A Best Buy Express vending machine will land in Dayton International Airport, according to local news reports. The Zoomshop vending machine will be stocked with CE including Apple iPod digital audio players, unlocked cellphones, headphones, earbuds, Nintendo games, DVDs, flash drives and Best Buy gift cards. The products will be priced $14.99 to $399. The Dayton City Commission Wednesday approved a three- year lease with San Francisco-based ZoomSystems for the vending machine. ZoomSystems will pay the city about $5,500 a year to lease space near the Sbarro restaurant in the airport, or 5 percent of gross receipts. Best Buy put the kiosks in 12 airports last year, in a pilot program. ZoomSystems has installed similar kiosks to sell Sony products, Apple iPods and cosmetics.
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a regular feature of International Trade Today. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions.
Startup Ansca said Tuesday it’s offering a tool for developing iPhone applications faster and less expensively. The Corona Software Development Kit allows users to create iPhone apps using Web-scripting languages they're familiar with. “There’s a land-grab going on, on the iPhone, and companies are racing to become the first to get a particular app on the Apple store,” the company said.
Startup Ansca said Tuesday it’s offering a tool for developing iPhone applications faster and less expensively. The Corona Software Development Kit allows users to create iPhone apps using Web-scripting languages they're familiar with. “There’s a land-grab going on, on the iPhone, and companies are racing to become the first to get a particular app on the Apple store,” the company said.
Startup Ansca said Tuesday it’s offering a tool for developing iPhone applications faster and less expensively. The Corona Software Development Kit allows users to create iPhone apps using Web-scripting languages they're familiar with. “There’s a land-grab going on, on the iPhone, and companies are racing to become the first to get a particular app on the Apple store,” the company said.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sanyo expects to land new retail distribution agreements with BrandsMart and Nebraska Furniture Mart for its LCD-based 1080p front projector, an executive of the manufacturer told us Wednesday at the Infocomm 09 show. In fall 2008, Sanyo started selling the PLC-Z3000 through Best Buy stores that carry home-theater front projectors. The maker also is seeking online sales through office superstore chains, said Mark Holt, the vice president and general manager of Sanyo’s U.S. presentation division.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service sent its list of approved applicants for the Lacey Act Automated Line Release/Border Release Advance Screening and Selectivity (BRASS) pilot program1 to U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 10, 2009.
Three leading conservation groups fired back at wireless industry and broadcaster arguments that the FCC shouldn’t make major changes in tower siting rules in response to a February 2008 remand from the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. “Regrettably, the industry continues to contest even modest changes to prevent the death of our native birds, a natural resource, held in trust for all current and future generations of Americans,” the American Bird Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife and National Audubon Society said in comments filed at the commission.
Tech giants like Cisco are waiting for clarity from the stimulus-grant rules as they help their customers and partners apply for money. The company, which isn’t a stimulus applicant, expects the agencies to start giving out the money this fall, Jeff Campbell, senior director of technology and trade policy, said in an interview.
Homes unprepared for DTV in the “home stretch” to June 12 would be “hard to motivate” as well as to reach, Burson- Marsteller told the FCC in an April proposal that landed the mega-agency the $3.5 million contract to provide the commission with consumer outreach “support services” in the final phase of the DTV transition (CD May 12 p7). To reach these “at-risk audiences,” any 11th-hour campaign should “interrupt them where they live, motivate them to get prepared … and surround them with its message from multiple channels, from sources they know and trust,” said the proposal, released to Communications Daily’s publisher, Warren Communications News, under the Freedom of Information Act.