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NewWorldIQ has launched its annual on-line e-marketing survey | UK parliamentary committee hearings are to be streamed on the Web
E-marketing provider NewWorldIQ launched its annual on-line e-marketing survey aimed at exploring the key challenges facing Irish marketers. Marketing professionals from all sectors are invited to take part in the on-line survey at NewWorldIQ's Web site. All participants in the survey will receive full survey results and will be invited to a breakfast briefing where the results of the survey will be announced.
UK parliamentary committee hearings are to be streamed on the Web and citizens will be invited to submit their opinions on government policy by e-mail. Viewers who logged on to www.parliamentlive.tv from Thursday could watch as the Joint Committee on the Draft Communication Bill heard evidence from the Independent Television Commission, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, and the Radio Authority. From now on, every such pre-legislative scrutiny committee will have its evidence sessions broadcast on-line.
Peregrine Systems is to restate almost three years of results, as federal regulators begin a formal probe into the software maker's accounting practices. The company said it will examine financial alternatives and may cut its workforce. The news came less than a fortnight after Peregrine said its audit committee would investigate whether it had failed to adjust revenue from software deals made through partners, consultants and retailers if a product was returned.
Sprint, the third-largest long-distance phone company in the US, is taking bids for its telephone directory business and may make as much as USD2.5 billion in a sale, according to reports. Sprint and other telecoms such as Qwest Communications are trying to sell yellow-pages directory businesses to raise cash and pay debt as the demand for telephone services slows.
The European Commission has approved a joint venture called inreon, an on-line business-to-business reinsurance trading platform. The electronic platform will enable insurers and insurance brokers to obtain on-line quotes for coverage of property risks and catastrophic risks. Inreon will provide a more transparent and efficient means for requesting quotes and for concluding reinsurance contracts. Currently, inreon's two founding members, Swiss Re and Munich Re, and about 12 other reinsurers and some 50 insurers and insurance brokers are participating in the platform.
Maverick Records and Vivendi Universal's on-line division are asking people to pay just under a USD1 for an unprotected MP3 version of a new single, a move analysts consider a bold step for a major label. The companies have made a dance version of "Earth" by Meshell Ndegeocello available on Web sites run by Vivendi Universal Net USA, including MP3.com, RollingStone.com, GetMusic.com and MP4.com. People can purchase the file for USD0.99 and then burn the song onto a disk or transfer it to a portable device.
UK PC retailer Computer World said an on-line survey showed that almost 40 percent of laptop repairs in September were related to problems that arose from taking the machines on holiday, according to a report by Reuters. Colin Middlemiss told Reuters that "some have been left too long in the sun, some have been dropped in swimming pools and other have had booze spilled on them." He said the retailer's repair technicians recently found sand, stones and several tiny hermit crabs in one laptop.
According to Newsbytes.com, a domain registration mix-up has resulted in two Internet addresses used by the US Navy being commandeered by other Web sites, including a pornography site. Visitors to NavyDallas.com, formerly the home page of the Navy's Dallas recruiting district, have been redirected to How-to-find-porn.com, a portal that features links to many hardcore pornography sites. A spokesperson for Stargate Communications, a Chicago-based Internet service provider, said an individual seemingly in Estonia took the NavyDallas.com domain using Stargate's registration service when the domain's registration expired.
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