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Death to the Sat Nav

08.17.09 Posted in News by

As Mashable reports: http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/tomtom-iphone-2/, Tom Tom is now available for the iPhone in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, US & Canada and Western Europe.

The is the start of the death knell for dedicated Sat Nav units (aside from possibly those built into cars). Much as the iPhone has integrated music and mobile phones, this app (coming to Android soon, and Nokia already has one) is the first step towards all phones having Sat Nav functionality as standard.

The next, extremely exciting development, will be the integration of Google Streetview into Sat Nav technology – so the maps you are looking at reflect what you are actually looking at (or something). Then from there, Streetview directions beamed onto your windscreen so you have a map/directions overlaid onto your actual view. It’s the future.


Japan’s Economy Leaves Recession

08.17.09 Posted in News by

Japan follows Germany, France, an Hong Kong out of recession… hopefully the UK will be next! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8204075.stm


Facebook Bans Commercialism

08.13.09 Posted in News by

An interesting story that has not recieved the level of exposure that is perhaps merits – Facebook has banned the commercial use of their status update facility, as reported by Mashable, amongst others. This is an interesting move from the Internet behemoth – Twitter is currently a haven for commercial enterprise, and it’s clear Facebook [...]


Google is Top Brand again

08.10.09 Posted in News by

Millward Brown Optimor’s BrandZ Top 100 has been released, and ranks Google the top brand for the third year in a row. The brand value is now estimated at $100 billion, an increase of 16%. The Top 10: Google Microsoft Coca-Cola IBM McDonald’s Apple China Mobile General Electric Vodafone Marlboro Read the full article from [...]


Inochi Ventures – A Reminder

08.05.09 Posted in News by

Inochi Ventures are looking for entrepreneurial people and businesses to invest in, partner, and grow. We are a privately financed investment fund, and in addition to monetary input can provide marketing services, mentoring, office space, and HR, accounting and administrative support. You can contact us at http://inochiventures.com/contact – please include as much information as you [...]


In-Game Advertising – The Future?

08.04.09 Posted in News by

Not if it is done like this. Increasing loading times will only annoy and alienate gamers (as Wipeout have proved). For advertisers to successfully integrate ads into video games they need to be immersive, part of the gaming experience – a level in a shoot em up where you fight in an actual McDonald’s for [...]


Barclays Profits up to nearly $3bn

08.03.09 Posted in News by

Barclays has announced an 8% rise in first-half profits, boosted by its investment banking division. Astonishing that those generally agreed to be at fault for the whole credit crunch are the ones seemingly recovering quickest, while the blameless ‘small man’ has been the one to bear the brunt.


Yahoo and Microsoft finally sign on the dotted line

07.29.09 Posted in News by

Yahoo and Microsoft signed a landmark deal today, a 10 year agreement to provide cross-beneficial search services. In a nutshell, Microsoft will provide Yahoo’s search platform (via Bing) while Yahoo will sell advertising for Microsoft. The cold, hard facts of the deal are: 10 year deal Microsoft’s Bing will now power Yahoo search Yahoo will [...]


BBC agrees online video deal with four national newspapers

07.28.09 Posted in News by

Read the story from MediaWeek here.


How Twitter plans to make $140m…

07.17.09 Posted in News by

Twitter is planning to roll out a five-pronged commercial strategy aimed at helping it generate $140 million in revenue by 2010 and $1.5 billion in sales by 2013. Read here for just how they plan to do that…