“valleylist” sixth edition – - high tech products

valleylist Monday 2.11.2008 v 6.0        high tech products companies and consumers            > newsgroup    > subscribe g_mcpaul@…      HIGH TECH PRODUCTS   + Netspend VISA Card   + ZRNET DSL Internet Access       at S.F. CyberCafe’s and not in silicon valley     + Blackberry PDAs Ins and Outages   + Maven Networks   + Nintendo “Super Smash Bros Brawl” Tops 1MM Sales     San Francisco CA —   Products on sale at the Virgin Megastore in San Francisco (only location near silicon valley) sell high tech in various shapes and sizes. A glance at their cafe – - a mini version of the S.F. hotspot Citizen Cake – - made it a “must visit” on my list of S.F. haunts to haunt. However the low tech CDs and DVDs – - all on sale at $10 – - need to drop down to $9. Then perhaps eager purchasers would drop a few more bills. S.F is one four Megastores in California    Anaheim  Hollywood      San Francisco   Ontario    Virgin Megastore is the most exciting place anybody could try to not shop. They sell high tech – -      > MP3 players   > digital cameras   > digital camcorders   > portable DVD players   > portable CD players   > memory   > headphones     > earbuds    - – and a few cellphones. Virgin Mobile offered their customers including myself a virgin mobile “slice” owner a special v-day treat . of mushy wall paper, ringtones, and other cellphone treats. The infamous Virgin Mobile RED “slice” was stolen while I was completing research for the “Product” special issue of “valleylist” and, quite surprisingly, lead to yet another encounter with the police.  They kindly suggested I complete a stolen property report. Then the police had to process the paperwork and assign an investigator. Virgin Mobile said “buy a replacement phone at a substantial discount.” How’s that for high tech in S.F. ? !  ?   Richard Branson founder and CEO started all the trouble with when Virgin Records bought an airline and went “mega” . Now he might someday expand to silicon valley.     COMPUSA staff at Comp USA Union Square says the company is going out of business 30% to 50% off and all inventory needs to go. A few days later, the doors were closed.     Sony STYLE‘s top selling laptop computers at the fabulous Metreon near Moscone Center are the “TZ” and ”SZ” series, er almost on sale - –   > Sony SZ   starts at around $1,600       VGNSZ670N/C         VGNSZ671N1/X    includes LAN technology Standard Features, 1 ” thin, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, VIAO hybrid graphics system, Sprint Mobile broadband    > SONY TZ Series  starts at around $2,199      VGNTZ196N1/XC      VONTZ 150        1.06 GHz   Standard Features, 11.1 razor thin panel LED backlit display, 48 Gb solid state hard drive valleylist recommends the TZ VGNTZ250N/N 1.06 GHz with the gold champagne casing.  ”11.1″ LCD with XBRITE-HiColor™, Sprint® Mobile Broadband Wireless WAN, built-in 1.3M camera, Bluetooth®, fingerprint sensor, Upgrade Features: Elegant Champagne Gold finish”   WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTERS – - and the flagship Westfield Shopping Center SF - – are the shopping magnets in the silicon valley area. What is Westfield Shopping Centers International – - “The Westfield Group is the largest retail property group in the world by equity market capitalisation and the eighth largest entity listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. It has investment interests in 119 shopping centres in four countries, with a total value in excess of A$62.6billion (US$53.2 billion). – Portfolio Profile ” Westfield Shopping Centers in silicon valley     > San Francisco Centre should it be included ?   > Oakridge    > Valley Fair   > EastRidge   > Stanford Shopping Center a Simon Property Mgt Company   The S.F. Westfield Shopping Center on Market street in San Francisco is a resounding high tech success. Totally devoid of high tech stores however – - there were only two – - Palm, Bose. To elude more tedium, let’s read up on the founding of Westfield Shopping Centers by Frank Lowy and John Saunders; the origins of the Westfield shopping centre in Blacktown, NSW Australia.     YAHOO! SHOPPING is not what the silicon valley success of the 21st centure is really all about. However Yahoo!’s “Shopping” category is easier to use than the current version of “valleylist” when it comes to finding a list of the most popular products in the important high tech categories. Take 2 for example – -     Yahoo! MOST POPULAR CELL PHONES Apple iPhone 8GB Cell Phone “Die hard Apple junkies will hate me I am sure, but if you want a true…” more by gsd3986 User Rating  All Ratings $399.00 – $399.00 Compare Prices Nokia N95 Cell Phone “There is no other phone more exciting than this phone- er, computer….” more by albert.chen_90 User Rating  All Ratings $489.99 – $749.00 Compare Prices Motorola MotoRazr V3m Red Cell Phone “For many of us who love to customize our cell phones w/ ringtones,…” more by khoa_to User Rating  All Ratings $0.01 – $0.01 Compare Prices AT&T 8525 Cell Phone “All in all, I think that this phone is probably the greatest PDA…” more by raven0322 User Rating  All Ratings $99.99 – $99.99 Compare Prices 5 RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Cell Phone “I purchased this phone about a month ago and I love it. I have had…” more by oalmodovar007 User Rating  All Ratings $0.01 – $374.85 Compare Prices   Laptop computers Sony VAIO NR140E/S Laptop Computer User Rating  All Ratings $789.99 – $999.84 Compare Prices MacBook Pro, 17-inch, 2.4GHz Laptop Computer “This laptop has got to be one of my favorites. The Macbook pro’s now…” more by megustaqueso07 User Rating  All Ratings $2053.00 – $3013.16 Compare Prices Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527 Laptop Computer “I was looking for our first home notebook. I knew I wanted builtin…” more by joe_beaulaurier User Rating  All Ratings $624.00 – $624.00 Compare Prices HP Pavilion dv6626us Laptop Computer User Rating  All Ratings $749.00 – $949.99 Compare Prices 5 Toshiba Satellite A215-S4697 Laptop Computer “Sale-person from Office-Depot tippedp me off oh this deal ($550/no…” more by williep545 User Rating  All Ratings  664.00 – $885.84 Compare Prices Take the listings from Yahoo! Shopping and run to the local mall and try to find the same product at the same or a lower price and you have the state of the art in high tech shopping.     FLATSCREEN TELEVISIONS are difficult to find in the malls. My favorite this week is the SONY Bravia 60″ at around $3,500 at the Metreon SONY Style. However the big surprise was the low cost HDTV LED at $699.99 sporting all shades and hues in their metalic casing.     > SONY Bravia KDL-26S3000 S-Series LCD Television        26″ designer colors 1366×768 pixel display resolution       very attractive design $699.99 on sale of course     VIDEO GAMES took me to Radio Shack for pretty much all that people seem to care about lately, the SONY PS2 at $129.00 and the Halo 3 Videogame. E-Bay came up with 4 “featured” products – -      New Nintendo Wii System Console+14 Games+4 Controllers  $435.00            Nintendo Wii – Game Console System 14 Games + 4 Control   $435.00              NEW NINTENDO Wii MEGA BUNDLE +14 GAMES + 4 CONTROLLERS  $410.99              New Nintendo Wii + 44 Games + 4 Controllers + lots of . $435.00          The most popular video games are listed somewhere on Yahoo! however I still want to stop giving the big portals all the credit. The E-Bay auction approach finds video games on sale and lists results in a facinating and repetitive pattern.     APPLE COMPUTER no matter where you go it’s an i-pod world. The staff at the Apple Computer Store on Union Square features the pink “i-pod nano” with a 2″ color screen including 8 hours of video and 24 hours of audio starting at $149. Featured artist is Mary J. Blige, one of name dropper Gavin Newsom’s favorite R&B artists. Like most high tech products these days it’s super thin and looks great. Almost new is the i-pod touch remake to the original i-pod classic. The 8Gb $299 16Gb $399 32Gb $499. Bose high end earphones come with at a cost of $179.   MY CONCLUSION is that silicon valley needs it’s own megapole. It a region that needs it’s own Virgin Megastore. The final edit of – - ”valleylist sixth edition” all about products soon to feature companies and consumers – - took place at the real Citizen Cake at Gough and Grove in S.F.’s art gallery district around City Hall. It was a bacon scallion scone and small expresso. Silicon valley seems to be facing a total take over by the shopping mall lifestyle. My first Westfield Valley Fair experience was mind boggling. It was impossible to believe the experience was a totally blanded-out nightmare as opposed to the high tech satisfaction of being among the first to purchase a great new product from a superlative silicon valley company.     —————————-   SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION   $5,000 a week for 50 weeks to sponsor “valleylist”  the weekly newsletter about high tech products companies and consumers and relevant pages on the internet is a $250,000 a year sponsorship $165,000 first year entire service sponsorship available on a first come first serve basis specific sponsorships and deals available – - lets negotiate  special edition newsletters and content updates to “valleylist” are available to content suppliers and high tech  product company  consumer groups mailing list service targetting “valleylist” high tech products companies and consumers available on a per-client per-arrangement      SPONSORSHIP VALUE MEASURED AS membership viewers page views clicks postings propaganda information gathered from participants   SPONSORSHIP DETAILS & FACTS Published and updated weekly, includes 9,000 individual visitors per week and 5,000 e-mail newsletter subscribers. 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