Mobile Digest: It might seem odd in an age of 3G handsets offering video calling, music playback and even TV, but Vodafone is getting back to basics. Announced on Friday were the first pair of mobiles in its range of handsets titled Vodafone Simply. Made in France by Sagem, the new phones (the VS1, a silver, stylish handset, and the […]
Simple Phones
iPods + Sushi
NetImperative: EMI Music UK has tied with Yo! Sushi to provide music and video content to the conveyor belt restaurant chain. Music content from the record label will be delivered to seven iPods and plasma screens located in two of Yo! Sushi’s newest central London restaurants, in Haymarket and Sedley Place. The music will be updated regularly and will consist […]
Innocent’s Juicy Water
Cool Hunting: Because of Cool Hunting’s unusually high alcohol content this week, it seems prudent to balance out our rampant vices with a little virtue. Thus it is my temperate pleasure to introduce a more righteous source of refreshment: Juicy Water by Innocent Drinks. The health-focused U.K. company is taking aim at the shortcomings of most juice drinks: they’re either […]
Molecular Gastronomy
Influx Insights: Dismissed by many as a fad, molecular gastronomy has a new found legitimacy, as last week, Britain’s The Fat Duck was named the world’s best restaurant. At The Fat Duck you will find the most extraordinary menu items imaginable. The Degustation Menu includes; snail porridge, sardine on toast sorbet, salmon poached with liquorice, white chocolate and caviar and […]
Got Junk?
USAToday: Brian Scudamore keeps proving that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. The 35-year-old businessman has gone from high school dropout to CEO of a fast-growing trash-removal empire that aims to become to the junk world what FedEx has become to package delivery. His company, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, operates franchises in large metropolitan areas in the USA and Canada, including Los […]
Stink No More
DailyCandy: Do you smell something? It was there when you got up this morning. There was still a hint of it on your route to work. And even now it lingers. But you can’t quite put your finger on it. Well, actually, it is your finger. All of them. Last night’s dinner coup — your famous homemade garlic bread — […]
Weather Targeting
Revolution Magazine: Yell.com is launching a suite of seasonal interactive ad campaigns, which target creative to regional weather conditions. The first wave of creative, running until July, aims to promote Yell.com’s range of services and is based on the “great British summer”. It will be followed by a new push in autumn. Expandable skyscraper ads predominantly targeting London’s office workers […]
Breathing Shoes
The Australian: Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie wears them; so do Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Prince Albert of Monaco. They’re Italy’s all-the-rage Geox shoes, pioneered by Italian entrepreneur Mario Polegato. They’re designed to leave toes ever so cool because the soles are specially made to allow feet to breathe and perspire elegantly. In a […]
Adsense Middlemen
The New York Times: Consider this somewhat strange development: search engines like Google and Yahoo have become so proficient at attracting advertising that even competitors, like newspapers and yellow pages publishers, are now selling ads on their behalf. Newspapers like The Houston Chronicle, which is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and yellow pages publishers like the BellSouth Corporation and SBC […]
Selling Houses
NetImperative: Tesco has announced it plans to sell houses over the Internet, claiming it will charge customers as little as £50 to sell their house online. The supermarket giant is targeting home sellers who do not wish to pay estate agents’ fees, who usually charge between one and two per cent of the selling price as commission. According to a […]