Monday, March 10, 2008

Unique Business Idea---Data travels through the user's clothing

Telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is planning a commercial launch of a system to enter rooms that frees users from the trouble of rummaging in their pockets or handbags for ID cards or keys.


It uses technology to turn the surface of the human body itself into a means of data transmission.

As data travels through the user's clothing, handbag or shoes, anyone carrying a special card can unlock the door simply by touching the knob or standing on a particular spot without taking the card out.

"In everyday life, you're always touching things. Even if you are standing, you are stepping on something," research engineer Mitsuru Shinagawa told AFP.

"These simple touches can result in communication," said Shinagawa, senior research engineer at the company's NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories.

He said future applications could include a walk-through ticket gate, a cabinet that opens only to authorised people and a television control that automatically chooses favourite programmes.


The system also improves security. It ensures that only drivers can open their cars by touching the doors if the keys are in their pockets, not people around them.

NTT has already developed technology that allows swapping data as heavy as motion pictures through a handshake, although it has not been put into commercial use.

NTT Electronics Corp., a group company, plans to start sales of the room-entry system in the coming months, probably in the spring, said NTT business creation official Toshiaki Asahi.

It will be the world's first commercial application of human body communication using electric fields, rather than sending electric currents into the human body, according to NTT.

"There is demand for hands-free entry as there are workplaces where you always have your hands occupied or can't touch things for hygiene or medical reasons. In some factories it's simply dangerous to dangle something from your neck," Asahi said.

The price is yet to be announced but will be "a bit pricier" than the conventional IC card system, he said, adding the group expects to start only with a limited market.

Full Text:http://www.physorg.com/news122793751.html

Diferior is a multi-purpose content management system, meaning that it provides all the necessary tools to easily publish and organize your content

What Company Is Offering:
Diferior is a flexible, customizable, both user and developer-friendly open-source, multi-purpose PHP content management system.

How It Works;

Diferior is a multi-purpose content management system, meaning that it provides all the necessary tools to easily publish and organize your content.It is capable of distributing files via BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP protocols, has inbuilt forums, a sophisticated user system and many many more features that each can be tweaked, customized or disabled altogether.
You can run torrent trackers, blogs, forums and other community-based sites with it.

More at:http://diferior.com/

Anonymous Employee---To fill the communication gap that exists in most workplaces

What Company Is Offering:

Anonymous Employee was created to fill the communication gap that exists in most workplaces. They provide employees and employers an opportunity to discuss issues that affect productivity and morale. When issues such as sexual harassment, bullying, or discrimination, affect your workplace, speak out early before the problem grows too large. They are here to help both employer and employee resolve concerns.


How It Works:

They provide you with an opportunity to express yourself without taking the risk you normally would by sticking up your hand and openly raising issues. Let's face it, there is a time and a place for everything. Sometimes the time is now, and the place is an anonymous forum. Often, they know what changes need to be made in order to create a better company and a happier work environment. It is up to you to communicate those needs to your employer.

The mission of Anonymous Employee is to assist and facilitate the discussion and resolution of concerns in the workplace. They provide a method to help reduce fraud, improve health and safety, increase communication, improve morale, increase productivity and lower turnover.

Anonymous Employee can provide your company with a complete Employee Assistance Program including a powerful online communication process, a state of the art call centre solution, professional mediation services, a Sarbanes-Oxley solution, and professional counseling for employees who are seeking assistance. They are dedicated to helping provide you with the resources, services, and information you need to be successful.

More at:http://www.anonymousemployee.com/

Entriq develops and manages Pay Media infrastructure,has acquired DayPort,a company that deals with video publishing, content

What Company Is Offering:
Entriq develops and manages Pay Media infrastructure. Their goal is to provide enabling technology and services that expand the business opportunities for Pay Media. They've been doing that successfully, with their IBS system, for more than 20 years in broadcast, cable, and satellite. Now theye're doing it for broadband, Internet TV, and mobile.

How It Works:
MediaSphere from Entriq is the only all-in-one pay media solution that makes turning your content into cash as simple as DragDropSell™. Whether you have movie, music, or sports content you want to sell, we have the technology to securely deliver it to your platform of choice—broadband, mobile, and Internet TV. And we promise you won't lose control of your content in the process.

MediaSphere is the most comprehensive feature-rich pay media solution in the industry. Hands down. We have the proven technology to get your content to market. Fast. And we have the most pay media and video experience in the field. 20 years and counting. That means no more hassling with multiple vendors. No more hidden costs. And no more headaches. Just one solution to help you profit from your media.

MediaSphere can deliver it to the right channel, at the right time. Best of all, they provide an all-in-one solution that covers every aspect of pay media—from content management and security to commerce and tracking. Which means all you have to do is think about the profits.

Recent Updates:

Entriq has acquired DayPort,a company that deals with video publishing, content, work-flow and syndication solutions, for an undisclosed amount. Cory Factor, CEO of DayPort, will be joining Entriq as the company’s new CTO.
More at:
http://www.entriq.com/

Yaplet adds a chat room to every site on the internet

What Company Is Offering:
Yaplet adds a chat room to every site on the internet.

Yaplet requires no installation and no registration.

With the click of a bookmark, you can chat directly with other people viewing the same page as you.


How It Works:

Click on that user's name.
Type your message.
Press ENTER.
When you're done sending private messages, uncheck the Send private message box.

How It Will Be Helpful:

Yaplet can be used to:

Chat with friends, Make new friends ,Build new communities, Find dates Collaborate on group work. Telepresent ,Provide customer service ,Offer real-time support,Educate over distance ,Play games ,Read/write reviews
and more...

More at:http://www.yaplet.com/

EDGEWEBTV.COM --The Global Real Estate Marketplace

What Company Is Offering:
EDGEWEBTV.COM ,(The Global Real Estate Marketplace). Set in a truly innovative and interactive environment, and through the use of HD-digital quality video presentations, this revolutionary multimedia site has been designed to showcase affluent real estate developments on a global level and capture audiences from around the world.

What Company Says:


“We created EDGE WebTV so we could offer our clients a new international online marketing vehicle that presents a unique opportunity to portray their picturesque virtual presentations globally, says Scott Allcock, President of EDGE Media Group. Now we directly connect an array of spectacular real estate developments with worldwide audiences and international brokers and investors through the use of HD-digital quality video presentations. By making these essential connections, we are instilling valuable emotional connections along with an in-depth look inside various developments with our viewers long before they arrive at our clients sales centers.”

More at:http://www.edgewebtv.com/

E-Lawyer.com allows attorneys to post articles, qualifications, photos and other important information to their given website

What Company Is Offering:
Conceived as a unique legal directory serving attorneys and their clients, E-Lawyer continually strives to assist attorneys in the business and practice of law.

How It Works:
The free website offered by E-Lawyer.com allows attorneys to post articles, qualifications, photos and other important information to their given website. “We set no limit to the amount of material our members can post. The more useful and meaningful content our attorneys post, the more the public will benefit.” Larsen says. “Attorneys don’t need to use web programmers to create and change their sites. Our interface is so easy to use, anyone, even an attorney, can figure it out.”

Recent Updates:

E-Lawyer.com announces the launch of a landmark package of web services offering attorneys a free and fully functional ad-free website featuring a free “Ask Attorneys” interface, directing potential client inquiries to participating attorneys by state and practice area.

More at:
E-Lawyer Technology Resources
Louis Larsen
772 283 8496
llarsen@e-lawyer.com
www.e-lawyer.com

Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc., a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential markets

What Company Is Offering:

TechSectorStocks.com, an investor and industry news portal within the InvestorIdeas.com® content umbrella, does not make recommendations, but offers free investor content including research, news, articles, links, Podcasts and a stock directory for the Tech sector.

Recent Updates:
TechSectorStocks.com, a Technology Stocks Investor Portal within Investorideas.com, announces new technology showcase company, Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc., a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential markets. The computer service market is growing globally, with both home and office user trends indicating no signs of this growth slowing down.

With the advent of new technologies for personal computers ranging from social networking to online shopping, users are more and more dependent on their PC to live their daily lives. If their computer has a problem, service that is on-site, affordable and results in minimal disruption is critical.

For business users, distributed workforces and remote access is a growing trend that has resulted from urban growth, compounded by environmental and commuting cost issues. According to a 2007 Gartner report, "The worldwide corporate teleworking population of individuals that spend at least one day a month teleworking from home is expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3 percent between 2007 and 2011."


About Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc.:
Geeks On Call America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc. Through its trade names 1-800-905-GEEK and Geeks On Call, the company is a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential customers. More Info: Visit the Company Showcase on Investorideas.com or the Company Website.

More at:
TechSectorStocks.com
Dawn Van Zant
800-665-0411
dvanzant@investorideas.com
www.techsectorstocks.com

AmericanTowns.com--Unique “community webspace” for each town in America

What Company Is Offering:
AmericanTowns is a national network of community-based websites where residents can find and share local information. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a “community webspace” that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, local resources and special tools for organizations. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses and strengthening the bonds of our nation's communities, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens.

Recent Updates:
AmericanTowns.com raised the bar in the hyperlocal space by launching a new version of AmericanTowns.com. This version, which features a new and unique “community webspace” for each town in America, lets local residents find and share an unprecedented combination of local information: community events, local news, train schedules, charitable organizations, local videos, farmers’ markets, jobs, real estate, privacy protection, “sales and savings,” local services and a host of online and previously offline community resources.

Each “community webspace” is accessible at AmericanTowns.com and features new content, new partners, a new user interface and a new technology framework - all built on AmericanTowns’ established strength in community events and other hyper-local information.

More at:
AmericanTowns.com
Caroline Langley
212-481-2826
cl@leachcommunications.com
www.americantowns.com

Shoetube.tv will be the destination on the web where women will gather to share their passion for shoes

What Company Is Offering:

Shoetube is produced by Powderhouse Productions, their television production (and now new media) company.Shoetube.tv will be the destination on the web where women will gather to share their passion for shoes.

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The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why

What Company Is Offering:
The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.

How It Works:

steps
1. insert a web page's url above and click the button.

2. select text with your mouse on the following page.

3. click the highlight selected text button.

4. copy the small url in an email, forum or blog.

More at: http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/

Testseek’s main purpose is to inform consumers about the quality and performance of products

What Company Is Offering:
Testseek’s main purpose is to inform consumers about the quality and performance of products. Testseek.com is also a gathering place for all kinds of product information that is relevant to consumers. Their vision is to create the ultimate online purchase decision machine.
Testseek.com is actually today the world’s most complete database for expert reviews of consumer related products.

How It works:

They aggregate expert reviews from more than a thousand high quality content web sites. Through their partnerships they also list review information from physical magazines. Their main focus has always been and will always be expert reviews. An unbiased expert review is always preferable next to an user review. There are several reasons for this:
-First, an "expert reviewer" always has greater knowledge and wider experience dealing with products within the field of his expertise. An expert reviewer in the area of digital cameras has often reviewed hundreds of cameras, while a normal consumer only have tested one ore two in detail. Who would you rather listen to?
-Second, we have noticed that regular users often rate products in strange ways. For instance; the submitted rate is often 0/10 or 10/10, i.e. the product either "sucks" or "rules". As an example, we find that users often give a product the rate 0/10 if they received a DOA (Dead On Arrival) product. This is skew because it is very possible that the product is in fact great and the consumer just had a case of bad luck.
User reviews
User reviews give you a picture of the collective experience from other consumers like yourself. We would however like to remind you of that user reviews are seldom as objective and informative as expert reviews. But they do beleive that user reviews can be an excellent complement to expert reviews. They would like to encourage all members of the Testseek.com community to write their product reviews with the purpose to help their fellow consumers to make better purchase decisions.
Best Prices
The prices that are shown at Testseek.com are delivered by their price comparison partners. In the US and UK their price comparison partner is Pricerunner.com. The prices are updated several times a day which enables us to provide their visitors with a real-time-lowest-price experience with a quality as high as any other price comparison site.

More at:http://www.testseek.com/

Just txt what's on your mind and txtmarks adds it to your computer's bookmarks

What Company Is Offering:
Anything you txt from your registered mobile phone to txtmarks gets added as a new txtmark.

txtmarks is quite clever and can recognise certain things and adds special txtmarks for them.



How It Works:

txtmarks is the best way to remember things you want on the Internet when you're not at your computer. Just txt what's on your mind and txtmarks adds it to your computer's bookmarks.
txtmarks works by using your browser's live feeds functionality. You can add your txtmarks feed to your bookmarks menu or bookmarks toolbar - which ever you prefer. You can also add txtmarks to popular RSS readers, including Google Reader, Bloglines, Feedburner, My Yahoo! and many more.

More at:http://www.txtmarks.net/

FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant

What Company Is Offering:

FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant to you.

How It Works:
This RSS utility filter was created as an exclusive tool for gathering information to be used on my other websites. When the tool was shared with other bloggers, they strongly recommended I create a website so [they] could use. Thus FilterMyRSS was born.

The advantage with this tool is no sign-in requirements, no registration fees or feed limitations - just a simple tool that will make your life infinitely more productive and stream line.

FilterMyRSS supports all RSS versions. FilterMyRSS also supports XML. At this time we do not support Atom feeds.

More at:http://www.filtermyrss.com/

Internet Explorer® 8 Readiness Toolkit, the first place to look when you’re ready to optimize web sites and applications for Internet Explorer 8

What Company is Offering:

Internet Explorer® 8 Readiness Toolkit, the first place to look when you’re ready to optimize web sites and applications for Internet Explorer 8.

Unique Features:

Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.

Activities,
WebSlices,
Favorites Bar,
Automatic Crash Recovery,
Improved Phishing Filter.

Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service.


An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user’s blog site with the selection already available in the edit field.

Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.

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WebSlices
WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.

Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more information.

More at:http://www.microsoft.com/