Do you occasionally talk about new movies that you’ve gone to or rented in your blog posts? If you do or if you think your readers might be interested in the latest DVD movie releases, why not install the new DVDPlay new movie rentals widget on your site?

The widget will show your readers each weeks latest DVD movie releases, and by installing the widget on your site, or in your social network profile, you can also enter a contest to win great prizes like an Apple iPhone or Nintendo Wii.

Read the following Press Release for more information about DVDPlay, their new movie rentals widget and of course the contest and prizes:

DVDPlay Launches Widget and Gives Away an Apple iPhone and Nintendo Wii

San Jose, CA – April 10, 2007 – What can using DVDPlay’s new widget do for you? Along with offering your readers information on weekly DVD movie releases you can score some coveted gadgets in a contest that launches today.

In exchange for a bit of real estate on your webpage or blog DVDPlay, a Silicon Valley-based movie rental kiosk company, is giving away a chance to win the highly anticipated Apple iPhone or a Nintendo Wii. Folks who would like to enter the contest must visit dvdplay.com to add the small widget and register for the contest.

“We are always looking for new and exciting ways to raise awareness and introduce people to our service” said Jason B. Hart, online marketing manager at DVDPlay. “What better way to promote a new technology then by using another new technology to add value to the online community”.

The widget, hosted by Widgetbox, is an animated slide show of new release DVDs for the week and is automatically updated every Tuesday, when new release movies are available to the public for rent or purchase.

“The DVDPlay widget is a great addition for any movie lover’s blog, website or profile and we are delighted to provide the widget syndication, management and tracking for DVDPlay,” said Tracy Pizzo, director of business development at Widgetbox.

This real-time informational widget is easy to add, just go here (http://www.dvdplay.com/widget) click ‘Get Widget’, and choose where you want to put it. It is available for website, social network and blog installation or you can choose to add it to your Google, Pageflakes, or NetVibes home page.

A widget is a small piece of code provides value-added information and helps to jazz up a website, blog or other Web 2.0 community. Webmasters and bloggers use widgets to give their readers and visitors information like the weather forecast or gas prices. In this case, blog readers and website visitors can see all of the latest movie releases on DVDs.

The contest kicks off today and will run until June 11, the day the iPhone is slated to be available for purchase. The widget is available now for installing. Once the widget is up on a page, webmasters and bloggers can register for the contest at the DVDPlay website’s contest page (www.dvdplay.com).

About DVDPlay
DVDPlay’s (www.dvdplay.com) easy to use, credit card enabled kiosks hold more than 500 DVDs, ensuring that there will be plenty of the hottest new movie releases available. Movies can be rented in less than 60 seconds. There are more than 1,000 DVDPlay kiosks located in 35 states and Canada, with approximately 3,000 expected to be deployed by the end of 2007. DVDPlay’s kiosks are networked and powered by patent-pending software that enables dynamic pricing, promotions, inventory management, advertising and movie trailer insertions as well as the capture and measurement of key business metrics. DVDPlay kiosks meet all federal and state regulations including, UL, FCC and ADA certification.

About Widgetbox
Widgetbox is the leading managed syndication network for web widgets. Widgetbox’s mission is to create a thriving web widget economy by becoming the trusted resource for creating, distributing, promoting, tracking and monetizing widgets. The Widgetbox gallery is the world’s largest marketplace for widgets and the Widgetbox Syndication Platform™ is Widgetbox’s exclusive backend infrastructure that provides the most comprehensive set of tools for the management of your web widget strategy. Widgetbox serves both the producers of widgets, including the largest, online distributors as well as individual developers, and the consumers of widgets. For more information, please see www.widgetbox.com.

Isn’t it strange how some of the cellular service companies have been buying each other out, and changing names back and forth? I mean, surely you remember when At&T became Cingular? Well now Cingular is changing back over to AT&T again.

I don’t really care what name they go by, but it seems like poor business planning to keep changing the name of the company back and forth doesn’t it? When consumers like a product they often become faithful to the brand name even if there are better products or service out there. They just refuse to think about another brand name once they find one they like. Think about it. How many people do you know that only purchase GM cars, or perhaps only Ford? Once a die hard brand lover always a die hard brand lover.

Don’t you think AT&T should have thought about that when they changed their name to Cingular? Well perhaps they have been thinking about it now and that’s why they are changing back to AT&T.

Speaking of cellular services, you’ve probably heard all the buzz about the Apple iPhone. Well, when it first came out it was one of exclusive Cingular phones in their line of product and service offerings. Now that the name is changing back over to AT&T the Apple iPhone will probably end up being the first cell phone under the new AT&T brand.

I think that maybe AT&T would have been better off changing their name earlier in order to make a solid launch of the Apple iPhone product. It would have been better for name branding and consumer dedication to a brand name I think.

What do you think? Does it matter to you whether the cellular service is called Cingular or At&T? Where you loyal to one brand name over the other in the past? If so, why?

Either way, I think the Apple iphone will sell well no matter what the company that sells it is called. I mean it’s a great new phone just jam packed with features.