Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News articles from September 2000

Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News archives from September 2000

Portable bar code scanner to link print-to-net.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A Minneapolis company has helped launch a new daily newspaper in Amsterdam that it says is the first in the world designed specifically to incorporate barcode scanning and PC-synching technologies with a printed newspaper to create a physical...

More low-income households surf the net.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Thanks in part to lower computer prices and increased Web access, Internet use by households making less than $25,000 per year leaped by 50 percent in the past year, according to a recent survey. Media Metrix [NASDAQ: MMXI], a New...

Online longevity boosts auto sales.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Longtime Internet presence by new car dealers drives Web-generated sales at a rate nearly triple that of dealerships that have been online for a short time, a survey has found. Dealership Web sites dating back to 1995 generate 13...

Europe's first smart card credit/loyalty card debuts.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Boots, the UK's high street chemist chain, has teamed up with Egg, the online bank, to launch Europe's first smart card-enabled combined loyalty and credit card. The Boots Advantage loyalty card, which has been in operation for a couple of...

Burn a CD for free. (Sites).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... XBurn offers free, customized CDs for the asking, made possible by advertisers. Consumers send XBurn the URL (uniform resource locator) of any Internet file they want copied and XBurn creates a CD-ROM of that file and sends it to the customer...

Yahoo! there's a cab. (Sites).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Bloomberg News reported last week that Medallion Financial and Yahoo have teamed to equip 10 New York taxicabs with Internet access, which can be tapped by passengers loaded with PalmPilot VII handheld computers. Passengers so stocked can surf...

The E-Working class has arrived. (Editor's Corner).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2000... Over ten years ago I was pitching a research study to ABC. I don't remember all the details of the project, but it had something to do with having people respond by touch-tone phone to a survey. I finally caught up with the right nay-sayer who...