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Mom always said don’t play ball in the house, but she never said anything about flying a drone airplane… did she? There’s a new miniature airplane on the market that’s called “The Butterfly“. This miniature plane is the world’s smallest drone and only weighs 4 grams. Its state of the art 900Mhz R/C system lets …
Some users of the Facebook Inc. Web site have been startled by a new feature that tracks their activity outside of the site and shows it to their friends — renewing questions about the privacy implications of a growing practice of exploiting personal information in online advertising. The social-networking service earlier this month began posting …
Starbucks, showing the first signs of store saturation and fewer transactions per store, tomorrow will break its first national TV ad campaign to get consumers to buy another cup. In a conference call in which the company said the economy appears to be damping consumers’ affection for the $3 latte, Starbucks CEO Jim Donald said …
Bebo is offering publishers yet another way to reach young audiences. The company launched an ambitious Open Media platform with 22 major content partners and promised to create more interactive programming following the success of Kate Modern, the sequel series to lonelygirl15.
No one knows for sure exactly how Arbitron’s big switch from diary to Personal People Meter to compile radio ratings, a change set for January in Chicago, will affect the audience figures on which station ad rates are set. The notion is that PPMs are more reliable because they virtually eavesdrop on what the sample …
Google is getting ready to start beta testing a new in-game advertising system involving pre-roll and mid-roll inserts placed within Bunchball Games releases, reports GigaOM. Later in December Google will also begin to embed video-type ads in the cult game Psychonauts, available for PC, Xbox and PS2. Via methodshop
Google Inc. is trying to shake up the wireless industry by helping to create cheaper phones that can access advanced Internet services — and carry its lucrative advertising. Now that the Internet giant has cemented an alliance with 33 partners, the question is whether they will follow through on its attempt to change the rules …
Apple’s Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry, with his iPod and iTunes digital music store. Struggling record labels swallowed hard and accepted his 99-cents-per-song pricing because they had little choice. When it comes to video content, however — hit television shows such as “Heroes” and “The Office,” and movies — Jobs’s bargaining position …
How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million? The answer — which may be any, or none, of the above — is a critical one for Condé Nast, …
Hate fingerprints on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Enough to spend $9.90 on some finger condoms? An enterprising company in Austria is selling something called Phone Fingers that prevent smudges and fingerprints on the screens of the iPod Touch and iPhone. One more thing, the Phone Fingers only come in black and make the user …
After a month that included the head of France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) telling journalists informally that mobile operator Orange would sell the iPhone in France, and then subsequent reports that the deal might not go ahead, or be delayed, over the issue of revenue shares, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Orange have finally, officially announced an …
The team leading the Fox Business Network into battle with CNBC, the entrenched leader in cable business news, has made no secret that it intends to do in the realm of business news exactly what the Fox News Channel did in general news. As in: conquer. And even before today’s premiere, there are already indications …
The next time you are talking trash about a government official or planning a protest, then you might want to check the room for bugs... seriously.
The Klipsch iGroove HG iPod speaker system comes with two 2.5 inch bass woofers and one 1-inch MicroTractrix horn-loaded tweeters for the high end.
Apple intends to revitalize its flagging Apple TV hub by launching HD video downloads on iTunes, according to a rumor from a source which in the past accurately described the iPod touch in advance of its launch. A “selection” of the movies and TV shows available from the company’s store would receive a significant step …
Got iPhone envy? I do. My company is Blackberry only and won't support the iPhone. So I installed the free bPhone iPhone theme for BlackBerry. It even replaces the hourglass with the Mac OS X spinning beach ball.
With the impending release of The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson (Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) fans everywhere can get a taste of what’s to come with his short film Hotel Chevalier. The 13-minute short film is a prequel for Darjeeling stars Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman who play estranged lovers that meet …
