Sony has updated its E-series flash Walkman, but if you've already picked up a first-gen unit and are happy with it, you probably don't need to rush out and pick up a new one.
Instead, e-tailers, flash-sale sites, and discounters are seizing this valuable search engine real estate.
Meanwhile, 10, 000 e-mail messages flash to and from the company's offices each day.
Consequently there has been a proliferation of "flash fiction" on the Web, with E-zines and dedicated sites like Flash Fiction Online showcasing the talents of writers like Bruce Holland Rogers.
Then, with the advent of the newest trends in e-commerce such as flash sales websites, personal subscriptions, and collaborative consumption, virtual shopping became just as overwhelming and complicated as real life shopping.
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Turn off those annoying e-mail alerts--do not have a sign flash up on your screen every time a new e-mail comes in.
The Olympus PEN E-PL5 and the Olympus PEN E-PM2 will be available in October and ship with the Body, Flash FL-LM1, Li-ion battery BLS-5, Li-ion battery charger BCS-5, USB cable, AV cable, Shoulder strap, OLYMPUS Viewer 2 (CD-ROM), Instruction manual and Warranty card.
On Tuesday, Saks will put its finger directly on the pulse of one of the most thrilling e-commerce experiences since the online auction: flash sales.
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It has much more in common with flash sales sites like Fab than e-commerce mainstays like Amazon.
Sadly, the iPod, iPhone, Zune and Windows Mobile aren't supported yet, but the rest of the device list is pretty decent: it includes the BlackBerry Pearl, Storm, and Curve, the G1, Sony Ericsson Cybershot and Walkman phones, the Kindle, Nokia N and E-series phones, and most digital cameras and flash-based camcorders.
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The OEM business is expected to remain strong for the rest of the year, driven by new product cycles from manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, e-book readers and other mobile Internet devices that use flash-based storage solutions.
Max and Yves hooked up (by e-mail) after Max completed his first book, Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai--at age 15.
Its e-commerce site, vipshop.com, operates on a flash-sale format, which limits the products available for purchase, a tactic aimed at driving higher sales from consumers who don't want to miss out on deals.
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There's also a business version of the Cassiopeia called the E-125, available only in silver, and it takes any Type II compact flash card, including IBM's new 1GB Microdrive.
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Last year, the phenomenon emerged in other cities, including London and Philadelphia, where the city cited the culprits as members of a "flash mob" who decided to gather at a given place via e-mail and social media.
Once you e-file the return, take it off your hard drive and store it on a CD or flash drive in a safe place, like a lock box or safe.
In 2010, when online e-tailer Shangpin switched from being just a me-too discounter of end of season fashions to limited time, flash sales, revenue grew 20 times year-over-year.
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