Article Archive for October 2007

Portfolio Magazine: The Business of Cluelessness
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Posted in Advertising, Design, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, Magazine, Marketing, Media, TV on 31 October 2007
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PORTFOLIO magazine is the new business magazine from Conde Nast … publishers of VOGUE, GQ and subsequently, the current owners of the NEW YORKER and even WIRED magazine. They are the GE of publishing. We’re here to be #1 in the category, we will wear you down with professionalism, a crack sales staff and if […]

Geek Warp Speed: The Star Trek Putter
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Gadgets, Marketing, Retail, Sports, TV on 30 October 2007
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I suppose this might be the best way to test out your golf nerves – can you putt while all around people are slapping their palm to their heads, mocking you loudly or throwing their clubs, beer bottles and the golf cart at you? Will you kiss the putter head and mutter ‘prime golf directive?’ […]

NBC-U Jeff Zucker, His iTunes Numbers Don’t Add Up
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computing, Film, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail, TV, Video on 30 October 2007
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NBC-U Jeff Zucker is now mad people consider him and his Hulu venture idiotic so he is trying to talk as if he actually understands digital and the television business going forward. He now claims that $15 million from NBC iTunes sales is not enough for him. Nevermind that is 7.5 million impressions of NBC […]

Mattel Pixar Cars Checklist: What’s in the Stores Now? (Winter 2008 UPDATE)
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys on 29 October 2007
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Holy cow – it might be too early to call it but I think we have reached a point of normalcy in this line! Mattel is actually shipping in right quantities and boxes are packed 50% with the NEWEST CARS and the box that follows is also 50-75% of the last month releases so finally, […]

Why is the NFL so Cheap?
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Posted in Financial, Marketing, Sports, TV on 28 October 2007
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At an NFL game, when the field goal kicker is about to boot the ball, they send two guys to run up a net behind the goal posts. Why? To protect the people a good 50 yards behind the net? If you’re sitting behind the goal posts, can you not see a 12″ inflated leather […]

Comcast: Intercepting & Changing Your Internet Traffic
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Posted in Computing, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Media on 26 October 2007
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Recently, AP and others have caught Comcast red-handed intercepting internet traffic and changing the header/packet info. Mostly, they seem to slowing down or halting BitTorrent traffic but they also seem to be intercepting/slowing/halting Lotus Notes traffic across the internet. On the surface, they might seem to be claiming that all BitTorrent is “illegal” and slowing […]

Mattel Pixar Cars Checklist Buying Info & News : All Our Posts
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Posted in Film, Financial, Marketing, Toys on 24 October 2007
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Thank you for following all our posts on the Mattel Pixar CARS line. We try to keep you updated as to what’s what and we updated EVERY post whenever we get reliable information – it’s not always easy and many thanks to the readers who’ve added helpful info & photos. We just want to recap […]

Mattel Pixar Cars & Children Affected by AIDS Charity Auction
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Retail, Toys on 23 October 2007
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Of the many items being auctioned that night for the Children Affected by AIDS foundation are several one-of-a-kind CARS created by Mattel especially for the event. Event is also co-sponsored by Toys R Us in Santa Monica on October 27th. caaf_dh_la_invite.pdf PDF Link to Event & Ticket Ordering Information. For CARS fans, three were special […]

Guide to Installing Mac Leopard OSX 10.5 On Day One
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing on 23 October 2007
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For PC users, they don’t understand or even believe that on the Mac, you can randomly just upgrade your Mac and that for 99% of people, they can come back after 30-minutes when all is installed and ready, hit RESTART and while it might take a few ticks longer to reboot the first time, they […]

Two-thirds of the World’s Workforce Controlled by 630 Thousand Execs
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Posted in Financial, Marketing on 22 October 2007
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According to a new survey carried out by Ipsos Media, America’s senior executives, CEOs and other C-suiters from mid- to large-size companies have a enormous appetite for quality business information. Their survey shows that the average American business leader is male, aged 51, earns $408,000 per year, and has a personal net worth of $1.7 […]