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Archive for September, 2008
Tellme, a voice-activated search for a variety of phones (including the BlackBerry), is busy developing a program for Apple’s iPhone. The company had come out with an early alpha program in a matter of weeks though senior director Dariusz Paczuski said that it will take a couple of months before a version for the public is ready. That’ll probably happen in the current fiscal year which runs through June.
Though this time Tellme has a task on its hands, as it relies on a physical button to determine when to start listening to a query. Working with the iPhone must have a challenge as it purely runs via a touch screen, so they’d have to create a virtual button for it. Sprint’s touch screen Instinct also had the same issue, though Tellme used to call button to determine when a user is speaking. Paczuski said that there will probably be a big virtual button in the middle of the screen.
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When Apple Inc. was selling its iPhones like hot cakes, it forgot to mention something to its valued customers, that the phone’s battery has a limited life, and it’ll cost $86 to replace, including delivery. But apparently Apple got away with it after the company requested U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in Chicago that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence and law without a trial. Well that’s the summary of the judgement.
Apple said that the iPhone package has a note on the outside of which mentions that the battery has limited recharge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced by Apple service provider. The case got in to place after a Jose Trujillo sued Apple in Illinois state court in July 2007, accusing the company of consumer fraud and seeking class-action, or group, status. The case was later moved to federal court.
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The overlay has been played along with in images (Photoshop and similar tools) but TicTacTi’s Overlay Ads Technology has definitely added more to video advertising, making them more interactive and cutting the cost of marketing products. How? Well it lets you use videos (clip from some movies etc) for overlaying your products. Publishers can insert ads, logos, text tickers and everything that has anything to do with advertising.
The video ads can run anywhere without any restrictions on the format of videos or the players that need to installed. You have a clip? You have your products? Just place merge the two and your ad turns out to be the best there is.
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So what’s so impressive about this lighter app, to me it’s just another one of the ten different similar apps in iTunes. Well apparently Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone app, Sonic Lighter, has everyone talking. The basic functionality of these apps are similar – you have a virtual lighter, light it up and move the iPhone around, so the flame also moves with it. Where Sonic Light is available for $.99, the official Zippo app is free, yet Sonic Lighter has had 44 reviews, and the Zippo: 27.
The reason probably is that Smule has built in social and viral features that are attracting crowd like mad, with 70,000 downloads already, it also gives this ridiculous but effective incentive to use the app frequently. You can share your location information with the app, so when you light it up you’re on a virtual earth-like globe. If you want to extinguish the flame, you can blow it out through from your microphone. Quite frankly I don’t get why this app’s becoming popular, I guess it’s one of those geeky things that you just have to have. Check it out for yourself and let me know.
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Prohmote is a Google App Engine experiment that lets you name and promote your event quickly and easily. The online planner is exclusively designed to help you advertise your event in a stunningly easy way without any cumbersome registration or login process. All you have to provide is the event credentials and Prohmote will do the rest for you.
Users can create an event by providing Venue, event’s description and the date and time of the particular activity/event. It also requires a valid email id to inform you about the concern changes or to contact you. The one page Prohmote is simple, eloquent and free. It would help people to manage guests lists and share events with their friends effectively. It can also be used to advertise events such as educational seminars or workshops. Marketers can also use it as a deftly tool to advertise the demo event of their product.
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With Yahoo’s plans at buying out AOL might have triggered Microsoft to think about purchasing the combined unit of Yahoo/AOL. Why? Well it might not give Microsoft a mammoth boost but it has the potential to give Microsoft up to 25% share in the search market. There has been no comment from any of the three parties over this but there are chances of it being in discussion, especially for Yahoo/Google deal rolling down the slopes.
Now Yahoo is up and looking for a major boost in its stock, that have been hovering around as low as $18 dollars and if the deal with Google falls prey to the anti-trust then they might fall further to $15. Investors would definitely wave off their hands to any company that takes such massive plunges and Yahoo has sadly become one.
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It appears Yahoo is under every analysts eye given the events that the company has been a part of over the last few months or so. To me it’s quite surprising as to why the company that has the most visited web page on the Internet suffers such short comings and why the much experienced management fails to deliver the best? Wasn’t it Yahoo that earlier dominated the web scene? Google came after almost half a decade to take the cake away from every entity on the net so if Yahoo says it lost its search to Google (and yes even Microsoft), it’s for the garbage bin not for our ears.
Yahoo has done everything in this time, from launching new services to shredding some weight, but has it really done the right thing so far? The right thing isn’t about introducing new members in the board, acquiring business across the web, it points at analysing the short comings in the very core structure of your firm.
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Checking out this blog on YouTube recently, I stumbled upon the ad for ‘Wario Land: Shake It!’ It’s a fun-filled classic for the Wii console – starring Wario, the alter ego of Mario, a smelly, ill-mannered dude. The game’s advertisement on YouTube is slick, took me by surprise actually, as I saw site falling apart while Wario jumps, skids, thrashes and smashes everything in sight. Whoever came up with this new ad for Wario Land must be a fan of those Bush games, where you beat the hell out of the guy. The marketing strategy is as such that it has taken a basic concept of the game and managed to make it into a creative yet effective ploy.
Also, with the Wii Remote controller turned sideways like an old-school controller, veterans and newcomers alike can run, jump and smash their way through hectic side-scrolling stages. Players shake the Wii Remote to help Wario take down his enemies, empty bags of treasure or cause earthquakes.
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