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As the harald Tribunereports Toyota is going to be the first automobile-manufactor to promote their new cars on the ebaymotors.com platform exclusively. Toyota will get advertisements on several other ebay-pages, too. It is said, toyota does that due to the fact, that they had to go new ways in order to compensate the declining advertisement-market…
dears, i´ve just moved to cologne, and i have to say: Alaaaf! I feel great 😉
As siliconvalley.com reports, there are obvious tendencies, that „dust technology“ (very small sensors communicating on a new wlan standard) are being developed as open source use – that was a great thing, because this technology will be very powerful in our daily life. Even INTEL supports the opensource-movement – they want their chips to manage…
As Microsoft reports here more than 79% of the elder american people would rather send an email than writing a letter or a postcard. it think it shows quite well how easy-to-use technologies have a solid part in our everyday-life.
Cory Doctorow´sexperiment is quite astonishing: in order to find out the future format of books, you are able to download his newest novel. His invitation is to copy the text in any other format you like, and send it back to him – he will publish the new format on his website. Currently it´s available…
As nytimes.com reports, there will be an upcoming opportunity for online-ad sellers like google or yahoo, to enforce their revenue: As a study shows, 25 % of the online users are informing themselves about products of local dealers in the internet. Thanks marketingwonk.de for the pointer.
What a cool application: asJoi Ito’s Weblog reports,
well, i´ve thought about the idea of creating an open company, in which all business-processes are open. several comments in this blog showed obvious problems: what about your customers? do they really want their names to be open to everyone? i guess, that specialising on certain industries would make sense: webprojects for the government, social-projects:…
If you have got an iPOD, you could take this piece of software, and turn it into a multi-mobil-information-system! It even can sync your rss-feeds. if someone owns an ipod, and works with ipod2go, please post your experiences. It really sounds interesting, though it certainly is no alternative to a windows ce-system where you can…
As mail & guardian reports, there now seem to be new fights against kazaa in australia. since the music industry failed to gain a stop of the peer to peer network in the usa late 2003, MIPI (Music Industry Piracy Investigations) tries to make up a multi-legal-juristication-front against kazaa, which was victim to several raids…