GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) is a telephone service from Google that allows users to search for a business in any U.S. or Canadian city by calling a toll-free telephone number. The service uses speech recognition technology to connect users to their desired business. Users that call 1-800-466-4411 are told that the call is [...]
Tag Archives: .tel
Start your Engines!
March 24, 2009
Well today was the day! .com, .net, .mobi, .org, .net, .info, .biz, .uk, .de, bz, pro… the list goes on and they all serve a purpose in the “right” environment, but… .tel (yes I like this concept) is different at its core and today became available to the general public at generally acceptable price levels. [...]
Don’t wait too long to protect your .tel domain
March 19, 2009
We’re well past the Sunrise period imposed by Telnic to allow Trademark owners exclusive rights to protect their .tel extensions and there are only a few days left to the Landrush period. The premium fees associated with the registration of .tel domains during the Landrush period was set to discourage domain squatters from snapping up [...]
If smartphones are the fastest growing devices on the planet, shouldn’t you consider it part of your marketing strategy?
March 16, 2009
According to Gartner Research, cell phones utilizing the Mac OS had growth of over 245.7% in 2008. The BlackBerry platform had the second best growth at 96.7%. This is pretty powerful, as more and more efforts will go toward continuing the growth of these numbers and the greater their success, the greater the opportunity for [...]
Is .tel the new seamless contact venue it appears to be?
February 17, 2009
We may be in the middle of a recession (I refuse to use the “D” word), but we are also in the middle of an exciting “land rush” for a new, and unique, domain extension. .tel provides a new internet standard for users to control contact information “on-the-fly” directly at the DNS (Domain Name System) [...]












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