Archives for September 2008

123play.com has had some success with its free mobile games offerings in the UK that were launched just a few months ago, and now the company has opened up their advertising backed game play to Europe.

Now mobile users in France, Germany, Italy and Spain can play games for free on their handsets. These games are also available for free download at the company’s web site.

The company offers a choice of eighty games from well known game brands Digital Chocolate, RealArcade Mobile, THQ Wireless, Hands-On, Indiagames, In-Fusio, Player-X and Progressive Media, and users can play as many games as they wish.When launching mobile 123play.com users will see adverts before the game can start, you can click on the adverts to go to company sites or not.

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Nobel Biocare, the world leader in innovative esthetic dental solutions has launched an exciting website promotion for dentists with ProSites, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of high quality website design and Internet marketing services for dental professionals.

Under terms of the promotion, which runs through November 30th, 2008, Nobel Biocare will provide doctors who purchase a minimum of 15 dental implants with a free ProSites website and a full year of website hosting (a $3,160 value). “Getting a free ProSites website with the purchase of Nobel Biocare implants is a tremendous added value for the doctor,” says ProSites CEO Lance McCollough.

“Over 300 Nobel Biocare doctors have selected ProSites due to our industry leading Web Engine technology, compelling website designs, and excellent patient education content. Our websites also include special content provided by Nobel Biocare that educates visitors on dental implants and helps doctors to increase case acceptance,” said McCollough.

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Some people, like myself, might not know that there’s a better way to transfer CDs and DVDs across the internet, rather than the traditional method of burning ISO images.  By using some free software, which acts as a virtual drive on your PC, you can mount an ISO image to run much faster and efficiently. 

According to CyberNet, it works by taking an ISO image, BIN/CUE file, or any other supported format and displaying it as a virtual drive on your computer.  The drive should look just like any other CD drive in Windows Explorer, with the added benefit of it being much faster than using a physical CD-ROM drive.

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 A charity is giving free poetry books to thousands of reception class pupils in England to inspire a love of reading. The Booktrust scheme will see 750,000 book packs with a poetry anthology and a story book sent to primary schools. A survey carried out by Booktrust found a third of children wanted to read more poetry or have more read with them.

Of the 1,051 seven to 14-year-olds polled, 44% said their mother did not enjoy reading poetry with them. The survey, conducted to mark the distribution of the free book packs, found half of the seven to eight-year-olds liked reading poetry compared with only 31% aged 12 to 14. In a separate poll of 1,507 parents, nearly a third (31%) said they never read poetry with their children.

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Rolling Meadows, IL (PRWEB) September 17, 2008 -- Web Hosting Pad is proud and happy to announce free website consulting. No other company offers so much for so little.

Senior Administrator Craig White states, "We're very excited to offer this service to our customers to maximize their web hosting experience, and utilize our services to meet our customers needs. This will also be a great way to show customers that they are our main priority and that we are here for them whenever they need us."

Webmaster consulting is done over the phone with no operators so you get your full one on one experience to benefit you best. Our customers love this idea and feel like they have their own personal webmaster. web hosting pad web consulting Webmaster service is geared towards ecommerce websites, assisting in getting websites ranked higher in the search engines.

If you own a PC, chances are high that you've already reached deeply into your pockets and parted with sizeable sums of cash for applications that can be downloaded for free.

Think of any application you're ever likely to need and chances are that there's a free version available online. After hours spent slaving over a hot keyboard, I've tracked down a treasure trove of online freebies for your computing pleasure.

DIGITAL PHOTOS-Picassa-Available free from picasa.google.com, there's not much Picassa can't do. Able to manage huge photo libraries, tagging and finding photos you forgot you ever had is almost effortless. Getting rid of red-eye and do other photo corrections: Total cost nada. Creating online albums and making slideshows, sticker price, Free. Doing digital photography with Picassa: Priceless - even if its free.

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All 11-year-olds in England will be able to receive a free cookbook under a programme aimed at tackling obesity. Head teachers will be able to order the booklet, which has recipes for favourites such as spaghetti bolognese, roast chicken and jacket potatoes.

Ministers are also announcing that £151m will be spent building food technology areas in schools. The initiatives are designed to pave the way for compulsory cooking lessons for all 11- to 14-year olds by 2011.

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Talisma Corporation (News - Alert), selling what it calls Customer Interaction Management software, has announced availability of version 8.1 of its multi channel products.  This release adds capabilities to Talisma Chat (News - Alert), Talisma E-mail and reporting, company officials say.

"With 8.1, Talisma provides functionality to help businesses cross sell and upsell to their customer base," with the additional reporting in 8.1 giving businesses "an in-depth look at how they can deliver the best customer experience," said Dan Vetras, President and CEO, Talisma Corporation. 

Talisma Chat 8.1 enables Payment Card Industry compliance for companies that accept online payments: "Agents can see customer credit card information and other personal data in the chat window, however, any data matching pre-configured patterns will be removed from the transcript and CIM database," company officials say.

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The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter objecting to the proposed Internet search advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc and Google Inc to government regulators reviewing the deal, the group said on Sunday.

The letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, noted that "a Google-Yahoo partnership will control 90 percent of search advertising inventory," the ANA, which represents major U.S. advertisers, said in a statement.The partnership "will likely diminish competition, increase concentration of market power, limit choices currently available and potentially raise prices to advertisers for high quality, affordable search advertising," the statement said.

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AOL LLC launched the first Mac version of its free online storage service, Xdrive, by unveiling a public beta written for the new Adobe AIR platform.

The move pits the online media company against storage giant EMC Corp. in the battle to give away storage "in the cloud" to Macintosh users.

Xdrive Desktop Lite runs on AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), Adobe Systems Inc.'s new runtime that also debuted today. AIR, which takes the functionality of Web-based technologies like Flash and HTML and then combines them with desktop-style APIs such as drag-and-drop, is Adobe's attempt to bridge the online-offline gap.

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