If a major corporation in the defense industry makes their case for their product, we are interested. I don't want to see my tax money spent on a company that won't stand up for their product. Say what you want about Lockheed Martin, but we give them huge props here for one reason, Fred Moosally and several others from Lockheed Martin put themselves out there and sell their product to the American...

As some regular readers will know, your humble Devil is working on a product in his day-job. Said product is not a particularly original product (it's a content management system, if you must know) but the way in which it operates (and particularly the user interface) is, I think, something rather special. I have been working with one of our developers on this project, partly because he knows code...

By Professor Nick Bosanquet The recession is a product crunch – it confirms and intensifies the end of a twenty year product cycle. In the past decade a number of US icons have seen a fall in shareholder value. Microsoft,...

Whether product placement should be allowed in TV shows or not. Hmm, difficult question. …ministers are consulting on whether to implement part of a European directive, which would allow product placement in the UK from as early as 2010. Under the proposals advertisers would be able to pay to have products

Here are some basic facts about market based capitalism. 1) You can not sell product X for £50 when someone else is selling it for £10. 2) You can not ask to be paid £10 for making product X when someone else will do it for £1. The whole point of markets is that they find a level through something called supply and demand. When you have a national based economy, this is fin...

“I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity” Former Prime Minister Edward Heath

Here’s Don Foster’s take on the subject: In the current financial climate, we have to look at all revenue options including product placement. The previous Secretary of State, Andy Burnham, was wrong to have ruled out the option of product placement. With Google now having a larger advertising revenue than ITV, the commercial television companies need to fight

Television programmes could have US style product placement following a consultation launched by the culture secretary Ben Bradshaw.

Mars bars and Walkers crisps would appear on television programmes under Tory plans to end the ban on product placement.

When evaluating a product’s feasibility in the market place, and the returns one hopes to generate from an investment in such a product, it is crucial to ascertain the percentage probability that the first few owners die horribly.