 Starcom Systems makes one of the most advanced tracking systems in the world – with applications for cars, merchandise, and even people. Using a combination of almost all communication protocols out there today, Starcom users can rest easy, knowing that their property or family members will get where they have to go safely.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is an icon on a cellphone that saves you the trouble of having to tap out words on tiny keyboards worth? For kids who are looking to express themselves creatively, as well as adults who want to save time and effort sending SMS messages, those icons are priceless; and as a result, Israeli startup Zlango’s SMS icon service has captured the imagination – and loyalty – of users in Europe, the Carribean – and now the Far East.  Who says the day of the dot com millionaire is past? Penina First just won a $250,000 prize package in cash and services for coming up with the most innovative web startup idea this year – Day-Job, a service that will allow people who are looking for short-term help to connect with a large workforce of temps who need some quick cash, but don’t want to make long-term job commitments.  Ebiz mobility has developed a payment clearing system that enables merchants to feel secure that they will get paid, without having to pay expensive premiums to billing service providers; it enables sites or cellphone service providers to grab a piece of the business that passes through their network; and it allows hundreds of millions of web surfers who would otherwise be locked out of internet commerce the opportunity to purchase digital contents and products.  Cellphone and Internet engineers have been facing a major dilemma in recent years – reminiscent of another dilemma faced in an earlier era by peanut butter and chocolate engineers: How can two totally different user experiences be integrated successfully, enabling both to perform at the best of their ability? Peanut butter cups – that delicious melding of two completely different but oh-so-satisfying tastes – merged together to make a luscious new creation greater than the sum of its parts. They are an apt metaphor for the challenges faced by cellphone and Internet engineers when it comes to displaying “real” Web pages [...]  If you can watch content for free on TV, and listen to content for free on the radio, why can’t you talk content for free on the phone? For some reason, we were raised to believe that phone calls were “expensive,” because of those monthly we get from the phone company, but that TV shows and music were “cheap,” because we got them for free. Of course, actors and singers don’t work for nothing; TV and radio exist because they sell advertising to offset the costs, enabling us consumers to get the content we want to see and hear for [...]  If you run say, a public utility like the gas company with gas valves all over town, how do you keep track of them? Get a lot of eyes, that’s how! And indeed, not too long ago, that’s the way managers responsible for large deployments of electronic, computerized, or other devices had to manage security – by sending people into the field to do a “sweep” of the conditions of their equipment. The drawback with such a system is obvious – you have to spend a lot of money paying those eyes, and by the time they get around to checking [...]  Most people who interact with computer technology are forced to slog through complicated instruction sets – in the form of line commands, menus or even, in the case of many new Web sites geared for the cell phone market, verbal instructions. In each case, you have to be very specific in indicating what it is you want the computer to do – or risk getting the equivalent of a “dumb stare,” the type kids are famous for when they don’t feel like doing their chores. It’s like you can hear the computer saying “Huh?” Unless you have a natural talent [...]  In unity, there is power. When the people are one, they present a formidable force, one that realizes benefits for each person to a far greater extent than could have been achieved through individual effort. The people, united, will never be defeated. Yeah, right. Sounds like psychedelic-60’s silliness to our ennui-engulfed 21st century ears. Regardless, though, there’s no doubt about it: There is strength in numbers, and when every member of a group works towards the same goal, powerful forces – more powerful than anyone could have imagined – can be marshaled for the benefit of all. And while getting different-minded people [...]  It’s all about choice and convenience when you go shopping on the internet. Or, it’s supposed to be, at least. That was the theory behind sites like Amazon.com; giving consumers the ability to shop at home, saving them the hassle of going to the store, and giving them the power to make the very best choice possible, with a full array of choices available to them. But like so many other theories, the one behind internet shopping just doesn’t work properly – or rather, perhaps, works a little too well. The convenience part they’ve got down pat: A couple of clicks, [...] |
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