Don’t Cry For Me, Cupertino

David Pogue: brilliant, as always:

Good Creative

If you were born before 1970, you probably remember the American Tourister TV commercial. Yes, the one with the gorilla.
Not only was it a good idea, but the copywriting was superb…
“Dear clumsy bellboys, brutal cab drivers, careless doormen, ruthless porters, savage baggage masters and all butter-fingered luggage handlers all over the [...]

Crunch

Interesting. CNET is reporting people will never buy computers without keyboards (iPhone, XBox, PS3, Kindle). And Silicon Alley Insider is judging the Crunchpad will fail:
The device has no local storage, and does not appear to have a slot for add-on storage like a SD card. That means you must have Internet access to do anything [...]

Saved by Mobile Me

You know that new “Find My iPhone” feature? It works. You’ll enjoy reading this entertaining story from Kevin.
Here’s how it starts…
Myself and two compadres, Ryan and Mark, are in Chicago (each of us for the first time) to attend Brickworld, the world’s largest Lego convention. Yes we’re a bunch of dorks. Yes you totally wish you were here too.
Last night, [...]

A Million iPhones

Apple said they sold over a million over the weekend:
Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.
“Customers are voting and [...]

Touch-Screen Monster

I remember reading about Microsoft’s touch -screen table a while back and thought it was very cool.
Seeing it featured on Engadget was entertaining:
Yep, you read that right — Microsoft’s $17,000 big-ass touchscreen table requires a keyboard and mouse to set up, something which isn’t noted in any of the marketing or manuals. Ouch. Hopefully that’ll [...]

iPhone on Verizon

Open up the floodgates: Apple is working on a deal with Verizon Wireless:

Apple has been scouting out EVDO and CDMA Engineers for months in their online iPhone job postings (here, here, here and here).  Yes, some of these skills overlap with UTMS and CDMA can also refer to the broad swath of 3G Technologies…but come [...]

In This Hand, The Palm Pre

Here’s another touch-screen alternative to Apple’s iPhone: the Palm Pre. Introduced at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. Engadget’s got it, as they always do at CES.
Many are hoping this is Palm’s comeback product in the market they once dominated, according to the Wall Street Journal:
The Palm Pre is built upon a new operating system, which [...]