Frontier Label is an online digital printing company that can take any image and print it out in sticker form.  Frontier Label donates about 10% of their profits to a ministry that makes a difference in the community.  Frontier Label also donates time and labor to non-profit organizations.

Some of the small businesses that have utilized Frontier Label’s services include coffee brewers, home-based candle markers, and even custom bottled water companies.  Frontier’s customers range from small businesses to Fortune 100.  The company started in 2004.

The way Frontier Label works is that you create an account, upload the artwork, and place an order.  Stickers come in 892 different sizes in stock.

Many other companies in the sticker printing industry uses flexographic or offset printing equipment.  This requires them to use many plates for each separate sticker and label designs.  Using this method limits the amount of colors that appear on a sticker.  Frontier Label uses Digital Printing which makes the stickers look high in quality.  By using this method, Frontier Label has seen their business grow quicker.

Frontier Label’s stickers are pressure sensitive (also known as self adhesive labels).  Most stickers have a standard 1/8th inch gap between the labels.  Frontier Label also puts a liner thickness for stickers that of 40 pounds.

In terms of customer service, the Frontier Label website has live chat and phone service.  The customer service phone number is 1-877-277-4682.

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AOL CEO Randy Falco has presented a list of goals to achieve for 2009.  Over the last decade, AOL has been transitioning from an ISP to a content production company powered by advertising.  AOL’s revenue has been hit hard as their it has dropped 23% in the 4th quarter. AOL had to also lay off 10%, or 700 employees as a result.  Quite a few executives have been quitting and shuffling in the process as well. Below is the full memo that Falco sent to AOL employees (after the jump via WSJ):

When the Nintendo Wii entered the video game console market, it proceeded to dominate.  The console was sold out in stores and eBay sellers that happened to get their hands on it early sold it at inflated prices.  Since Acer already has hardware figured out, perhaps they are thinking it may be a good idea to take on the Wii head-on.  At least that is a rumor going around on Donanimhaber.com.

The Acer console is believed to be code-named “Hornet.”  It appears to be an HDMI-supported PC with a remote that is similar to the Wiimote.  According to a translator, it appears that the Hornet would cost a couple hundred dollars, have full HD video, contain dual-core Atom processors, and use the Nvidia GeForce 9400.  Maybe it may work with some PC games that already exist.

Should Nintendo be worried?  Highly unlikely, but they should keep their eyes peeled.

[via BI]

LOLcats is pretty famous in the tech and cat lover scene.  LOLcats even invented their own language.  In this language you spell the word “has” as “haz.”  But what about people in Russia that don’t understand the LOLcat language?  There’s a similar blog available for LOLcat Russian fans called ROLcats.com.  The Russian language is layered on the cat images.  ROLcats is maintained by an author named Demetri.

In the below image, one of the images says in Russian, “Drat, thwarted so close to freedom’s sweet caress…  I dreamed for but a taste of the decadent west, and now my eulogy is sung by guard dogs and alarm bells.”

“I thought it was bizarre that Soviet-era kitsch should be the subject of the humor,” stated Ethan Zuckerman in a blog post.  Perhaps if Demetri uses less political connection to Russia in these images, his blog may have a future.

[via LAT]

Since Acer jumped into the smartphone market and Dell is looking to get into smartphones, Nokia is “actively looking” into getting into the laptop market.  Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo stated this in an interview with a Finnish news program.  Nokia is the leader in cell phone market currently by a large percentage, but they want to branch out further.

“We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging,” Kallasvuo said. “Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication.”

Mobile phones and PCs are constantly evolving and Nokia doesn’t want to miss the bandwagon on capitalizing on this.  It is unlikely that Nokia will create high-end laptops like Apple’s MacBook line, but it is not far-fetched to say that Nokia may create netbooks.  If Nokia can somehow leverage their user base of their mobile phone consumers to interconnect services with Nokia-branded laptops, we could see some interesting results.

[via IW]

This contraption is called the LED Magnetic Flashlight by Striker.  It has LED lights and is covered with 12 magnets.  The LED light can be aimed in almost any direction and is about the size of a golf ball.  It makes a pretty nifty nightlight for the kitchen when someone is craving a midnight snack.  The device is relatively inexpensive too.  You can pick one up for about $7.99.

[via Re-Nest / Lifehacker]

Paul Gardner-Stephen has transformed a wearable shoe into a wireless mobile phone.  Paul is a post-doctoral fellow in bioinformatics at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.  He started putting the device together when he hollowed the heel of a men’s dress shoe with a chisel and screwdriver and then placed a phone in one of the holes.  In the other hole, he put a Bluetooth headset.  After that, he put the heel back on and then punched holes in the soles for the answer and hangup buttons and another hole for the speaker buttons.  There is also blue LED on the headset.

Paul created the device initially as a theater prop for a church camp but then later thought that the idea could be used for other purposes.  Paul thinks that this could be used as a portable patient management system for doing tasks like managing pulse, checking blood pressure, and blood oxygenation.

“A shoe is a good location for housing the electronics required for storing and communicating these measurements,” stated Paul. “Shoes are well-accepted by most people, and are simple to put on and take off.”

[via CNET Crave]

In the United Kingdom, within 16 months about one million iPhones have been sold.  This is quite a milestone for Apple, but it appears that Nokia had less trouble achieving this milestone with their N95 smartphone.  The N95 reached one million sales in about 7 months after they introduced it to the market in November 2007.

“iPhone sales are continuing to accelerate.” stated Matthew Kay, CEO O2 UK. By the close of 2008, Apple had sold about 17.38 million iPhones around the world.  By the end of this year an analyst claims that Apple would have sold 45 million iPhones.

[via Fortune]