If the everyday pictures of sunsets and flying ducks isn’t to your taste, you can always put your fingerprints on display in your home. And you don’t have to get arrested. DNA 11, the creators of DNA artwork, have announced a second-generation product of fingerprint art.

Automation systems website ISA.org carries an interesting article on Next Generation Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). One interesting quote from the article: “The aerospace and automobile industries now see themselves as system integrators; their role is not to manufacture all of the underlying parts and components but to purchase them from a global marketplace. In this [...]

A report in the North Carolina News and Observer, describes how computer maker Dell is to begin a new advertising campaign that focuses on the company’s attribute of building computers to order.

American recording artist Jessica Simpson’s new summer single “A Public Affair” is to be made available as personalized version. Simpson’s record company Epic say that this is the first time music fans have been offered the innovative opportunity to put their own name into a customized pop song so that the lyrics are literally calling [...]

Amazon.com subsidiary CustomFlix Labs, Inc., has announced that CBS News has selected CustomFlix and Amazon.com to distribute thousands of hours of prime-time and classic news content, including award-winning “Minutes” programming, through the CustomFlix Create Your Own DVD(TM) service.

The International Herald Tribune has begun offering a personalized news podcast service, under the AudioNews name.

Frank Piller has posted the first notice of the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization, which will take place at MIT. He also gives details on two other conferences taking place later this year. The 2007 World Conference theme is ‘Extreme Customization’.

The Washington Times carries an article on the future of the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration), written by Robert Goldberg and Peter Pitts.

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