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Eurosport on 3G Mobiles
Vodafone Customers First to Watch Live
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04/03/2005 07:41 PM3G Apr 3 2005 10:30PM GMT
TechNote Time Watch Company Expands
Ohm's Law Product Line
TechNote Time Watch Company Expands
Ohm's Law Product Line
12/17/2004 06:31 PMTechNote Time's slogan "Never Fumble for a Formula Again," is catching
on with electrical and electronics professionals, students and
hobbyists, according to Anne Dorsey the company's vice president and
director of sales and marketing (www.technotetime.com). In fact,
TechNote Time Watch Company, based out of Ocala, Florida USA, has
seen sales so brisk that they have recently added Ohm's law desk
clocks and wall clocks to their existing line of Ohm's law
wristwatches. [PRWEB Nov 24, 2004]
Watch Those Free Offers
Watch Those Free Offers
12/27/2004 12:50 AMA Web Offer Too Good to Be True? Read the Fine Print Free registration
required to read the story. The e-mail messages are tantalizing:
“Join now and receive a free I.B.M. laptop.” “Your
complimentary iPod with free shipping is waiting.” These offers
and similar ones on the Internet promise gifts for buying products or
services. Are they for real? At best, yes, but they can also be
riddled with problems. Participants may have to spend…
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Power & Telephone Supply Company to
Distribute Coaxsys’ TVNET to Telco
Customers
Power & Telephone Supply Company to
Distribute Coaxsys’ TVNET to Telco
Customers
04/05/2005 01:57 PMCoaxsys Expands Distribution to Meet Increased Demand [PRWEB Apr 5,
2005]
A.G. Telecomm offers help for
Norvergence customers.
A.G. Telecomm offers help for
Norvergence customers.
07/14/2004 03:35 AMA.G. Telecomm offer reduced installation rates and short installation
times for customer of Norvergence [PRWEB Jul 14, 2004]
JBoss offers customers legal protection
JBoss offers customers legal protection
11/17/2003 05:44 AMZDNet UK Nov 17 2003 4:53AM ET
Microsoft Offers Fabulous Prizes for
Customers
Microsoft Offers Fabulous Prizes for
Customers
02/12/2004 10:09 AMMicrosoft Home and Entertainment Division today launched the
"Get-Set-Go" promotion for its customers. As part of this promotion,
Microsoft hardware products purchased during January 15th to June
30th, 2004 will come with a "Get-Set-Go" sticker that will have a
unique serial number. To avail the promotion benefits, customers are
required to register the unique serial number on the Get-Set-Go
website (http://www.microsoft.com/india/hed/getsetgo/) as well as
complete a slogan - "I love Microsoft Hardware because….'.
Apple Offers New Promos To Education
Customers
Apple Offers New Promos To Education
Customers
12/11/2003 06:13 PMApple is offering a special 20-pack bundle of eMacs for $950 each or a
20-pack of iBooks for $850 each, when purchased through the Apple
Store for Education (Institutions). (MacNN via MyAppleMenu)
Verizon Offers Stand-Alone DSL to Keep
Customers (Reuters)
Verizon Offers Stand-Alone DSL to Keep
Customers (Reuters)
05/26/2004 02:59 PMReuters - Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N)
has quietly offered high-speed Internet service to customers in
some parts of the country who were turning off their phone
service, the company said on Wednesday.
Tune-Watch offers headlines, iTalk
giveaway
Tune-Watch offers headlines, iTalk
giveaway
05/03/2004 03:08 PMTune-Watch, a Web site dedicated
to tracking Apple's iTunes Music Store, on Monday added iTunes and
iPod news headlines from many Macintosh Web sites to its many
features. Tune-Watch, which was launched on April 1, 2004, also
announced an iTalk giveaway all this week -- details can be found at
the Web site.
Cortex, LLC Offers Customers a 2004
Summer Olympic GIVEAWAY
Cortex, LLC Offers Customers a 2004
Summer Olympic GIVEAWAY
07/12/2004 02:30 AMJuly 7th - August 31st, Cortex offers customer loyalty program
paralleling the 2004 Summer Olympics. [PRWEB Jul 12, 2004]
Small Computer Company Helps Customers
Deal with Big Problem of Viruses,
Spyware, Malware and Hacker Attacks on
Their Computers
Small Computer Company Helps Customers
Deal with Big Problem of Viruses,
Spyware, Malware and Hacker Attacks on
Their Computers
08/06/2004 01:22 PMMichael Troiano Computers and Networks announced a new economical
on-line service, giving users access to software and detailed steps to
repair and secure their computers. [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004]
HostMySite.com offers an enhanced
service program for dedicated server
customers
HostMySite.com offers an enhanced
service program for dedicated server
customers
07/04/2004 02:24 AMHostMySite.com launches a service program that provides dedicated
server customers access to exclusive Dedicated Server Engineers (DSE)
to better meet client support needs. This new program was added to
enhance service by providing customers immediate access to high level
technologists at every contact. In addition to personalized 24x7x365
service currently provided to all customers, the DSE program increases
the support team’s familiarity with each dedicated server account,
resulting in improved customer service. [PRWEB Jul 4, 2004]
Aplus.Net Offers Free Online Survey
Building Tool to its Web Hosting
Customers
Aplus.Net Offers Free Online Survey
Building Tool to its Web Hosting
Customers
04/14/2004 03:55 PMTopHosts.com Apr 14 2004 7:41PM GMT
Affinity Internet Offers Customers
Unparalleled Web Success With Createit!
Site Builder
Affinity Internet Offers Customers
Unparalleled Web Success With Createit!
Site Builder
06/02/2004 06:24 PMTopHosts.com Jun 2 2004 10:44PM GMT
Company Offers 'Burials' in Space (AP)
Company Offers 'Burials' in Space (AP)
02/19/2004 10:08 AMAP - Taiwan is one of the most densely populated places in the world,
and there's not much more room for new cemeteries. But a U.S. firm is
offering a solution: shooting people's remains into space.
Company Offers a High-Tech Way to Get
Clothes to Fit
Company Offers a High-Tech Way to Get
Clothes to Fit
03/19/2005 02:32 AMCIO Insight Mar 19 2005 6:09AM GMT
Mom and pop web hosting company offers
low introductory price.
Mom and pop web hosting company offers
low introductory price.
09/01/2004 04:06 AMFamily run hosting company offers hosting for $2.50 a month. [PRWEB
Sep 1, 2004]
Company Offers Disaster-Proof Storage
For Records
Company Offers Disaster-Proof Storage
For Records
12/25/2003 07:59 AMMakarand writes "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that a
Utah company, Perpetual Storage, is offering disaster-proof commercial
storage space deep ...
Company Offers Workaround for Sony's CD
Copy Protection
Company Offers Workaround for Sony's CD
Copy Protection
06/22/2005 02:17 AMA simple mechanical way for Windows users to defeat SunnComm's
MediaMaxx copy protection scheme, used widely in audio CDs produced by
Sony BMG, is being offered on request via e-mail by SunnComm itself,
the company's vice president of marketing and sales, Scott Stoegbauer,
told Tom's Hardware Guide today.
The scheme was developed by SunnComm through its MediaMaxx division in
order to prevent listeners on Windows-based PCs from easily making
copies of audio CD-based music as MP3 files. Other software currently
produced by SunnComm does enable legitimate copies to be made in
Windows Media format (WMV), which cannot be (easily) burned to CD.
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Unparalleled Services
Point of Sale Company Offers
Unparalleled Services
06/03/2004 02:00 AMMTS Systems LLC has partnered with Point of Success™ software for
pizzeria and other restaurants to provide the definitive end-to-end
POS solution and is currently the number one dealer of Point of
Success™ software system installs in North America. [PRWEB Jun 3,
2004]
Company Offers Softer Landing for
Smaller Aircraft in Distress
Company Offers Softer Landing for
Smaller Aircraft in Distress
12/25/2004 05:05 PMBallistic Recovery System is cooperating with NASA to adapt its
parachute safety system for small planes to work for larger jets.
Israeli company offers free tsunami
alert system
Israeli company offers free tsunami
alert system
01/04/2005 05:41 PMAn Israeli company plans to distribute free to Asian countries hit by
last week's tsunami a device that uses land and water sensors to
measure seismic activity and wave motion that could indicate tsunamis.
PANORAMA SOFTWARE ACHIEVES OVER 200%
REVENUE GROWTH IN FIRST HALF OF 2004.
Business Intelligence Software Company
Continues Momentum; Drives Results for
Customers
PANORAMA SOFTWARE ACHIEVES OVER 200%
REVENUE GROWTH IN FIRST HALF OF 2004.
Business Intelligence Software Company
Continues Momentum; Drives Results for
Customers
09/15/2004 02:01 AMPanorama Software Exceeds Expectations in First Half of 2004 with over
200% Revenue Growth. Company increases customer and partner roster
with signficant globale brands. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
Internet search engine giant Google may
become a $30 billion dollar company
after it offers to go public. In a
Internet search engine giant Google may
become a $30 billion dollar company
after it offers to go public. In a
07/27/2004 09:38 PMXinhua News Agency Jul 28 2004 1:50AM GMT
The return of the 'free' PC
The return of the 'free' PC
12/15/2003 05:58 AMIBM to supply 200k PCs
Web Hosting News: Aplus.net Offers a
Suite Of Online Marketing Tools To Web
Hosting Customers
Web Hosting News: Aplus.net Offers a
Suite Of Online Marketing Tools To Web
Hosting Customers
06/18/2004 09:47 AMWeb Host Directory Jun 18 2004 1:45PM GMT
Web Hosting News: Aplus.Net Offers Free
Online Survey Building Tool to its Web
Hosting Customers
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Online Survey Building Tool to its Web
Hosting Customers
04/15/2004 02:24 PMWeb Host Directory Apr 15 2004 6:18PM GMT
The 'free' PC makes a comeback
The 'free' PC makes a comeback
12/17/2003 10:48 AMCNN Dec 17 2003 9:48AM ET
Enterprise IM Can't Fight 'Free'
Enterprise IM Can't Fight 'Free'
07/01/2004 01:40 PMTechWeb Jul 1 2004 5:15PM GMT
2004 to Bring 'Free' Net Music
2004 to Bring 'Free' Net Music
12/22/2003 11:18 PM
CNN writes that "The great digital music giveaway is about to begin."
They expect that next year will mark promotions by companies to push
their mu...
WSJ.com - Despite Earlier
Predictions,'Free' Web Is Going Strong
WSJ.com - Despite Earlier
Predictions,'Free' Web Is Going Strong
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Computers fiasco could 'free' criminals
Computers fiasco could 'free' criminals
05/02/2004 08:49 PMGlasgow Herald May 3 2004 0:56AM GMT
IKANO Acquires Assets of
Washington-Based Internet Service
Provider Amerion: IKANO Offers Customers
Expanded Range of Features
IKANO Acquires Assets of
Washington-Based Internet Service
Provider Amerion: IKANO Offers Customers
Expanded Range of Features
03/23/2005 04:46 AMIKANO Communications, the world’s largest provider of private-label
Internet services, has acquired the subscriber base and certain
related assets of Amerion, a Pasco, Washington-based Internet company
providing dial-up, DSL, wireless, fiber and dedicated Internet to
customers located primarily in the western United States
(http://www.amerion.com). [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
How the 'Free' Market Ruins the
Entertainment Media
How the 'Free' Market Ruins the
Entertainment Media
02/07/2005 01:31 AM
There's a
fascinating ar
ticle in this week's New
Yorker
by Louis Menand about the history of the US film industry. It
describes
what's happened to the industry since its #1 year, way back in
1946:
|
1946
|
2004
|
Studio
films released
|
700
|
200
|
Number of
screens nationwide
|
19,000
|
36,000
|
| Average
weekly tickets sold, all screens |
100
million
|
24
million
|
Average
weekly tickets sold, as % of population
|
72%
|
8%
|
Average
tickets sold per film
|
7
million
|
6
million
|
Average
tickets sold per week per screen
|
5,000
|
700
|
So now you know, if you didn't already, that the 'box office records'
routinely reported to be broken are all dollar records, and that actual attendance and
popularity of films, by any measure, are in a long-term and steep
decline.
 There
is no great conspiracy to dumb down the industry, or to turn out less
and less product each year, or to make more sequels and re-releases
than original scripts, or to hype films so that most people who go at
all rush out to see them before the unpaid
critics, and actual movie-goers tell them how bad they really are.
It's
a perfect example of the 'free' market in action, and the excesses it
leads to. Today between 25% and 40% of the total attendance at a new
release is rung up in its first
weekend.
And on average 60% of the revenue comes from overseas, because, well,
because there are more people and hence more undiscerning moviegoers
overseas. And 35% of movie-theatre revenue comes from overpriced
concession food.
The economics of the industry are now such that, in order to make
money, you must have a blockbuster that will bring in hundreds of
millions in its first weekend. To do that you need to 'open' on at
least 15,000 screens worldwide, you have to pay at least $50 million
in
advance marketing worldwide, and you absolutely have to feature one or
more of the "handful of stars who can open a movie worldwide", and pay
each of them $25 to $150 million to do so. The margin of error is
small, so you cannot risk a failure, and hence every blockbuster must
follow a proven formula, like a comic book.
This hyperbolic model would be fine, for those foolish enough to
continue to sustain it, if it weren't for the fact that, as Menand
puts
it:
Blockbuster dependence is a
disease. It sucks the talent and the resources out of every other part
of the industry. A contemporary blockbuster could almost be defined as
a movie in which production value (sets, costumes, special effects
etc.) is in inverse proportion to content. The talent, knowledge and
ingenuity required to make just one of the battle scenes in 'Troy', or
one mindless James Bond chase sequence, would drain the resources of
many universities. But why doesn't anyone put more than two seconds'
thought into the story?
The answer to Menand's question, of course, is that they don't have
to.
Why spend money on a well-crafted story, as director Norman Jewison
said when receiving a recent life-time achievement award pleaded the
industry to do, when it merely distracts from the 'production values'
and needlessly reduces the bottom line? Why write a script at all when
you can create a movie which makes hundreds of millions of dollars
even
though the star speaks only 17
lines in two hours of action (Schwarzenneger in Terminator)?
To those that think all this is just envy, Menand tells the cautionary
tale of one non-blockbuster that merely attempted to present a good
story with a competent ensemble of non-big-name actors, Sideways.
This film, #189 of IMDb's top-rated (by audiences) movies of all time,
has been a critical smash as well, but it was made for a mere 16
million dollars, excluding marketing costs, and despite all the help
from critics, Oscar nominations and viral marketing, has brought in a
mere 22 million dollars in ten weeks. That's a fifth of the marketing
budget alone for each of the Matrix sequels, which brought in half a billion
dollars each. [The picture above is a scene from Sideways].
The 'free' market has basically determined that if you want to make a
quality entertainment product you have to do it as a labour of love,
and if you want it to be seen you have to be willing to lose a lot of
money on it (which means you need to find someone with both taste and
money to underwrite it) or else let it wallow in obscurity, unknown to
the millions who would appreciate it if only 'the market' would allow
it any visibility. In other words, the unrestricted 'free' market in
entertainment produces less, of lower-quality (according to both
critics and customers). In the process, just like everything else in
George Bush's America, innovation is discouraged and a tiny handful of
people and corporations get obscenely rich while the rest struggle
their whole lives.
And this isn't true just in the film industry -- it's true of every
aspect of the 'entertainment industry' in America: Television
(remember
when we got 39 quality episodes a year of a well-written series like
M*A*S*H?), music, publishing, 'professional' sports. In each we get
less and less product, hyper-marketing, flagrant 'product placement',
spin-offs and sequels, a dearth of innovation, and a handful of
privileged billionaires working alongside millions of starving peers.
Blockbuster dependence, thanks to the unhealthy working of the 'free'
market, is making all of these wonderful trades and crafts into
manufacturers of overpriced mediocrity.
The answer is the same as the solution to any other aspect of the
economic, political, social or educational system that has become
utterly dysfunctional -- as producers we need to establish our own
parallel industries, and as consumers we need to withhold our money
from from the blockbuster industry, walk away from it, stop funding
it,
and instead direct our business to new enterprises that enable,
support
and sustain entrepreneurship, innovation and craftsmanship. In the
entertainment 'industry' that means supporting independent
filmmakers, studios, theatres, media, musicians, publishers, and
'amateur' sports leagues. It means helping artists break free of the
stranglehold of the blockbuster machine by encouraging them with our
consumer dollars, and helping them organize a new, quality-oriented
network of production and distribution companies.
And it means one more thing, something commonplace (though constantly
threatened) in Europe and Canada, but anathema in the US --
encouraging
government investment in entrepreneurship. We realized in Canada that,
being so close to the US and overwhelmed by the hype of its
blockbuster
entertainment industry, we simply could not compete for the youth
market and for space in the bottom-line-oriented movie theatres and
the
bottom-line-oriented commercial TV stations' schedules. So we have
heavy government investment in our 'cultural industries', despite the
outrage of America's NAFTA supporters. The government invests heavily
in film and television production, and in supporting the publishing of
Canadian musicians and authors. It has quotas on 'Canadian content' in
the media. And it has whole networks paid for substantially or
completely by the taxpayer, with a charter to provide an avenue for
Canadian and quality foreign content. It's not a perfect solution, but
the difference between the content quality on Canadian and American
television, at least on a per-dollar investment basis, is startling,
and a testament to the fact that, as with anything else, a balance
between markets and government investment and regulation works better
than either an untrammeled 'free' market or a government monopoly.
Some of the best US television, like the CSI series, originated with
partnerships with Canadian companies that depend on government
support,
and repay it with extraordinary creativity. It would be nice to
believe
that indy producers and catalysts like Sundance Institute could
compete
with the blockbuster industry without substantial government
assistance, but the evidence suggests otherwise. The business model is
stacked against them. And the US has moved so far right from the days
of the New Deal in its conception of the role and value of government
that I wouldn't hold my breath for anyone in power to advocate a
government role in funding innovation for anything except military
applications. We'll have to look elsewhere for working models.
|
Brands To Use 'Free' Music To Lure Teens
Brands To Use 'Free' Music To Lure Teens
12/21/2003 07:06 PMMusic giveaways are understood to foster customer loyalty. What's
more, they provide consumers with powerful incentives to use the
related products, executives say. By Brian Garrity (Billboard via
MyAppleMenu)
Police 'free' S&M sex slave from car
trunk (Reuters)
Police 'free' S&M sex slave from car
trunk (Reuters)
06/05/2005 11:46 PMReuters - German police, alerted to a potential
kidnapping, "freed" a man from a car trunk only to discover the
would-be victim was actually a willing sex slave, authorities
said Thursday.
BT hoovers up broadband punters with
'free' flights
BT hoovers up broadband punters with
'free' flights
05/11/2004 06:30 AMZDNet May 11 2004 11:11AM GMT
Penn State and Napster Offer 'Free'
Music?
Penn State and Napster Offer 'Free'
Music?
11/06/2003 03:57 PM
Excite.com reports that Penn State University is planning to offer
"free digital music listening and limited downloading" to their
students..
Rosen...
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