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 & [...]

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 Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) is issuing a lottery for those interested in gaining one of the few remaining positions within one of their planned shelters. The IHC began developing Operation Safe Haven decades ago in secret in advance of the what is projected to be worldwide calamities occuring on December 12, 2012. To [...]

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 [...]

In the early 1990′s, AT&T knew the world of communications was changing rapidly … the consumer internet was still virtually all dialup but the future was so bright, we all had to wear shades … so they create a series of ads highlighting wireless and wired connectivity possibilities … Keep in mind, the 1993 AT&T [...]

As general interest magazine sales are dropping (mags like Florida Ferret Monthly are doing fine publishers are trying to figure out to customize the mags (or newspapers) the way we surf the net … here’s the latest try from Time, Inc … Surf over to http://www.timeinc.com/mine – fill out a short questionnaire and pick 5 [...]

As if the Palm Pre had any shot of making a difference, Palm is done. Sure, the Palm Pre looks like a nice phone and sure there are some nice features but just like many Mp3 makers way back in 2001 – some with nice features but none with THE IPOD. And none are the [...]

Many people especially analysts who should know better seem to think that because Apple Macs are personal computers, the company, its products & its market conditions should be judged under the same criteria as Windows PC’s in the personal computer marketplace … however, the evidence is clear that they are in DIFFERENT market segments. Of [...]