ESPN has updated their podcasts for easy access via your iPhone. When you go to ESPN.com, click on the PODCENTER link and if you’re visiting from your iPhone, you should be offered the link on the right hand (above). Tap and instead of having to wade through tiny icons and links, the iPhone page looks […]

According to JV Pixar News, there are rumors of a CARS 2 sequel already in the planning stages. But Pixar said they hated sequels: True, but that was because when they signed their distro deal with Disney, they didn’t realize Toy Story 2 didn’t count in that tally – that they needed a total of […]

Are you ever standing in a store looking at the sale price and wondering – is this a good deal? Well, with the iPhone, wonder no more. I ws staring at a DVD set that was on sale but the line was long, how much was I really saving? Flip out the iPhone, checked out […]

According to CNN today, Mattel is recalling several toys manufactured in China including the “Sarge” die cast toys from the Pixar “Cars” movie assortment because of hazardous lead paint. The recalled Sarge Cars were sold individually and in assortment packs in retail stores nationwide from May 2007 to August 2007 with the markings “7EA” and “China” […]

Over at Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King has posted a  very nice article about why the series created by JK Rowling has been such a success.  WARNING:  there are de facto plot spoilers in his review of the last book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading King’s thoughts as he lays down a very well reasoned train of […]

With South Carolina’s Republican party’s decision (to be announced in NH later this week) to move up their primary to January 19th in 2008, South Carolina has effectively helped encourage a stampede of other states to consider (or defacto move) moving their primaries farther up in the process. This is a bad idea in my […]

Alright, idiotic might be a bit harsh but for someone who alledgely has business reporting & technology reporting experience, however, the dumb question he posed shows an appalling lack of knowledge of not just Apple Computers but the concepts behind branding AND the history of the personal computer market since the 1990’s. In case you […]

While Mitt Romney easily won the recent Iowa straw poll among Republican candidates, it was Mike Huckabee‘s second place finish that is getting all of the ink. The Romney camp spent millions on their effort in Iowa to earn a ‘must win’ for the dollar drives coming soon to fill up ye olde coffers with […]

While it is ingrained us all to cheer and root for the underdog and especially, in the retail business to try and encourage independent businesses, in particular “mom & pop” ones, there are certain realities of selling computers and especially Macs that might just mean that era is a bygone one. Is it unfair when […]

Another of the sessions I attended and blogged about while at ad:tech Chicago was one on whether Millenials were distracted or connected due to their widely regarded ability to multi-task (see: bored). It was a great opportunity to listen to two of the sharpest minds in the business expound on how to actively engage and […]