Broadband National has teamed up with Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications in bringing this opportunity to market
Vero Beach, FL, -- Broadband National Inc., the nations leading online marketing company that promotes digital services such as broadband, voice, and video has partnered with Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications to create a Web site targeting the growing HDTV marketplace.
The website http://www.hdtvspecialoffer.com provides individuals who are looking to purchase new flat-screen televisions large discounts if they subscribe to Comcast, Time Warner Cable or Charter Communications. The new site offers the best deal on services from the leading cable companies, as well as substantial savings on the most popular HDTV’s.
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“In most cases individuals and families that are upgrading to high-definition television are also upgrading their home entertainment services such as video, Internet and voice,” states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National. “Partnering with these three companies has given us an opportunity to help the consumer with great offers on televisions and services in one location. Users can visit the website and check for “triple play” bundles consisting of video, data and voice services and at the same time purchase the HDTV of their choice at a tremendous discount.”
Broadband National is the leading comparative shopping website for digital related services and products. Residential and business customers can use Broadband National's IBIS (Integrated Broadband Information System) technology to compare services from more than 50 local, regional and national service providers.
Formed in 2003, Broadband National is a private company conceived as a solution to a fragmented and confusing broadband marketplace. Millions have used their Web site to compare services, and purchase broadband, VoIP, and similar telecom services.
For Broadband National press inquiries please contact Mark Ballard at 772-539-0618 or visit www.broadbandnational.com
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Warner Debuts Free Music Service
It has been announced that Warner Music Group's Lala.com is to offer songs to listen to for free online.
Using the site, owners of iPods can keep their iTunes libraries online, where they will be able to be accessed from anywhere and shared with any user. Lala.com also allows users to trade CDs online for a nominal fee as well as selling tracks that can be uploaded directly onto an iPod.
Founder of Lala.com Bill Nguyen accused the studios of having "done everything they can to get people to hate music." He added that Napster, which was shut down in July 2001 after an injunction was issued against it, was the "last good thing to happen to music that people loved".
"We wondered what would happen if we built a new Napster, with one hope that if you trust the consumer and don't think they are the enemy then you won't get screwed," Mr Nguyen added. Currently Lala.com has approximately 300,000 members and charges $1 per disc for users to swap CDs among themselves.
"Music is and will always be a driving force of the Internet, states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "Recently, there has been a boom in "boutique" music stores that cater to specific audiences. For example, Beatportand Bleep cater to the electronic music community. Magnatune, Amie Street, and Mindawn are other examples of sites that cater to specific audiences. "
For more information on broadband and other digital products and services visit www.broadbandnational.com
Using the site, owners of iPods can keep their iTunes libraries online, where they will be able to be accessed from anywhere and shared with any user. Lala.com also allows users to trade CDs online for a nominal fee as well as selling tracks that can be uploaded directly onto an iPod.
Founder of Lala.com Bill Nguyen accused the studios of having "done everything they can to get people to hate music." He added that Napster, which was shut down in July 2001 after an injunction was issued against it, was the "last good thing to happen to music that people loved".
"We wondered what would happen if we built a new Napster, with one hope that if you trust the consumer and don't think they are the enemy then you won't get screwed," Mr Nguyen added. Currently Lala.com has approximately 300,000 members and charges $1 per disc for users to swap CDs among themselves.
"Music is and will always be a driving force of the Internet, states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "Recently, there has been a boom in "boutique" music stores that cater to specific audiences. For example, Beatportand Bleep cater to the electronic music community. Magnatune, Amie Street, and Mindawn are other examples of sites that cater to specific audiences. "
For more information on broadband and other digital products and services visit www.broadbandnational.com
Monday, June 18, 2007
Online Ad Revenues Climb
Online ad revenue saw a year-on-year growth of 26 percent in the first quarter of 2007, according to a recently released survey.
During the first quarter of this year alone, the industry racked up $4.9 billion in revenue, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers reported. In recent months there has been a scramble by many of the largest Internet companies to acquire online ad outfits. IAB president and chief executive Randall Rothenberg said: "The continued growth of online ad revenues clearly illustrates marketers' increased chttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifomfort with the extraordinary vitality and accountability of this medium."
In April Google beat out Microsoft and Yahoo! by paying $3.1 billion for the Internet ad company DoubleClick. Founded in 1995, DoubleClick is responsible for over half the advertising on the Internet, but has been criticized for its use of spyware. In May, Microsoft moved into the sector by buying advertising outfit aQuantive for $6 billion.
"Search Advertising is the major type of online advertising. Search ads can be based on the keywords that are typed, contextual advertising or behavioral targeting," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries most popular comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "The costs of keywords can vary greatly depending on the demand for the term, the nature of the target market and the placement of the ad."
For more information on digital products and services go to www.broadbandnational.com
Search Results Can Be Risky
The results of Internet searches are exposing users to malware, according to a recent report from the software security company McAfee.
At least four percent of all search results could lead users to websites that could download malware, the study found. However, the study also found that the number of such results with malware fell one percent on last year's results.
Most likely to contain websites with malware are the sponsored search results purchased by their owners which appear at the top of a page. The author of the study, Ben Edelman, told vnunet.com: "The search engines could do more. "These advertisers rely completely on search engines, so the search engines are uniquely positioned to kill these businesses."
In the study, Mr. Edelman analyzed the initial 50 results from 2,300 of the most popular keywords on Yahoo! Google, AOL, MSN and Ask.com. Meanwhile, levels of malware have climbed over the last year at a greater rate than in the years before, a recent report has found. In their most recent report, IBM's Internet security systems researchers detected over 7,200 weaknesses, most of which could be exploited by attackers.
Spyware programs are sometimes installed as Trojan horses of one sort or another. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “Most such programs present the user with an end-user license agreement which purportedly protects the creator from prosecution under computer contaminant laws. However, spyware EULAs have not yet been upheld in court.”
For more information on digital products and services visit
www.broadbandnational.com
At least four percent of all search results could lead users to websites that could download malware, the study found. However, the study also found that the number of such results with malware fell one percent on last year's results.
Most likely to contain websites with malware are the sponsored search results purchased by their owners which appear at the top of a page. The author of the study, Ben Edelman, told vnunet.com: "The search engines could do more. "These advertisers rely completely on search engines, so the search engines are uniquely positioned to kill these businesses."
In the study, Mr. Edelman analyzed the initial 50 results from 2,300 of the most popular keywords on Yahoo! Google, AOL, MSN and Ask.com. Meanwhile, levels of malware have climbed over the last year at a greater rate than in the years before, a recent report has found. In their most recent report, IBM's Internet security systems researchers detected over 7,200 weaknesses, most of which could be exploited by attackers.
Spyware programs are sometimes installed as Trojan horses of one sort or another. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “Most such programs present the user with an end-user license agreement which purportedly protects the creator from prosecution under computer contaminant laws. However, spyware EULAs have not yet been upheld in court.”
For more information on digital products and services visit
www.broadbandnational.com
Monday, June 11, 2007
U.S. Broadband To Boom By 2012
Improving affordability of broadband will mean that almost three-quarters of U.S. households will have high-speed Internet access by 2012, according to new research.
Competition between broadband providers will encourage 36 million new subscribers in the next five years, according to Jupiter Research. The company predicts the decline of dial-up, saying that the new generation of Internet users is more likely to go straight to broadband. Jupiter Research analyst Doug Williams said: "As broadband becomes more attractive to consumers from an economic perspective, current dial-up users will be more likely to migrate to broadband service, and consumers who are new to the online population will never take dial-up service in the first place."
He went on to say that the main providers of broadband, namely cable operators and local exchange carriers, would continue to dominate the market and alternative methods of receiving broadband would trail behind. Jupiter Research provides independent research, analysis and advice about the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on businesses.
"We’re seeing continued and strong growth in the number of new broadband users, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc., who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products. "We have also discovered that as consumers purchase or upgrade to broadband they also upgrade to digital and HDTV as well. We also believe that the next explosive area for growth will be in VoIP and digital voice"
For more information on VoIP and other digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
Friday, June 08, 2007
Search Results Can Be Risky
The results of Internet searches are exposing users to malware, according to a recent report from the software security company McAfee.
At least four percent of all search results could lead users to websites that could download malware, the study found. However, the study also found that the number of such results with malware fell one percent on last year's results.
Most likely to contain websites with malware are the sponsored search results purchased by their owners which appear at the top of a page. The author of the study, Ben Edelman, told vnunet.com: "The search engines could do more. "These advertisers rely completely on search engines, so the search engines are uniquely positioned to kill these businesses."
In the study, Mr. Edelman analyzed the initial 50 results from 2,300 of the most popular keywords on Yahoo! Google, AOL, MSN and Ask.com. Meanwhile, levels of malware have climbed over the last year at a greater rate than in the years before, a recent report has found. In their most recent report, IBM's Internet security systems researchers detected over 7,200 weaknesses, most of which could be exploited by attackers.
Spyware programs are sometimes installed as Trojan horses of one sort or another. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “Most such programs present the user with an end-user license agreement which purportedly protects the creator from prosecution under computer contaminant laws. However, spyware EULAs have not yet been upheld in court.”
For more information on digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
At least four percent of all search results could lead users to websites that could download malware, the study found. However, the study also found that the number of such results with malware fell one percent on last year's results.
Most likely to contain websites with malware are the sponsored search results purchased by their owners which appear at the top of a page. The author of the study, Ben Edelman, told vnunet.com: "The search engines could do more. "These advertisers rely completely on search engines, so the search engines are uniquely positioned to kill these businesses."
In the study, Mr. Edelman analyzed the initial 50 results from 2,300 of the most popular keywords on Yahoo! Google, AOL, MSN and Ask.com. Meanwhile, levels of malware have climbed over the last year at a greater rate than in the years before, a recent report has found. In their most recent report, IBM's Internet security systems researchers detected over 7,200 weaknesses, most of which could be exploited by attackers.
Spyware programs are sometimes installed as Trojan horses of one sort or another. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “Most such programs present the user with an end-user license agreement which purportedly protects the creator from prosecution under computer contaminant laws. However, spyware EULAs have not yet been upheld in court.”
For more information on digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Sprint To Launch Wi-Max
Sprint has announced plans to expand availability of its new Wi-Max service to 100 million people across the U.S. by the end of 2008.
Trials in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington DC have proved successful for the mobile broadband service provider and will form a solid base for the service's launch. The company claims that mobile Wi-Max is "one of the year's hottest topics" and "is set to alter the competitive landscape for high-speed multimedia applications". Sprint aims to provide customers with a nationwide mobile data network http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifthat is faster, cheaper and more convenient a "more enhanced multimedia quality" than anything other service.
It will work with partners Samsung, Motorola and Nokia and plans to invest up to $800 million this year and between $1.5 billion and $2 billion next year. The "advanced, data-centric mobile broadband network" will enable an "Internet everywhere experience", the company stated. Sprint started out as Kansas-based Brown Telephone Company in 1899 and was eventually reborn as a long-distance service in 1986.
"Many companies are closely examining WiMAX for "last mile" connectivity at high data rates,” states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “This could result in lower pricing for both home and business customers as competition lowers prices.”
For more information on digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Europe Beats U.S. On Internet Usage
Europe Beats U.S. On Internet Usage
During April, average European usage of the Internet beat out usage by Americans, according to the Internet data company comScore.
An average of 122 million Europeans over the age of 15 used the internet daily during April, the comScore figures showed. This is in contrast to the average of 114 million Americans who used it every day during the same period.
The countries with the largest proportions of their populations on the Internet at any one time, was Denmark with 68 percent and Holland with 83 percent. However, as a whole, Internet penetration in Europe stood at 40 percent, compared to 66 percent in the US. The most visited website in 13 out of the 16 countries was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Google, most often followed by Microsoft.
Included in the survey was Russia, which was the last of countries ranked for internet penetration, with only 11 percent. What ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifre described by the company as "massive" databases are maintained by comScore to monitor the different ways that the internet is used.
For more information on broadband and other digital products and services visit www.broadbandnational.com or www.dsldance.com
During April, average European usage of the Internet beat out usage by Americans, according to the Internet data company comScore.
An average of 122 million Europeans over the age of 15 used the internet daily during April, the comScore figures showed. This is in contrast to the average of 114 million Americans who used it every day during the same period.
The countries with the largest proportions of their populations on the Internet at any one time, was Denmark with 68 percent and Holland with 83 percent. However, as a whole, Internet penetration in Europe stood at 40 percent, compared to 66 percent in the US. The most visited website in 13 out of the 16 countries was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Google, most often followed by Microsoft.
Included in the survey was Russia, which was the last of countries ranked for internet penetration, with only 11 percent. What ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifre described by the company as "massive" databases are maintained by comScore to monitor the different ways that the internet is used.
For more information on broadband and other digital products and services visit www.broadbandnational.com or www.dsldance.com
Monday, June 04, 2007
Google Includes Security Software In Pack
Google Includes Security Software In Pack
Now the search engine giant Google has included the Norton Security Scan in its free pack of useful software, called Google Pack.
The Norton Security Scan is a user-friendly security tool that allows users to scan their PCs for viruses and spyware. In addition, the security software is able to remove all the viruses, trojans and malware, which it detects on a PC.
Rowan Trollope, vice president of the engineering consumer business unit at Symantec, said: "Offering Norton Security Scan through the Google Pack is the perfect way to reach the everyday Internet home user. "Our goal is to provide Internet users everywhere with a powerful and easy-to-use tool to help them evaluate, and understand threats that may reside on their PCs."
Meanwhile, weblogs on Google's Blogger.com page are being used in phishing attacks and to spread malware, according to a recent report. The site may have been chosen by cyber-criminals due to its popularity in search-engines, the research from Internet security firm Fortinet stated.
"Security continues to be at the forefront of Internet users concerns," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products. "Norton has long been one of the leaders in security and is a terrific compliment to Googles suite of offerings."
For more information on digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
Friday, June 01, 2007
eEye beefs up with antivirus defenses
Internet security software company eEye is now offering free antivirus defense with its Blink Personal Internet Security suite.
The suite is mainly targeted towards individual consumers and those that use the Internet in a home office environment.
Included in the suite are multiple antivirus scanning engines, personal firewall, antispyware, antiphishing defenses, intrusion-protection and patch detection functions.
Marc Maiffret, eEye's founder and chief technical officer, said: "The sheer number and diversity of security threats is overwhelming for most consumers. "Blink Personal with anti-virus is the first Internet security offering to include all the protection a consumer needs while allowing for new features to be added incrementally."
Consumers do not want to buy new security software for every threat, they only want one product, which is capable of protecting their personal information, added Mr. Maiffret. The California-based eEye also offers a corporate product, called the Blink Professional Edition with Antivirus. Meanwhile, a new email attack is being used by hackers which pretends to be a message from Microsoft offering the recipient a trial of Internet Explorer 7, software security company Sophos has warned.
"As governments and the private sector face a growing threat of cyber attacks and network security vulnerabilities, organizations must focus not only on protection, but minimizing downtime," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "Today’s business environment necessitates 24x7 availability of critical applications, forcing IT administrators to perform maintenance and security updates in an ever-shrinking window of time."
For more information on digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
The suite is mainly targeted towards individual consumers and those that use the Internet in a home office environment.
Included in the suite are multiple antivirus scanning engines, personal firewall, antispyware, antiphishing defenses, intrusion-protection and patch detection functions.
Marc Maiffret, eEye's founder and chief technical officer, said: "The sheer number and diversity of security threats is overwhelming for most consumers. "Blink Personal with anti-virus is the first Internet security offering to include all the protection a consumer needs while allowing for new features to be added incrementally."
Consumers do not want to buy new security software for every threat, they only want one product, which is capable of protecting their personal information, added Mr. Maiffret. The California-based eEye also offers a corporate product, called the Blink Professional Edition with Antivirus. Meanwhile, a new email attack is being used by hackers which pretends to be a message from Microsoft offering the recipient a trial of Internet Explorer 7, software security company Sophos has warned.
"As governments and the private sector face a growing threat of cyber attacks and network security vulnerabilities, organizations must focus not only on protection, but minimizing downtime," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "Today’s business environment necessitates 24x7 availability of critical applications, forcing IT administrators to perform maintenance and security updates in an ever-shrinking window of time."
For more information on digital products and services visit www.dsldance.com
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