RIM, in an attempt to shore up its flailing Blackberry platform, is going to offer a streaming music service integrated into their Blackberry Messenger program. According to RIM, the BBM program is one of the world’s largest mobile social networks and is the focus of retrenchment efforts focused at restoring prestige to the Blackberry brand […]
Read MoreFrom Topgear.com, named after one of my favorite tv shows, comes this story about a hot as hell Kia concept coming in the future, leading the site to speculate if the German makes are in the crosshairs in Korea. Click here for pictures.
Read MoreGeneric clothing supplier Urban Outfitters is being sued for using young girls and such in their ad campaigns. If you’ve ever seen an Urban Outfitters ad or read anything about the company’s infamous CEO, then you’ll recall a pastiche approach to photo advertisement composition: part 90s-heroin chic, part pedophile, all weird. Well, now they’re being […]
Read MoreHewlett Packard’s stock price has dropped some 20% today in a dramatic reaction to the company’s earnings and spin-off proposals yesterday, approaching a six-year low and drawing into question the strategic calculation that went into the proposal to dump Palm, TouchPad, WebOS and consumer-side PCs. The last time HP’s stock price did so poorly was […]
Read MoreI’m pretty proud of Paula for this. Anthony Bourdain, insufferable host of that show of his where he pretends to be simultaneously high-culture and back-alley chav but ends up coming off as a neurotic, creepy old greaser, insulted FoodNetwork chefs Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Sandra Lee, and Guy Fieri. Now, I understand that not everyone […]
Read MoreWell I’m sure we’ve all had moments where we thought we were a bad friend, coworker, person, spouse, partner, lover, or even…parent. God knows my parents never deigned to imagine themselves as anything less than qualified to parent Christ. Well I have to hand it to them, because today they win. After all, they never […]
Read More19-year old conjoined twins Stefan and Tyler Delp show how beautiful humanity can be. I cannot help but be inspired and intimidated by such examples of perseverance, tenacity, and strength.
Read MoreRemember PDAs? Maybe I’m dating myself, but the original market innovator, Palm, after being acquired in 2009 for approximately $2 billion by HP, is now a defunct concern. As news broke yesterday of HP’s spin-off of its consumer PC business and its cessation of Palm, WebOS and TouchPad endeavors, it quickly became clear that 1) […]
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