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Auto Insurance Companies can use DeclareMedia's Internet Directory

s new local internet directory. Auto insurance companies that use DeclareMedia and get a listing in their local directory for free have nothing to lose. However, if they want their business to be featured on the homepage for only $20.00 per month it can help bring even more traffic to their site.

Companies are trying to figure out how to maximize marketing dollars and get ahead of competition by using the internet. DeclareMedia has created a new way to make it easy for auto insurance companies by using their new multiple online directories so auto insurance companies can find more people who are in need of their services.Anyone who goes on Yahoo or Google and searches for , DeclareMedia has a directory for that. If someone wants to find a , they’ve got a directory for that as well. DeclareMedia has over 100 directories to help auto insurance companies get more clients by using the internet.

When purchasing a vehicle, buyers want to make sure their car is insured. That way, people who own the car and those they may get harmed when involved in an accident can be taken care of financially. Depending on what kind of auto insurance policy people get will determine how much they will need to pay on damages when involved in an auto accident.Auto insurance is necessary when having a car and it’s nice to work with a good auto insurance company who can find a plan that will work for each client’s needs.

A free listing only takes a couple minutes to create while a featured placement listing takes just a minute longer, and auto insurance companies can gain even more traffic and lead flow for their business due to the prominent placement on the homepage of the directory. DeclareMedia has figured out how to get good rankings for the online directories on search engines such as Yahoo or Google, which ends up helping customers with their SEO efforts.

DeclareMedia plans to launch morein the next few weeks.

About DeclareMedia:plans to get over thousands of online, multiple directories covering hundreds of business categories to help businesses and people in search of certain services. There is now an easier way for both businesses and customers to get what they both need. The process is easy and fast for businesses to list their website and more convenient for customers to find what services they need. DeclareMedia believes the directories will rank well in search engines, they will help local businesses take advantage of the web to reach customers in their local area. DeclareMedia is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Amazon's New Cloud Music Player Is Great, But Is It Legal?

s servers and listen to it anywhere with an Internet connection (including your smartphone). Users start off with 5 GB of free space and can add more for $1 per GB. It's compatible with Macs, PCs, and Android phones via Amazon's MP3 App (notably, no iPhone availability yet). Also, if you buy an MP3 album from Amazon, not only will the MP3s not count against your storage, but you'll be automatically upgraded to 20 GB of storage, as well.

We tried it out this morning and were impressed. At a fast clip, the service scans your iTunes account and uploads your selected music to its Cloud Drive. At first listen, it did not seem to diminish the sound quality of iTunes tracks with standard bit rates of 128 kbps. The interface is very straightforward, taking the iTunes metadata and organizing songs into the same album, playlist, artist groupings as before. The service definitely helps Android phones stay competitive with the iPhone—given that music integration has been Android's "Achilles Heel" asat Search Engine Land notes.

Reviews in the tech press are mixed. While Mashable'sgushes over its intuitive functionality saying it "could make iTunes obsolete," All Things D'ssays it "isn't earth-shaking" because it doesn't let you share music or help you find and listen to music you don't already have. Meanwhileat Read Write Web notes that a number of startups offer cloud-based music storage so Amazon's service isn't very innovative. However, it's worth noting that the ones she refers to aren't free.

A lingering question about the new service is its legality. A major roadblock to Google and Apple introducing music streaming services has been protests from major record labels. Google's and Apple's goal is to make music seamlessly available across any number of devices. But, asat The New York Times notes, "music labels and publishers would prefer that listeners buy a new copy of a song everywhere they want to listen to it."

Another issue labels have is that the streaming services—and this definitely applies to Amazon—have no idea if the music users are uploading was obtained legally. That hangup led to 14 EMI-affiliated labelsMP3tunes.com in 2007 for doing exactly what Amazon is doing, giving storage to "unauthorized" downloads. While TechDirt's Mike Masnick thinks the service's legality is , Craig Pape, director of music at Amazon, tells the Times he's not worried.

“We don’t need a license to store music,” he said. “The functionality is the same as an external hard drive.”

Meanwhile "several executives at major labels" told the Times they're "concerned" about Amazon's cloud service. Time will tell if that concern is worth a lawsuit with the country's largest online retailer.

InetSoft Named to Information Management's "40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011" List

s inclusion in Information Management’s list of "40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011." The list shines a spotlight on the most compelling software and service providers that are driving innovation, growth and efficiency in the way enterprises manage data and information.

The 40 vendors were chosen by in Information Management magazine's editors from among hundreds of prospects. The editors' decisions were based on close reporting and analysis of market activity, including corporate IT buying patterns, new product releases, and technology trends. Among other things, in assembling the list, the editors drew upon an extensive series of interviews with leading IT professionals and analysts. Information Management, a SourceMedia brand, reaches more than 200,000 information technology and data professionals each month through its magazine, website, and online events.

The "40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011" list and accompanying article appear in Information Management's March-April print issue. Additional details on the list are available on the publication's website, . Clickfor the full list of companies, their descriptions, and reasons why they were chosen.

This year's "40 Vendors We're Watching" offers a unique window on a fast-changing industry. "Agility is one of the main differentiators in our list this year," says Information Management Editor-in-Chief Julie Langenkamp. "Providers like InetSoft that offer rapid deployment of easy-to-use tools suited to a broad audience are very much in demand."

“We are please to be selected out of a large universe of data management andvendors,” states Mark Flaherty, Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft. “This past year has been marked by the recognition of the need for agility in BI, which has been a cornerstone of our product development philosophy and motivated our creation of our data mashup engine over three years ago. More than ever it has become a reason for selecting ourover older, less flexible solutions.”

InetSoft is a pioneering developer ofsoftware with fifteen years of experience providing analytic and reporting solutions to enterprises and OEMs.The company’s flagship BI application, named Style Intelligence, is a full-featured business intelligence solution that is 100% Java at the server level and HTML, JavaScript, and Flash at the client level. The web-based BI solution’s SOA architecture and open standards-based technology make it ideal for wide-scale deployment as a standalone application or for rapid embedding into other Web-based solutions. The product’s high-performance data access engine and data mashup capability allows organizations to combine disparate data sources ranging from data warehouses to operational data stores such as those in ERP or CRM applications to web service data feeds.

About SourceMedia

SourceMedia, an Investcorp company, is a diversified business to business media company serving the financial industry and the related fields of professional services and technology. SourceMedia offers its clients and subscribers professional publications and online information services, industry-standard data applications, and in-depth seminars and conferences.

About InetSoft

Since 1996 InetSoft has been delivering easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that makes it possible for organizations and solution providers of all sizes to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions. Application highlights include visually-compelling and interactivedashboards that ensure greater end-user adoption plus pixel-perfect report generation, scheduling, and bursting. InetSoft’s patent pending Data Block™ technology enables productive reuse of queries and a unique capability for end-user defined data mashup. This capability combined with efficient information access enabled by InetSoft’s visual analysis technologies allows maximum self-service that benefits the average business user, the IT administrator, and the developer. InetSoft solutions have been deployed at over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries.

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