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iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentals

In case you've been living under a rock lately, nearly every mobile phone sold today includes some sort of a music/media player. There's no escaping the incessant ads as we approach Christmas. In light of Adam L. Penenberg 's recent article for Fast Company I can't help...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., Video Rental, Movie, Apple iPod, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-12-05

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Video Rental Software 11.3 (Windows)

Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of sales, returns, purchases, credits, refunds, gift certificates, layaways, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Create user roles, and easily associate permissions with each role you create; this way,...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Video, Agnitech, Tax Code, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-30

Video Vision Plus 10.1 (Windows)

Both Video Vision Lite and Video Vision Plus are powerful point of sale programs that allow you to run and monitor your video rental business efficiently. Video Vision Plus has a host of additional features and additionally the possibility to enhance your customer experience with an impressive range of add-on...

Tags: Vision, Microsoft Windows, Video, Vision Forecasting, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-23

Video Vision Lite 10.1.1 (Windows)

Both Video Vision Lite and Video Vision Plus are powerful point of sale programs that allow you to run and monitor your video rental business efficiently. Video Vision Plus has a host of additional features and additionally the possibility to enhance your customer experience with an impressive range of add-on...

Tags: Vision, Microsoft Windows, Video, Vision Forecasting, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-22

1st Mac Mailer 3.6 (Mac)

1st Mac Mailer is mass-mailing software used by various e-commerce providers to deliver personalized email messages to their customers when they are needed to be notified about different events. These e-notifications vary from simple email notifications about product updates or new product releases to more complex newsletters and invoices. If...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Ixis, Export Feature, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Blockbuster initiating rentals via SD cards at store kiosks

AmusingEvery second American has a rear-end the size of a flying saucer and people are worried about the "convenience" of not leaving their house?You've got to be kidding.I am not going to goto the Video store...and get some crap ladden movie on SD that I can not play on...

Tags: Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, IMHO, movie, DVD, SD card, kiosk, Blockbuster Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Blockbuster initiating rentals via SD cards at store kiosks

Blockbuster isn't going down without a fight. Their newest attempt to get customers in their stores and away from Netflix.com is a new rental system in which film lovers can rent movies via SD cards at a kiosk machine. Sounds like we still have to leave...

Tags: SD Card, Blockbuster Inc., Memory, Flash Memory, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Security, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Sony to charge $24.95 for Bravia owners to rent "Chance of Meatballs" before DVD release

Meteor, please!I'm still hoping for an early arrival of the meteor that will finally make dinosaurs like Sony extinct! ;)These companies just don't get it. And I doubt they ever will.Sony when will you learnNo wonder Sony is bleeding money, they live in a fantasy world where they think...

Tags: LIKE IT, DVD, Sony Corp., Bravia owner, Bravia

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Sony to charge $24.95 for Bravia owners to rent "Chance of Meatballs" before DVD release

Leveraging some synergy between its electronics arm and its movie studio, Sony announced today that it's going to offer its hit kiddies flick "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" to owners of select Bravia home theater gear a full month before it's released on DVD. The price for this privilege—and...

Tags: Sony Corp., Movie, Pricing Strategy, DVD, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-09

LG 60PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

LG 50PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Apple TV update looks good but doesn't offer much more

I second your thoughts, Sam.The updates were nice, but hardly worth it from the functional standpoint. Yes, Netflix would be nice, although iTunes provides most, if not all, of what Netflix would, doesn't it?One thing Tim Cook mentioned during the most recent earnings call was that Apple was going to...

Tags: INTERNET, Apple TV, Internet radio, Apple Inc., TV, NetFlix Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

PG Real Estate Solution OCT.2009 (Windows)

PG Real Estate--a turnkey solution to build a Real Estate Web Site. Highly flexible, it is a perfect solution for Powerful Real Estate Portal (property lease, rent and sale marketplace), Independent Realtors or Real Estate Agencies. The script has a flexible structure allowing you to manage your site via site...

Tags: Payment, Administrator, Microsoft Windows, Pilot, Operational Accounting, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Boachsoft SmartManager XT 3.0 (Windows)

Boachsoft Smartmanager is the Ultimate video rental software. it has all you need to manage you rental store. The Autofill feature makes adding movies so much easier. All you have to do is enter the title of the movie and click the Auto Fill button. all the other movie details...

Tags: Software, Movie, Microsoft Windows, Boachsoft, Boachsoft Smartmanager, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-02

TV Everywhere: We're not just ready; we're already doing it

Television has gone through some major transformations over the years: color, cable, digital and even TiVo. Now, the industry is undergoing another transformation - and consumers are more than ready. A report released today found that consumers are already accessing television-style video content from devices other than...

Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Apple regroups for living room push; drops 40GB Apple TV, slashes 160GB price

I'll keep hoping for a hardware refresh...But it's equally likely they did this because there is no longer a real price difference between a 40GB hard drive and a 160GB hard drive and sales between the two are equally lackluster. Why have 2 models at all when the parts cost...

Tags: TV, 1080p, Apple TV, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Blockbuster to bring movies to Motorola phones in the future

As a daily train commuter and a person who travels on airplanes about once a month I do enjoy occasionally watching movies on my mobile phones. The iPhone is great for iTunes rental or purchases, while the Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 are excellent Amazon Video On Demand devices. According...

Tags: Phone, Blockbuster Inc., Motorola Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Federal forms themed blackhat SEO campaign serving scareware

An ongoing blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign is actively hijacking a variety of U.S Federal Forms keywords in an attempt to serve the Personal Antivirus (Trojan.Win32.FakeXPA) scareware. Due to the automated and sophisticated PageRank boosting tools cybercriminals use in these campaigns, the hijacked keywords are always...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., HTTP, Malware, Cybercriminal, Keyword, Http Referrer, Search, Marketing Research, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Marketing, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-06

SB CIO 5.0 (Windows)

Entry level inventory check in/check out SB CIO software for small tool room inventory control. Runs on a single standalone PC. History of check in/out activity can be reported easily. Tool/inventory history can be reported. The criteria/filters are flexible. There are many more features available. Those are very intuitive and...

Tags: CIO, Inventory Control, Microsoft Windows, Inventory Management, Silverlake Data Solution, Criteria/filter, Strategic Planning, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Management, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-30