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Mozilla's Firefox, the open source browser that many analysts have deemed the best of the Internet browsers, has now gained more market share than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. IE's market share declined 4.9% in the last 6 months to 90.6%, the lowest in three years. Conversely, Mozilla's Firefox...
A Canadian company intends to bring wireless digital and television advertising to subway cars across North America. The system of 17-inch panels will have the ability to change message according to the subway train's location. The advertising will take up half the space on the screen, the...
Motorola appears to be on something of a roll, the brilliantly designed Razr phone has been an incredible success, so much so, that Razr is set to become a sub-brand for the company. New lines will be rolled out over the course of the year, including an eagerly anticipated iTunes phone that was...
At Influx, we are all for brands taking risks and moving into interesting new territories. Having improved the performance of its consumer electronics division, Best Buy is now looking for future retail opportunities to exploit. One new test venture is EQ-life.The store is basically a health and...
Shaking pictures is not all we should be doing with Polaroid branded products.Polaroid one of the icons of American business has just been sold to an entrepreneur for $426 million. It's likely the new owner will be looking to rapidly pay off the hefty purchase price.The obvious quick-fire strategy...
Flat screen TVs were one of the hottest selling items this Christmas. So there are a lot of CRT sets either looking for new homes or to be trashed. Surely, there's got to be a great opportunity here for a consumer electronics brand or large retailers like Wal-Mart, Circuit City and Best Buy, to...
Korea's Samsung rapidly established itself as a leading player in consumer electronics. It used advertising, sponsorship and significantly, design, as a tool to take the brand to a leadership position. BenQ is another company out of Korea that needs to become a brand fast. It's the company that...
Last week, France's Le Monde became the first major global newspaper to offer its readers the opportunity to create and contribute blogs. It's the first acknowledgement by "big media" that readers are looking to find and share their own voice and want to read content created from a variety of...
For sometime, there's been something of a gap between the technical nature of skateboarding and the sophistication of skate shoes; most skate shoes have incredibly simple designs, they are almost anti-science and technology. With the recent success of Nike in the category, a company who put the...
RFID tags are likely to be entering the mainstream sometime in the next three years, allowing both retailer and producer to understand all kinds of information about the life and times of a particular SKU or product. Now handset makers are looking to make RFID tag data accessible to consumers, via...
Everywhere you turn there seems to be yet another subscription service launching and demanding a monthly fee. Just look at the television; with fees for cable, Netflix, Tivo, online gaming services, and HD services. Then there are personal devices; wireless PDAs and phones with service charges and...
Today is the biggest shopping day of the year and retailers are trying everything to encourage shoppers to buy. One interesting trend is the rise of the retail store as media broadcaster. Increasingly, retailers are adding a layer of media beyond the traditional point of sale to attract shoppers....
The PC no longer captures the excitement it once used to; it's now reached the maturity phase of its lifecycle. A commodity where price is the only selling point and one brand, Dell has successfully positioned itself to own that dimension. The PC has simply been over-taken by cooler, sexier more...
For a long time the new wireless revolution has been a false promise, but recent developments suggest the category is poised to enter the second stage of its evolution. Advances in networks, hardware and software are converging to redefine the idea of mobile communication, to include: information,...
The UK's Easy Group is getting ready to launch a new wireless service and it's not wireless as usual. EasyMobile will function as a virtual company that will only sell SIM cards and airtime that it buys in bulk. It won't give away free phones, has no towers and can pass all the cost savings on to...