That’s the great thing to us consumers when using the Internet to shop. We can easily compare prices among many merchants and save quite a sum of money this way. And guess what, comparison shopping is spreading to the offline world as well! There is a new service, available at GasBuddy.com, that allows you to search for the cheapest gas […]
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Your Desktop Altar
Too busy to attend church? Then you’ll need PocketChapel, a computer program that allow you to create and customize a computer desktop altar. Iconoculture reports with insightful analysis: The wired faithful can personalize their PC altar, adding flowers, candles, icons, and even specific wishes and prayers. But some PocketChapel fans have decided to make their altar even more accessible with […]
Small Boutique Hotels
Small Business Trends reports on a new trend in the tourism market: the emergence of small boutique hotels that compete against large hotel chains by offering a unique vacation experience. In the article, General Manager of The Hibernation Station, Zack Paul, is quoted as saying: “A small steady migration is taking place toward privatizing hotels. Hotels that have been part […]
Multicultural Hair Salon
Born to an African-American father and a Japanese mother, sisters Titi and Miko had a head full of hair that was neither straight nor kinky with a combination of different textures. Many salons they had been to were not capable of handling their varied textured hair. So, they had to do their hair themselves since childhood. Today, they are doing […]
Pay By Touch
How would it be like to shop in a supermarket without bringing your wallet along? A supermarket in San Francisco (USA), Pick n’ Save Metro Market, has recently joined the growing walletless world by introducing its customers to Pay By Touch, a new payment service that lets users purchase groceries with the touch of a finger. The one-time Pay By […]
Paper Catalog for E-business?
In e-commerce, you would have to try all kinds of marketing methods to get visitors to browse through your online mall and make a purchase. Would the paper catalog which many traditional marketers still swear by do the job for your e-business? Entrepreneur.com cites research results which show that this traditional strategy is quite helpful to a e-commerce website: Catalog […]
Courting the Rich Elite
Increasingly, companies are learning that in order to sell to the rich and wealthy elite, they have to remake their products and combine three important elements: design, luxury and high technology. The rich elite have pockets deep enough to buy luxury gadgets that not only have style, but also substance. An example: Bang & Olufsen’s latest cordless phone, the BeoCom […]
P2P Filesharing for Hospitals
P2P (peer-to-peer) applications have been in the negative spotlight ever since the release of Napster and KaZaa due to their users illegally distributing music files over the networks. But P2P can have its own merits and legitimate uses too, such as linking up hospitals and allowing them to search for patient information and high-quality 3D moving images across the entire […]
Where Technology is Heading
The major affluent tech markets are maturing, with sales getting more sluggish by the years. Undoubtedly, the new growth markets will be those of China, India, Thailand, Brazil, and so on. With the masses in such countries getting richer, a golden opportunity presents itself in the developing world for tech companies to cash in on the new big wave. Business […]
Mixing Technology with Feelings
BBC News has an interesting article about the big role feelings and emotions are going to play in this high-tech world. There are many projects popping up all over the world to allow us to communicate our emotions to our loved ones with more than just words and our voice. For example: US artist Alison Lewis has developed some hi-tech […]