Monthly Archives: August 2011

New Sony Reader WiFi

Click = big Sony has collapsed their Reader offerings from three — Pocket, Touch, and Daily — down to one new model: Reader WiFi. A 6″ eInk screen with IR-based multitouch, WiFi (B/G/N), browser, stylus, 2Gb of internal storage with … Continue reading

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No Harry Potter Sony Reader Bundle Exclusive

Sony announced the new Reader WiFi today. I’ll have another post later. Just wanted to prominently say it looks like I was totally wrong about Sony having a Harry Potter Reader exclusive bundle. Here is their mention of Harry Potter … Continue reading

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Todd Bradley Really Needs To Man Up!

Dig this. It’s from HP itself: PSG is the leading manufacturer of personal computers in the world and had annual revenues of approximately $41 billion in fiscal year 2010. PSG enjoys leading global market positions in consumer and commercial PCs. … Continue reading

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Genius Mad Man Jerry Della Femina

Forget AMC’s Mad Men. The real Mad Men were far more adventurous. Anyone with an entrepreneurial streak should readily understand the seat-of-your-pants ride the breakthrough advertising agencies of the 1960s had. Tech today really has it easy: You have hardware … Continue reading

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The HP TouchPad Is the New Avis

Perhaps I’m getting my hopes up too much. But somehow Apotheker was convinced to do another run of the HP TouchPad — and that’s a chance that just shouldn’t be wasted. HP tried to be cool and hip with its … Continue reading

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HP TouchPad: The Tablet That Wouldn’t Die

Reuters: HP resurrects TouchPad for one last go at the iPad My own little tribute. Song from Rock Follies of ’77. Lyrics.

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HP: Fail To Win!

Oh, this is terrible. Done in MSPaint. All I have. But this is the kind of cheeky advertising HP should be doing. Click = big I don’t know how Apotheker was convinced to do another production run, but this chance … Continue reading

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HP TouchPad Goes Zombie: Final New Production Run

More TouchPads on the Way Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. So that’s what Bryna meant: Your new found love for the TouchPad has … Continue reading

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Ray Bradbury In A Prune Commercial

See? That was advertising once upon a time!

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HP Has 100,000 TouchPad Go Parts. Build Them!

See, this is why I pine for the days of the 1960s. Advertising had balls. Try to sell something like that today! HP sticks suppliers with 100,000 unmade TouchPad Go tablets I suggest that HP should do exactly that!

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