FOX News Story About ‘The Donk Mini-Tank’ Crashes MethodShop’s Website
After FOX News mentioned MethodShop in an article about a personal tank called The Donk, a surge in traffic crashed our web server.
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Can a Sandwich Be Slandered?
Some companies have made a sport of using advertising to bash a competing brand: Pepsi and Coke, Colgate and Crest, Miller Lite and Bud Light. It was a rivalry of this sort that compelled Quiznos, the toasted-sandwich chain, to invite the public to submit homemade commercials in a contest intended to attack a top rival, …
How To Access The Super Secret iPhone Diagnostic Mode
Feel like dialing some secret codes that activate the secret iPhone Diagnostic Mode? We thought so. Enjoy.
Disney adds fantasy lands
Walt Disney Co. is no stranger to fantasy worlds, transporting audiences — whether to a cottage in the woods with a young princess in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” or to the Great Barrier Reef aboard the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage ride at Disneyland. Now, Disney is spinning its tales in the newest mass …
Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away
Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant. That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on children. Early this month, the blog’s founder, Amy Jussel, called Target, complaining about a new advertising campaign that depicted a woman splayed across a …
Apple TV Take 2: Movie Rentals, No Computer Required
Steve Jobs announced an update to the Apple TV at Macworld San Francisco this week as well as iTunes Movie Rentals, which were already rumored to be part of his Macworld keynote speech. Jobs admitted that Apple’s online video plan had been a disappointment and that users didn’t take to watching online video the way …
MacBook Air Announcement: Steve Jobs Announces New Laptop At MacWorld (2008)
Steve Jobs' official MacBook Air announcement took place at Macworld today. The new laptop is incredibly thin but powerful.
Apple Pivots Video Strategies To Help Boost Apple TV Adoption
Apple plans on overhauling their Apple TV strategy by making a couple major changes.
Macworld: iPhone 1.1.3 Update
It turns out that Andru Edwards from GearLive.com was right about the iPhone 1.1.3 update. Here’s a rundown of the new features that were announced at Macworld… New features include: location data via cell tower triangulation (via Google) or WiFi triangulation (via Skyhook Wireless) Webclips – ability to make sections of web pages into widgets …
Macworld: Time Capsule
This morning at Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs announced a new hardware companion product called Time Capsule for Apple’s Time Machine backup software. Time Machine is part of the newest Apple operating system OS X Leopard 10.5. If you are already familiar with Apple’s current products, Time Capsule is basically an Airport Extreme with a hard …
Paramount Pictures Drops HD-DVD Format
According to the Financial Times, Paramount Pictures is going to drop their support for Toshiba's HD-DVD after Warner Brothers pulled out of the HD-DVD camp last Sunday night. Not a great way for Toshiba to start CES 2008. This will most likely put the final nail in the coffin of the HD-DVD format and end the biggest home entertainment format war since Betamax vs. VHS.
MC Hammer: Can’t touch his tech
MC Hammer hasn’t topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him — only this time around he’ll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as co-founder and chief strategy officer of …
iPhone 1.1.3 Leak
Here it is… video evidence of the new unreleased iPhone 1.1.3 software improvements. The embedded video below is a nice and thorough walk-through of the unreleased iPhone 1.1.3 firmware updates hosted by Andru from GearLive.com. Watch it fast before Apple’s lawyers take it down. Anyone still think it’s fake? If the embedded video above doesn’t …
Apple to Offer Fox Movie Rentals Digitally
In an effort to jump-start the market for online movies, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox and Apple Inc. are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple’s iTunes Store, according to people familiar with the matter. Apple has for months been trying to persuade the Hollywood …
Google Testing TV Ad Sales System
Do you work in local TV ads sales? You might want to polish up your resume and send it to Google. According to WSJ.com (subscription required), Google is buying giant blocks of local TV advertising at discounted rates and auctioning off the time to the highest bidder online. They are calling the program Google TV …
Dropped iPhone In Toilet? No Problem. Here’s How To Save It!
Do you have a dropped iPhone in toilet problem? If you accidentally dropped your iPod or iPhone into a toilet, then here's how to fix it.
iPond – iPod Speaker and Fish Torture Chamber
Everyone on the Internet is talking about the iPond, but for all the wrong reasons.
