In past companies, market surveyors and independent researchers have seeked “answers” for some of
their business and research question using tools like survey s and polls. For the questions to be answered 
the poll or survey needs to be a success. The success of a p oll depends on  a number of factors like, if it 
reaches  the right type of people (demographic mix)  and eno ugh number of people (sample size). So, 
often companies or research project have to bear a large cos t to conduct an effecti..

TomTom is running a pilot in the Netherlands in collaboration with 3 municipalities and parking garage owners. In those municipalities owners of Tomtom navigation equipments will get info  on available parking spots and their exact location real-time.

No more wasted time and senseless driving around for car owners in cities, municipalities are also enthusiastic due to improved traffic flow and it being better for the environment and for parking garage owners it is an early touch point with pote..

 looking at this picture you see finlands position in bandwidth

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/26c20c37_internetspeed. jpg

The Real Time research is going to be presented at the HSE on thursday the 12 of october at 16:00 in the Cydenia Building (5th floor),  presentations from several people, wine and salad present, *'

all are welcome

With voicemail to text, Skype claims that "you'll never miss an important voicemail - thanks to our partnership with SpinVox". SpinVox will convert your voicemail to text, and Skype, in turn, will send it directly to your mobile by SMS. The SpinVox software currently understands voicemail messages left in English, French, German and Spanish.

Each voicemail to text conversion will cost €0.20/£0.17/$0.25 plus the cost of sending up to 3 SMS at standard Skype rates, depending on the length of t..

KLM passengers are now able to receive their boarding pass on their mobile phone. This new service has initially been offered to passengers travelling on the 15 daily flights between Amsterdam and Paris, as it is a joint Air France and KLM service. This pilot started in September 2008, but from March 2009 the service will be available on most of KLM's European flights. The electronic boarding pass contains all the information displayed on a conventional boarding pass.

To use this hassle free s..

Besides markets and hierarchies there is a third way to arrange economic activities which lie in between of these extremes: networks. The competitive environment of firms is changing in a fundamental way as networks are fast becoming an important way of producing products and services.  Some information goods, especially complex ones like movies and computer programs, are also produced in networks. A few of the reasons for this are to gain the necessary capital as producing the first unit is v..

Digital product is transmitting as data stream on the Internet. It is a digitized form of information product, such as software, movies, music, e-books, database, games, as well as services. Comparing to traditional products, digital product has its particular characteristics. Digital product is indestructible, changeable, fast transmittable and supplementary. From the economic point of view, digital product relies on the customers' individual preferences; digital product has particular cost ..

Music consumption differs greatly from the consumption of "normal" goods. There are four features that especially distinguishes music consumption from normal consumption. These four factors are oversupply of music, uncertain quality of products, social contagion phenomena and demand reversal. I will also discuss how music consumption and music purchase differs from normal consumption and normal product purchase. Especailly interesting is for example the fact that music may be consumed without ..

Videogames have traditionally behaved as information goods much like music and films. However, through the rising popularity of downloadable content (DLC), game and console producers, as well as consumers are witnessing a revolution in gaming.

Downloadable content has already caused restructuring in pricing through versioning, as well as in the networks themselves where the consumers also produce content themselves. Yet DLC is still a developing phenomenon with new applications being constantly..