| Somerfield's ecommerce drive goes rotten
UK supermarket chain, Somerfield, has pulled the plug on its struggling Web-based home shopping service 24-7. John von Spreckelson, the company's chief executive, said the venture hadn't been growing. "It represents a significant distraction to management at a time when its focus has to be on the core Somerfield and Kwik Save business," he said. The group reported a ten per cent slump in sales last month. The service will stop taking orders from next week and will cease trading on 25 June. In a statement Somerfield said the �11m assets will be absorbed into the main organisation. .
Jango Pumps Up the Social Radio Volume
The direction of all broadband content is away from the desktop and into other areas of Web users' lives. Jango does have plans to make its service accessible via mobile devices, but the company will not use proprietary devices, said company founder and CEO Dan Kaufman. Be a Rockstar to Your Marketing DepartmentThese days, IT staffers work to fulfill a lot of requests. Like finding an email marketing solution for your marketing department. Lyris ListManager is the robust, scalable, and easily integrated solution your team needs. Download your free trial version today. .
Boo Koo Holdings, Inc. Expands Management Team
ADDISON, Texas, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BOKO.OB - Boo Koo Holdings, Inc. (Boo Koo), a leading energy drink company, announced today it has added new executives to its management team, in connection with its transition to become a public company. Boo Koo appointed Steven B. Solomon, an accomplished entrepreneur with extensive public company experience as Executive Chairman and David H. Hayes an accomplished sales executive, as President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Customer Officer. In addition, Boo Koo announced Dan Lee, its President and CEO, will be leaving the Company on December 31, 2007 for personal reasons. Mr. Solomon will fill the position vacated by Chuck Jarvie, who will relinquish his role as non-executive Chairman, but will remain as an independent director of the company.
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General Electric, in addition to manufacturing the 3.6 MW turbines slated for the Cape Wind project, has embarked on a multi-year research effort to design a 7 MW far offshore unit. The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a $27 million contract with GE for this development. The advanced wind system concepts will include innovative foundations, construction techniques, rotor designs and electrical components designed for use in the ocean’s harsh environment [7]. So the question remains. How far in the future will these research and development projects become realistically competitive with shallow water projects? History is replete with promising technologies that have taken decades to commercialize. For example the evolution of the transistor to large scale integrated circuits of today has taken 50 years.
Women ignored by gadget makers and sellers - still
Gadget retailers and manufacturers are missing out on �600m a year because they fail to connect with the female market. One in three female internet users polled by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi said they would increase their spending on consumer electronics if retailers thought harder about how they approach them and offered more guidance in stores and on ecommerce sites. Almost one in three of the 750 female internet users surveyed do not consider technology advertising relevant to them and the majority of women feel disillusioned that brand owners and retailers don�t understand what they care about and don�t view them as a relevant group of customers. One third of women do not feel confident enough to ask questions in stores with one respondent describing electronics retailers as reeking of a "strong scent of man".
The Mecca of Pheasant Hunting
We all feel the excitement when we harvest a large buck or land the lunker fish; but limiting out after only four hours of hunting and then accomplishing this as a team of guys gathering so far from home, was really special.
While I would like to say the rest of the hunt went as well; it would be virtually impossible to duplicate the success of our first day. The rest of the hunt was fruitful, just typical SD hunting consisting of lots of walking and systematic harvesting of pheasants. With all things being equal, harvesting wild pheasants in America�s heart land has to be one of best adventures you can undertake.
First day bag. Hunters starting at left: Kyle (Sunshine), Harry, Tony, Jeff, Charlie, Mr. Skoglund, Johnny, Jep, Ron, Jerry (Big Daddy), Jerry & Tim
While the majority of hunters are middle aged white collared professionals, two of the hunters were unique.
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