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Have you seen the offers for free IPODs? Run a search on Google, Yahoo, AOL, or any search engine for the key word IPOD, and you will be presented with a flurry of offers for free IPODs. With the soaring popularity of free IPODs this offer definitely seems very alluring. After all, who wouldn’t want a free IPOD? The truth about these offers for free IPODs is that there are very clever marketers behind them. These marketers are willing to give you an IPOD for free in exchange for your email address. Your email address holds allot of value for them. Through your email address they can make offers to you for various products and offers, which have lucrative pay outs for the marketers. By having you agree to share your email address they will be able to send you offers withouth being accused of spam. If you decide that you no longer want to receive future offers you simply opt out and the offers will stop coming. But with the price of an IPOD starting at $300, how can those marketers afford to give everyone a free IPOD simply in exchange for their email address? After all, someone could register and then opt out right after receiving their free IPOD. In reality the marketers are counting on two important goals. They are hoping that a high enough percentage of respondents will participate in the offers they receive, making it worthwhile to run their marketing programs. Second, before giving away the free IPOD the consumer is required to participate in a few trial offers. Every time the consumer participates in a trial offer the marketer is paid. But if a consumer does not fully participate he would not receive the free IPOD. In other words, the free IPOD is only given out when the consumer has taken actions that will compensate the marketer for the free IPOD. This can be a win-win situation for both the consumer and the marketer. The marketer gains by having a consumer participate in trial offers, for which the marketer is paid, and the consumer gains by having the opportunity to receive a free IPOD.
New Free Music Sites Learn From Others? Mistakes (The Nashua Telegraph)
LOS ANGELES ? Two new companies are giving consumers a way to download songs for free by watching a few ads. The idea has been tried before but this time it appears it might work, because the startups have found advertisers that are willing to pay around $2 to have a moment of your time. That means recording companies can get about as much compensation from the free services as they receive from ...
First Looks: New Potato Technologies FLPR Universal Remote For IPod Touch + IPhone (iLounge)
As the latest universal remote control solution for iPhones and iPod touches, New Potato's FLPR ($80) combines a brand new and free FLPR application with an Infrared dongle that attaches to the bottoms of iPhones and iPods alike. The FLPR dongle is small, black, and compatible with some cases so that you needn't pull your favorite enclosure off of your device in order to use it. But the key to ...
2 New, Free Music Sites Learn From The Mistakes Of Others (The Nashua Telegraph)
Apple?s recent unveiling of the iPad was primarily a product announcement aimed at priming the pump for consumers, developers and content owners. But for the notoriously secretive company, the iPad event provided observers with a glimpse of the company?s growing ambitions and strategies. By trumpeting its own chipset for the iPad, passing on Adobe Flash software and putting even more emphasis on ...
News: EFF Posts Apple?s IPhone Developer Agreement Online (iLounge)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has acquired a recent copy of Apple?s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement (PDF Link) and posted it online. Previously seen only by those applying to be a licensed iPhone developer, the EFF used the Freedom of Information Act to ask NASA, which distributes a free NASA App through the App Store, for a copy. Contained within the agreement is a section ...
Need An Extra Terabyte For Your TiVo? New App Lets You Link To An HP MediaSmart Server (PC World Via Yahoo! News)
If you?re a TiVo aficionado, you know that there?s no such thing as too much storage. And now you can let your TV show and movie collection spill out of the box, across your home network and into an HP MediaSmart server.
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