Insurance Companies Try Auto Black Boxes
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Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black
Boxes
Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black
Boxes
09/03/2004 12:49 AMSlashdot Sep 3 2004 5:03AM GMT
Insurance Cos. Try Out Auto Black Boxes
Insurance Cos. Try Out Auto Black Boxes
09/02/2004 03:45 PMAP via Newsday Sep 2 2004 7:51PM GMT
Cisco Hosts Insurance Industry Webcast;
Cisco Launches New Insurance Solutions
Set to Help Insurance Companies
Cisco Hosts Insurance Industry Webcast;
Cisco Launches New Insurance Solutions
Set to Help Insurance Companies
04/13/2005 11:59 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 13 2005 3:43PM GMT
Auto Insurance Rates Falling
Auto Insurance Rates Falling
07/08/2004 10:26 AMRejoice -- your next car insurance bill may be smaller than you
expected.
Black Boxes for Spacecrafts
Black Boxes for Spacecrafts
04/17/2005 02:54 PMNTSB Recommends Black Boxes For All Cars
NTSB Recommends Black Boxes For All Cars
08/04/2004 04:47 AM"Black boxes" coming to NYC taxis, then
maybe your car: safety over privacy?
"Black boxes" coming to NYC taxis, then
maybe your car: safety over privacy?
03/13/2003 02:11 PMTaxicab telematics: "black boxes" that monitor pre-crash speed and
accident factors may be coming soon to New York City cabs. Insurance
companies are also exploring the possibility of installing them in
consumers' cars. IBM is developing the devices, and estimated price
tag is around few hundred dollars apiece.
Closely held American Transit Insurance Co., New York,
which insures 80% of the taxis and limousines in the Big Apple, said
the devices will be installed late this summer. The company plans to
offer $300 insurance discounts to induce owners of as many as 1,500
cabs to take part....Wednesday, IBM and Norwich Union, a car-insurance
unit of Britain's Aviva PLC, announced plans to put black boxes in
5,000 volunteers' cars. The aim is to see whether people who drive
less should get lower insurance rates. That program could raise
invasion-of-privacy issues, because it keep tabs on when, where and
how much the cars are driven.
Link to
WSJ story
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Discuss UN Troops Killed in Benin Crash, Black
Boxes Found
UN Troops Killed in Benin Crash, Black
Boxes Found
12/27/2003 04:09 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 27 2003 3:39PM ET
Insurance companies blacklist home
owners
Insurance companies blacklist home
owners
03/11/2003 10:45 AMTaking a Risk in Making a Claim - Insurance Firms Often Quick to
Cancel Homeowners “We were absolutely amazed,” she said.
“We thought we had been very good, paying our monthly bills. And
we had also insured our business car...
Insurance Companies Planning to Survive
a Nuclear Attack
Insurance Companies Planning to Survive
a Nuclear Attack
06/01/2004 12:20 PMJust got my new airplane insurance policy. Several pages in
the front are devoted to excluding coverage for a nuclear attack on
the U.S. If a big bomb is dropped on the hangar in Bedford they
don't have to pay: "the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other
hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear
component thereof". Not do they have to pay for a dirty bomb set
off in a shipping container in the harbor: "ionizing radiations
or contamination by radioactivity from ... any other radioactive
source whatsoever."
CFP 2004: Data mining allowing insurance
companies to do high-tech redlining
CFP 2004: Data mining allowing insurance
companies to do high-tech redlining
04/21/2004 02:20 PMBirny Birnbaum, Executive Directorfor the Center for Economic Justice
in Texas, just gave an astounding presentation at CFP 2004 about how
insurance companies are using data mining to do "high-tech redlining,"
denying coverage or charging excess rates for insurance when...
Boxes and boxes of iPod socks! [Flickr]
Boxes and boxes of iPod socks! [Flickr]
12/17/2004 06:42 PMCygnus Software Helps Gleaner Life
Insurance Society’s Insurance
Professional Program
Cygnus Software Helps Gleaner Life
Insurance Society’s Insurance
Professional Program
03/23/2005 12:56 PMCygnus Software Inc., a provider of practical, insurance and financial
planning sales solutions, today announced that Gleaner Life Insurance
Society has selected Cygnus’s IncomeMax needs analysis and retirement
planning software to be used by their agents in the Gleaner Insurance
Professional program. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
Insurance Company Offering eBay
Insurance
Insurance Company Offering eBay
Insurance
11/17/2003 04:17 AMEveryone has heard about various eBay scams, and it's making people
increasingly nervous to buy or sell products on the site. So, along
comes an insurance company to try to help alleviate some of the
problems. They're offering
a form of eBay insurance, though it might not work the way
you would expect. It's targeted at eBay power sellers who are willing
to give up a small percentage of each sale for the right to display a
"BuySafe" logo. The logo is supposed to link to a site that will
verify that the logo has been approved. The insurance company
(Hartford) then insures that the buyer will either receive the good -
or the money they paid for the good will be returned. Of course,
they'll only handle claims that occur within 30 days of the sale, so
if the seller keeps telling you to hang on a little while longer, you
might be out of luck. Also, eBay offers their own service like this,
but the fine print is a killer. While the service promises to refund
up to $1,000, it
isn't
$1,000 per purchase, but $1,000 per seller. So, if (as did
happen) a seller with such a logo scams people out of a million
dollars, the company would split $1,000 among all the victims. Not
particularly comforting.
At least 85 percent of money managed by
Coalition Provisional Authority going to
U.S. companies—not to Iraq
companies, as promised
At least 85 percent of money managed by
Coalition Provisional Authority going to
U.S. companies—not to Iraq
companies, as promised
08/04/2004 05:05 PMpretty
pathetic
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37822-2004Aug3.html
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Sony's PSP: Available in Black, Black,
and Black
Sony's PSP: Available in Black, Black,
and Black
05/29/2004 09:18 PM
Looks like all those pastel
PSPs Sony was showing at E3 were just a tease. According to an
interview in Japanese game magazine Famitsu, Sony claims the
various color PSPs were "just for reference. We plan to make the
system black." I wouldn't worry too much, though. I'm sure if the PSP
does well at all, color models will start showing up in no time at
all.
Read
[IGN via Portagame]
Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys
Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys
04/12/2005 05:55 AMEvil Man in Black and His Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys .. Permalink
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Little Boxes
Little Boxes
05/09/2004 11:30 AMfor those still bellyaching about CSS positioning
CSS Shadow Boxes
CSS Shadow Boxes
01/24/2004 10:36 PMShadow Boxing:
Well-done, simple technique for shadowed boxes with CSS.
Click here to comment on this entry
The conspiracy against our in-boxes
The conspiracy against our in-boxes
10/31/2003 10:35 AMOpinion Why trusted bulk email is an oxymoron
Aspiring Screenwriters Battle it Out in
the First National Screenplay Showdown -
The Competition Gives the Best New
Screenwriters from Around the Country an
Opportunity to Work With A-List
Agencies, Management Companies and
Production Companies Presented by the
Nashville Screenwriters Conference
Aspiring Screenwriters Battle it Out in
the First National Screenplay Showdown -
The Competition Gives the Best New
Screenwriters from Around the Country an
Opportunity to Work With A-List
Agencies, Management Companies and
Production Companies Presented by the
Nashville Screenwriters Conference
06/09/2004 04:35 AMBridging the distance between the Hollywood film industry and the best
new screenwriters across the country, the Nashville Screenwriters
Conference announces its first National Screenplay Showdown. After six
years of presenting the best writers and filmmakers in the
entertainment industry at the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, the
organization has teamed up with Ed Rugoff from the prestigious
Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project to give aspiring screenwriters an
opportunity to take their work west – all the way to Hollywood. The
Showdown evaluates screenplays solely on the basis of story-telling
ability, meaning that all genres have the same chance of winning. The
winning screenplay writers will find themselves in front of the most
prestigious literary agencies and management companies in
consideration for representation. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]
Voting Machine Companies Make Political
Contributions to Both Democrats and
Republicans - New Report Traces Campaign
Contributions of Companies that Produce
E-Voting Machines
Voting Machine Companies Make Political
Contributions to Both Democrats and
Republicans - New Report Traces Campaign
Contributions of Companies that Produce
E-Voting Machines
08/13/2004 03:15 AMNew research on the political campaign contributions made to Democrats
and Republicans by voting maching companies. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
Cable boxes bulking up
Cable boxes bulking up
04/04/2005 03:09 PMUSA Today Apr 4 2005 6:37PM GMT
Subtraction: New Boxes, Same Arrows
Subtraction: New Boxes, Same Arrows
08/22/2004 09:23 AMNew Boxes, Same Arrows - classy proposed redesign for Boxes and Arrows
.. Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups .. Excellent
redesign
concept
subtraction.com/archives/2004/0816_new_boxes_sa.php
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The Curious Incident of the Boxes
The Curious Incident of the Boxes
05/18/2004 10:46 PMAn auction of Arthur Conan Doyle's artifacts has provoked a fight and
a mystery almost worthy of Sherlock Holmes himself.
How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
with CSS
How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
with CSS
06/05/2005 11:48 PMIn the last tutorial you learned how to style a definition list. This
week, you'll delve deeper into this process and learn how to add
different fluid borders to your boxes using just CSS. By Stu Nicholls.
0523
boxes and arrows turns 2
boxes and arrows turns 2
04/16/2004 01:06 AMi can't believe i've been reading the site that long already. it's
still a great MT site.
Update DTC list boxes
Update DTC list boxes
08/23/2002 08:00 AMCNET Aug 22 2002 10:24PM ET
New virus hitting in-boxes
New virus hitting in-boxes
01/26/2004 06:31 PMAntivirus firms warn PC users of a new mass-mailing computer virus
that has lodged itself into a large number of PCs by masquerading as
an e-mail error.
Microsoft launches set-top boxes
Microsoft launches set-top boxes
09/15/2004 09:55 AMDigital Television Group Sep 15 2004 1:45PM GMT
Social Software for Set-Top boxes...
Social Software for Set-Top boxes...
03/23/2005 07:59 PMYou can download the core part of the material that follows as a
PDF presentation entitled Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).
A buddy-list for television:
Imagine a buddy-list on your television that you could bring onto your
screen with the merest tap of a 'friends' key on your remote control.
The buddy list would be the first stage of an interface that would let
you add and remove friends, and see what your friends are watching in
real-time - whether they be watching live television or something
stored on their PVRs. Adding friends would be simple - you could enter
letters on screen using your remote, or browse your existing friends'
contact lists.
Being able to see what your friends were watching on television
would remind you of programmes that you also wanted to see, it would
help you spot programmes that your social circle thought were
interesting and it could start to give you a shared social context for
conversations about the media that you and your friends had both
enjoyed.
Obviously there might be some programmes that you might wish
to view with a significant other, but wouldn't necessarily want to
advertise to the rest of the world that you were watching. For this
reason your personalised settings would have to have all kinds of
options to help you control how you were being represented to the
wider world that were as simple to use and unobtrusive as possible.
Primary among the tools at your disposal would be your ability to tell
your set-top box not to advertise that you were watching any shows
marked as for adults only and to mark certain channels as similarly
private. These settings would obviously be on by default.
Presence alerts:
One of the core functions of a socially enabled set-top box would be
to create the impression of watching television alongside your
peer group and friends - even if you were geographically distant from
one another. One key way to do this would be to create a sensation of
simultaneity - to remind you that there are other people in your
social circle doing things at the same time as you. This would allow
you to create a mental impression of what your friends were doing.
Here are two versions of an alert that could fade up gently onto
the screen when someone on your buddy list changes channel. These
alerts would work in two ways - if the person was changing channel and
landed on a station as a programme was just about to begin or within
the first three or four minutes of a programme, then the alert would
be immediate. This would give you the opportunity to change over to
that channel as well without missing too much of the show. If -
however - they were changing over to a channel in the middle of a show
or they changed the channel again within ten seconds, then the alert
would not be sent. They would have to have been watching the new
channel for a few minutes before an alert would be sent. There would
be nothing more intrusive and irritating than watching someone
compulsively flick between channels at a distance (except perhaps
being in the room with them as they did so).
The most important part of all these alerts is that they provide
you with the option to join the person concerned in whichever
programme they happen to now be watching...
Watch with your friends:
Now we have the concept of joining a friend to watch a show, we have
to ask what should that experience be like? How should your parallel
engagement manifest itself. Traditionally, net-mediated social spaces
have tended towards text as a communicative medium. But this would
seem like an enormously clumsy way to interact during a television
programme.
Television is an audio-visual medium and there's no reason why your
engagement with your friends shouldn't also be audio-visual. For this
reason a simple high quality webcam above the television would help
you see how your friends were responding to what was on screen - it
would help you feel an experience of shared engagement without there
being a need for overt discussion. By default your conversations with
your friends would be muted, and you could - of course - minimise
their images if they started to get annoying, but if you wanted to
shout and scream alongside your friends, then you'd simply turn the
sound back on. This would be the perfect form of engagement around
certain sporting events, or for making a well-known television
programme or film just the backgrounded context for a shared
conversation.
In the mock-up below, you can see the cameras of three of your
friends on the right. One person has wandered away from their
TV...
Chatting and planning:
If your friends were in the room with you during an ad break, you
might chat about the programme you've just been watching or bitch
about the adverts in front of you. You might turn the sound down low
for a few seconds and talk about something else completely. There are
lots of contexts where the programme on television might not be
the main focus of activity around the television. These might
be times when it's still important to have a sense of what's happening
on the screen, but where the social activity has been dragged to the
foreground.
Set-top box social software would have to support such engagements.
So how about a second view when you're in one of these social
situations? From having the programme in the foreground, one simple
switch of the button could drag your friends into the limelight. The
programme could be fully or partially muted, and your friends
automatically unmuted. Then you could chat to each other about the
programme you'd just watched, or wait for the adverts to end together.
You could even use these opportunities to plan what to watch next. If
this was handled in a similar way to group formation and parties in
online gaming structures like Halo 2, then perhaps one person could
even set up the next programme and stream it to everyone else, or cue
forward to show their friends the best part of a particular dance
sequence or the key quote from a political interview.
Choosing channels and playing games:
Having this technology in place under your television could create a
tremendous platform for all kinds of other applications or games to be
layered on top of your television experience. And these could be
equally usable with people in the same room as yourself. If you gave
everyone a personalised remote control (or installed universal remote
control software in something like a mobile phone) then people could
propose changing channels but be over-ruled by other people in the
room. The wonderful browsing experience of flicking through music
video channels could be turned into a game, with each song being rated
on the fly by everyone present or telepresent and records kept of
channels and songs that people tended to enjoy. The same controls
could be hooked up to other forms of interactive television or to
net-enabled functionality on the boxes themselves...
Sharing a social library:
And finally, to return to the idea of media discovery and regenerating
a social context around television programming, how about if the shows
that many of your friends had decided in advance to record were
automatically recorded by your device too. How would it be if you
never missed the show that everyone was talking about? And if you had
- your box could ask its peers for some kind of swarmed download if
anyone still had a copy and it could appear in your local library
overnight.
All this of course, is just the very beginning of the kinds of
things that you could create with a socially-enabled TV set-top box.
It's all basically just extensions of stuff that we're already doing
in other media. There are still technological barriers of course -
bandwidth and synchronisation being core problems. But we're gradually
on the way to solving them.
To repeat - If you'd like to download this piece as a simple to
read and print PDF presentation then you can do so here: Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).
Addendum:
Here are a few related links that people have
brought to my attention since posting this stuff up or since I
finished work on the presentation and illustrations. I'm a little
cross with myself for not posting this stuff up before, but hey...
Read the comments
Dueling Music Boxes
Dueling Music Boxes
08/13/2004 09:15 PMThis week I've been playing with three new products designed to bring
your digital music library into your home stereo system. By Jason
Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
ASCII Code in Dialog Boxes
ASCII Code in Dialog Boxes
09/21/2004 12:43 AM- Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes
to Russia
- Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes
to Russia
04/19/2004 04:20 AMHankooki Apr 19 2004 8:50AM GMT
Mobiles kill off more phone boxes
Mobiles kill off more phone boxes
09/03/2004 07:41 PM
Thousands of loss-making phone boxes face the axe as mobile phone use
soars in the UK, says BT.
AMD Targets 64-bit Desktop, Game Boxes
AMD Targets 64-bit Desktop, Game Boxes
06/01/2004 02:00 PMInternet News Jun 1 2004 5:50PM GMT
Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes to
Russia
Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes to
Russia
04/19/2004 04:20 AMHankooki Apr 19 2004 8:50AM GMT
System Guide: Gaming Boxes
System Guide: Gaming Boxes
08/31/2004 12:44 AMDucking in just before the end of the month, the August Ars System
Guide update features a new specialized guide: gaming systems. Spec
out both the Ultimate and Performance Gaming System.
Before we get on the subject of safe
deposit boxes
Before we get on the subject of safe
deposit boxes
05/12/2004 04:13 AMThe response to last week's newsletter proposing a "safe deposit box"
metaphor for identity federation and storage has been tremendous. I'm
still reading through the messages, following the links and
downloading the papers. It'll take another week or two before I'll be
ready to present your thoughts, so bear with me.
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