Yep, it’s time to stop references to VCR clocks blinking, Mayberry, Zoom, and even Tonya Harding. It’s time to make references to Twitter, BSG, Pirates, and American Idol. You’re still okay on Batman, Caddyshack, Spock (not the doctor) and The Simpsons. Journos Are Alienating Readers With ‘Retro’ References – Editor & Publisher.

As a lead in to the new STAR TREK film, there is a ‘prequel’ story by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (the director and writers of the film) that is available in traditional form and as an iPhone app. Star Trek: Countdown (click on graphic or links to launch iTunes). The iVerse ‘comic [...]

Couldn’t resist the obvious baseball cliche but MLB.com At Bat 2009 is pretty great … You’d expect the obvious features such as live boxscores or even live pitch tracking … And as you can see at the bottom of the screen, you can tap to access (from left to right), GAMEDAY is live pitch & [...]

So far, what have learned from the Microsoft ads so far? If you want a 17″ screen and have less than $700 to spend, you want an HP … and when you are “picky,” you wind up with a 17″ HP as your “picky-person’s” choice. Both are “the truth,” … Other Microsoft – technically true [...]

Of course, when people think of presentations, they think of PowerPoint but honestly, it’s time to stop … It’s time to step up to KEYNOTE … Here are just some of the theme designs available to choose from … Now look at the themes in PowerPoint …Night and 75 Days later … But I think [...]

The Palm Pre is getting a lot of buzz with technocrats and techno-nerds and I count myself as one but in the world of people who ask questions when buying a computer such as “Does this get the internets?” Palm means tree or the part of your hand you slap for a high five. 10) [...]

The new Microsoft ads are an interesting tact – finally admitting that they are the $.99 Store of technology – nothing really wrong with that but they are basically preaching to the choir. We know from NPD data that WIN/MS marketshare with retail buyers of personal computers is down to 34% marketshare (Apple has the [...]

At first I thought it was THE ONION pulling my leg – I thought haha, got me again … But nope, it’s real. So basically they are willing to spend $20 million on a new name campaign, changing corporate signs, getting new urls and junking a million business cards but they’re not willing to spend [...]

It took a while but Warner Bros. FINALLY realized – hey, there might not be 2 million fans of ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS but if a couple thousand want a copy, they’ll pay upfront for it, press one DVD and print some artwork on it – $19.95 – more than they normally make at wholesale [...]

As eBay is discovering through rapidly dropping sales – we pretty much loathe eBay. The current feeling of the general public towards eBay is the result of extraordinary arrogant customer relations since about 2000. Note that I did not use the word ‘service,’ and this should be a warning to all companies who go that [...]