Alan Reiter, the camera phone guy, has some interesting stuff to say about how phone companies are shooting themselves in the foot with dumb commercials that only reinforcing perceptions that camera+phone=public menace. He points to a TV commercial of a girl snapping a guy eating pasta like a slob, and then sending it to the… Read More »
infoSync World reports of new software that allows camera phone users to take a picture of a barcode and then, say, retrieve information about the product: whether it’s cheaper elsewhere, dietary information, or downloading music samples from a poster advertising a new album. The product, ScanZoom, is made by US-based software company Scanbuy. The article… Read More »
Bad news for those of you who hate pop-up ads: A U.S. federal judge has rejected a lawsuit by truck and trailer rental company U-Haul which sought to ban software by Internet advertising company WhenU that launched rival pop-up ads when customers access U-Haul’s Web site, Reuters reports. The judge said the ads don’t… Read More »
It turns out that teens are spending more time online than watching TV, and they may well be doing more than hacking into networks, sending spam and downloading bootleg music files. Go figure. AdAge.com quotes a new survey from Harris Interactive and Teenage Research Unlimited (I can never find anything I want on Harris Interactive,… Read More »