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One very effective place to reach consumers is their e-mail inbox. Traditionally, when print was a much larger medium for advertising and marketing, marketers would physically mail flyers and advertisements to consumers’ homes and mailboxes. Now with the tremendous advantages of e-mail, as well as the decline of snail mail, e-mail marketing has become a part of many businesses’ marketing mix.

E-mail marketing has low costs, making it very affordable for large and small businesses. While traditional mailing lists required printing all of your marketing materials and paying for postage, e-mail does not require any of those overhead costs. Sending mass email requires that you operate servers, but if you are already operating a business, you likely already have this technology. Another benefit of e-mail marketing is that you can send personalized messages to your audience. A lot of software and third party e-mail marketing providers offer a ...

Several homes were destroyed in northwest Alabamaby at least two apparent tornadoes Friday morning, and warnings were issued for other regions in Midwest and South. 

Emergency officials said that two big tornadoes, one immediately after the other, damaged homes around 9.am, leaving many injured and without power. More than 20 schools were closed early Friday. 

In the Huntsville area, at least four people were taken to area hospitals.

Alabama was one of a number of states that severe storms damaged badly this week. 

Many others states –Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee– were touched down by high winds, powerful storms and tornadoes, according to reports. 

At least 13 deaths, hundreds of injuries and millions of dollars of damage were reported this week. Especially hard-hit were parts of Missouri, Tennessee and Harrisburg in southern Illinois.

Motorola Mobility, which forced Apple to remove some iPad and iPhone models from its German online stores, was temporarily blocked from enforcing patent against Apple Inc. by aGerman Courton Monday. 

“At the current state of the proceedings, it is to be assumed that Motorola Mobility would violate its duties under antitrust rules if it continues to ask Apple to stop the sales,” the court said in a statement. 

According to newspapers, Apple made a first request to the appeals court in January over the issue. Today’s decision indicates that Apple obtained a legal victory over Motorola in German patent case. 

Motorola Mobility is required in court to obtain a certain percentage of Apple's sales of wireless devices, in return for a patent license. Apple said that Motorola’s enforcement was unreasonable and discriminatory.

Apple Inc. is fighting a Chinese company over its right to use the iPad trademark in China. The electronics giant defended its right in a mainland Chinese court on Wednesday. 

According to newspapers, Shenzhen Proview Technology's lawyer Xie Xianghui claimed over the unacceptable sale of the iPad trademark to an Apple subsidiary by Proview's Taiwan affiliate. 

“Apple has no right to sell iPads under that name,” said lawyer Xie Xianghui. “The agreement to sell the trademark is not valid under Chinese law.”  

Apple’s lawyer affirmed that stopping iPod sale in China could lead to company big losses. 

"They have no market, no sales, no customers. They have nothing," Apple lawyer Qu Miao said of Proview. "The iPad is so popular that it is in short supply. We have to consider the public good." 

Apple has appealed against the decision to stop selling iPod in ...

The son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy announced Thursday that he wants again to get into Massachusetts politics. 

According to newspapers, 31-year-old Joseph Kennedy III will leave his post as a prosecutor to run for US Congress as a Democrat. 

"I'm very proud of my family's record of public service to the Commonwealth and the country," Kennedy said after spending the morning greeting commuters inNewton. "This campaign - any campaign - is going to be about the issues and about who goes out and earns it." 

Even though Mr. Kennedy is actually a political beginner, name popularity will not be a problem: his grandfather was a U.S. Senator and Attorney General, his father, Joseph P. Kennedy II, represented the city of Boston in Congress, and his great-uncle Edward M. Kennedy was United ...

31-year-old Diane Aulger induced labor 2 weeks early and gave birth to a daughter for her dying husband. Mark Augler had just a few days left to live and he wanted to see his child. 

Mark Augler was diagnosed with colon cancer in April. He had surgery and chemotherapy successfully with no signs of cancer showing up in follow up tests. 

In January, Diane was in her eight months of pregnancy when her husband’s health began rapidly to deteriorate. When Diane asked her doctor how long her husband had, he announced bad news. The couple learned that the condition was fatal. Her husband had just five or six days to live. 

"Mark said, "I'd like to see the baby," the 31-year-old mother told The Associated Press on Sunday. 

The couple decided to have labor induced. Mark had the chance to hold his daughter for ...

Adele and the singer’s 21 albums continue to dominate since its last February 2011 release. 

British singer Adele’s fans are eager to see at Sunday night’s Grammys if she will pick up trophies for all six categories she's nominated in, including best album for 21 and best record and song for Rolling in the Deep. 

While Kanye West is the lead nominee with seven, Adele, who's up for six, will be the act who dominates. 

Here are the major award nominations: 

Album of the year : "21," Adele; "Wasting Light," Foo Fighters; "Born This Way," Lady Gaga; "Doo-Wops & Hooligans," Bruno Mars; "Loud," Rihanna. 

Record of the year: "Rolling In the Deep," Adele; "Holocene," Bon Iver; "Grenade," Bruno Mars; "The Cave," Mumford & Sons; "Firework," Katy Perry.

Amazon, one of the internet’s most popular websites, will open its first store inSeattlewithin the next few months. According to Good Ereader, they intend to open a boutique store to see if a chain of stores would be popular with the public, as well as profitable. 

Amazon is close to the project to sell the main books from its great collection of Amazon Exclusives and selling its e-readers and tablets. The company also will focus on accessories such as cases, screen protectors, and USB adapters. 

According to newspapers, the company has already contracted the design through a shell company. When Amazon releases new products to the FCC it is always done through anonymous proxy companies to avoid disclosure to their competition on what they are working on. They are doing this for the actual first store layout and design, while modeling them ...

If you are an Android user, this is a dream come true. Yes, Temple Run, the most popular iOS Game is now coming to Android soon, mostly 9th of this month. With millions of downloads, Temple Run topped the charts in iOS Gaming. Developed by Imangi Studios, the Temple Run is yet to be made available for Android, the most used mobile OS.

There were several reasons for why Temple Run was not available on Android so far – May be there weren’t enough mobiles on the market to be capable of running this Game smoothly. So Hardware could have been a major reason. Or it could have been the complexity to develop such Addictive graphic game play on Android. Whatever be the speculation, finally its Official that Imangi will be making the game available for Android. Its no surprise that, there’s a new team involved in developing the Android ...

The NCR city of Ghaziabad is currently under the transitional phase of rapid economic growth in terms of real estate development. A number of industries have sprung up in a variety of sectors, ranging from manufacturing to services as IT services, which altogether promote the city as an industrial hub, and hence realizing as a hotbed for an all round growth and development.

As per the latest opinion of the real estate consultants, Ghaziabad is an ocean with a huge number of opportunities in store, from the demand as well as supply perspective. The city enjoys an immensely improved connectivity to the metro city of Delhi. Industry experts believe that, the city will have the best infrastructure in the NCR within the next five years.

Ghaziabad as a sub- urban city has helped Delhi in the same way Navi Mumbai has done for Mumbai. The ...