Past Five Days of Today's Links
Monday October 31, 2005
Useit.Com: Incompetent Email Marketing = Lost Future Opportunities.
The airline knows all its users' addresses and the airport(s) they usually fly out of. It's therefore a trivial programming exercise to send each recipient a personalized message listing trips they might actually want to take.
PC World: Samsung Expands LCD Manufacturing.
The new factory is situated in Tangjung, South Korea, alongside a similar factory that began operating in April this year that is owned by S-LCD, a joint venture company of Samsung and Sony. Like the S-LCD line, the new factory will produce 40-inch and 46-inch LCD panels for television sets...
Friday October 28, 2005
Schneier on Security: Preventing Identity Theft: The Living and the Dead.
A company called Metacharge has rolled out an e-commerce security service in the United Kingdom. For about $2 per name, website operators can verify their customers against the UK Electoral Roll, the British Telecom directory, and a mortality database.
Thursday October 27, 2005
Technology Review: ROKR is for SUKRs.
It seems that many people who purchased ROKR phones -- which come with a mobile version of Apple's groundbreaking iTunes Music Store -- feel dissatisfied. According to research by Albert Lin, an analyst with American Technology Research, people are returning their ROKR phones at a rate "six times" the average for returns.
Wednesday October 26, 2005
InfoWorld: Re-engineering life interruptions.
Jon Udell. People are the exception handlers in all automated workflows, and intelligence and judgment won’t be automated anytime soon. What does worry me, though, is how we’ll connect people and services.
Tuesday October 25, 2005
WIRED: Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone.
Motorola and other companies have been selling phones that play music in Europe and Asia for a couple of years now - handsets with lots of memory and serious audio capabilities. And with the iPod, Apple showed how to turn an ordinary MP3 player into a great one. Put it all together and you get - the ROKR? How does a great idea get this botched?
PC World: Canon Readies Wi-Fi Camera.
The Ixy Digital Wireless is Canon's first camera with built-in Wi-Fi and will offer users the ability to automatically transfer pictures to a personal computer via the wireless link as the pictures are taken. It will also be possible to remotely control the camera from the PC.
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