Article Archive for October 2007

Bike Furniture Design Worth Taking a Look At
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Posted in Design on 8 October 2007
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This company was just reviewed in the WSJ and from checking out their site, there are some odd but cool interior design choices there for different furniture. Bike Furniture has a few really cool designs for chairs up for sale on their web site that are very different.  So if you know a hardcore bike […]

Mattel Pixar Cars: What’s Coming in 2008 or 2009?
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Marketing, Retail, Toys on 7 October 2007
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FIRST UP, THE MCQUEEN VERSIONS? They could cheap out and just add “expressions” McQueen’s like Scowling McQueen, Sleepy McQueen … okay – that might cause the end of the line … How about? McQueen with a Tire Boot? Though clearly, not much play value unless you could remove it. Tumbleweed McQueen ANNOUNCED! COMING IN A […]

How to Coach a $63 Million Dollar Kid in the Millennial Age
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Posted in Sports, TV on 5 October 2007
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“Unhappy Kirilenko seeks trade from Jazz.” “Kirilenko ‘ready’ to give up $63M contract.” Though he feels much better after meeting Jerry Sloan, the coach – because … “Kirilenko said he would accept Sloan’s criticism as long as Sloan was willing to offer equal amounts of praise.” HOW EXACTLY WOULD THAT WORK? YOU’RE AN IDIOT! – […]

Does iPhone 1.1.1 Make Your Web Browsing Hot?
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Posted in Apple, iPhone on 5 October 2007
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Is iPhone 1.1.1 Make Your Web Browsing Hot? And I don’t mean that in a good way? Does your phone seem extra hot and battery extra draining? Actually, it seems to throw off the battery indicator – the tiny one shows 1/4 but when plugged it, it shows 1/2 drained. Anyone else?

Peter Jackson to Helm The Hobbit
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Posted in Books, Film on 5 October 2007
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At least we now have hope! According to Entertainment Weekly, the legal battle that’s kept The Lord of the Rings‘ prequel, The Hobbit, hung up for years (what the industry likes to call ‘in turn around’). If you are not in the LOTR ‘know’, a bitter feud has been ongoing between Rings director Peter Jackson […]

Business 2.0 Magazine Subscribers Get a Fortune
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Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Media on 4 October 2007
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Well, a couple of issues of Fortune magazine anyway. Here is a scan of what the cover wrap on the last issue of Business 2.0 said – October 2007, Vol. 8, Number 9: Not that bad a deal really considering what they could have done like give B2 subscribers extended issues for Time For Kids, […]

Wired Magazine To Debut New Series On PBS Tonight
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Posted in Gadgets, Marketing, Media, TV, Video on 3 October 2007
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Wired magazine is launching their own science series on PBS.  Their first show airs tonight, Wednesday, October 3rd at 8/7C.  I just found out about it today via an email notice from them. At some point you will be able to find out more on this link, pbs.org/wiredscience, but right now a lot of the […]

Mattel Pixar Cars: I Want to Buy But Where? (Winter 2008 Update)
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Financial, Marketing, Toys on 3 October 2007
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The Mattel Pixar CARS line is a runaway international phenomenon hit … and yet, over a year later, supply is nowhere near meeting demand – what happened … and what is happening? First, we need to backtrack a little. For the past 10 years, the toy market has been losing kids earlier and earlier to […]

iphone owner sues Apple for $1 million
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Posted in Apple, Gadgets, iPhone, Marketing on 2 October 2007
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Dongmei Li of Queens, New York, is suing Apple by claimin the company violated price discrimination laws when it slashed the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone within two months of the iphone’s June debut. According to Li’s lawsuit, filed on September 24 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, the price reduction […]

Record Industry vs Apple vs Amazon vs Consumers
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Posted in Computing, Financial, Media, Mobile, Music on 1 October 2007
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Once upon a time in a land before time, the music industry was living on Cloud 9. Kids and teens saw the record labels as “their” entertainment and spent accordingly. Other than some summer movies geared towards them, only the music industry understood them – every week, there were new singles at $.39 to $.59 […]