The check is in the mail. That’s the message from Apple this week as the Cupertino, California-based iDevice maker begins distributing settlement checks to iPhone 4 owners who filed their claims in a class-action lawsuit. “My $15 Apple iPhone4 AntennaGate settlement check came today. It has been so long I forgot what it was for
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No Comments » In what comes as yet another promising move for Yahoo and its “comeback” efforts, the formal announcement came Tuesday that Yahoo has integrated cloud storage service Dropbox into its email system. A Yahoo blog post confirms that the two companies are joining forces to enable users to send, receive and manage Dropbox files within Yahoo
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Written by Michael Santos The Internet did not exist when I began serving my prison sentence in 1987. I didn’t have direct access to the Internet as it dawned onto popular culture and became mainstream for many Americans, throughout the “You’ve got mail!” craze of the ’90s. Years would pass, until my release from prison
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Are charitable donations on your holiday to-do list this year? The American Red Cross says despite the public outpouring of donations in 2012 people are still willing to give more this holiday season. According to the American Red Cross’ study, 56% of people make donations in-person, 52% send donations by mail and only 21% use
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Snipp Interactive – the mobile marketing services outfit – has announced a new partnership that it’s pretty excited about. Snipp is now working with female-centric media and marketing company Meredith Corp’s Special Interest Media group. The reason? The new mobile partners are excited to roll out a groundbreaking new program. Published reports indicate that the
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Manpacks, a subscription service for men’s products (see gallery below), asserts that most men hate to shop, but whether you love it or hate it, finding time to buy all the little things you need in life is difficult. Subscription delivery services are popping up for all sorts of goods, from beauty products, clothing, shoes,
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Revisions to a proposed Senate bill stirred public outcry last week. Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been leading an effort to update federal surveillance laws that date back to the 1980′s. The 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) did not anticipate the rise of social media or cloud-based storage. Currently,
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are no strangers to your inbox. This year’s presidential candidates have been reaching out nonstop to their constituents through email, hoping the online messages help increase fundraising efforts, turnout at conventions, and the number of voters at the polls next week. Digital marketing technology provider Silverpop analyzed 400 messages
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Netflix’s stock slipped 15% after the video streaming and DVD subscription service said in its third-quarter earnings statement that it did not expect to add 7 million domestic subscribers this year, as had been forecast previously. Netflix added 1.16 million U.S. subscribers and 690,000 international subscribers to its online video-streaming service, and lost 630,000 subscribers
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According to recent reports, Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow users to easily turn Facebook photos into printed postcards. The new feature, which is named “Mail a Postcard,” was initially built during a Facebook Hackathon and is only available to a few test users at this time. If a Facebook user is
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