Mattel didn’t spend a great deal of time showing off CARS 1:55 (the Mini Adventures line is another story – our more indepth coverage of the Toy Fair Mini coverage is coming separately). We still have no word as where the “missing E to J” “new” CARS are … from the display at Toy Fair […]

Why MS buying Yahoo will not change anything. INTERNET SEARCH is the purest form of customer service & “sales” EVER. There are virtually zero barriers to entry (there are over 300 by our count). Users/customers can switch in the time it takes to type and bookmark a new url. So, if you can’t deliver results […]

Even if the numbers of a million iPhones being unlocked are correct, that’s a MILLION iPhones walking around all over the world as FREE marketing and advertising for Apple – the most effective advertising of all – because it gives those users the cachet of doing something “not quite legal.” That they are “above the […]

It’s pretty amazing the number of journalists who don’t look at a situation before just plowing ahead and writing words and “a conclusion.” They either choose to ignore the real world or they simply don’t understand it. Either way, it’s appalling. Yes, Amazon’s entry into the “unlocked” DRM free Mp3 market will affect Apple & […]

I knew $97.99 for the 143-carat pinkie ring I bought last year was overpriced. Now, you can get some of your money back from DeBeers … Do you qualify? “People and companies who purchased Diamond Products for personal use, including to give as gifts. This is the Indirect Purchaser “Consumer Subclass.” Yes, you are subclass […]

With Google topping the list, Mattel comes in at #70, pretty impressive considering the tens of thousands of companies not on the list … is one the criteria for making the list ‘being ultra secretive’? JUST KIDDING! Just kidding … sort of 🙂 Here’s the criteria for making the list: “How we pick the 100 […]

Quick, name the perfect product for everyone? Air, the other one? The thing we breathe? Yea, how is that air in Houston in August or in Beijing? Um, not so perfect. Water? Who here only drinks tap? Don’t we like it flavored, carbonated, with taurine, mint or almost anyone other than tap? So, not water […]

To some, Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T blabbing that a 3G iPhone is coming is a slip of the tongue, to some, it’s a well planned metaphoric stab at Steve Jobs and to others, it’s old news. The bottom line is it’s a combination of all three but the consequences are very mimimal. Why? Because […]

As someone who once worked in retail, it’s not hard to get cynical about Christmas – I actually saw & witnessed people buying presents by the pound – actually holding it up and declaring loudly that it’s price to bulk weight ratio was sufficient … sufficient for what? To not be excluded from the reading […]

While Apple is being forced to unlock the iPhone in Europe, it is tragic … because Apple is going to pay so much more in taxes from the HUGE profit they will be making … yea, that’s quite a tragedy. The deal will be much like T-Mobile’s just-announced revised deal in Germany. Get the iPhone […]