Adverblog.com: Buongiorno Vitaminic has created a pan-european campaign to promote the new Piaggio NRG Power. The initiative will run in Italy, France, Germany and Spain with the aim of driving traffic to the site www.nrg.piaggio.com and then building the NRG Community. Young users who sign up in the site receive the possibility of downloading free music. There is also an […]
Piaggio Offers Free Music
Rental Listing Firms Fail
Business 2.0 Blog: Craigslists, the biggest online business still pretending not to be a real business, knocked another company out, a San Francisco area apartment listing service. The San Francisco Chronicle notes that: RentTech, which bought Berkeley’s Rental Solutions about five years ago, closed earlier this fall. Two other rental services — San Jose’s Home Renters Guide and Berkeley Connection […]
Trend: Small Businesses go Virtual
TrendTracker: The future is likely to be the age of virtual businesses. The newly opened two-person office will be able to look big, established, and successful. Build a really good website, toss in some color printers, fast computers, and cell phones, and you’re halfway there. After that, it’s a question of leveraging your creativity and ability to partner with other […]
RipDigital CD Ripping Service Review
Gizmodo: Just like 8-tracks were easier to deal with than vinyl and CDs were easier to deal with than cassette tapes, it’s become apparent to everyone that MP3s and FLACs and OGGs are all easier to lug around than a stack of CDs. Whether you’re carrying around burned DVDs, thumb drives shaped like bunnies, luscious iPods, or a 250 gig […]
The Most Highly Specified TV In The World?
Tech Digest: Want to see the TV being credited as the world’s most advanced? Vivadi’s Saturn is on display in Harrods right now. The plasma TV comes with a 46-inch screen, a DVD recorder and a 200GB hard drive recorder (admit it, you’ll never watch all those shows you record on it). The hard drive comes with a 14 day […]
Sony’s PlayStation Portable goes on sale
Japan Today: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc entered the handheld video game market Sunday with the sale of its new PlayStation Portable, pitting it against competitors ahead of the holiday sales period. PSP users can play full-scale 3D-CG games and view high-resolution video images, according to the company. The company shipped 200,000 PSP units across the nation on Sunday and plans […]
Shower radio
Tech Digest: You are cordially invited to join us dancing naked in the shower this Christmas. We’ll be singing like idiots along with Magic FM in a vain attempt to use up the endless supplies of stinky shower gels we receive from distant relatives. The Shower Radio from I Want One of Those will be helping us in this endeavour […]
Brand TV
Influx: Advertisers looking for alternatives to conventional advertising are starting to experiment with the concept of brand television, one step beyond product placement. However, there are a few cultural and financial barriers preventing the early efforts from achieving success. Orange, the UK wireless brand, has been one of the first, developing a music show for ITV. The idea was suggested […]
Marketing, research and development efforts
Influx: For sometime, there’s been something of a gap between the technical nature of skateboarding and the sophistication of skate shoes; most skate shoes have incredibly simple designs, they are almost anti-science and technology. With the recent success of Nike in the category, a company who put the science into footwear, other manufacturers have been forced to adapt to the […]
How Sony Could Win the DVD Wars
business2.blogs.com: Few are willing to make the bet that’s Sony’s format for high-capacity DVDs, Blu-Ray, will win against HD-DVD. After all, when has Sony last won a standards war? Betamax, Minidiscs, Memory Stick, etc. Paul Boutin at Slate, though, posits an interesting argument: Blu-Ray could end up holding more data, even though they will cost manufacturers more to make. The […]