By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
CNBC, the financial news arm of NBC, is looking like a punch-drunk boxer. Up, down, counted out, but coming back. Bartiromo and Rukeyser may have unspellable names, but they have helped snag viewers for the network, which still reports markets with the rhythm and excitement of boxing-match coverage. Marketplace Battle
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
The Friends of Earthlink will be pleased to know that the fourth-largest ISP has put the kibosh on pop-up ads. Earthlink's television ads will emphasize its battle against slow browsing, pop-ups, pop-unders, spam, and other consumer-unfriendly Internet "features" in a world that increasingly seeks instant gratification. Software will be available free to the ISP's 4.9 million subscribers. Slamming Spam
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Out of work? Worried that you may be? Looking for an employee? Think you may be? The CornerBarPR.comSM Trolling For Jobs career center has just been SuperSized, to include the resources of the popular WorkinPR.com right alongside Ned Lundquist's entertaining, extremely useful Job Of The Week newsletter. Pull up a stool. Working For Peanuts
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
"It's a sassy site with enough sex and drink double entendres to spin your head." So says Cathy Chatfield-Taylor, in a very friendly article, "CornerBarPR takes sober approach to planning," in the current issue of Kansas City/IABC's newsletter, e-CommuniKC. "But behind CornerBarPR's drunken swagger is a carefully crafted business plan," she says. Sober Approach
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
No, no, get your mind out of the gutter. We just came across some fun facts and language anomalies that are just too good to pass up. Depending on the temperature, the Eiffel Tower varies in height by as much as six inches. Now aren't you ashamed? Beer Nuts
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Measurement Maven Katie Delahaye Paine, publisher of The Measurement Standard, an extraordinary newsletter about PR measurement, has selected CornerBarPR.comSM for her "The Best of the Web" column in this month's issue. Sez we're fun and "share-worthy." Thank you, Katie. We'll pass it on. Measuring Up
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Innerwear Condoms.com has ballsy, CornerBar-style advertising for their new product: leggy girls at a bar making time with some guy. You know what everyone hopes for next. Kick-ass copy and sexy art, combined with more than you ever wanted to know about condoms. Coming Soon
By Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR
Contacts On Tap™, the on-line directory of U.S. media contacts from CornerBarPR.comSM, has been SuperSized. Our database of 45,000 reporters, anchors, news editors, and whatnot, at a price of $200 annually, compares very well, thank you, with the so-called competition, who won't even talk to you unless you have thousand-dollar bills hanging out of your pockets. But act quickly; our low prices are going up in the next few days. Going, Going, Gone
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Microsoft's deadline demand: Pay me now or pay me more -- a lot more -- later. If you have five or more computers and use Microsoft products, you only have until the end of July to make a decision on software upgrades. No matter what you decide, it's gonna cost you. Revenue Assurance Program
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
They all work differently, of course, but you expect on-line search engine results to be fair and reasonably comprehensive. If they give preferential treatment to advertisers, they oughta make this clear. At least that's what the FTC says. But the search engine companies' response isn't nearly as fast as their searches. Google, not surprisingly, is the best. Searching ... For Revenue
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
The world's largest media company's top on-lineman is going off line. AOL Time Warner chief operating officer Robert Pittman has resigned. "Old media" Time executives seem to be supplanting the guys from the on-line upstart. Dial-up AOL customers have been switching to high-speed services at a slow-speed pace. You've Got ... To Go
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Pity the poor PGA. After Vegas bookmakers' darling Tiger Woods tanked the British Open and there is no Grand Slam in professional golf's 2002 future, the PGA Championship in lovely Chaska, Minn., in August has lost its luster and, presumably, millions of viewers and ad dollars. Blown Away
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Come September, there will be a new look at ABC's Sunday morning "This Week" program, as George Stephanopoulos takes over the reins from Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. Elsewhere in media land, MSNBC is cutting back on news in favor of opinion and commentary, and CNN is trying to take over the limited remaining space on your computer monitor. News In The News
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Depending on whose data you believe, spam, mass-posted, unsolicited commercial email, has increased 450 or 600 or 700 percent in the past year. However much you get, about eight percent probably will be porn, says spam-tracker Brightmail. A Picture Is Worth ...
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
It took the computer industry 25 years to sell one billion personal computers, according to Gartner Dataquest. Now experts are expecting the second billion to be in consumers' hands by 2008 as prices fall. Over One Billion Served
By Brenda Clevenger, ABC
In our world of excess, we hear the terms supersize, jumbo, Big Gulp, and magnum on retail shelves, restaurant menus, and condom dispensers. And now, our own Contacts On Tap™ media database has been SuperSized -- at 45,000 contacts in some 300 cities, we're almost nine times larger than a week ago. More Bang, Same Buck
By Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR
CornerBarPR.comSM servers will be down the afternoon of July 2, 2002, for a couple of hours. We apologize for any inconvenience. Read A Book
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Kmart, owners of the trophy for the largest retail bankruptcy in history, is dumping BlueLight.com, its moribund e-commerce venture and low-end ISP. Apparently, BlueLight wasn't sufficiently Special, for the brick-and-mortar retailer is returning to traditional Web sales through the Kmart.com name. Attention, Kmart Shoppers!
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Gator Corporation's pop-up ads are more than an annoyance, according to the crème de la crème of the on-line publishing world. The ad network has figured out how to place unauthorized advertising on top of the publishing companies' content, on the publishers' own Web sites. Gator has offered to stop, if each publisher will just pay it a little $50,000 fee. The publishers say the reptilian company is a parasite. Bite This, Gator!
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
VeriSign, one of the Internet's leading providers of digital certificates and trust services, is facing a barrage of complaints about deceptive advertising, competitive poaching, and customer trickery, after sending false "Domain Name Expiration Notices" to the customers of competitors. Trust-Worthy?
