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...functioning as a free and highly efficient promotional machine. "We want to flood the market with live recordings," Clark says, in the hope that more people will pay to see the live shows. The albums are recorded at concerts, for which Pulay Music has devised a site-specific recording unit. No need for studio time, so its expenses are minimal. The pirates pay for the rest. China's music pirates aren't going away any time soon, so in the meantime Pulay's play is to use them...
...Irvine Research Expedition (they are searching for further evidence of exploits of the men in tweed), take along laptops, satellite phones and solar-power generators. And a technology specialist: it's his job to handle video and stills editing and encoding with a Panasonic Toughbook (a bomb-resistant little unit with a waterproof keyboard, a magnesium-alloy case and a shock-mounted hard drive). When that's done, he transmits the content via the group's satellite phones to the website team in Seattle that posts it on the site. Going live would be possible, but with the time difference...
...Mont Blanc to develop variants of the Chatpen, with papermakers like 3M (of Post-it fame) and Esselte, and with mobile network operators like Vodaphone. The initial Anoto-enabled pens, manufactured by Ericsson and Motorola, should be on the market this fall when the first network operator, the Swedish unit of Vodaphone, offers the service to subscribers. By that time, digital paper will be available in notepads, organizers and Post-it notes...
...write the merger off completely. United is a savvy airline that can adapt (the last bit of evidence being the formation of a business jet unit aimed at its most valuable passengers). And United's executives have no doubt closely read the decision last month by a federal judge that threw out the first-ever Department of Justice suit against a major airline for predatory practices - against United rival American Airlines for unfairly driving competitors out of business...
...Unabashed TiVo evangelism aside, it is a source of constant surprise to me that the company is not actually doing as well as the press releases suggest. Less than 400,000 units have been sold over the last four years. It's a nice figure, but nowhere near the amount projected or the amount needed to crack the 21 million-unit cable-box market, which is prime TiVo territory...