SONOPIA offers me, my and I customization to a new level. Start your own cell phone company front end. That’s right – Put your own logo on the front of the cell phone. Get a little kiosk and for your front lawn – instead of lemonade, have your kids sell YOUR BRANDED cell service. Really [...]

So, after seven months of waiting I finally receive my debut copy of one of the most delayed and heavily invested in magazine launches in decades. First off, the Conde Nast sales folks did a bang up job of cross selling into the property. There are quite a few fashion advertisers within Portfolio’s pages. However, [...]

Sure that ZINK inkless printing is nice – if those guys aren’t beaten to death accidentially with HP, Canon & Epson cartridges and left behind the alley of CARTRIDGE WORLD … on a more pleasant note, finally, the internet are like hands that reach across the ocean to pull you out of the doldrums and [...]

Zink announced two new products at Demo ’07 and to me it seems like Polaroid technology repackaged. Zink = zero ink. Turns out that is essentially correct. From their web site: “In October of 2005, current ZINK management, in conjunction with private investors, purchased from Polaroid Corporation the technology and physical assets and hired the [...]

Or any phone call. Of course, be sure and tell the other person you are recording them – it’s illegal in most states to record a phone call without telling the other person. For those unaware, Skype is a brilliant piece of software allowing you to make any voice calls to any other Skype user [...]

In no particular order, my top three picks: 1. Where Eagles Dare by Alistair Mclean. This is one of the best action/suspense films ever imo. The film came out just one year after the books release due to the author writing the screenplay as well as the book. The first time you watch you find [...]

Sorry – busy all day in meetings but this should make up for it. Yea, there are some nice widget clocks but this beats them ALL. Yugo Nakamura’s MonoCraft 3.0 “Hand Clock.“

So the makers of Jolt cola – you might remember it’s tagline “All the sugar, twice the caffeine” – have repackaged the old school drink and hope to snag the masses. It ain’t kiddin’ about its tagline either. Jolt has more than twice the caffeine as Mountain Dew which gives me a headache. The energy [...]

According to the WSJ, Coca-Cola has finally had a successful line extension launch in many years – well 20 years to be exact (Diet Coke was launched 20 years ago). They have sold 100 million case units in the last 18 months. The last few times I tried to buy a 12-pack, most stores were [...]

In the longest gestation for any magazine – PORTFOLIO was announced sometime last summer is just about ready to hit the mailboxes and kiosks. According to the NY Times, it’s a $120 million dollar launch with 185 ad pages (out of 332 pages). Both pretty impressive in any economy but doubly impressive in this economy [...]