Luxury Electronics: The Pocket LOOX N100 is a personal navigational system that works for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. It is smaller than a wallet and fits conveniently inside any pocket. It can be positioned on a car’s dashboard in seconds, and removed just as quickly. There is lot packed into this 64-megabyte monster. The heavy-duty handheld personal navigation device weighs only 3.9 ounces. It has a 2.8-inch screen and measures out at 3.4 by 2 inches. It is just a tad over one-half of an inch thick. Aside from being the smallest and lightest personal navigational device on the market, it also is an MP3 player, a video player, and a photo viewer.
The Pocket LOOX N100 features touch-screen guidance, 2-D and 3-D map views, intuitive menus, clear-voice guidance, lane directions, and automatic speed warnings. Searches can be done by city or address. Point-of-interest or categorical searches such as restaurants, hotels, shopping venues, and sightseeing destinations also are easy to activate.
The unit also comes with car mounts, a car charger, a lithium-ion battery, two faceplates, a pair of headphones, a mini SD card, and a USB cable. Its battery is fully rechargeable in four hours when not in use. Battery operating time depends on scope of features in use. An AC adapter is available too. It is out-of-the-box ready and simple to operate.
The Pocket LOOX N100 is made by Fujitsu Siemens and powered by Navigon’s MobileNavigator software. Navigon is the overseer of distribution in the U.S. and Canada. The Navigon 5100 and the Navigon 7100 are new navigational products that will available soon. Check the company’s Web site for more details.
The Enano E2 is a tiny, silent PC with a footprint, and a carbon footprint, that makes most standard-size PCs look like S.U.V.’s.
Enano says that thanks to their small size and low-power processors, its 6.8-by-8.8-inch computers offer power savings of up to 70 percent when compared with full-size PCs. Enano also promotes the E2’s small size as offering improved efficiency over larger, bulkier PCs and cases. An optional mounting bracket allows the E2 to hang from a flat-screen monitor, removing it from the desktop entirely.
Photobucket has 38 million members, but unless you use MySpace or Facebook, you might not know them. Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick provides a snapshot of the Web’s hottest photo site.
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn’t need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it’s built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day. That’s up from just 50,000 members at the end of 2003.
For some time now, the warm and fuzzy feelings towards Google have dissipated to be replaced by a certain unease. What is Google up to? Google’s entire focus in its business strategy is to ensure that their service enables them to fully track you the internet user so that they are able to provide relevant search results. The companies they are buying up on a daily basis are chosen because their products or services add to this business focus.
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about his company’s approach to personalisation at a conference in the UK this week. Google’s focus on collecting data on the internet user is far more obsessive than one would imagine. It seems that Google would like to be able to predict, for instance, what a user might want to do the next day or what job he/she might wish to take.
These days when most web site owners hear the word “blog”, their ears perk up and dollar signs appear in their eyes. They believe that this is the most important feature for their site and will draw in thousands of new viewers and subscribers to their web pages on a daily basis no matter what kind of content their blog will contain.
I’d like to set the record straight on this myth. Just because you’ve spent 3 hours a day every day last week on writing your blog on the latest celebrity break-ups, you think that soon you’ll be reaping the rewards of a million click-throughs by next month. Wrong! People with celebrity sites that do rank way up in the search engine ranks, such as PerezHilton.com, have been working and tinkering with their sites for years, developing just the right tone and attitude that they need to draw in their vast audience hungering for juicy gossip. They’ve also been on TV shows and radio shows spreading the word about their gossip sites to media celebrities like Howard Stern and Bill O’Reilly. Unless you have the greatest PR team in the world behind you, this is not going to work for you.
By JOHN BIGGS