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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Coca Cola is going to introduce a 120-flavor choice dispenser … that’s right, not 8 or even 16 flavors but 120! “The device uses higher-concentrate ingredients to serve up to 120 beverages in the same amount of space as the current eight-valve machine. Consumers will be able to choose from a wide variety of brands [...]

Even Snapple is switching out from High Fructose Corn Syrup to real sugar or even better, real cane sugar as us here on the West Coast can get the REAL THING – Coca Cola made with cane sugar at Costco. Corn Syrup is okay as a gasoline substitute but in our drinks? It’s got that [...]

Microsoft is just NOT a consumer company. It’s Oracle, it’s Cisco, it’s Caterpillar Construction … all fine and perhaps even great companies but NOT consumer companies. It’s company culture and the people that they hire. It’s a company built on hounding you until you sign the maintenance contract. The difference in an enterprise or government [...]