A few weeks after the iPhone hit the market, AT&T sent out an extensive 20-question survey (covered in this post). Now, AT&T has followed up with another email survey – some questions the same – obviously to gauge differences between mid-July and now mid-October but others are more detailed in asking what you would like […]

Most successful pirate was beautiful and tough … “The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors — and she did it all without the help of facial hair. When a Chinese pirate captain named Cheng married a beautiful prostitute in 1801, he wasn’t […]

No real surprises as summed up by Mattel’s CEO … recall cost us money, couldn’t sell as much stuff, Barbie down – Pixar CARS part of division up 29% (division also includes electronic games, Radica): “Despite the challenges the company faced during the third quarter, the business has performed fairly well, even with some supply […]

Nintendo Power magazine, the house organ of Nintendo (please make your own joke here) will now be published by FUTURE out of SF. Future Publishing, not exactly the Conde Nast of publishing when it comes to budgets, is not likely to offer many relocation benefits to the current staff … and not to be rude […]

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 […]

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 […]

The current fight between the media companies versus the illegal boys versus iTunes is not much of a fight. The media companies stride into the ring, all prettified up – wearing satin trunks, doing exaggerated neck warm-ups and trying the intimidation stare … sure, they are still 6 feet tall but now they’re just 135 […]

In the midst of the corporate gamesmanship negotiations between NBCU & Apple, on the surface, NBCU’s linkup with Amazon might seem to have major impact. After all, Amazon is the leading ecommerce site on the internet in traffic and sales but that pretty much means nothing when it comes to online on-demand entertainment. Sure, Apple […]

“The NPD Group in the U.S. and GfK of Germany in Europe, claims that consumers around the world have purchased a total of nine million Wii’s, 8.9 million Xbox 360 units and 3.7 million PS3s.” Link to article. Here’s our take as to why Nintendo is #1 and will be for several years and perhaps […]

One of the arguments that get trotted out when Apple wants to maintain iTunes video/music pricing (or lower prices) is that all it will do is help Apple sell more iPods. Um, so? How is that different than DVD’s on sale for $3.99 or $5.99 every week at Circuit City & Best Buy … are […]