Ohio Attorney General Sues Best Buy ... why am I not surprised?

Best Buy Not?: "Attorney General Jim Petro Sues Best Buy For Unacceptable Business Practices"

RFID Chip uses cont'd: Find stray balls

Here's another RFID chip application: Using RFID to find stray balls: "Radar Golf helps players find balls embedded with radio frequency identification chips." I never thought golf was too exciting, but imagine the fun one could have with RFID enabled balls, especially if they could be tracked w/a GPS. Hmm...

RFID Tags Track Cars

It looks like RFID tags may be useful for more than physical inventory tracking. iPico Holdings has developed a system that uses RFID Passive Tags to Track Cars. This system could be used to collect tolls on toll roads. Might it even be used to collect fees at a drive-in theatre?

$1 Profit Margin on DVD Players

Umar has an interesting post on how the profit margin on DVD players has largely evaporated. Just as the medium isn't a path to content profitability, hardware isn't either. Isn't that the key lesson of commodization? Value is in the intersection of content and delivery. When will content publishers (i.e., the music and movie industries) get it?

Market Response: The pirate DVD player

Having trouble playing that priate DVD? The market has responded. You can no get a DVD player designed to play noisy pirate DVDs. Further evidence that the distribution medium is not the path to profit or value creation.

Hong Kong children top mobile phone ownership in Asia: survey

Mobile phone penetration continues to spread down the age ladder. Hong Kong children top mobile phone ownership in Asia: survey: "29 percent of Hong Kong children aged 6 to 15 have a mobile phone, followed by 25 percent in Australia and Japan. "

Texts alert parents to school closures

Ah, here's a sign of life in education: A school is usingSMS alerts parents to school closures. How wonderfully simple and effective. Parents can self-register via a web site. This system makes instantaneous communication with parents simple and reaches them where they are. Much better than the still much relied upon telephone tree (manual or automated).

Unlimited or Capped Volume Pricing: SMS

Pricing data services offers many alternatives. Some options include per unit pricing, unlimited pricing, and capped pricing. Here's Telecom New Zealand's experience with pricing SMS.

Courthouse employees hunt ghost

High-tech security system serves up spooky images. Who ya' gonna' call?

Beheading Video Is a Hoax: Or the importance of checking authenticity

"On the Internet, noone knows you are a dog," goes the old joke. This joke exposes our assumption that we are interacting online with other humans. A correlary is that, "Content on the Internet is assumed to be true. This recent Video Beheading Hoax should be a wake-up call to question content.