Is BlueMail a Client of ZDNet Now?
Why did this author at ZDNet write about BlueMail 3 times in one week? Let's examine what BlueMail does to promote itself, via embedded marketing inside the media...
Leads to:
Selling "premiums" for their proprietary software:
The first ZDNet puff piece is 8 days old and promotes Microsoft spyware:
The following day it's already being promoted to GNU/Linux users:
Again yesterday. Promotional language for proprietary software on GNU/Linux:
Could he have been "assigned" to do those pieces? Hard to prove. Let's see what his employer is and what his employer says to the wider public (not to clients, in private).
As the so-called "journal of record" put it:
What does it do in ZDNet?
Positive-sounding disclaimer at bottom of the pages about BlueMail:
And this is what the disclaimer says:
How the company presents itself:
In CNET, they're gone even further by turning the site into a computer-generated spamfarm to manipulate search results while deleting old and very important articles, including many about Microsoft crimes. Remember that this is a marketing company, not a news agency.