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Online retailer Amazon.com is entering the highly regulated wine direct marketing business, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Letters in response to Loose Cannon: Google Knows Best, Direct Newsline, March 3, 2008

The Virginia Supreme Court last week upheld spammer Jeremy Jaynes’ conviction, the first felony conviction in the U.S. for spamming. The court ruled that Virginia’s anti-spam law doesn’t violate free-speech rights or unconstitutionally interfere with interstate commerce. The ruling also reaffirmed a sentence that is entirely out of proportion to the crime.

Pennsylvania and 25 other states have reached a settlement concerning alleged deceptive Internet advertising practices associated with USdirectory.com, which is owned an operated by Directory Billing LLC, based in Boca Raton, FL.

Marketers do a good job at handling their in-house systems on a daily basis. But do they have the skill sets to access and track customer behavior? Michael Caccavale offers a primer on what marketers should consider about outsourcing

Its no surprise that public relations gurus were among the first to embrace social media. Learn what worked and why, and how marketers can make online networking work for them.

The era of Web 2.0 has brought to life a culture of passionate online users—the Netflix enthusiast, the fantasy football participant, the avid Flickr fan, the bakery connoisseur, the RSS/news aficionado. They share an active spirit of participation and the desire to make their niche interests a part of the collective conversation online. They create…

In a Web 2.0 world, it only takes one disgruntled Internet savvy person to sink your business. Find out how you can control the damage by self-styled activists and emotional hypochondriacs.

Italian gunsmith Beretta’s spring catalog bears an Olympics theme, starting with the cover photo of Andrea Benelli, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist in men’s skeet shooting, who used a Beretta shotgun to capture his medal. A 6” x 9” package from Environmental Defense, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ecological protection and preservation, features a picture…

Having won a settlement with AT&T Mobility, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is now setting his sights on Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, Alltel and T-Mobile. The state will