Gulfstream G650 ~ fast trip to paradise from pretty much anywhere

Gulfstream announced a new jet yesterday: the G650 (warning: long Flash load time and bad music).  It can travel 7,000 nautical miles at 0.85 Mach or 5,000 nautical miles at 0.90 Mach.  Yes, that’s just short of the speed of sound.  But the real story here is the fine publicity shot that they chose:

Oh, yes, [...]

Neuf Box uses an out-of-place beautiful blond on a horse on the beach ~ for laughs

This week, AdForum’s Top 5 ads of the week features two French commercials in a series of beach houses (available here dubbed in English for a limited time without a subscription).  The ads mock the beautiful, the blond(e), and the beach in an attempt to shutter away the cliche.  Here’s one with subtitles:

 
The ads make [...]

FCC approves AT&T purchase of Aloha Spectrum’s 700MHz Holdings

Yahoo has an article from Grant Gross and the IDG News Service announcing the FCC’s approval of AT&T’s purchase of 12MHz in the 700MHz band of wireless communications from Aloha Spectrum Holdings.  This fact apparently shocks few people.  We just thought the Rhode Island seller’s name was interesting.  Aloha to them.
We reported on this way [...]

Teleflip ~ email while surfing

Teleflip is a service that allows you to forward your email to an ordinary mobile phone with text messaging capabilities.  All you pay for is the text message charge from your carrier.
The simple explanation of this service alone is good enough to convince those who need it to use, but the company is now pushing [...]

LapDome? Get off your computer and enjoy your freaking vacation instead

Product ads with paradise settings come along every day. Often times, I’m left wondering if the image is a statement about where the product or service can take you or if the people doing the advertising are hoping that your purchasing the product or service will afford them the lifestyle they depict. The [...]

WSJ: Second Life banks in a little bit of turmoil

According to Robin Sidel at The Wall Street Journal, there were 187,000 Second Life avatars in December from the US alone, with roughly that same number coming from the major European countries.  But life is not all rosy for the virtual island paradises given the banking issues that some people are experiencing there according to [...]

Windows Seven ~ beach ready in 2009?

According to APC, the rumor is out that this is a screenshot of the upcoming WIndows 7, which may be released as early as next year (larger size available at their site):

If you are going to let an image of your upcoming product leak out onto the web, or if you even think that one [...]

The world’s largest swimming pool ~ or half of it

Stories of the world’s largest swimming pool in Algarrobo, Chile have been floating around the Internet for months now, but the Daily Mail has published an article with several enlarged pictures that are worth a look.  To give you a preview of just how large it is, well, here’s a picture from Reuters:

This is literally [...]

Floating data centers

ars technica is reporting on floating data centers.  Essentially, a company called International Data Security is going to retrofit old ships to serve as data centers with ocean-water cooling. 
I have to admit that I’m skeptical.  Even keeping little HVAC screws from puncturing the roofing membrane of an ordinary data center is hard enough.  [...]

IBM Do ~ Avatar Island Commercial

IBM has a new ad out as part of their "Do" initiative:

It’s about the online world, avatars, and of course the little islands that they create.  I think that it’s pretty much a direct reference to Second Life.  I’m not really sure what islands have to do with "Do."  Sounds like a bit of "doo" [...]

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