The Black(berry) Pearl - COMING 12th September, 2006

Pirates of the Caribbean Engadet: The Black(berry) Pearl

The latest Fall blockbuster is coming care of Capt. Boy Genius

Leaking ship, no leaking videos and photos

The new Blackberry from RIM is rumored to be the 8100 Pearl

Features Available: [Pinstack.com]

* Email
* Phone and SMS
* 1.3Mp Camera with "My Album" (a personal on-line album where you can store your photos)
* microSD memory expansion slot
* Extensive Voice recognition
* Corporate Data Access
* Organizer
* Wireless Internet
* quad-band GSM plus EDGE (CDMA version TBA)
* Tethered Modem
* BlackBerry Messenger

Display: Large, bright, high-resolution LCD color screen with light sensing technology 240 x 260 pixel 65k color display.

Size & Weight: TBA. So far it seems as thin or thiner than a Motorola RAZR.

Keyboard: SureType technology, combines phone and QWERTY layouts for quick and accurate dialing and typing Dedicated send, end, convenience, power and mute keys
Backlit.

Navigation: More durable and lefty-friendly' thumb operated Joystick with and return key.

Voice Input/Output:

* Integrated earpiece and microphone
* Hands-free speakerphone
* Hands-free headset capable
* Bluetooth v2.0 hands-free headset and car kit support

Notification: Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones, vibrate mode, on-screen or LED indicator and possible picture ID alerts.

User Interface: Intuitive icons and menus

Battery/Battery-life: TBA

Memory: 64MB of internal flash with microSD expansion

Modem: Embedded RIM wireless modem Tethered modem capability for wireless Internet connectivity.

Processor: Intel XScale processor (TBC)

Email Account Compatibility: Integrates with an existing enterprise email account or up to 10 personal/business email accounts

Includes BlackBerry Desktop Software: Supported by version 4.2 or higher (TBC)

Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server: Supported by:

* Version 2.1 or higher for Microsoft Exchange
* Version 2.0 with Service Pack 2 or higher for IBM Lotus Domino
* Version 4.0 or higher for Novell GroupWise

Handheld Security: Password protection and keyboard lock

Accessories Included: USB cable for charging and PC synchronization
Travel Charger and Holster (TBC)

Network: Quad-Band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks

Works In: US (850/1900 MHz), Canada (850/1900 MHz) & Europe/Asia Pacific (900/1800 MHz)

Palm Treo 700wx

• Available August 31st (this Thursday) to businesses (September 3rd for consumers)
  
• Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC (duh)
• XScale 312MHz CPU
• SDIO slot
• 128MB NVRAM (60MB user)
• dual-band EV-DO / 1xRTT
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• Bluetooth 1.2, IR
• 240 x 240 touchscreen
• QWERTY keyboard

It's all about speed to buy, 'click to call' now available on eBay via Google

Overlapping services and partnerships apparently are part of Silicon Valley's effort to respond to tech-saavy shoppers who want service in a hurry.

In May, eBay announced a deal with the No. 2 Internet search engine, Yahoo Inc., to serve all its domestic advertising. Under a new partnership, Google would become the exclusive provider of text advertising on eBay outside the United States.

eBay plans to rely on Google's international presence to build a worldwide market for Skype, the Internet phone provider the company acquired last year.

The companies said they would use Skype and Google Talk, the search engine's instant messaging and voice-over-Internet telephone service, to build a search function that lets Web surfers launch Internet phone calls to eBay merchants or Google advertisers by clicking on ads.

Promoting "click-to-call" advertising was also part of the deal eBay announced with Yahoo in May.

Once "click-to-call" is established the next opportunity could be "Click-to-play video ads" for AdWords which appears to have had a slow start?

Cost of creating office based documents falls

Google has deployed the first pieces of its upcoming Office suite. They’ve launched Google Apps for your Domain, a set of Google services targeted to small and mid sized companies. With the new service, companies can use Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Page Creator under a single control panel. Applications and data will be hosted by Google, for free, with ad support.






Another company Zoho is building a really excellent online office suite. Customers clearly want Office documents stored on servers instead of, or in addition to, local storage. And while it’s not clear that there is great demand yet for online creation of documents (the experience is still nowhere near as good as the desktop products), the ability to collaborate on reviewing and editing documents is important, and this must occur online to be effective.

Do the Pepsi Challenge with Google Trends

Who is the most searched company; is it Coke or is it Pepsi?

Here's what Google Trends has to say:



With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them most often.

Utherverse.com, MySpace for Adults ONLY

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Who is looking at YouTube

One of these six companies will buy YouTube by ZDNet's Russell Shaw -- All the buzz around video site YouTube indicates that the closely-held company could have a market value of around $1 billion.Given those numbers, it is only natural to crystal-ball YouTube's future: private, IPO, acquired, acquirer?To me, there are only six candidates with the business model and deep pockets to buy YouTube whole. Let me [...]

Urge to Zune as iTunes to iPod

Download the latest copy of Windows Media Player 11 and you will see an online store called Urge.

Given the level of integration the Zune has with Windows Media Player it will probably copy the hugely successful iTunes.com music store model. Urge has more than two million songs available for download.

Although the technical specifications haven't yet been released, Microsoft has confirmed that the Zune will come with inbuilt wireless networking, allowing you to update your music over a wireless network. None of the rival players yet have this function.

A Wake-Up Call From Craig McCaw

From Business Week, July 18, 2006

Imagine a future like this: You’re on the Acela high-speed train from Boston to Washington and you want to touch base with friends in Beijing and London. You pull out your laptop and moments later are catching up via video link — even as the train thunders along at 150 miles an hour. Later, as you zip past the White House in a cab, you grab the same laptop to catch up on e-mail, then boot up your media player to watch a few minutes of the afternoon ball game of your hometown favorite, the Boston Red Sox.

If Craig O. McCaw gets his way, you’ll be able to do all that, and more, in as little as three years’ time. McCaw’s Clearwire Corp. has amassed enough licensed radio spectrum to create a nationwide, wireless broadband network based on an emerging technology called mobile WiMAX — a powerful cousin of WiFi. Clearwire got a big boost on July 5, when Intel Corp. (INTC ) and Motorola Inc. (MOT ) pumped nearly $900 million into the company. The tech giants aim to turn WiMAX into a mainstream consumer technology and hope to make lots of money selling the chips, laptops, cell phones, and other gear that work with it.

McCaw famously upended Ma Bell by building a cellular phone network in the 1980s, a business he later sold to AT&T (T ) for $11.5 billion. Now he could be poised to do much the same to today’s cable, satellite, and telecom players by providing a cheaper alternative to the broadband services they currently offer. “Filling a need that others aren’t addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with,” McCaw says.

Not so long ago, McCaw’s WiMAX gambit seemed less threatening to the entrenched players. There were no industrywide standards for mobile WiMAX, so the equipment was too expensive to roll out on a large scale. But last year the industry adopted the long-awaited standards, which helped bring Motorola and Intel into the game. Add McCaw’s control of one of the biggest chunks of WiMAX spectrum, and he seems well positioned.

The cable guys and telcos profess themselves unfazed by McCaw’s WiMAX ambitions. But you can easily imagine people preferring to subscribe to a Clearwire service that allows them online access anywhere rather than one that restricts them to their home. What’s more, because WiMAX infrastructure is so much cheaper to build than traditional networks, Clearwire can likely afford to offer a nationwide mobile service for as little as $25 a month. Suddenly, paying $60 for Verizon Wireless’ (VZ ) Broadband-Access service looks a lot less attractive.

This is not just a question of luring away rivals’ subscribers, either. McCaw’s WiMAX play also could put in jeopardy the billions of dollars the telcos and cable companies are investing to make their broadband networks faster and more reliable. For example, Verizon is spending $20 billion to $40 billion to roll out fiber-optic lines to homes over the next 10 or so years. Meanwhile, the cellular carriers have spent comparable amounts on so-called 3rd Generation networks that are supposed to let subscribers watch “real-time” TV on their phones, among other things. WiMAX won’t necessarily make these investments redundant, but it could provide enough competition to make it hard for the carriers to recoup the billions spent.

DEFENSIVE MOVES
So is no one standing in McCaw’s way? Well, some of the key players are already making moves that could fend him off. The cellular carriers are working with PC makers to extend their broadband business beyond phones. Business commuters already are snapping up new plug-in modem cards that allow them to get online anywhere. Verizon Wireless and its ilk also have been cutting prices on both the cards and monthly broadband subscriptions.

And in November, Comcast (CMCSA ), Time Warner Cable (TWX ), Cox Communications, and Advance/Newhouse Communications cut a deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S ), the only other company with nationwide WiMAX spectrum. The partnership allows the cable guys to offer cellular phone service, key to competing with the telcos. But they also could resell Sprint Nextel’s WiMAX service or even buy some of its spectrum. “The [Sprint] deal lets cable providers keep their options open as far as wireless goes,” says Charles S. Golvin, an analyst for Forrester Research Inc. (FORR )

Then again, Clearwire is already forging strategic partnerships of its own. AOL, for example, resells the company’s WiMax service. Meanwhile, satellite provider DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV ) has expressed interest in WiMAX as a way to compete with the cable companies and telcos. And despite Sprint-Nextel’s deal with the cable guys, it would be premature to rule out a partnership between that company and Clearwire. Neither can offer complete national coverage, so they might be forced into some kind of a roaming WiMAX agreement.

With his enviable track record, vast spectrum holdings, and now huge war chest, McCaw’s Second Act is already well under way.

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News Corp. targets the WiMAX ZONE

News Corp. and its majority-owned DirecTV business are reportedly embarking on an ambitious plan to set up a nationwide WiMAX network in the U.S. through strategic partners.

Craig McCaw's Clearwire wireless broadband company that recently raked in $900 million from Intel and Motorola to deploy WiMAX nationwide maybe in the spotlight. Sources say News Corp. and DirecTV are in advanced talks with Clearwire for a project that could take at least two years and $2 billion to provide News Corp. and DirecTV with a valuable wireless interactive broadband loop the companies can use to sell content, goods, advertising and services directly to consumers.

Talk about a significantly better business case for WiMAX and for Clearwire, which is positioning itself as just another broadband service provider. With its valuable MySpace property, News Corp. has been rumored for some time to be interested in WiMAX, with some thinking it might build its own network or bid in the upcoming advanced wireless services auction.

It is the powerful, anywhere-anytime wireless connection that News Corp. aims to maintain with the core younger consumers of MySpace and its TV channels. In the process, News and DirecTV could leap ahead of many broadband distributors.

Having its own interactive pathway to consumers in the U.S. would put News Corp. in an elite class of major content providers that also own their own broadband platform that now includes only Time Warner, which boasts the Time Warner Cable pipes and a wealth of production, distribution and archive assets.

WiMax, which is short for World Interoperability for Microwave Access, also promises to provide more security and speed. McCaw, a cellular pioneer who sold his former company to AT&T a decade ago, has looked to Intel and Motorola to more than doubled the financial resources he planned to raised from going public with Clearwire, which he launched in 2003. That nearly $1 billion in funding is enough to deploy WiMax in several U.S. cities. Clearwire already provides WiMax service to several hundred cities in the U.S., Mexico, Ireland, Belgium and Denmark.

1,000 Order-Pulling Words and Phrases!

Do you have the right "proven" order pullers in your ads! These words create excitement, Curiosity, Motivation, and above all Action!

Here are the top 20 order pullers:

1. ACT TODAY!

2. AT YOUR REQUEST

3. ADDED VALUE

4. ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION

5. ANALYSIS

6. AUTOMOTIVE DISCOUNTS

7. AS SEEN ON TV

8. APPROVED BY MAJOR COMPANIES

9. A MUST!

10. A CHILD COULD DO IT

11. ASTOUNDED

12. ANYONE CAN DO THIS

13. A WINNING OFFER

14. AT YOUR OWN PACE

15. APPROVED

16. AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

17. AUTOMATIC

18. ANYTIME

19. ANYWHERE

20. ABSOLUTE

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Million Dollar Home Page, 500 Words, 400 Phrases

In 2005 a university student in the UK took the marketing world by storm when he came up with an idea to pay for his university fees. By the beginning of 2006, Alex Tew had sold all 1 million pixels on his Million Dollar Homepage and with it had earned himself over $1 million. Not only that but the page itself was so popular that the people paying for advertising space on there, more than made their money back.

Move forward a little and a few sites took the concept one stage further and in order to make the concept more search engine friendly, they sold words instead of pixels. Sites such as 500Words sold words which could be made to stand out by applying different colors and sizes.

Now, the concept has gone to the next level. The 400 Phrases site allows people looking for a new marketing edge to buy up to three words as a phrase. You can still make your phrase stand out from others with colors etc, but now you can also have a phrase that better describes your site and what it is about.

People wanting to grab their phrase though, should act quickly. The site is limited to 400 phrases and they cost only $159 each. In fact the first 50 phrases are going for only $59 so if you are really quick you could grab yourself a bargain!

LIVE multimedia experience on the SPOT!

SPOTxde Live is a real-time multimedia content adaptation engine that addresses the barriers to the seamless real-time delivery of mobile rich-media data services.

For mobile network operators and content service providers, real-time multimedia applications such as audio and video streaming, video telephony, video mail, video conferencing, video ringback tone, mobile TV, etc. offer attractive new market opportunities.

Media server vendors and video application developers are on the other end, looking for a real-time transcoding engine that can be easily integrated as a building block into their video gateway or multimedia resource function processor (MRFP). No matter which end they’re on, their revenue will be positively impacted by the real-time throughput, low latency, speed, exibility, scalability, compatibility, and effectiveness of a realtime content adaptation engine that delivers what increasing numbers of subscribers are demanding.

PERSON TO PERSON (P2P)

• Video telephony: Enables mobile subscribers to
instantly add video to their phone calls – across
different networks and to any handset

• Video mail: Enables voice mail with video capabilities

• Video conferencing: Allows multi-user wireless
video conferencing on mobile phones and landline
video phones

• Video ringback: Video content that incoming
callers see while they wait for their calls to be
answered

• Push To Talk/Share: Allows users to call people or
exchange media by pressing just a single button
on their handset

APPLICATION TO PERSON (A2P)

• Mobile radio: Listen to you favorite radio channel
in real-time on your mobile handset

• Broadcast news, weather reports: Watch
real-time streamed special news reports, weather
warning alerts, etc.

• Live TV: Watch your favorite TV program in realtime
on your mobile handset

One Red Paperclip for a House!

Kyle MacDonald traded one red paperclip for a house. He started with one red paperclip on July 12 2005 and 14 trades later, on July 12, 2006 he traded with the Town of Kipling Saskatchewan for a house located at 503 Main Street.

Million Dollar Home Page with a Twist Offline

The million dollar homepage has resulted in an amazing offline idea.

The Sandberg Institute in The Netherlands have added a twist and taken the whole idea offline and they call it Artvertising.

Make it, Post it, Profit with eefoof.com

Could eefoof.com be the new competition to YouTube.com

When you upload a piece of media for submission to eefoof, your first hit immediately starts generating income. Each month, we measure the amount of individual page views for each item you submit, and then calculate the percentage of hits it accounted for its media type. We then use this number to figure out your share of the sites ad revenue. Once your account exceeds $25, we will send you a Paypal transfer to the email specified at account creation.

So for example, if you uploaded FUNNY.JPG, and were to calculate last month's earnings:

eefoof image hits for the month:	10,000
FUNNY.JPG hits for the month:	100
eefoof image ad revenue:	$1,000
FUNNY.JPG revenue earned:	$10.00
eefoof's expenses	$5.00
FUNNY.JPG earned you:	$5.00

iPee, iPoo, iPod

With the New iCarta from Atech Flash Technology (available July 21, 2006) you can Enhance your Experience in the Washroom with your favorite music from your iPod.

Features:

• 4 Integrated high performance moisture-free speakers deliver exceptional
clarity and high quality sound
• Charges your iPod while playing music
• Audio selector allows you to play iPod shuffle or other Audio device
• Integrated Bath tissue holder that can be easily folded as a stereo dock
• Requires AC Power (AC Adapter included)
• Easy to remove from Wall Mount

Specifications:

Dimension (W x H x D):
8.25in x 3.68in x 7.12in
210mm x 93mm x 181mm

Power Requirements:
12V, 1.5A AC adapter

Speakers:
2 x tweeters for highs
2 x woofers for lows

Made For iPod:

Compatible with all iPod with dock connectors.

SearchforVideo.com to Launch Video Podcast Directory

FUSA Capital Corporation (OTCBB:FSAC), parent company of SearchforMedia Network and a leading innovator of video and audio search engine technologies, today announced the addition of a video podcast directory to SearchforVideo.com beginning Wednesday, July 12, 2006.

The popular video discovery and sharing site will now offer users an easier way to find video podcast content from among the site's thousands of sources.

Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke

Viral marketing videos are becoming big business, here is one which literally took off. The idea is that if you put a mentos candy into a bottle of coke it explodes the coke out of the bottle so these guys took it to the next level!

The Swords are Drawn, RAZR vs KATANA

Sanyo's 6600 Katana arrives this summer via Sprint, RadioShack and BestBuy.



The Katana flip phone has a basic VGA camera, QVGA display and bluetooth.



It comes in black, blue, pink and white.