In the days of Downton Abbey, class distinctions were fairly
straightforward. There were the folks that owned the Abbey, the folks
that aspired to own the Abbey and then those that slaved over hot ovens,
spit and shined boots, delivered room service and scrubbed toilets.
Today those distinctions have blurred significantly where demographics
and psychographics tend to label you by your preferences.
Hotels are known to be 24/7 operations. So why did Hotel 626 shutter its
doors back in 2010, after checking in guests for only a couple of
years? Namely because this hotel is not your typical hostelry. It was an
advergame created to promote Dorito’s snacks. It was indeed a social
network for horror-philes who prefer their ‘bumps in the night’ to be
filled with primal screams, where their room keys were triggered by Augmented Reality.
Whatever happened to the Colton Harris-Moore, the rebel-without-a-cause
(aka the Barefoot Bandit)? Here was a teenager brought up in a turbulent
low-income household who went on to earn international notoriety and a
huge following in the social media space commencing back in 2010.
There’s a genetic mutation that keeps certain persons from having smelly
underarms and sticky ear wax. The question, to a group of scientists
from the University of Bristol in Great Britain, was whether persons
with no underarm odor used deodorant anyway. The results of their study
of 17,000 individuals are published in the advance online edition of
the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Sina Weibo, China’s largest microblogging platform, is teaming up with Smart Cars to sell just 666 Smart Fortwo Special Edition cars online to the social media site’s estimated 370 million users. Competition for the distinctive yellow & blue microcars is expected to be fierce.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare was onto something back in 1600 AD, when he penned that famous Romeo and Juliet
line. Its import intimates that its not the name of things that matter,
it what those things really are. With the launch of Facebook’s "Graph Search"
on January 15, 2013, it’s important to discern that FB’s answer to a
‘search engine,’ is really it’s portal to mobile advertising.
New Balance is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and what better way to mark the occasion than by releasing some very special shoes: ML574 “Year of the Snake” Sneakers. The limited edition serpentine shoes pay homage to both the company itself and to 2013, the Year of the Snake according to the Chinese horoscope.
Lucky 13 comes in with a bang at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
While in the real world, you might catch the flu in the exhibit halls
of the Las Vegas Convention Center, in the virtual world there’s no
viruses to speak of – just a lot of chatter that’s being monitored at
high frequency by Salesforce.
Peter Chou has gone on the record with the Wall Street Journal blaming his company’s rough financial performance last year on insufficient marketing. Speaking about HTC’s competitors, and presumably about Samsung in particular, he described them as “too strong and very resourceful, pouring lots of money into marketing.” He was candid about the fact that, relatively speaking, he doesn’t have a great deal of cash at hand to counter rival publicity, but instead puts his faith in having more “unique products” — possibly referring to phones like the 1080p Droid DNA. Overall, he said that the “the worst for HTC has probably passed” and that 2013 will be “not too bad.” Which is about as cautious as optimism can get.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: WSJ
The concept of the smokeless ashtray has been around for at least 30 years. Have the past three decades shown any design improvements? And more importantly–do they work?
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