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ZenZui, a Microsoft spinoff, has released a slick graphical user interface for mobile phones, reports ClickZ (via MarketingVox). The interface maps “tiles” on the device’s screen to number keys. Users then zoom to the tiles, which can be tied to frequently visited sites.
ZenZui will also use RSS to push new content to those tiles. Users will be able to customize their tile experience both on the device itself and online.
Advertisers will have the opportunity to either create branded tiles or put their messaging on existing tiles. Each tile will have room on it for a banner ad, but content providers can choose to give that space to a charity if they don’t want an ad to run on it.
The browser application will be licensed to carriers but also be available for people to download themselves.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
