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Hooked on Drugs!
For many years Madison Avenue pigged out at the trough of tobacco advertising. Back in the Mad Men days, cigarettes, booze and car accounts paid for many a Westchester mansion, country club fees and the odd boat or two. But with the ever tightening restrictions...
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Oct 22 2009, 04:05 AM
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Microsoft does mediocre… Again!
Microsoft, and their agency, CP+B seem to think they hit a nerve by attacking Apple on price in the "Laptop Hunter" TV campaign currently running here in the US (maybe it’s over there as well, let me know) because they've now decided to...
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May 12 2009, 04:30 PM
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The future is here… Again!
I was intrigued to read last week that Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, now has the first example of the “Espresso Book Machine” in the UK. This is the digital one that prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers...
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Apr 27 2009, 04:39 AM
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Jeff Bezos... Man of the future?
There's an interesting piece in The New York Times about how Amazon has begun a limited testing of its new Video on Demand service , which will replace its Unbox store . The big difference between the two is that the new service will stream movies...
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Jul 20 2008, 04:35 PM
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Apple schmucks about to be hosed... Again?
With less than two months to go before Steve Jobs does his Moses coming down from the mountain act at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, all the buzz is about him unveiling a new iPhone with high-speed Internet access and tools for business...
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May 02 2008, 05:27 PM
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Did Ken kill Barbie?
Today's Wall Street Journal has a story about how Mattel is struggling to breathe life back into its flagship brand, Barbie--more than a year after problems surfaced. A great illustration of the tough job the toy industry faces in attracting the fickle...
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Apr 22 2008, 06:26 PM
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Harry Potter my arse... Where's the avatar with the big knockers?
In the you have to love this category... Word out today that "In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds. Just as physical movement changed the interface of gaming...
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Mar 23 2008, 11:41 PM
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GodJobs strikes fear into the wankerberry community!
Over here in the US, while most people on the East Coast were out doing their three martini lunches, they probably missed the news, Apple just unrolled its roadmap for the iPhone this morning, and it charts a route to the heart of the uber wonky, business...
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Mar 07 2008, 03:34 AM
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Steve Jobs turns even nastier!
When I lived in California, I worked on the Apple account at Chiat for several years, I can tell you the mercurial temperament of Steve Jobs is a fact. Short on patience and long on acidic ridicule, he takes the concept of feedback to withering heights...
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Mar 06 2008, 03:28 AM
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Microsoft has seen the future, and it's online.
The software giant is ramping up its online services and opening up all its hosted e-mail, collaboration and video conferencing software to small and medium-size businesses. Just last fall they began allowing large corporations to test out all this stuff...
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Mar 04 2008, 03:59 AM
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EU kicks Microsoft in the nuts!
As if it didn't have enough on its plate with the Yahoo bid, Microsoft got a mighty big rap on the knuckles today when EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, said, "Talk is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive." How expensive? Well...
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Feb 28 2008, 02:58 AM
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Mini my arse!
Here in the States, the Mini has been quite a success storry, selling 35,000 cars last year, which may not sound a lot compared to the big brands, but for a niche product, it's done extremely well. So, I'll be curious to see if they screw things...
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Feb 17 2008, 12:21 AM
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The "King of Beers" announces another shitty product!
I had to laugh when I read in today's AdAge about the launch of a new Budweiser brand... "BL Lime" which is apparently a lime flavored version of Bud Light. I can't imagine anything more dreadful. Most light beers are pretty tasteless...
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Feb 13 2008, 02:53 PM
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You will be Googlerized... It is pointless to resist!
With the recent news that Google is introducing some kind of encyclopedia tool by the name of "Knol," which is supposed to kill Wikipedia, it was interesting to read the opening paragraph to Rob Hof's article at BusinessWeek.com about the...
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Dec 18 2007, 05:02 PM
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Is The Golden Compass turning into a lead balloon?
If you needed further proof that no one knows what they are doing when it comes to forecasting what people want, whether it be politics, music, films or advertising (particularly advertising,) it was the news that this weekends release, here in the US...
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Dec 10 2007, 05:08 AM
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