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Paul Martino, CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, describes three categories for online advertising: Rich media, video and traditional display. Based in San Mateo, Calif., Aggregate Knowledge provides technology for online advertising and search. In an ECT News Network exclusive interview, Martino discusses the present and future of the online advertising market.

The money trail of big tech pay-offs began with voice, then moved to text and now is headed squarely to image data. No longer are businesses or individuals satisfied with words on a page peppered with flat and lifeless 2-D images. Today's big data boost is far more colorful and dynamic than that.

Last week NetSuite held a user group meeting in Boston for OpenAir, a company that they had bought earlier this year. OpenAir, if you don't know, provides an application for managing professional services engagements. When integrated with NetSuite's front and back office applications, the combination provides a lot of functionality for a professional services group.

How closely will competitors follow in this latest digital home pursuit?

Spending a couple million dollars doesn't guarantee commercial success.

Get a sneak peek of eBay competitor 4Sale4Now, opening Saturday, iTaggit helps antique sellers and we introduce our new eBay and Auction Alternatives Dictionary. Plus, eBay's list of "Most Prized, Despised" gifts on wish lists this year.

Struggling wireless phone maker Motorola will cut more jobs and focus on designing handheld devices that run Google's new open source Android operating system. The company will pare down the number of operating systems for which it currently creates mobile phones to just three: Android, Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Motorola's proprietary P2K platform.

The Christian Science Monitor will cease the weekday print edition of its award-winning newspaper in April after a century of continuous publication. The plan is to move the weekday publication to an online-only format while rolling out a new weekend print magazine.

Netflix subscribers who also happen to own an Xbox 360 -- and have an Xbox Live membership -- learned last summer they'd be able to access streaming video via the gaming console, but what they didn't know until recently is that some of those titles will be available in high definition. Users of the Microsoft's gaming machine will see the feature when the console's "New Xbox Experience" launches Nov. 19.

EL DORADO HILLS, CA (MARKET WIRE) MyECheck Inc. (OTCBB: MYEC), an electronic transaction processor and provider of alternative payment solutions, is pleased to announce that it will be presenting at Paulson Investment's 31st Annual Westergaard Conference to be held in New York City.