atmaspheric | endeavors

Six public service announcements from the Ad Council, a public service group, carry the thematic headline “Ready” and advise Americans to prepare a home emergency kit and direct viewers to a new government Web site (UPDATE - I could only get the page to load in IE. Safari and Chimera both loaded blanks…thanks Gov!) [...]

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There is a banner at the top of the lastest Madison+Vine e-newsletter from AdAge stating “If you have recently subscribed, please disregard this notice.”
What do you think recent might be? I find this to be a sad showing from AdAge, the trade journal of advertising… Don’t you think they could have done [...]

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I know what question has been keeping you awake at night. “Is Feng Shui applicable to the Internet?” Yes, I believe it is. Below you’ll find a handy hexagram, devised in accordance with ancient Chinese secrets, enabling everyone to have a better surfing experience, free of negative energy (Shar Chi literally: “a gosh-darned, messed-up connection”).
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The networking giant begins a $150 million advertising campaign in hopes of beating back new competition from makers of less-expensive gear. [CNET News.com]
I caught a new ad tonight during 24, and I have to say that it was spot on. Cisco knows how to communicate what they do (not that easy to the lay [...]

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Overture Services plans to acquire search technology company AltaVista for $140 million, the latest sign of consolidation in the resurgent search business. [CNET News.com (20 stories)]
Interesting…

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As I have already discussed, SliMP3 rocks! One of the coolest features for Macs is integration with iTunes. This means that you can have it read your iTunes library file as the way it sees how your music is catalogued. (You can also just have it scan your folder with music as [...]

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Handspring may be in trouble, but at least the company’s left a lasting legacy: keyboard entry on the Palm. We never managed to master the funny writing that Palm used to insist upon. So it’s good to see Sony’s new Clie — leaked by PalmInfocenter — will have a keyboard.Read
[Gizmodo]
F - the Tungsten… this [...]

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Purchases make Wi-Fi free for limited time: An interesting approach by a UK chain of sandwich shops — a purchase gives you free Wi-Fi hot spot time.
[802.11b Networking News]
Thinking about the customer can enhance loyalty. This is the opposite of the starbucks/t-mobile approach.

When they make a purchase, customers will be given an access [...]

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Microsoft is targeting the Internet generation with a new product called Three Degrees. Newsweek has the full story. The product is a powerful extension of instant messaging with the ability to create ad-hoc personal communities. Once you establish these groups, there are a variety of tasks that can be shared including pictures, listening to shared [...]

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Since they are paying to reach us, ala broadcast TV, lower the damn price of the movie ticket! You don’t pay money to watch HBO with commercials for anything other than previews for more HBO features. Movies used to be the same, with only previews. Come on! Faking the recycled contect [...]

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The latest phone to be announced by the British mobile phone maker runs neither on Smartphone 2002 nor Series 60, but still sports advanced features and a color display.

[infoSync]

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Thanks to the blizzard here in the East, my company is closed today…. My webcam will be running again today capturing the latest snowfall…

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SBC’s possible play for DirecTV is, well … not sane. Do I have to point back to AT&T? World Com? Enron? Well, ok that was a bit different but you see the point I am trying to make. Have we all forgotten the aforementioned debacles? How many telecommunications companies have to get into [...]

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Which OS are You?

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The emergence of small, embedded processors is also contributing to a shift away from products and toward higher-margin services, he said. For example, cellphone providers practically give the handsets away and make most of their money on the service they offer.
“The next industry to fall will be the automotive business,” Saffo said.
For example, the Mercedes [...]

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[infoSync: First 3G phone from Sony Ericsson]

The Z1010 is Sony Ericsson’s first GSM/UMTS 3G phone, and has it all. Dual displays and cameras, Bluetooth, Memory Stick Duo, J2ME, MMS, Wireless Village, WAP 2.0 and more.
Think about this for a second –> THIS YEAR, it will be possible to stream music or video from [...]

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[Marc Schiller at Fotolog.net]… [Gawker]

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[infoSync: Big 3 join on GPRS, EDGE push-to-talk ]

Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens have joined forces to promote a unified solution for push-to-talk solutions over GPRS and EDGE networks, based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem.
Aiming to provide an alternative to numerous proprietary solutions from smaller players, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens are now teaming up to [...]

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The mobile phone OS maker cements its relationship with another hardware maker in a $27 million deal. [internetnews.com: Top News]
Interesting… don’t think I have even seen any Samsung Symbian devices on the horizon…

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A group of leading technology companies will meet this week to further develop an emerging wireless networking technology aimed at home automation. [CNET News.com (20 stories)]

“There are a mind-boggling number of uses for wireless networking, so we’re focusing on the building and home environment,” said Venkat Bahl, vice chairman of the alliance. “This is [...]

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