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Google Giving out Free In-Flight WiFi Again
I could have used this last week: Google says that on “AirTran, Delta and Virgin America [there will be] free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011.” My understanding, unsupported by data, is that Gogo is struggling. This may be a relatively cheap sponsorship/promotion for Google accordingly. [...]
HomePages Print Success Shows Mkt Complexity
Print yellow pages are dying, no one is using them — right? Listen to Dick Larkin talk and you’ll hear a different story. He’s now the EVP of sales for American Marketing & Publishing, which publishes HomePages a mostly print yellow pages offering in six adjoining Midwestern states. Larkin told me that the company has [...]
FCC: 22% Not Web Users (but Have Cellphones)
The US FCC has released a report, based on a survey of more than 5,000 US consumers in November. The survey captures attitudes and self-reported behavior about Internet adoption and broadband usage. Much of the report focuses on demographics and cost as a factor in the above. However there are other interesting findings. Here are [...]
Kindle Price Drop Not Enough
Last week, starting to feel the coming competitive heat and perhaps having exhausted the market for early enthusiasts, Amazon’s Kindle 2 saw a price drop from $299 to $259. The company also launched an “international version,” which works in “100 countries” and uses AT&T as behind-the-scenes network (vs. Sprint in the US; CDMA vs. GSM). [...]
Landlines That Do More
Verizon has introduced a device called the Verizon Hub in a bid to make the home phone more dynamic and prevent further declines of the wireline (wireless only households in the US are estimated to be at about 18% or so). It uses both a wireline and wireless broadband Internet connection. According to the press [...]
Posts at SEL
I’m tired so I’m not going to post much here today. I was up too late last might mourning the loss of John McCain (kidding). Earlier today I did three posts on a number of Google and search-related developments at Search Engine Land: Citing Risk, Google Ends Yahoo Paid Search Deal Tech Companies Win ‘White [...]
WiFi Triangulation and Geotargeting
One of the things I predicted for this year is advances in location awareness and geotargeting online. Along those lines . . . I had a chance to catch up with Ted Morgan, CEO of Skyhook Wireless since the announcement of Maps with Location on the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Morgan said that the [...]
Startup Aims to Revive SF Free WiFi Initiative
According to a story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, startup Meraki is trying to succeed where Earthlink and Google failed: providing free WiFi to the residents of San Francisco: The closely held Mountain View, Calif., start-up says the free San Francisco wireless project — which doesn’t involve city funding — is a test of [...]
AnchorFree and Improved Geotargeting
I spoke with AnchorFree this morning about their hotspot ad network. The company says its current footprint represents: 10,000 locations 400,000,000 page views per month 5,400,000 user sessions per month Primarily at hotels, airports and cafes, the company serves banner ads that can be demographically, contextually and locally targeted. Peter Krasilovsky has some additional detail. [...]
On Board WiFi from JetBlue
JetBlue is going to test in-flight WiFi with partners Yahoo! and RIM. According to Reuters, the access appears to be limited to Yahoo! Mail and IM and corporate email via WiFI-enabled BlackBerry phones. If this is correct and you won’t be able to get any other Web-based email or Internet content it’s flawed from the [...]
About Greg
Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's influence on offline consumer purchase behavior.
