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Amazon.com Launche Wireless Superstore

If you were to look at the cellular phone market as a graph, there would be some periods of rabid growth, followed by periods of leveling off but the overall pattern would be continued expansion. Sensing the opportunity such a business model presents, Amazon.com, one of the world's largest...

Heidi Daus Jewelry

...ction can be found in specialty boutiques, and gift and museum stores across the United States and abroad. 'Dancing Dragonfly' Cuff Bracelet Watch Hinged to reveal a subtle goldtone w...

T-Mobile To Begin Pre-Selling New Android Phone

In effort to reaise up some well needed capital, struggling wireless carrier T-Mobile today began pre-selling the myTouch 3G, its second Google-powered smartphone. T-Mobile, which currently sits in fourth-place in terms of sheer size among US carriers, is feeling the pressure amid a busy summ...

Animoto Releases Updated iPhone App

Animoto has released an update to their popular music video creation app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Videos 2.0 . The Animoto Videos application allows users to easily create and view professional-quality music videos on the go. With nearly 500,000 videos created through the application ...

Supply chain video: If you want to re-negotiate the terms with suppliers, the moment is now!

... prices - Extend the payment terms (if it doesn't kill the supplier:)) In applying these strategies, a main element companies should consider is human factor: In the crisis situations, peop...

How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?

...e main issue is integration with other legacy systems but this is getting better. - Postponement strategies: This is less technology related; postponing the final assembly operation of customizati...

Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past

The world's largest commercial satellite has been launched into earth orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America. Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signals from mobile phones. ...

Good News for Liberal Arts Majors - StarCraft Classes Now Available

...vested in learning the ins and outs of the game. Mr. ByunTae will teach you: Basic and Advanced strategies and build orders for all three races. In-game bugs to be used to your advantage such as...

Verizon and Sprint to Launch Blackberry World Phone

...old as a "world phone" meaning voice and data service should work equally well at home or abroad. Sprint will also be carrying the BlackBerry Tour on its network shortly thereafter. For fu...

Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 2)

...ves that's the time where supply chain leadership is necessary more than ever and more balanced strategies are required. He talks a bit the tight credit these days and the problems which a...

Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer

We often talk about attempts to dethrone the immensely popular iPhone and it looks like consumer electronics giant Sony is about to take a stab at it next. Sony has released word that it is considering setting up a project team as early as July to make a new device that combines the functions...

AADE'sNew Blog: Diabetes Education Voices

...ng active, monitoring blood glucose, medication-taking, problem solving, reducing risks, and coping strategies. The are working diabetes educators—so their subjects are based on their real worl...

Verizon's New Global Smartphone Aims for the Ozone

... Tired of worrying about whether or not your cell phone will work when traveling abroad? Verizon understands where you're coming from and, with HTC, are planning on bringing a true global han...

Motorola Karma Has Texting in Mind

AT&T and Motorola are working on a device with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard aimed at consumers looking to use their phones to send text messages and access social networking sites like Facebook. Calling this new handset the Karma, Motorola says that the design will be especially pleasing t...

Survival strategies for a deepening recession

The green shoots are turning into yellow weeds. The World Bank forecast for the global economy is a sobering read. According to the World Bank, the global economy will shrink by nearly 3 per cent this year, a situation created by plunging trade and business lending. And world trade will contr...

T-Mobile's New Android Phone Coming Soon

T-Mobile's got an ace up their sleeve in the ongoing struggle to dethroning the Apple iPhone coming out this August. Calling it the myTouch 3G, its new Google Android equipped phone is a more equipped version of the popular G1. It will feature a built-in 3.2-megapixel camera, music player...

Improving working capital through effective supply chain management

...iator for improving working capital. and need for effective working capital management. A series of strategies have been proposed as best practice to achieve such goals in which a summary of them is p...

Verizon Wireless Intros USB1000 Global Modem

...earlog's Sascha Segan . "In English, that means it can access high-speed networks here and abroad; it comes with a special SIM built in for when travelers leave the US. All that network switc...

T-Mobile Aims High with the Dash 3G

T-Mobile has apparently stood-by and watched RIM and Apple dominate the market long enough. The company has announced its plans to enter the hotly contested smartphone scene with their Dash 3G, which is set to hit streets next month (July). T-Mobile says that the Dash 3G, which was designed b...

Look After YOur Man This Fathers' Day

...dviser for Men's Health Network, a nonprofit organization that advocates for preventive health strategies and education for men. "In almost every category of disease, men die at a higher rate...

Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law

Apple today officially released the iPhone OS 3.0 software, updating 45 software patches to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company said the new features include cut, copy and paste, MMS, and push notifications. Analysts expect ...

Nokia Announces Successor to the E71 Smartphone

Nokia has answered the question on the minds of business users all around the globe today by announced its E72- an updated version of its top-selling E71 business phone. The company says that the E72 builds on the successful E71; its hot selling QWERTY- equipped smartphone, by adding performa...

Vopium-Free VOIP Application for Smartphones

Vopium is a carrier-grade mobile telephony service designed to offer affordable and reliable international calls from any mobile handset. By using the Vopium application on their mobile to make calls from their home country, consumers and businesses alike can save up to 90% on international mobi...

Motorola Rival Coming to Verizon

Texters on the Verizon network have reason to celebrate in the form of the Rival from Motorola. Designed specifically for the challenges of texting, the Rival features a 2.2-inch screen and a backlit QWERTY keyboard that lights up either red or green depending on entry mode. The handset offer...

Nokia Hopes Cell Phones will No Longer Require Chargers

Quick- what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of charging your cell phone? If you said a cord, an electrical outlet or even a docking station, you may want to read on. Nokia researchers are working on development of cellular phone charging by simply capturing ambient rad...

Apple Slashes Prices on the iPhone

Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half as well as lowered some of their laptop prices today; the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago. The 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G, which came out last year, now costs $99, instead of $199. The 1...

Supply chain video: Short interview on SC Finance

... talks about their research on Supply Chain Finance. He highlights the opportunities, case studies, strategies and pitfalls of this Spend Management tool, which is gaining momentum in the current, ris...

Recession Forces More Golf Deals

...hat kind of thing. Retailers are desperate to move merchandise and they're employing inventive strategies. But what about the recreational golf industry? Frankly, I haven't seen too many clu...

T-Mobile To Release Second Android Phone While Samsung Targets Photogs

T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier, is hoping to increase its rank by launch its second smartphone to run Google's Android operating system in a few weeks. While details aren't overly specific just yet, the new smartphone is slotted to run Google's codenamed "Cupcake&q...

Is manufacturing dead?

...th digitization and high-speed data networks a lot of back office work can now be done more cheaply abroad. "Any job that's even slightly routine is disappearing from the U.S. But this doesn...

Inq To Release Twitter Handset

It was only a matter of time… Let's face it, as a whole, the world is quick to adopt a trend, run with it, and then leave it for dead. First it was Myspace then Facebook. Now the world is Twitter-obsessed and to that end mobile phone maker INQ Mobile plans to launch a Twitter phone in time...

60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisment Tutorials

...omm 1GHz CPU • Swapping SIMs to save big bucks on calls abroad • Topsy • Skinnyboard.com - Project Management for Agile Teams • Album Reminder - new music album releases - notifications via em...

Palm Pre has Captured Wireless Carriers' Attention

Business users and smartphone fans alike are anxiously counting down the days until Palm's Pre hits the market. In a surprising move, the Pre will launch on June 6 for $200 exclusively for Sprint. As expected, the remaining domestic carriers have their sights set on the Pre as well. Earli...

Kinoma Introduces World’s First Mobile Social Media Browser

With today's release of Kinoma Play, the leading way to find, play and share media on a mobile phone is now also the best way to find, play and share media across social networks and media services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa. The new release of Kinoma Play for Win...

Nokia Announces 6600i - Slimmest Camera phone to Date

Nokia, the world's leading handset maker, has announced the 6600i Slide, its smallest 5.0-megapixel equipped slider to date. The company said that tucked within the handset's brushed steel shell is an upgraded 5.0-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash. It features a hidden external...

LG Glance Coming Soon To Verizon

While the slim candy bar-style handset may not be the first form factor that comes to mind for business use, but apparently that isn't slowing Verizon down any. The company is set to launch an all-new candy bar from LG next month aimed at business users known as the Glance VX7100. The han...

Samsung's Affordable T349 Comes To T-Mobile

T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, has launched the Samsung T349, a slim messaging phone with a 20-key, partial QWERTY keypad and XT9 enhanced predictive text for faster text messaging. Multiple messaging options include email, instant message, picture messaging, vide...

Employee disengagement in a recession

... outperform stragglers." So with more companies cutting costs, and cutting down on engagement strategies, we can expect a massive fallout and lots of pissed off employees....

AT&T Considers Dropping Cost of IPhone Plans

AT&T is considering offering cheaper data plans with limited Web surfing as early as late May in hopes of significantly boosting iPhone sales. The possible price cut (to $60 a month; a $10 reduction off the current lowest plan) reflects the back-and-forth negotiations between AT&T and...

Nokia Announces World's Cheapest G3 Phones

Hey times are tough here in the US- Nokia realizes that not everyone wants to break the proverbial bank just to enjoy the high-speed capabilities of the G3 network. As such he world's top handset maker has unveiled its 2720 Fold and 7020 series phones, including the 2730 Classic - the chea...

Sprint Follows Verizon with Personal Wi-Fi

A week after rival Verizon Wireless announced its plans to offer a personal Wi-Fi device, Sprint says that its ready to launch its own "Mobile Hotspot" gadget, a portable unit that creates a localized Wi-Fi cloud to share high-speed Internet with wireless electronics like laptops, ne...

Alias 2 Announced for Verizon

Verizon Wireless has launched the Samsung Alias 2, a dual-hinge clamshell with a morphing keyboard that uses the same display technology found on the Amazon Kindle. Rather than a jumble of keys with small labels, the handset's keypad actually changes depending on what users are doing. So ...

Facebook Comes to Windows Mobile

Software giant Microsoft has released a Facebook application that allows Windows Mobile 6 users create wall posts, share photos, send messages, update profile pictures and even upload videos. The free software, creatively dubbed Facebook for Windows Mobile 6 , is the first app to let users u...

BlackBerry Curve Dethrones iPhone

Oh boy, it seems like everyone under the sun has been scurrying to develop a smartphone that could dethrone the might iPhone and it looks like it finally happened, at least as far as the First Quarter of 2009 is concerned. According to market researchers at The NPD Group, Research in Motion&#...

HP to Get on the Blackberry Software Train

The BlackBerry line of smartphones is already known for being business-friendly but the software available for these phones is about to get a boost. Research In Motion (RIM) and computer giant Hewlett-Packard said they have agreed to a strategic alliance to design and sell business software fo...

Microsoft Plans its iPhone Killer

Don't for a minute believe that a company can have the type of success that Apple has had with its iPhone and not have everyone else gunning for them. The latest in a long list of handsets designed to steal a piece of the iPhone pie comes from none other than the maker of Windows. Softwar...

Types of Content: Approaches to Creating Content that Can Drive Your Rankings

...es. Jeff Quipp had a piece last month that's been sitting on my back burner. It's about strategies for content creation. He makes the point that there are a number of types of content out ...

Verizon Pushes for Apple iPad

Apple's iFamily is about to increase by a member if Verizon Wireless has its way. The wireless company is in talks with Apple to distribute a media pad device that would let users listen to music, view photos, watch high-definition videos and make calls over its Wi-Fi connection. The devi...

50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer

© simplified complication Robert Jaques, in an article posted on WhatPC yesterday, talked about the difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements. Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relationships have clearly migrated from "non-core" busin...

Samsung's First Android Phone Hits Europe

Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered smartphone. Measuring just 11.9mm thick, the I7500 features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen display, high-speed 7.2Mbps HSDPA Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity. Additiona...

Future structural changes in supply chains

...ical forces in China, Europe and the U.S.manufacturers to revisit their outsourcing or near-shoring strategies. Politicians are under the gun to protect domestic jobs and insure their country's co...

New Nokia Handset That Thinks It's a Credit Card

Just when we thought we'd seen it all- Nokia announces that its latest handset can act as a credit card! Its 6216 classic may look like a regular cell phone but it has the ability to securely store a user's credit card information on the SIM card using NFC (Near Field Communication...

Gates Foundation World Malaria Day Blogger Teleconference

... their 1-year grant, the researchers will provide insights into their projects and malaria control strategies. If you are able to join the teleconference, send an email to Becky Meisels (bmeisel...

PC Maker Acer Launches its Cellular Line

Computer giant Acer launched a complete line of smartphones for the Asia-Pacific region. The Taiwan-based company, best known for its PCs and laptops has finalized its ambitions to gain a share of the lucrative smartphone market. With its five new models, the company professes lofty ambition...

How Does Free Mobile TV Sound to You?

Of all the various mobile tech news subjects I come on and blog about, it's hard to imagine anything more exciting than announcements like the following. Broadcasters at the nation's capital have decided Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV for mobile devices. ...

Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones

Although sony was hoping to adopt Google's hot new Android software as soon as possible, delays associated with trying to develop its own take on the operating system have resulted in their opting to use the tried and true Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. This comes right as the ...

Apple About to Break Milestone

You know you're doing something right when you start posting numbers like Apple's been enjoying. The maker of the iPhone and iPod Touch is fast approaching a billion downloads for its online App Store. The company unveiled a Web page dedicated to tracking the number of downloads unti...

Google Updates GMail For Android Users

The good news about a single company, in this case Google, owning a whole line of related aps is that they can address issues directly. The company has released a new version of Gmail for their Android-powered smartphones (that also works on Apple's iPhone software) that is not only faste...

Virgin Mobile Slashes Prices on Plans

Tough economic times means a fear of getting roped into a commitment for many potential wireless customers. That said Virgin Mobile is revamping some of its service rates in effort to compete against intense price-cutting among second-tier wireless competitors. Beginning April 15th, Virgin Mo...

Enterprise 2.0: Reality Check

...ds are, and at the depth of consideration which most attendees were putting into their social media strategies. The pushback that one hears about almost constantly online was nowhere in evidence; rath...

10 secrets of the downturn leader

... What are the secrets of the downturn leader? What sort of strategies are needed during a recession. I identify 10 of them in my piece here . The 10 secrets are communication, keeping up staf...

Apple's Plans to Keep Next iPhone Quiet Foiled

Taiwanese handset component suppliers have started shipping parts for the successor to the Apple iPhone 3G possibly launching in June. Apple has been just pounded by persistent rumors of new handset launches, with reports of a next generation iPhone gaining momentum recently. The rumors int...

Some emission reduction strategies

If you remember, I had a post somewhile ago on a new report from World Economic Forum which was talking about supply chain de-carbonization (Link here ). I went through that report again yesterday and found out some interesting proposed actions which companies can start with to reduce their emi...

T-Mobile To Bring Android Into Homes

Google's Android mobile operating system is about to get a hefty push that could potentially help it make up some of the ground between leading systems like iPhone and Windows Mobile. T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, plans to aggressively push into consumer home...

RIM Follows Apple With New Apps Store

Everyone else is doing it so it's got to be a good idea. That's the logic anyway when it comes to Apps stores these days. Apple is credited as leading the way with their immensely popular iPhone Store with Microsoft playing catch up through a similar store of their own. Research in Mo...

LG Brings DTV To Its Phones

LG realizes that to rekindle slumping sales, innovations in the cellular industry have to be above and beyond the norm. That said, the company has unveiled a new line of handsets that are capable of receiving free digital TV transmissions over the air. LG loaded its ATSC Mobile Digital Telev...

Strategies for improving retail supply chain

...on times from supply chain perspectives. As the name of his article shows, he has proposed 4 main strategies to improve retail supply chain. Below I have brought a summary of these strategies: 1....

Samsung Propel Comes to AT&T

With the Las Vegas CTIA show in full swing, there is just an overload of news to report. If there were trouble in the economy, you'd never know it based on this place! AT&T has been announcing just a flood of new models for the upcoming year. One of particilar note is the popular sam...

Verizon Confirms Netbook Rumors

I'm not sure if the recent downturn in the economy is even to blame anymore, but there is definitely a pattern of manufacturers swapping roles of late. First we hear about laptop makers Dell and Acer planning to make up for lost revenue by building smartphones and now the nation's ...

T-Mobile Gets Serious About Wireless Internet

T-Mobile, known for their cellular endeavors, has announced their latest innovation- the WebConnect USB Laptop Stick that allows USB-equipped devices to access 3G wireless Internet access. The plug-in USB device will act as a wireless antenna to connect any laptop, desktop, or PDA to T-Mobile...