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Wow. Who knew NBC Nightly News anchor, Brian Williams, was so hip? On Monday, the American newscaster launched a new web-only video interview series focusing on independent music and musicians called “BriTunes.” The debuted episode of BriTunes is an interview with a band called Deer Tick from Brooklyn, NY. If you aren’t already familiar with …
Here's another great reminder for journalists to check their sources. A 22-year-old Dublin student fooled journalists around the world when he posted a fake quote on French composer Maurice Jarre's Wikipedia page. The fake quote soon appeared in obituaries published by The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, and The London Independent among others. The incident was later named one of Wikipedia's 10 biggest hoaxes in its first 10 years.
A New York man made a scaly discovery when he found a severed snake head served with his meal at T.G.I. Friday's.
A 7-year-old girl in Switzerland allegedly found a condom in her McDonald's Happy Meal, leading to a police investigation. The disturbing discovery has raised concerns over food safety and supervision at the fast food chain.
What should a major fast food chain, like Domino’s Pizza, do when two employees create a PR nightmare by posting videos of themselves tampering with customer’s food on YouTube? A few years ago, the typical corporate response might have been to pull the videos off the Internets, hide their heads in the sand like an …
TODAYshow.com and Zumobi today unveiled the official TODAY application for the iPhone and iPod touch, offering millions of consumers access to the program’s leading news, entertainment and lifestyle content, right from their mobile device. This application is a first-of-its-kind for the morning news program category and represents a compelling new way for TODAY viewers to …
Happy Earth Week. Green Is Universal launched an iPhone app over the weekend called iBloom. “It’s a free, super cute little app where you can grow a flower by planting a seed, feeding it, watering it and blowing away smog,” said Nicole Walters, Sales Marketing Manager for Green Is Universal. “Depending on how well you …
Apparently Bono and Steve Jobs just broke up. It seems like just yesterday, Bono was on stage with Jobs announcing the special edition U2 iPod. But U2 has decided to move away from Apple and lend their name to Research in Motion‘s BlackBerry phone. In a recent conversation with Toronto radio DJ Alan Cross, Bono revealed that U2 …
MSNBC.com has launched “The Elkhart Project,” a special editorial initiative that will tell the story of the nation’s economic crisis through the residents of Elkhart, Ind. The Elkhart Project ( http://elkhartproject.msnbc.com) is a sustained and in-depth approach to covering the worst American financial crisis since the Great Depression. MSNBC.com and NBC News will document the …
Watch out, polluters! This robot fish is patrolling our waters and is capable of testing for oil spills, chemical waste, pollution contaminants, and even oxygen levels.
A new startup called Legacy Locker is set to fill a much-needed gap in passing on your estate to your heirs and beneficiaries. The gap exists with your online assets – mainly the usernames and passwords used to secure your digital life: your computer accounts, social networking sites, bank accounts, e-mail accounts and much more. …
NASA got an unexpected result from an online contest to name a new room at the International Space Station: Colbert. Stephen Colbert, host of the Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," asked his viewers to write in his name in the contest. And they did, in huge droves. At the end of the contest, the name "Colbert" had 230,539 votes. NASA's preferred name, Serenity, only had around 40,000 votes.
If you’ve been missing Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen since his To Catch A Predator series was retired, you’re in luck. He’s back for the next few editions of Dateline with Inside The Financial Fiasco, a three part investigation that provides a revealing real world look at how the economic collapsed happened – from the …
Next time you have a rough day at the office, Burger King hopes you'll cozy up to one of its new Whopper Bars set to open around America. Just don't stay for too many rounds, or you might regret it the next day.
When Universal Studios releases the Wanted: Weapons of Fate ($39) videogame on March 24, in-the-know consumers will refer back to the film’s DVD or Blu-ray Disc for extended gameplay. Secret Video Game Codes Hidden On DVD And Blu-ray Disc The DVD for Wanted, starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie, features 10 secret codes, hidden among …
This week Apple released a very minor firmware update for the Apple TV. The 2.3.1 update only adds a “Network Test” option to help users troubleshoot Internet connections. That’s it. Seriously, it’s hardly worth the trouble. But the update does do something we weren’t expecting… it disables and deletes the Boxee software. Boxee is a …
Social Media Isn’t Just a Marketing Tool but an Efficiency Driver What’s the bigger idea: social media as marketing stimulus or social media as a way to innovate business processes? Every brand manager or CMO should recognize that it’s both — and in a disruptive economy, you need to take advantage of both outcomes. And …
