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Entertainment isn't the only thing being advertised on digital signs. When Lancôme launched its new fragrance, Hypnôse, in France last summer on JCDecaux bus-shelter signs, cell-phone users with Bluetooth could download coupons for a sample. The supply ran out in three days. In the fall, British fashion retailer New Look used Hypertags, small electronic devices embedded in billboard panels that sent digital discount vouchers via infrared and Bluetooth technology to customers to spend immediately at nearby stores. Hypertag counts Procter & Gamble, Ford, Nike and Vodafone as clients. "It tends to be big companies who want...
...sound system. Because a road trip could get pretty boring if you had to keep your radio tuned to your turn-by-turn navigator, Alpine included a rudimentary MP3 player. Take any old SD card (sold separately), fill it with MP3s or WMA files, including protected files you download from Yahoo! and other online stores, pop it into the card slot and the music player inside will find it all and blast it through your FM stations. People who use FM transmitters for their iPods will be sad to hear that there is no iPod jack, or even a simple...
...Blackbird's full talents won't be realized until June, when a major software update will be released. Customers who buy the Blackbird now will be able to download the software for free. Not only will it contain the latest map of the U.S.; it will also activate the real-time traffic receiver built into the product. (Navteq currently tracks traffic in 31 cities, and will most likely charge $60 per year for the service...
...market for a navigation product, the Blackbird certainly holds its own against competition from Garmin, TomTom, Magellan and soon, Sony and Mio. But if you want to get your $750 worth, you had better be ready to upgrade (via Web download or CD-ROM) this summer...
...articles that are available electronically. Centralizing the search for articles is the only way to maximize the cost savings for students. Finally, the College should embrace the future and move ahead with plans to make online coursepacks available this fall. Imagine if Harvard students, like students at Princeton, could download coursepacks as PDF files and print articles as required on their own printers. And the future is not far away. If the College moves quickly to adopt these recommendations, then you should expect to be paying less for coursepacks as soon as next year. That means there will be more...