Even At This Day Ang Age With Prices Going Up - The Rich Still Want Their Luxury Yachts

Yes even with gas prices so high and people starving in different parts of the world, the filthy rich still want the ultimate status symbol - the luxury yacht. Luxury goods are seeing double digit growth in revenue numbers year on year specially as the wealthy in new markets in Europe, Asia and the Middle East set sail.

"If we talk about boats of 45-80 meters, we're taking orders for 2012 to 2013. It's a segment that's going very well," said Cannatelli, who keeps a Riva yacht in Tuscany and also likes to sail in the Caribbean and the Seychelles.

In the business year that ended on August 31, 2007, revenues grew 21 percent to 933 million euros. Core profit came in at 158 million euros.

LayAway Payments For Online Products With eLayAway Automatic Payments

Wondering how you'll ever finish paying that anniversary gift or holiday you've been planning for the longest time?

A new alternative payment option is presented by new-comer eLayaway™ that aims to make the process convenient through shopper-defined automatic payments. Also more efficient by allowing the merchant to define the terms, including which items to make available through eLayaway.

eLayaway™ allows you to buy the products and services that you want by paying for them through manageable monthly payments that you set.

Your order can be broken down over 3 to 13 monthly payments. These are automatically deducted from your checking account and you will receive your order once its paid in full.
So the requirement her of course is a valid checking account

They even have this cool calculator that lets you see what your monthly payments will be for a specific amount. You even get to set the payment schedules. It's so cool. There's a fixed 1.9% fee for the service, but would be worth it I think compared to a credit card

Do You Want A $10 "Anti-iPhone" Disposable Cell Phone?

Hop-on just released a $10 pre-paid cell phone. I was pretty interested when I heard about it because that is dirt cheap, imagine paying only $10 for a cell phone and having talk time of up to 4 hours and a standby time of 150 hours - that's decent if I do say so myself. It's dual band as well. Plus although the phone is considered disposable, the company Hop-on is offering a $5 rebate for returning the phone to encourage recycling the phone to “Keep it Green”.

It actually looks like a pretty good product until I started to do some research. And I found this on Techdirt

Hop-On's "disposable phones" were really Nokia phones with their own plastic casing put around them. At first Hop-On tried to get around this, but finally admitted that they were repackaging the Nokias - but just for the prototypes. Their "real" phones would show up soon enough. Hop-On also has some legal problems. A few years ago they were associated with a venture that was charged with "fleecing investors out of as much as $20 million". The company also recently lost their corporate status for not filing a tax return for the past two years.

That's quite scary. Their phones still look good, but now I doubt the credibility. But I do still think it may be worth a shot if you've got an extra $10 to burn. The phone is available now “to retailers such as drug and convenience stores, big box retailers and to businesses looking for a unique branding opportunity,” so you may see this around town if you haven’t already.

Napster's New MP3 Store FREE For 7-Days Plus Get A Chance To Win A Zen V MP3 Player

Well Napster has just joined the association against Apple iTunes when it opened the world's biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs last Tuesday

What makes this idea brilliant is that the music store is web-based (http://free.napster.com/) and has digital songs from all major music labels as well as thousands of independent labels.

The MP3-format songs will be compatible with the vast majority of digital media devices and mobile phones including Apple's popular iPod as well as its iPhone according to Reuters

Most songs on the service will be available for 99 cents each and $9.95 an album.

Napster's special promotion for the Zen V MP3 Player is right here too if you want to win just join in!

New Jawbone Bluetooth Headset

The new Jawbone is slicker, lighter, and more comfortable to wear, all the while retaining the two best virtues of the original: amazing noise suppression and great sound quality. The Noise Assassination technology actually works - it cancels out noise from the outside

Jawbone's NoiseAssassin offers a patented Voice Activity Sensor (VAS). The Jawbone headset uses the VAS to distinguish the sound of your voice from ambient noise and then uses proprietary Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms to subtract the noise so only the sound of your voice comes through.

NoiseAssassin was originally developed by Aliph for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which creates and delivers technology for the U.S. military.

It's 50 percent smaller than the original Jawbone and features noise-elimination technology that promises better voice quality. The new headset is available exclusively at AT&T retail stores and at Jawbone.com.

Jawbone comes in matte black, with silver and gold versions planned. So it'll come out just like an earring. Talk about being fashion conscious!

The new Jawbone is designed to look and feel like an accessory along the lines of jewelry and eyewear. It offers a customized fit with three sizes of earbuds and four ear loops that can be worn on either ear -- two sizes of soft, stitched leather ear loops and two sizes of slim ear loops, ideal for use with eyeglasses according to NewsFactor.com

Apparently the only down-side is that it has poor battery life. But other than that it's being called an essential lifestyle accessory. It sells for $129.99 in matte black. Silver and rose-gold colors will soon be added.

Buy your very own right here - Jawbone.com

Watch HBO movies on your Apple iPod

HBO episodes from "Sex and the City," "The Wire" and "Flight of the Conchords" will cost $1.99 per episode, the iTunes standard price for individual TV shows. But other shows - "The Sopranos," "Deadwood" and " Rome " - will command premium prices of $2.99 per episode.


The iTunes store, which offers downloads of 800 TV shows, has so far sold 150 million episodes.


Visit the Apple iTune store now

Boom Blox! Steven Speilberg's Genius Plus Electronic Arts Equals One Gret Game!

Last Tuesday, Boom Blox was officially launched in a partnership with Steven Spielberg. Boom Blox can be played on Nintendo's Wii and on major carriers' mobile phones.Boom Blox will task players with navigating nearly 400 levels of "strategic destruction."

In addition, players will be able to use the game's editor to craft their own levels. The best part of this sounds like it will be the way the editor lets players take existing levels and elements from the game--props, characters, blocks, etc.--and incorporate them into all-new levels.

Essentially, Boom Blox is a strategy game that confronts players with no end of puzzles and challenges, all of which they can solve in single-player or multiplayer modes.

The game will cost $50.

Can't Think Of Anything To Get Your Mom This Mother's Day? Try This Pearl Bracelet, It's Timeless And Doesn't Look Cheap

Sometimes it's so hard to buy something for you mother. They either have everything or are too picky to begin with. It would be embarrassing to get her something cheap but it would also drain your bank account to buy something expensive. So what will it be?

Try this pearl bracelet. It's got 2 strands of freshwater cultured pearls and a (sentimental) sterling silver double heart clasp. It works with both office and evening attire, and costs just $55 available on Blue nile