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The House of Representatives approved legislation on Tuesday extending a moratorium on state Internet access taxes for seven years, sending the bill to the president to sign into law. Internet service providers say the price of Internet access could rise by as much as 17 percent if the moratorium on state taxes was allowed to expire. Read More

A coalition of consumer privacy groups is expected to propose the online equivalent of the Do Not Call list, reports Advertising Age. Groups including the Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, have announced a press conference for today. The groups are expected to propose changes to how advertisers disclos Read More

The title of this article is designed to illustrate the point of this article. Today we won't be taking a look at black-hat search engine optimization tactics. Admittedly, I've toyed with them in a “know your enemy” kind of way but I'm no expert on advanced cloaking techniques nor effective link sp@mming tactics. What we're going to cover here Read More

Internet retailers are notorious price cutters, and manufacturers are getting fed up. I have been watching with interest the war between internet retailers and manufacturers for years, but there are signs that the battle is getting hotter. Read More

With 150 million phone numbers now registered on the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call list, it seems clear most consumers don't want to receive unsolicited marketing phone calls. But apparently, it's not clear to everyone. The FTC on Wednesday announced multimillion-dollar penalties against three companies -- lender Ameriquest Mortgage Co., Read More

According to the Discover Small Business Watch, reports the DMA, economic confidence among small business owners continued to fall in October as many expressed increased pessimism about both the future of their own businesses and the US economy in general. The monthly survey of 1,000 small businesses with five or fewer employees shows that at 96.8 Read More

Advertising placed on relevant content pages on neutral and general-interest websites outperformed the same advertising on out-of-context pages, according to a pilot study. Moreover, the ad's performance on in-context pages of neutral and general-interest websites equaled the performance of the same ad on a highly relevant website. The study conc Read More

According to the latest Annual Holiday Survey commissioned by Deloitte, gift cards are seen as the top gift purchase for four consecutive years, with 69 percent of the consumers planning to buy them this year, compared with only 66 percent in 2006. The respondents plan to buy an average of 5.5 cards, compared with the 4.6 cards last year, at $36.2 Read More

According to the Arketi Group 2007 Web Watch Survey, 84 percent of journalists say they would or already have used blogs as a primary or secondary source for articles. 100% of those (journalists) surveyed say they rely on the Internet to help get their job done. One-quarter of journalists say blogs make their job easier, while 18 percent say insta Read More

Decision-makers seldom, if ever, read brochures or product data sheets or any of the traditional marketing materials. If they're needed at all, such materials should be specifically targeted at lower-level folk (gatekeepers and speedbumps) who worry about such details. When a company decides to sell M2M — which is where the big B2B money is locate Read More