Seakeeper, Marine Group Boat Works stabilize Green Navy RTSC
| August 30, 2010
Capable of running completely on biofuel and using 100% shore power, the new 114' US Navy Range Training Support Craft (RTSC-110) is one of the most environmentally-friendly US military vessels ever launched. Proudly built by Marine Group Boat Works, the RTSC-110's technological advances include six internal Seakeeper M7000 Gyro Stabilization Systems for crew safety and comfort. This is the first of a three-boat contract.(more)
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Google's Android to Run on Bug Labs Devices
| February 15, 2010
Google Inc.’s Android open-source operating system will run on Bug Labs Inc. devices, expanding its hardware lineup and developer community beyond mobile phones and netbooks.(more)
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Traffiq Gets Heavy With Targeting Tools
| February 3, 2010
Change is afoot at Traffiq. On the heels of some operational restructuring, the online ad marketplace is debuting a new suite of planning and buying tools. Using what it calls an "attribute matching engine," the company is providing a range of ad targeting options, including contextual, behavioral, re-targeting, geotargeting and user-registration data.(more)
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P&G, Gatorade, Ford, Ace Hardware run mobile ads on MetroPCS
| November 19, 2009
Advertisers such as Procter & Gamble, Gatorade, Ford Motor Co. and Ace Hardware are running on-deck idle-screen advertising with carrier MetroPCS and Mobile Posse's MobiCRM platform.(more)
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Jitterbug, operationally profitable, jumps onto Verizon's network
| August 26, 2009
Jitterbug, the MVNO that makes phones for the elderly, announced it will use Verizon Wireless' network as part of the carrier's open development program. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.(more)
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Assemble Your Own Gadgets at Bug Labs
| August 25, 2009
If you ever tried to make a camera phone by taping a camera to a phone then I’ve found your soulmate. Bug Labs is an innovative New York based company that sells modular hardware. They are the Lego of gadgets. Using a base and specialized modules, customers can build almost any high tech device they desire. Want a camera triggered off a motion sensor? Easily done. Want that same camera to sound an alarm and project a warning video on a wall? Just add some more modules. It’s all open source and it’s set to transform users into innovators.(more)
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Accenture Goes the Tailor-Made Route (Bug Labs)
| August 24, 2009
Creating IT hardware on your own can be real chore. All that time and money spent researching and prototyping, and there's no guarantee it will do the job. But what if getting a custom-built device were as easy as making pizza? Start with a crust of a base module to run an operating system. Add a few toppings—a GPS unit, an accelerometer, a motion detector, or a 3G connection—and you've got just what your company needs.(more)
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Havas Digital Taps Traffiq For Media Buying
| July 21, 2009
Havas Digital has partnered with online ad marketplace Traffiq to help automate online media planning and buying in the agency's offices in New York, Boston and Chicago. The Traffiq platform is intended to provide Havas with a single system for handling everything from planning and RFP distribution to order execution, optimization and billing.(more)
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The Value of Traffiq
| June 11, 2009
The commitment-free flexibility and semi-automated convenience of Traffiq is sure to appeal to smaller agencies in particular -- those that are always on the lookout for ways to stretch the breadth of their limited resources. The current economic climate might work in the company's favor, though, as larger, more established agencies find themselves doing the same. Either way, Traffiq will continue to amass partners and will be ready and waiting for you the day you find yourself wishing your job was just a little bit easier.(more)
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Bug Labs Having Surprising Success In Enterprise
| April 22, 2009
When open-source mobile gadget startup Bug Labs launched in 2007, it was hoping to first serve the gadget-hacker community, who wanted to build their own mobile software and hardware. Instead, the company is finding surprising success in the enterprise, Bug Labs founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack tells us.(more)
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The First Lady of Wireless Built Mobile Startup to Send Message of Simplicity
| March 13, 2009
Harris and GreatCall CEO David Inns say Jitterbug is meant to make the cell phone experience available to everybody, and not just seniors. “We see the market divided to those who are interested in technology, and to those who are interested in lifestyle. We don’t see there’s difference between age groups,” Inns tells me(more)
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Seakeeper Gyro Stabilisation System Available Globally
| January 28, 2009
Since its commercial launch in late 2007, yacht builders and owners worldwide have been clamoring for the proven Seakeeper Gyro Stabilization System. Now that Seakeeper's state-of-the-art manufacturing center is online and the exclusivity agreement with Azimut Yachts has ended, they can have it. Seakeeper, the leader in internal stabilization technology, has already shipped more than 130 of these innovative units in the past year and expects to more than triple that number in 2009.(more)
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BugLabs and Open-Source Hardware Innovation
| January 20, 2009
Semmelhack is the Founder and CEO of Bug Labs, a group focused on “bottom-up, community based innovation” in the hardware market. His talk, “The Long Tail of Gadgets”, focuses on how open source hardware is enabling this bottom-up innovation. Semmelhack’s vision for hardware is that we’ll move away from a small number of companies building gadgets with markets of millions, to millions of innovators creating devices for the few.(more)
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Best Ad Exchanges Reviewed
| January 5, 2009
When ad networks alone are not enough to sell all of your ad inventory, ad exchanges step in to help you maximize the money you make. Put simply, ad exchanges work on the same idea as stock markets. They allow buyers to bid on your inventory, and the demand for your inventory determines the price at which you can sell it.(more)
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Imagine Raises The Bandwidth Bar (Light Reading)
| January 14, 2008
The customer is always right. That business axiom appeared to be in play Monday when Imagine Communications introduced a digital video processing platform designed to cram 50 percent more MPEG-2-based broadcast channels into a slice of 6 MHz cable spectrum.(more)
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Giving Riches to the Niches (Blog)
| November 1, 2007
Monetizing online video and user-generated content are hot topics in the digital world, and this week major media players are taking their “show me the money” tactics to a whole new level. Now, companies such as Voxant.com are working to integrate this relatively untapped market into the growing sphere of online news content and ad revenue.(more)
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A Wider Web to Find Their Niche (WSJ - Subscription Required)
| October 30, 2007
Donklephant gets both the news items and the ads from a closely held company called Voxant, which is one of the bigger players in an important segment: the business of helping both news organizations and big Web advertisers gain a presence on small sites that are influential among niche audiences.(more)
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Traffiq Launches New Ad Exchange (Red Herring)
| September 24, 2007
Founded just over a year ago, New York-based Traffiq this month launched its own ad exchange, which has a number of features it hopes will differentiate it from the competition, such as an auction system viewable by the public, a rating system, and a revenue share model that does not charge sellers of ads.(more)
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Brand advertisers get their day (Jupiter Research)
| September 12, 2007
If many good publishers choose to offer their inventory on TRAFFIQ, it could improve the lives of media planners everywhere.(more)
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A Star Is Born: Traffiq Launches (Adotas)
| August 21, 2007
TRAFFIQ's patented transaction model allows publishers to increase the amounts of sold inventory - at fair market value, also allowing publishers to segment, bundle and sell blocks of inventory, days, weeks and months in advance, and at known prices.(more)
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Selling Yourself (Billboard)
| August 4, 2007
Leading the charge is Snocap. The company's MyStore service enables artists to sell tracks from their MySpace pages, and the new Spread the Word feature allows fans to copy the store to their own blog sites, Web pages and virtually any other Internet presence.(more)
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On the Web, EMI to Offer More Choices (NY Times)
| June 29, 2007
EMI Music and Snocap are to announce today that Snocap will sell the label’s music in its MyStores, online shops that can be added to various sites on the Internet. Snocap’s MyStores would be placed on the Web sites of EMI artists like Korn, Suzanne Vega and Yellowcard, as well as on artists’ MySpace pages.(more)
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imeem Taps SNOCAP for Song ID, Revenue-Sharing (Digital Media Wire)
| March 8, 2007
Online social network Imeem announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Snocap, the digital music registry and content identification firm, to provide content identification services, and allow record labels and artists to promote themselves and earn ad revenue from songs they stream on Imeem.(more)
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Snocap to Sell Music on MySpace (SF Chronicle)
| September 2, 2006
Snocap, the digital music company co-founded by Shawn Fanning of Napster fame, is introducing a service to let bands sign up and sell their music directly on their MySpace page.(more)
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