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• Microsoft’s $300 million ‘consumer product blitz’ inches closer

  What kinds of products will Microsoft be pushing when it launches its new $200 million to $300 million consumer-product ad campaign in early 2008? AdAge has reported that Microsoft has narrowed its search for an agency to handle creative for the forthcoming “consumer-products blitz” to two: MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Publicis Groupe’s Fallon. No doubt.

• How A Single PR Hit Boosted Sales For Fledgling Consumer Product

  It’s what every consumer products company owner dreams of:  Fledgling product gets featured by celebrity talk show host.  Sales soar. That’s what happened to a young company called Joey Junior. In my recent column ”Ten Must-Have Tech Tools for 2008” one of the tools was purse organizers. These are fabric inserts that you can place in briefcases, carry-on luggage, your car or a woman’s purse.

• Senate Votes For Safer Products, Approves Consumer Product Safety Commission Overhaul [Product Safety]

  The Senate finally voted last week to send the ailing Consumer Product Safety Commission desperately needed funds, staff, and powers. The overdue reform bill passed with bipartisan support on a 79-13... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• The Challenge for the Consumer Product Firms

  Gary Smith submits: Consumer product companies have historically had an excellent run, as Mitchell Corwin points out in Morningstar, enjoying dependable profit margins, cash flow and steady growth.Complete Story »

• Nota de prensa: Ubisoft y CBS Consumer Products anuncia CSI: NY

  La historia de la saga continúa estas Navidades de 2008 con el lanzamiento de CSI:NY. Hoy Ubisoft y CBS Consumer Products anuncian el lanzamiento del nuevo videojuego CSI: NY. En CSI:NY, por primera vez en la historia de la saga, podremos encarnar uno de los personajes reales de la serie. El videojuego incluye cinco casos originales creados por los escritores de la serie y estará disponible para PC las Navidades de 2008.

• Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment

  Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment Microsoft provides technical support for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server 2008 that are running in the following hardware virtualization environments: • Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 • Configurations that are certified through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).

• Microsoft outlines what’s coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8

  Microsoft isn’t offering up any dates or final product names, but it is breaking with Windows Mobile tradition and is talking about future features. It’s not hard to see why Microsoft’s Windows Mobile team is uncharacteristically willing to share its roadmap. The Apple iPhone has all the buzz and, according to at least one market researcher, more of the the Web-browsing market share than Windows Mobile does.

• As Microsoft knows, there’s more than one way to disrupt a market

  Financial-analyst-turned-Web-pundit Henry Blodget posted an explainer this weekend on what “disruption” really means and why Google and other Web-based office suites are on ther verge of disrupting Microsoft in a major way. From Blodget’s post, entitled “Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption“: “Disruptive technologies do not destroy existing market leaders overnight.

• What does Microsoft’s IPTV reorg have to do with ‘Fiji’?

  I’ve been thinking about Microsoft’s quiet reorg, via which the company unified the IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD initiatives into a single organization, known as the Microsoft Connected TV business group. Just munging these three teams together doesn’t necessarily mean a cohesive set of Microsoft TV products and services will suddenly emerge. As Microsoft Platform Strategy Advisor Harry Mower blogged.

• New to know: Looking back on 2007 and forward for 2008

  Notable headlines: As the year winds down, bloggers around the world are looking back on the year in technology and making some predictions about what’s around the corner. ZDNet bloggers are applying the wisdom of the readers, discussing the most popular posts of the year. In broad strokes, the big will continue to get bigger in 2008, expanding their empires. Thousands of startups, some even graying and entering middle age.