Our main website is now back online and features our new lines of products such as coastal decor, recreation & leisure products for your shopping enjoyment.  Many of the products that we offer are unique & specialty products that can not be found in regular stores.

EastWave originally started out as a website development & web hosting company in late 2003.  After seeing the paths that some of our customers were taking with their own internet ventures, we decided to explore other revenue streams for our own company such as internet retail, affiliate marketing & the domain name aftermarket.  Based on an advice from a good friend at a former job (who is sadly no longer with us in this world…  RIP Archie), we turned on our first internet retail store www.allnitetoys.com in mid 2004 which sells adult novelties.  Over the years this website became the main hub of a network of sites selling these type of products.

After 5 years of successfully running internet retail websites and realizing that those ventures had grown to be more profitable than the services we offered, we decided to shift the focus of our main website www.eastwave.com to internet retail.  We made strategic partnerships with various distributors & manufacturers of unique lines of products such as beach decor, action sports, recreation & others.  We also built multiple minisites on many of the domain names in our portfolio offering various lines of products.

EastWave still offers development services, but we take these type of projects on a case by case basis.  We eliminated our web hosting division and moved all information about our available development services to a new home at www.eastwavemedia.com.

We strive to provide quality products at reasonable prices, along with excellent shipping times & customer service.  EastWave has grown so much since starting out with a dream & a love for the beach in a small bedroom office in Eastern NC.  We hope this growth only continues in the future with our new ventures.

“The Next Wave Begins Today”

I finally broke down and decided to get an iPhone… I have held off on this purchase because I did not want to have to sign a 2 year contract with AT&T. I did not want to pay for what is supposedly a 3G network when 3G is not even available in Eastern North Carolina.

Well, I now have an iPhone but I do not use AT&T. I purchased a used iPhone, jailbroke & unlocked it, and I am headed to T-Mobile. I can get unlimited data, talk & text for nearly half the monthly cost of a comparable plan on AT&T. I will not be on a 3G network in Eastern NC, but I wouldn’t have been had I decided to go with AT&T, either.

Although I am one of those “computer geeks”, I have always been one of those type people who want a cell phone to be a PHONE. I hate text messages with a passion and the truly terrible web browsing experience on Windows Mobile devices & Blackberry phones is enough to make a person toss that “smart phone” out the window.

The iPhone changed all that, and there is no need to go into the praise in this blog post. The entire world has showered enough praise on this phone already, and once again Apple has completely changed an entire industry within a few short years.

Their claim of “there’s an app for that” is most definitely true in nearly all aspects, though. Whether I am checking sales & advertising statistics, waving my lightsaber app at my friends or doing a quick tune on one of my guitars, its literally amazing the power of this “phone”. Many of the most useful apps are for checking various websites such as eBay, FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, Google and others. Many times its actually quicker to open the iPhone app for a certain website (or company) than it is to get on the computer and pull it up through a regular browser.

Steve Jobs is a God amongst the insects crawling around in this world with their day to day lives… I hope that his health allows him to live long enough to change even more industries.