For those outside the United States, we have a new shopping holiday – BLACK FRIDAY. The day after Thanksgiving … of course, now Thanksgiving is essentially a day of eating, napping and football watching … with virtually all stores other than grocery stores closed – 24 hours is just about all that most Americans can […]

Recently Radiohead experimented with the release of their latest album by allowing fans to download their latest album as digital mp3 files AND set their own price … Internet monitoring company Comscore extrapolated from their users (that willingly let them track their online usage) that 38% paid zero for the tracks … and also that […]

By now, you’ve heard the Writer’s Guide is on strike for a better percentage of the residuals (royalties) from non-broadcast revenue (DVD’s, internet, etc …). As usual, the lawyer suits running the networks are nitwits. First, without writers – you have NOTHING. A lot of people smirk and claim that what’s on network TV is […]

KB Toys which just emerged from bankrupty has decided to close another 156 stores (up from an original 30). The original Washington Post story only covers the store closings in the DC/VA area and other reports on which other stores around the country are trickling in. The managers and ex-managers tell sad & mad stories […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]