says it is trying to encourage both
shows that the Fed is saying one thing and doing something else
entirely.

I have previously pointed out numerous other ways in which the Fed is working against its stated goals, such as:

• Reinforcing cyclical trends (when one of the Fed's main justifications is providing a counter-cyclical balance);

• Increasing unemployment (when the Fed is mandated by law to maximize employment); and

• Encouraging financial companies to make even riskier gambles in the future (when it is supposed to stabilize the financial system).

And see this.

Postscript: If the Fed really wants to stimulate the economy, it should try Steve Keen's idea.

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The free-to-play model has so far served as a good way to entice users with free apps and then make money off the sale of virtual goods. Apple finally caved to developers and created a system to allow iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users to make purchases from within apps last fall. The design allows developers to create a free app and then get the user to purchase a very cheap virtual good, such as a better weapon in a game. It then becomes much easier to convert a non-paying user into a paying one.

Freemium applications are making a good bit of money. In January, mobile analytics firm Flurry said that the freemium games it tracked generated revenues of $9 per user per year, on average. In June, that number had risen to $14.66 per user per year. Previously, these games were generating around 99 cents to $1.99 per user per year. 34 of the top 100 apps are free, but make their money through in-app purchases of mostly virtual currencies as well as other premium features, according to GigaOm’s report.

Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all purchases made within applications. That’s the same amount that Facebook, another large host of social games (including Zynga’s Farmville), charges its game partners.

Apple’s App Store now has around 300,000 apps for sale and for free download. And the App Store is growing by around 1,000 apps every day. The Android marketplace, which has applications for phones running on Google’s Android operating system, only has around 113,000 applications according to some metrics.

Score another one for social games developer Zynga, which first brought the freemium model to the forefront as a significant source of revenue for games and other applications. Its games have become insanely popular, and the company is now worth as much as Electronic Arts — one of the largest publishers in the world — by some metrics from its virtual good sales alone.

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Photos Implant &#39;Memories&#39; of Fictional <b>News</b> Events | Smart <b>...</b>

Participants in a study were far more likely to “remember” a fictional news event when a headline was accompanied by a tangentially relevant photograph.

Democrats Still Struggle on Extending the Bush Tax Cuts - FoxNews.com

FOX News covers politics on America's Election Headquarters. FOX News political coverage on elections, races, foreign policy, candidates, and national security.

Fox <b>News</b> Commentators Caught On Camera Mocking Sarah Palin&#39;s Show <b>...</b>

WASHINGTON -- The Fox News channel has been something of a safe haven for Sarah Palin, the type of outlet that provided the former Alaska Governor not only with a friendly audience but similarly kind questions.

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Photos Implant &#39;Memories&#39; of Fictional <b>News</b> Events | Smart <b>...</b>

Participants in a study were far more likely to “remember” a fictional news event when a headline was accompanied by a tangentially relevant photograph.

Democrats Still Struggle on Extending the Bush Tax Cuts - FoxNews.com

FOX News covers politics on America's Election Headquarters. FOX News political coverage on elections, races, foreign policy, candidates, and national security.

Fox <b>News</b> Commentators Caught On Camera Mocking Sarah Palin&#39;s Show <b>...</b>

WASHINGTON -- The Fox News channel has been something of a safe haven for Sarah Palin, the type of outlet that provided the former Alaska Governor not only with a friendly audience but similarly kind questions.

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Fox <b>News</b> President: Jon Stewart Is Crazy And NPR Is Run By Nazis <b>...</b>

The second part of The Daily Beast's interview with Fox News president Roger Ailes is out today, and Ailes' encore doesn't disappoint. He responded harshly to Jon Stewart's pervasive criticism of cable news and had some tough, ...

Middle East violence increases « Liveshots

Another cycle of violence in the Middle East as Israel strikes targets in Gaza in retaliation.

autosport.com - F1 <b>News</b>: Rosberg: Pirellis won&#39;t help Mercedes

Nico Rosberg doubts the new Pirelli tyres will do anything to ease the difficulties Mercedes suffered with front-tyre grip on the 2010 Bridgestones, after the Formula 1 teams tried the 2011 rubber for the first time in Abu Dhabi today.

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Democrats Still Struggle on Extending the Bush Tax Cuts - FoxNews.com

FOX News covers politics on America's Election Headquarters. FOX News political coverage on elections, races, foreign policy, candidates, and national security.

Small Business <b>News</b>: SMB Blogging and Social Media Basics

Far from a fad, a new blogging and social media infrastructure has emerged and is still being built and becoming a part of the new hierarchy can be important to.

Movie <b>News</b> Quick Hits: Leonardo DiCaprio to Star in New JFK <b>...</b>

Do you find Wall-E and Eve so adorable you just want to eat them? Now you can thanks to Charm City Cakes. - Warner Bros.

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Is Jennifer Lopez The Latest Celeb To Overdo It On Botox? (Photos <b>...</b>

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have launched a new clothing and accessories line for Kohl's. The items will be in stores in 2011. The couple appeared at a press conference in West Hollywood yeste...

WGN <b>News</b> Anchors Flip Out

WGN News Anchors Flip Out: Chicago news anchors comically go nuts when a bridge implodes the second they cut away from it...

Good <b>news</b>: James Bond and Indiana Jones hooking up to fight aliens <b>...</b>

Good news: James Bond and Indiana Jones hooking up to fight aliens.

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Great <b>News</b>: The Donald May Agree to be President « Hot Air

During a longer video with Fox News (video) The Donald goes into more detail about how the world has lost respect for America under the Obama administration, as well as the need for his type of “finesse” to be a truly effective ...

The Newsonomics of <b>news</b> anywhere » Nieman Journalism Lab

News Anywhere, or unified news, or All-Access, whatever we want to call it, demands the singular focus, product development and messaging that Netflix, HBO, Comcast, and Facebook are bringing to it. Those are all skills that have been ...

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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean ahoy! <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

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Great <b>News</b>: The Donald May Agree to be President « Hot Air

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The Newsonomics of <b>news</b> anywhere » Nieman Journalism Lab

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Great <b>News</b>: The Donald May Agree to be President « Hot Air

During a longer video with Fox News (video) The Donald goes into more detail about how the world has lost respect for America under the Obama administration, as well as the need for his type of “finesse” to be a truly effective ...

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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean ahoy! <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean ahoy! <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

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Great <b>News</b>: The Donald May Agree to be President « Hot Air

During a longer video with Fox News (video) The Donald goes into more detail about how the world has lost respect for America under the Obama administration, as well as the need for his type of “finesse” to be a truly effective ...

The Newsonomics of <b>news</b> anywhere » Nieman Journalism Lab

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If you die owing money, that means you won the game of life. But some folks harbor a silly fantasy of actually clawing their way out of the imploded Chilean mines of debt they've created for themselves. They put themselves on a budget, hope for job security and the eventual reinstatement of raises and map out exactly when they might taste the financial freedom all too few get to taste.

Personal Finance blogger Girl with the Red Balloon, who is chipping away at more than $16,000 of student loan debt on a $24,000 salary says she'll be out of debt June 1, 2013. She uses the far-off date as encouragement to stay focused on her frugality.

How much debt are you in, and if you plan on getting out of it one day, when do you hope that will be?

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Conduct a Financial Fire Drill to Assess Financial Health

We conduct fire drills to ensure fire warning systems are functional and that building occupants know what to do in the event of a fire-related emergency. Apply that same type of stress test to your money with a financial fire drill.

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Finance and frugality blog Frugal Dad urges us to take stock of our financial health by conducting a financial fire drill. Just like a real fire drill helps you run through a dangerous scenario without risk—"Who put the file cabinets in front of the fire exit?"—a financial fire drill shows you how effective your escape routes are and how big your safety net is.

You'll need to gather up all your bills, take stock of your savings and emergency fund, and head over the Frugal Dad to run through their financial fire drill checklist—which includes great tips like making a slash-and-burn list of non-essential services you can cancel the minute you get laid off or in other financial trouble.

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Was Tony Parker Cheating? Mystery Teammate&#39;s Wife Revealed... Erin <b>...</b>

The father of San Antonio Spurs star Brent Barry -- whose wife Erin is reportedly the other woman in a Tony Parker love triangle -- tells TMZ he's worried that Brent will be "devastated" by the news. Tony Parker Cheating With Brent ...

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BillBoard - Blogs - The Buffalo <b>News</b>

The Buffalo News updated every day with news from Buffalo, New York. Links to national and business news, entertainment listings, recipes, sports teams, classified ads, death notices.

The Inevitable Taiwanese <b>News</b> Animation about the TSA&#39;s Touching <b>...</b>

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Was Tony Parker Cheating? Mystery Teammate&#39;s Wife Revealed... Erin <b>...</b>

The father of San Antonio Spurs star Brent Barry -- whose wife Erin is reportedly the other woman in a Tony Parker love triangle -- tells TMZ he's worried that Brent will be "devastated" by the news. Tony Parker Cheating With Brent ...

BillBoard - Blogs - The Buffalo <b>News</b>

The Buffalo News updated every day with news from Buffalo, New York. Links to national and business news, entertainment listings, recipes, sports teams, classified ads, death notices.

The Inevitable Taiwanese <b>News</b> Animation about the TSA&#39;s Touching <b>...</b>

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An online marketer who lured consumers into a bogus work-at-home scheme that charged them hidden fees by masquerading as a Google company has been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.



Under a settlement agreement with the FTC, the defendants, which did business under names such as "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," are barred from making misleading or unsupported claims while marketing or selling any product or service, and have been forced to surrender cash and other assets exceeding $3.5 million.



The defendants also are forbidden from marketing products via "negative option" transactions ­– a classic marketing scheme in which companies use fine print to trick victims into unwittingly agreeing to pay for a product or service for which they are billed on a regular basis until they cancel.



The FTC first took action against the defendants, Infusion Media, Inc., West Coast Internet Media, Inc., Two Warnings, LLC and Two Part Investments, LLC, in July 2009 as part of "Operation Short Change," an ongoing crackdown against scammers taking advantage of the recession to prey upon vulnerable consumers.



By using Google's household name and logo and falsely promising consumers could earn $100,000 in six months, the defendants lured consumers into providing their financial information to pay a small shipping fee for a work-at-home kit, according to the complaint.



What consumers didn't realize, thanks to the fine print, was that purchasing the useless work-at-home kit automatically triggered monthly charges of $72.21 for another product which continued until they took steps to cancel.



The complaint charged that the defendants violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose that consumers would be subjected to monthly charges; by making false or unsupported claims that consumers were likely to earn substantial income; and by falsely claiming they were affiliated with Google Inc.



The defendants also violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E by debiting consumers' bank accounts on a recurring basis without obtaining written authorization, the FTC charged.



The settlement includes a $29.5 million penalty against defendants Jonathan Eborn; Michael McLain Miller; Tony Norton; Infusion Media, Inc.; West Coast Internet Media, Inc.; Two Warnings, LLC; Two Part Investments, LLC; and Platinum Teleservices, Inc. A fourth defendant, Stephanie Burnside, is subject to a $741,900 fine.



The defendants have relinquished cash and other assets including two cars, a boat and a gun collection totaling approximately $3.5 million. The remaining $26 million has been suspended due to the defendants' inability to pay, but the full $29.5 million will be due if it's found the defendants lied about their finances.
An online marketer who lured consumers into a bogus work-at-home scheme that charged them hidden fees by masquerading as a Google company has been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.



Under a settlement agreement with the FTC, the defendants, which did business under names such as "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," are barred from making misleading or unsupported claims while marketing or selling any product or service, and have been forced to surrender cash and other assets exceeding $3.5 million.



The defendants also are forbidden from marketing products via "negative option" transactions ­– a classic marketing scheme in which companies use fine print to trick victims into unwittingly agreeing to pay for a product or service for which they are billed on a regular basis until they cancel.



The FTC first took action against the defendants, Infusion Media, Inc., West Coast Internet Media, Inc., Two Warnings, LLC and Two Part Investments, LLC, in July 2009 as part of "Operation Short Change," an ongoing crackdown against scammers taking advantage of the recession to prey upon vulnerable consumers.



By using Google's household name and logo and falsely promising consumers could earn $100,000 in six months, the defendants lured consumers into providing their financial information to pay a small shipping fee for a work-at-home kit, according to the complaint.



What consumers didn't realize, thanks to the fine print, was that purchasing the useless work-at-home kit automatically triggered monthly charges of $72.21 for another product which continued until they took steps to cancel.



The complaint charged that the defendants violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose that consumers would be subjected to monthly charges; by making false or unsupported claims that consumers were likely to earn substantial income; and by falsely claiming they were affiliated with Google Inc.



The defendants also violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E by debiting consumers' bank accounts on a recurring basis without obtaining written authorization, the FTC charged.



The settlement includes a $29.5 million penalty against defendants Jonathan Eborn; Michael McLain Miller; Tony Norton; Infusion Media, Inc.; West Coast Internet Media, Inc.; Two Warnings, LLC; Two Part Investments, LLC; and Platinum Teleservices, Inc. A fourth defendant, Stephanie Burnside, is subject to a $741,900 fine.



The defendants have relinquished cash and other assets including two cars, a boat and a gun collection totaling approximately $3.5 million. The remaining $26 million has been suspended due to the defendants' inability to pay, but the full $29.5 million will be due if it's found the defendants lied about their finances.
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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

Scripting <b>News</b>: Design challenge: River of <b>News</b> in HTML

The design challenge is this. GIven the latest HTML techniques, do a mockup of a great River of News. If it's really something new, I'll put the software behind it and make it live. Permanent link to this item in the archive. ...

Pulse Brings You <b>News</b> and RSS in an Elegant Flow

Android/iOS: Blogs and news sites put all that effort into making their posts graphically appealing, so why not see what they've got? Pulse, a nicely different kind of news reader, pulls your news in through side-scrolling, ...

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An online marketer who lured consumers into a bogus work-at-home scheme that charged them hidden fees by masquerading as a Google company has been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.



Under a settlement agreement with the FTC, the defendants, which did business under names such as "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," are barred from making misleading or unsupported claims while marketing or selling any product or service, and have been forced to surrender cash and other assets exceeding $3.5 million.



The defendants also are forbidden from marketing products via "negative option" transactions ­– a classic marketing scheme in which companies use fine print to trick victims into unwittingly agreeing to pay for a product or service for which they are billed on a regular basis until they cancel.



The FTC first took action against the defendants, Infusion Media, Inc., West Coast Internet Media, Inc., Two Warnings, LLC and Two Part Investments, LLC, in July 2009 as part of "Operation Short Change," an ongoing crackdown against scammers taking advantage of the recession to prey upon vulnerable consumers.



By using Google's household name and logo and falsely promising consumers could earn $100,000 in six months, the defendants lured consumers into providing their financial information to pay a small shipping fee for a work-at-home kit, according to the complaint.



What consumers didn't realize, thanks to the fine print, was that purchasing the useless work-at-home kit automatically triggered monthly charges of $72.21 for another product which continued until they took steps to cancel.



The complaint charged that the defendants violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose that consumers would be subjected to monthly charges; by making false or unsupported claims that consumers were likely to earn substantial income; and by falsely claiming they were affiliated with Google Inc.



The defendants also violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E by debiting consumers' bank accounts on a recurring basis without obtaining written authorization, the FTC charged.



The settlement includes a $29.5 million penalty against defendants Jonathan Eborn; Michael McLain Miller; Tony Norton; Infusion Media, Inc.; West Coast Internet Media, Inc.; Two Warnings, LLC; Two Part Investments, LLC; and Platinum Teleservices, Inc. A fourth defendant, Stephanie Burnside, is subject to a $741,900 fine.



The defendants have relinquished cash and other assets including two cars, a boat and a gun collection totaling approximately $3.5 million. The remaining $26 million has been suspended due to the defendants' inability to pay, but the full $29.5 million will be due if it's found the defendants lied about their finances.
An online marketer who lured consumers into a bogus work-at-home scheme that charged them hidden fees by masquerading as a Google company has been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.



Under a settlement agreement with the FTC, the defendants, which did business under names such as "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," are barred from making misleading or unsupported claims while marketing or selling any product or service, and have been forced to surrender cash and other assets exceeding $3.5 million.



The defendants also are forbidden from marketing products via "negative option" transactions ­– a classic marketing scheme in which companies use fine print to trick victims into unwittingly agreeing to pay for a product or service for which they are billed on a regular basis until they cancel.



The FTC first took action against the defendants, Infusion Media, Inc., West Coast Internet Media, Inc., Two Warnings, LLC and Two Part Investments, LLC, in July 2009 as part of "Operation Short Change," an ongoing crackdown against scammers taking advantage of the recession to prey upon vulnerable consumers.



By using Google's household name and logo and falsely promising consumers could earn $100,000 in six months, the defendants lured consumers into providing their financial information to pay a small shipping fee for a work-at-home kit, according to the complaint.



What consumers didn't realize, thanks to the fine print, was that purchasing the useless work-at-home kit automatically triggered monthly charges of $72.21 for another product which continued until they took steps to cancel.



The complaint charged that the defendants violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose that consumers would be subjected to monthly charges; by making false or unsupported claims that consumers were likely to earn substantial income; and by falsely claiming they were affiliated with Google Inc.



The defendants also violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E by debiting consumers' bank accounts on a recurring basis without obtaining written authorization, the FTC charged.



The settlement includes a $29.5 million penalty against defendants Jonathan Eborn; Michael McLain Miller; Tony Norton; Infusion Media, Inc.; West Coast Internet Media, Inc.; Two Warnings, LLC; Two Part Investments, LLC; and Platinum Teleservices, Inc. A fourth defendant, Stephanie Burnside, is subject to a $741,900 fine.



The defendants have relinquished cash and other assets including two cars, a boat and a gun collection totaling approximately $3.5 million. The remaining $26 million has been suspended due to the defendants' inability to pay, but the full $29.5 million will be due if it's found the defendants lied about their finances.
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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

Scripting <b>News</b>: Design challenge: River of <b>News</b> in HTML

The design challenge is this. GIven the latest HTML techniques, do a mockup of a great River of News. If it's really something new, I'll put the software behind it and make it live. Permanent link to this item in the archive. ...

Pulse Brings You <b>News</b> and RSS in an Elegant Flow

Android/iOS: Blogs and news sites put all that effort into making their posts graphically appealing, so why not see what they've got? Pulse, a nicely different kind of news reader, pulls your news in through side-scrolling, ...

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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

Scripting <b>News</b>: Design challenge: River of <b>News</b> in HTML

The design challenge is this. GIven the latest HTML techniques, do a mockup of a great River of News. If it's really something new, I'll put the software behind it and make it live. Permanent link to this item in the archive. ...

Pulse Brings You <b>News</b> and RSS in an Elegant Flow

Android/iOS: Blogs and news sites put all that effort into making their posts graphically appealing, so why not see what they've got? Pulse, a nicely different kind of news reader, pulls your news in through side-scrolling, ...

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An online marketer who lured consumers into a bogus work-at-home scheme that charged them hidden fees by masquerading as a Google company has been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.



Under a settlement agreement with the FTC, the defendants, which did business under names such as "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," are barred from making misleading or unsupported claims while marketing or selling any product or service, and have been forced to surrender cash and other assets exceeding $3.5 million.



The defendants also are forbidden from marketing products via "negative option" transactions ­– a classic marketing scheme in which companies use fine print to trick victims into unwittingly agreeing to pay for a product or service for which they are billed on a regular basis until they cancel.



The FTC first took action against the defendants, Infusion Media, Inc., West Coast Internet Media, Inc., Two Warnings, LLC and Two Part Investments, LLC, in July 2009 as part of "Operation Short Change," an ongoing crackdown against scammers taking advantage of the recession to prey upon vulnerable consumers.



By using Google's household name and logo and falsely promising consumers could earn $100,000 in six months, the defendants lured consumers into providing their financial information to pay a small shipping fee for a work-at-home kit, according to the complaint.



What consumers didn't realize, thanks to the fine print, was that purchasing the useless work-at-home kit automatically triggered monthly charges of $72.21 for another product which continued until they took steps to cancel.



The complaint charged that the defendants violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose that consumers would be subjected to monthly charges; by making false or unsupported claims that consumers were likely to earn substantial income; and by falsely claiming they were affiliated with Google Inc.



The defendants also violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E by debiting consumers' bank accounts on a recurring basis without obtaining written authorization, the FTC charged.



The settlement includes a $29.5 million penalty against defendants Jonathan Eborn; Michael McLain Miller; Tony Norton; Infusion Media, Inc.; West Coast Internet Media, Inc.; Two Warnings, LLC; Two Part Investments, LLC; and Platinum Teleservices, Inc. A fourth defendant, Stephanie Burnside, is subject to a $741,900 fine.



The defendants have relinquished cash and other assets including two cars, a boat and a gun collection totaling approximately $3.5 million. The remaining $26 million has been suspended due to the defendants' inability to pay, but the full $29.5 million will be due if it's found the defendants lied about their finances.
An online marketer who lured consumers into a bogus work-at-home scheme that charged them hidden fees by masquerading as a Google company has been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.



Under a settlement agreement with the FTC, the defendants, which did business under names such as "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," are barred from making misleading or unsupported claims while marketing or selling any product or service, and have been forced to surrender cash and other assets exceeding $3.5 million.



The defendants also are forbidden from marketing products via "negative option" transactions ­– a classic marketing scheme in which companies use fine print to trick victims into unwittingly agreeing to pay for a product or service for which they are billed on a regular basis until they cancel.



The FTC first took action against the defendants, Infusion Media, Inc., West Coast Internet Media, Inc., Two Warnings, LLC and Two Part Investments, LLC, in July 2009 as part of "Operation Short Change," an ongoing crackdown against scammers taking advantage of the recession to prey upon vulnerable consumers.



By using Google's household name and logo and falsely promising consumers could earn $100,000 in six months, the defendants lured consumers into providing their financial information to pay a small shipping fee for a work-at-home kit, according to the complaint.



What consumers didn't realize, thanks to the fine print, was that purchasing the useless work-at-home kit automatically triggered monthly charges of $72.21 for another product which continued until they took steps to cancel.



The complaint charged that the defendants violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose that consumers would be subjected to monthly charges; by making false or unsupported claims that consumers were likely to earn substantial income; and by falsely claiming they were affiliated with Google Inc.



The defendants also violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E by debiting consumers' bank accounts on a recurring basis without obtaining written authorization, the FTC charged.



The settlement includes a $29.5 million penalty against defendants Jonathan Eborn; Michael McLain Miller; Tony Norton; Infusion Media, Inc.; West Coast Internet Media, Inc.; Two Warnings, LLC; Two Part Investments, LLC; and Platinum Teleservices, Inc. A fourth defendant, Stephanie Burnside, is subject to a $741,900 fine.



The defendants have relinquished cash and other assets including two cars, a boat and a gun collection totaling approximately $3.5 million. The remaining $26 million has been suspended due to the defendants' inability to pay, but the full $29.5 million will be due if it's found the defendants lied about their finances.
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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

Scripting <b>News</b>: Design challenge: River of <b>News</b> in HTML

The design challenge is this. GIven the latest HTML techniques, do a mockup of a great River of News. If it's really something new, I'll put the software behind it and make it live. Permanent link to this item in the archive. ...

Pulse Brings You <b>News</b> and RSS in an Elegant Flow

Android/iOS: Blogs and news sites put all that effort into making their posts graphically appealing, so why not see what they've got? Pulse, a nicely different kind of news reader, pulls your news in through side-scrolling, ...

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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

Scripting <b>News</b>: Design challenge: River of <b>News</b> in HTML

The design challenge is this. GIven the latest HTML techniques, do a mockup of a great River of News. If it's really something new, I'll put the software behind it and make it live. Permanent link to this item in the archive. ...

Pulse Brings You <b>News</b> and RSS in an Elegant Flow

Android/iOS: Blogs and news sites put all that effort into making their posts graphically appealing, so why not see what they've got? Pulse, a nicely different kind of news reader, pulls your news in through side-scrolling, ...

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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

Scripting <b>News</b>: Design challenge: River of <b>News</b> in HTML

The design challenge is this. GIven the latest HTML techniques, do a mockup of a great River of News. If it's really something new, I'll put the software behind it and make it live. Permanent link to this item in the archive. ...

Pulse Brings You <b>News</b> and RSS in an Elegant Flow

Android/iOS: Blogs and news sites put all that effort into making their posts graphically appealing, so why not see what they've got? Pulse, a nicely different kind of news reader, pulls your news in through side-scrolling, ...

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First Solar <b>News</b>, Rumors: CIGS, Mercury, Tellurium : Greentech Media

First the news... Apollo Solar Energy (OTC: ASOE), a vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), announced a five-year purchase contract between Apollo Solar Energy and a major worldwide solar panel ...

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The Motorola DEFY has already shown it’s a decent swimmer, and now the Android smartphone has beached at Carphone Warehouse in the UK. As of today, the 3.7-inch handset is available free on new plans at £25 per month or higher.

Your money gets you a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, MOTOBLUR and Motorola’s Crystal TALK PLUS DSP.

Press Release:

DEFY THE CHALLENGES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

THE NEW MOTOROLA DEFY IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM £25 PER MONTH FROM

THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE

The Carphone Warehouse makes a big splash into the Android market with the new Motorola DEFY; a slim smartphone built to ‘defy’ the common causes of damage to mobile phones. Dust proof and water resistant, it provides protection from sudden rain showers, spilt drinks, or a sandy beach. The 3.7” high resolution touch screen display is large and resilient, with outstanding protection against scratch damage, resisting keys, pens and coins. This beautiful display also provides edge to edge views of favourite photos, videos and websites. CrystalTalk PLUS diminishes noisy environments with two microphones which filter out background noise and amplifies voice so you don’t have to shout. The smart battery profiles allow you to switch to battery saver mode and get more life out of your phone inbetween charges.

Motorola DEFY is perfect for web-browsing, gaming and movie-watching, due to the speedy processor, advanced browsing capabilities and large screen. The phone is also equipped with MOTOBLUR, which constantly streams all of the user’s texts, emails and social network updates straight to their homescreen, making it easier to manage contacts.

What’s more, DEFY is enabled to stream, store and share content with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compatible devices around the house, such as HDTVs, PCs and games consoles. This means that music, video and photos are wirelessly transferrable between DLNA devices, making life more streamlined. The 5-megapixel camera with flash, digital zoom and auto focus allows users to capture important occasions. For added entertainment, the Connected Music Player means that users can discover, buy and download their favourite music straight from the phone. Access to 100,000 apps, widgets and games from Android Market further enhances the choice of entertainment available on Motorola DEFY.

In lieu of actual first day US sales numbers from Microsoft, everyone seems to be predicting doom and gloom for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Microsoft may have sold as few as 40,000 phones on Monday, a “market research source” tells the financial site TheStreet. Meanwhile, CNet reporters noted that a San Francisco T-Mobile store didn’t have much luck pushing its WP7 wares.

While I’m normally one to eagerly follow launch numbers as well, I’ve become increasingly convinced that for this particular product launch, the actual first day sales don’t matter.

Why? Because Microsoft is in this for the long haul. It doesn’t matter if Windows Phone 7 sales were poor (not likely) or off the charts (we likely would have heard by now if they were). Microsoft is going to dump as much money, time, and energy into the platform as necessary to make it relevant again in the mobile market. It has to succeed, otherwise it will lose its mobile presence completely.

Failure isn’t an option since competitors like Apple and Google are raking in billions from their mobile endeavors. Google announced last month that it’s making $1 billion a year from mobile ads (a number that could double or triple by next year). Apple, meanwhile, made $8.6 billion from sales of the iPhone this quarter and is set to gain a bigger chunk of the mobile advertising market when its iAd mobile advertising service hits the iPad this month with the iPhone OS 4.2 update. In addition to landing on the iPad, Apple is also working on bringing iAd worldwide — it’s been restricted to the US and UK thus far.

And as much as the company is ridiculed, Microsoft isn’t stupid. … Okay, the Kin phones were stupid. But Windows Phone 7 isn’t the Kin. This time around Microsoft has multiple carriers, multiple hardware partners, mature software, and perhaps most importantly, it has a plan. It’s marketing the phones directly to consumers who seem to despise iPhone and Android user habits (see, the “Really?” ad), and there’s still a significant population that hasn’t yet committed to either camp.

Microsoft will likely also take advantage of RIM’s inability to keep up with Apple and Android. Dell just recently announced that it’s dumping 25,000 BlackBerrys company-wide and is opting for Windows Phone 7 and Android devices instead. Practically every independent quarterly sales report we cover notes RIM’s declining sales, and RIM doesn’t have any flagship smartphones on the horizon to replace its undercooked BlackBerry Torch.

In my testing, WP7 devices unquestionably offer a better consumer experience than anything RIM has to offer, and Microsoft is also aiming for business users with the best Office integration on any mobile platform. If RIM continues at its current rate, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Microsoft shipping more phones than RIM by this time next year.

Microsoft has already committed $500 million to marketing Windows Phone 7, and I suspect that number will reach even more obscene levels throughout 2011. Microsoft may not always be first to the market with innovation, but it has a habit of persevering until it achieves some sort of success. Take the Xbox, for example. Microsoft lost $4 billion on the first generation Xbox, but then the Xbox 360 went on to find success in this most recent console generation and earned the company $20 billion as of January 2010.

Similarly, but less successfully, Microsoft persevered with its Zune music players — which led to the slick-looking Zune HD, and ultimately to Windows Phone 7’s user interface.

Microsoft likely isn’t aiming for the No. 1 smartphone spot. Even if it managed to push out more devices than Apple, it could never keep up with Android’s sheer ubiquity. But placing second, or even third, is certainly better than not being in the game at all. And you can rest assured that Microsoft will do whatever it takes to regain its mobile relevance — no matter what the numbers say about Windows Phone 7’s launch day sales.

Front photo via Preetam Rai

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The Motorola DEFY has already shown it’s a decent swimmer, and now the Android smartphone has beached at Carphone Warehouse in the UK. As of today, the 3.7-inch handset is available free on new plans at £25 per month or higher.

Your money gets you a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, MOTOBLUR and Motorola’s Crystal TALK PLUS DSP.

Press Release:

DEFY THE CHALLENGES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

THE NEW MOTOROLA DEFY IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM £25 PER MONTH FROM

THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE

The Carphone Warehouse makes a big splash into the Android market with the new Motorola DEFY; a slim smartphone built to ‘defy’ the common causes of damage to mobile phones. Dust proof and water resistant, it provides protection from sudden rain showers, spilt drinks, or a sandy beach. The 3.7” high resolution touch screen display is large and resilient, with outstanding protection against scratch damage, resisting keys, pens and coins. This beautiful display also provides edge to edge views of favourite photos, videos and websites. CrystalTalk PLUS diminishes noisy environments with two microphones which filter out background noise and amplifies voice so you don’t have to shout. The smart battery profiles allow you to switch to battery saver mode and get more life out of your phone inbetween charges.

Motorola DEFY is perfect for web-browsing, gaming and movie-watching, due to the speedy processor, advanced browsing capabilities and large screen. The phone is also equipped with MOTOBLUR, which constantly streams all of the user’s texts, emails and social network updates straight to their homescreen, making it easier to manage contacts.

What’s more, DEFY is enabled to stream, store and share content with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compatible devices around the house, such as HDTVs, PCs and games consoles. This means that music, video and photos are wirelessly transferrable between DLNA devices, making life more streamlined. The 5-megapixel camera with flash, digital zoom and auto focus allows users to capture important occasions. For added entertainment, the Connected Music Player means that users can discover, buy and download their favourite music straight from the phone. Access to 100,000 apps, widgets and games from Android Market further enhances the choice of entertainment available on Motorola DEFY.

In lieu of actual first day US sales numbers from Microsoft, everyone seems to be predicting doom and gloom for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Microsoft may have sold as few as 40,000 phones on Monday, a “market research source” tells the financial site TheStreet. Meanwhile, CNet reporters noted that a San Francisco T-Mobile store didn’t have much luck pushing its WP7 wares.

While I’m normally one to eagerly follow launch numbers as well, I’ve become increasingly convinced that for this particular product launch, the actual first day sales don’t matter.

Why? Because Microsoft is in this for the long haul. It doesn’t matter if Windows Phone 7 sales were poor (not likely) or off the charts (we likely would have heard by now if they were). Microsoft is going to dump as much money, time, and energy into the platform as necessary to make it relevant again in the mobile market. It has to succeed, otherwise it will lose its mobile presence completely.

Failure isn’t an option since competitors like Apple and Google are raking in billions from their mobile endeavors. Google announced last month that it’s making $1 billion a year from mobile ads (a number that could double or triple by next year). Apple, meanwhile, made $8.6 billion from sales of the iPhone this quarter and is set to gain a bigger chunk of the mobile advertising market when its iAd mobile advertising service hits the iPad this month with the iPhone OS 4.2 update. In addition to landing on the iPad, Apple is also working on bringing iAd worldwide — it’s been restricted to the US and UK thus far.

And as much as the company is ridiculed, Microsoft isn’t stupid. … Okay, the Kin phones were stupid. But Windows Phone 7 isn’t the Kin. This time around Microsoft has multiple carriers, multiple hardware partners, mature software, and perhaps most importantly, it has a plan. It’s marketing the phones directly to consumers who seem to despise iPhone and Android user habits (see, the “Really?” ad), and there’s still a significant population that hasn’t yet committed to either camp.

Microsoft will likely also take advantage of RIM’s inability to keep up with Apple and Android. Dell just recently announced that it’s dumping 25,000 BlackBerrys company-wide and is opting for Windows Phone 7 and Android devices instead. Practically every independent quarterly sales report we cover notes RIM’s declining sales, and RIM doesn’t have any flagship smartphones on the horizon to replace its undercooked BlackBerry Torch.

In my testing, WP7 devices unquestionably offer a better consumer experience than anything RIM has to offer, and Microsoft is also aiming for business users with the best Office integration on any mobile platform. If RIM continues at its current rate, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Microsoft shipping more phones than RIM by this time next year.

Microsoft has already committed $500 million to marketing Windows Phone 7, and I suspect that number will reach even more obscene levels throughout 2011. Microsoft may not always be first to the market with innovation, but it has a habit of persevering until it achieves some sort of success. Take the Xbox, for example. Microsoft lost $4 billion on the first generation Xbox, but then the Xbox 360 went on to find success in this most recent console generation and earned the company $20 billion as of January 2010.

Similarly, but less successfully, Microsoft persevered with its Zune music players — which led to the slick-looking Zune HD, and ultimately to Windows Phone 7’s user interface.

Microsoft likely isn’t aiming for the No. 1 smartphone spot. Even if it managed to push out more devices than Apple, it could never keep up with Android’s sheer ubiquity. But placing second, or even third, is certainly better than not being in the game at all. And you can rest assured that Microsoft will do whatever it takes to regain its mobile relevance — no matter what the numbers say about Windows Phone 7’s launch day sales.

Front photo via Preetam Rai

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The Motorola DEFY has already shown it’s a decent swimmer, and now the Android smartphone has beached at Carphone Warehouse in the UK. As of today, the 3.7-inch handset is available free on new plans at £25 per month or higher.

Your money gets you a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, MOTOBLUR and Motorola’s Crystal TALK PLUS DSP.

Press Release:

DEFY THE CHALLENGES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

THE NEW MOTOROLA DEFY IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM £25 PER MONTH FROM

THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE

The Carphone Warehouse makes a big splash into the Android market with the new Motorola DEFY; a slim smartphone built to ‘defy’ the common causes of damage to mobile phones. Dust proof and water resistant, it provides protection from sudden rain showers, spilt drinks, or a sandy beach. The 3.7” high resolution touch screen display is large and resilient, with outstanding protection against scratch damage, resisting keys, pens and coins. This beautiful display also provides edge to edge views of favourite photos, videos and websites. CrystalTalk PLUS diminishes noisy environments with two microphones which filter out background noise and amplifies voice so you don’t have to shout. The smart battery profiles allow you to switch to battery saver mode and get more life out of your phone inbetween charges.

Motorola DEFY is perfect for web-browsing, gaming and movie-watching, due to the speedy processor, advanced browsing capabilities and large screen. The phone is also equipped with MOTOBLUR, which constantly streams all of the user’s texts, emails and social network updates straight to their homescreen, making it easier to manage contacts.

What’s more, DEFY is enabled to stream, store and share content with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compatible devices around the house, such as HDTVs, PCs and games consoles. This means that music, video and photos are wirelessly transferrable between DLNA devices, making life more streamlined. The 5-megapixel camera with flash, digital zoom and auto focus allows users to capture important occasions. For added entertainment, the Connected Music Player means that users can discover, buy and download their favourite music straight from the phone. Access to 100,000 apps, widgets and games from Android Market further enhances the choice of entertainment available on Motorola DEFY.

In lieu of actual first day US sales numbers from Microsoft, everyone seems to be predicting doom and gloom for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Microsoft may have sold as few as 40,000 phones on Monday, a “market research source” tells the financial site TheStreet. Meanwhile, CNet reporters noted that a San Francisco T-Mobile store didn’t have much luck pushing its WP7 wares.

While I’m normally one to eagerly follow launch numbers as well, I’ve become increasingly convinced that for this particular product launch, the actual first day sales don’t matter.

Why? Because Microsoft is in this for the long haul. It doesn’t matter if Windows Phone 7 sales were poor (not likely) or off the charts (we likely would have heard by now if they were). Microsoft is going to dump as much money, time, and energy into the platform as necessary to make it relevant again in the mobile market. It has to succeed, otherwise it will lose its mobile presence completely.

Failure isn’t an option since competitors like Apple and Google are raking in billions from their mobile endeavors. Google announced last month that it’s making $1 billion a year from mobile ads (a number that could double or triple by next year). Apple, meanwhile, made $8.6 billion from sales of the iPhone this quarter and is set to gain a bigger chunk of the mobile advertising market when its iAd mobile advertising service hits the iPad this month with the iPhone OS 4.2 update. In addition to landing on the iPad, Apple is also working on bringing iAd worldwide — it’s been restricted to the US and UK thus far.

And as much as the company is ridiculed, Microsoft isn’t stupid. … Okay, the Kin phones were stupid. But Windows Phone 7 isn’t the Kin. This time around Microsoft has multiple carriers, multiple hardware partners, mature software, and perhaps most importantly, it has a plan. It’s marketing the phones directly to consumers who seem to despise iPhone and Android user habits (see, the “Really?” ad), and there’s still a significant population that hasn’t yet committed to either camp.

Microsoft will likely also take advantage of RIM’s inability to keep up with Apple and Android. Dell just recently announced that it’s dumping 25,000 BlackBerrys company-wide and is opting for Windows Phone 7 and Android devices instead. Practically every independent quarterly sales report we cover notes RIM’s declining sales, and RIM doesn’t have any flagship smartphones on the horizon to replace its undercooked BlackBerry Torch.

In my testing, WP7 devices unquestionably offer a better consumer experience than anything RIM has to offer, and Microsoft is also aiming for business users with the best Office integration on any mobile platform. If RIM continues at its current rate, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Microsoft shipping more phones than RIM by this time next year.

Microsoft has already committed $500 million to marketing Windows Phone 7, and I suspect that number will reach even more obscene levels throughout 2011. Microsoft may not always be first to the market with innovation, but it has a habit of persevering until it achieves some sort of success. Take the Xbox, for example. Microsoft lost $4 billion on the first generation Xbox, but then the Xbox 360 went on to find success in this most recent console generation and earned the company $20 billion as of January 2010.

Similarly, but less successfully, Microsoft persevered with its Zune music players — which led to the slick-looking Zune HD, and ultimately to Windows Phone 7’s user interface.

Microsoft likely isn’t aiming for the No. 1 smartphone spot. Even if it managed to push out more devices than Apple, it could never keep up with Android’s sheer ubiquity. But placing second, or even third, is certainly better than not being in the game at all. And you can rest assured that Microsoft will do whatever it takes to regain its mobile relevance — no matter what the numbers say about Windows Phone 7’s launch day sales.

Front photo via Preetam Rai

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