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The borderless Internet may have been the goal, but government interference into the free flow of information has put serious restrictions on the liberating effect that might have had on culture and society. The Open Net Initiative, sponsored by the University of Toronto, Harvard and Cambridge Universities, is focusing its research on what individual governments are doing to control information flow, and the impact this has had on politics, human rights, state sovereignty and law.
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A new study by the Winterberry Group seems to confirm what many other marketing experts have been saying. Advertising services are moving below the line quicker than most had predicted.
In advertising, above-the-line (ATL) services are associated with the more publicly visible, mass media brand efforts, and below-the-line (BTL) services are attributed to more specifically targeted, measureable, interactive and direct marketing methods.
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Most people think of radio as an older technology. However, it is being transformed into the latest and the greatest with new twists that are making it difficult for most consumers to stay current. The latest addition is HD radio, which allows broadcasters the ability to squeeze up to eight separate stations into the frequency that was previously assigned to one station. The result is more variety and more customized content.
Radio, as it was originally developed, came from radio waves, but it has become much more than that. Radio is really becoming an audio portal for analog and digital content. The consumer just wants good audio options and it doesn’t really matter if it comes from an AM, FM or HD signal...a satellite...Internet radio...or music and podcasts ported from an iPod through the radio.
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Ah, marketing. The last creative bastion of making fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, intuitive, gut-level “decisions” (okay, hunches) for ways to sell more stuff to more people while tossing caution and budgets to the wind. Things have changed, and marketers, like it or not, have now met their match in math—or perhaps they’ve found new friends in finance?
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The Transportation Safety Administration has followed the Bush Administration’s directive by offering private companies the option of creating ”express lanes” for travelers who want to avoid delays at airport security checkpoints
The agency, which has recently been criticized for a variety of blunders including stopping a 4-year-old boy whose name was similar to one on a terrorism watch list, will require that program applicants undergo a government background check and submit 10 fingerprints that will be stored on a digital identification card.
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