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IAC/InterActiveCorp selects e-Dialog as enterprise-wide e-mail service provider

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IAC and e-Dialog, provider of advanced e-mail marketing and database technologies, announced a multi-year partnership in which e-Dialog will provide IAC with services and tools to support and coordinate e-mail marketing activities across the broad IAC network of brands.

The agreement is a result of an extensive review process involving a number of IAC’s businesses, to identify a broad-based tool-set and expert services that will support comprehensive, efficient, and segmented e-mail and database marketing. The agreement encompasses a number of IAC businesses, including LendingTree, Evite, TravelSmith, and Connected Ventures that have already engaged with e-Dialog. IAC will continue to roll-out e-Dialog’s services across the remaining brands over the course of the next few months.

Originally posted on February 9, 2008 @ 12:46 pm

JetBlue to offer free e-mail and IM service

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internet newsJetBlue Airways is the first U.S. carrier to provide free instant messaging and e-mail services to their passengers, starting December 11.

The budget airline will run a six-month test under one Airbus A320 plane dubbed as BetaBlue. Here, all passengers with wireless-enabled laptops are allowed to use Yahoo! Mail and IM. Moreover, selected BlackBerry handsets (8820 and 8320) are permitted to access and send emails during flights.

The first trial flight of the 150-seater BetaBlue is on flight 641 from New York to San Francisco this coming Tuesday. However, all electronic devices including the allowed BlackBerry smartphones must be turned off during takeoff and landing.

If the test is successful, JetBlue CEO David Neeleman promises to roll out this free service to their whole fleet.

Other carriers like Alaska, American Airlines, and Virgin America will start testing their own Internet service next year.

Via The Mercury News

Originally posted on December 7, 2007 @ 8:55 am

iRazoo launches email service powered by BigString

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irazoo1.pngBigString Corporation will be the private label email provider for the new email offering by the iRazoo search portal.

iRazoo’s users will be able to sign-up for a freeemail account, offering all the functionalities of BigString’s patent-pending email services, including self-destructing, tracking and video email.

Users of the new iRazoo’s private label email will be able to send an embedded video email (up to 10 minutes in length) without the need for the recipient to click on the a link or download the video. Another unique email features allow users to remotely erase or modify emails sent to recipients, designate their emails to be non-forwardable, non-printable and/or non-savable, or opt to have their emails self-destruct after a set amount of time or views. In addition, users will also have the added security to send secure emails via an encrypted, password-protected email system that can only be open via a Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

Originally posted on November 29, 2007 @ 4:40 pm

Want to get personalized, hand-addressed letters from Santa Claus?

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901am.comClick2Mail, an affiliate partner of the U.S. Postal Service today announced the launch of a Web-based Christmas project, A Letter From Santa, which allows anyone to have a personalized letter from Santa Claus sent to a child and simultaneously support one of the nation’s premiere holiday charities, Toys for Tots.

Letters are printed on limited edition stationery, signed by Santa himself, hand-addressed and postmarked from the North Pole Post Office in Alaska.

If you want to make Santa a little more real and more magical, simply go to RemindSanta.com to help Santa “compose” the letter and Click2Mail does the rest. The complete, delivered cost is $5.99 per US-addressed letter.

For each letter ordered by December 24th, one dollar will be donated to the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots program-the charity that collects and distributes toys as Christmas gifts to needy children.

Originally posted on October 26, 2007 @ 5:04 am

Verisign Mobile Banking Solution to include 2-way customer interaction platform from ClairMail

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verisign.jpgVeriSign, Inc. and ClairMail, Inc. announced that VeriSign will integrate ClairMail’s secure 2-way mobile customer interaction platform and applications with the VeriSign Mobile Banking Solution.

The agreement reflects VeriSign’s strategy to meet the changing needs of financial institutions by leveraging its global infrastructure for mobile messaging and content delivery. ClairMail’s scalable platform and breakthrough technology combined with VeriSign’s messaging and operations infrastructure will facilitate bringing this revolutionary solution to market rapidly, benefiting financial institutions of all sizes.

Incorporating ClairMail’s platform and applications enables the VeriSign Mobile Banking Solution to support the “triple play” of mobile interface types: messaging (SMS and email), mobile web and native client applications. Support of these interface types enables financial institutions to offer reliable, secure and easy-to-use mobile services to their customers on a wide range of handsets. The joint solution securely and cost-effectively integrates with a financial institution’s systems of record and enables a broad set of 2-way services on one platform with a single implementation, including account management, fraud mitigation, actionable alerts, mobile payments, marketing campaigns and no-hold customer service.

Originally posted on September 26, 2007 @ 7:50 am