RIM, in an attempt to shore up its flailing Blackberry platform, is going to offer a streaming music service integrated into their Blackberry Messenger program. According to RIM, the BBM program is one of the world’s largest mobile social networks and is the focus of retrenchment efforts focused at restoring prestige to the Blackberry brand […]
Read MoreFrom Topgear.com, named after one of my favorite tv shows, comes this story about a hot as hell Kia concept coming in the future, leading the site to speculate if the German makes are in the crosshairs in Korea. Click here for pictures.
Read MoreGeneric clothing supplier Urban Outfitters is being sued for using young girls and such in their ad campaigns. If you’ve ever seen an Urban Outfitters ad or read anything about the company’s infamous CEO, then you’ll recall a pastiche approach to photo advertisement composition: part 90s-heroin chic, part pedophile, all weird. Well, now they’re being […]
Read MoreHewlett Packard’s stock price has dropped some 20% today in a dramatic reaction to the company’s earnings and spin-off proposals yesterday, approaching a six-year low and drawing into question the strategic calculation that went into the proposal to dump Palm, TouchPad, WebOS and consumer-side PCs. The last time HP’s stock price did so poorly was […]
Read MoreRemember PDAs? Maybe I’m dating myself, but the original market innovator, Palm, after being acquired in 2009 for approximately $2 billion by HP, is now a defunct concern. As news broke yesterday of HP’s spin-off of its consumer PC business and its cessation of Palm, WebOS and TouchPad endeavors, it quickly became clear that 1) […]
Read MoreGTFO. No, seriously, this is the most bizarre thing I have read in a while. Restaurant patron kicked out after tweeting insult about bartender? How in the world did the GM of the restaurant find out about this in time? It just shows the increasingly interconnected world we live in and how we all need […]
Read MoreYes. Yes. Yes. One of the most influential films in terms of tone and setting for dystopian futures, Blade Runner is coming back. Ridley Scott is going to direct some kind of sequel to the 80s classic and I, for one, cannot wait. Blade Runner was so influential in late-80s and early-90s anime and Japanese videogames […]
Read MoreThis is pretty damn embarrassing actually, but only in that kind of Ron Artest starting a riot kind of way because I’m more embarrassed I didn’t get to see it in media res like this golden youtube gem. One minute I’m watching basketball, then I’m watching a brawl and I have no idea why. An […]
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