Apple’s 45 Million iPhones in 2008
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.[From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones [...]
Alternate Payment Models
I was pretty intrigued when I saw this, mostly because it’s a really straightforward affiliate marketing concept that uses some product, in my case it was Foxit’s PDF app, as bait for converting a new customer for a service partner.
Although I find it interesting, I remain skeptical just because I can’t imagine the finders fee [...]
Hollywood’s Disconnect
Maybe Hollywood should look at the video game industry to see what is selling to American audiences. Despite Hollywood’s best efforts, there is no audience for a movie that portrays American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines as criminals, thugs, and dishonorable cowards, and Hollywood’s version of “dramatics” is clearly not what audiences want. One would [...]
Zimbabwe “Elections”
I won’t hold my breath about a change of power in Zimbabwe. Reports of voter intimidation and the regular “irregularities” are already rolling in, suggesting that Mugabe’s thugocracy will continue unabated.
For those of you who wonder why Zimbabwe has gotten under my skin the way it has, all I can say is that every Somalia, [...]
Willie Fiddles While T5 Burned
UPDATE: hat tip to Jackie Danicki for sending me this link via twitter.
yeah, I always have a string quartet at my “staff communication events”. Seriously, did this spokeswoman comprehend the idiocy of that statement before saying it? With so many flights canceled in the first three days, 20% of the European flights yesterday alone, they [...]
Dear LiveLeak, The Problem With Beliefs
UPDATE: LiveLeak has had a change of heart, Fitna is now available on their service and they have issued another statement. I commend LiveLeak for changing their position but have to question the intellectual honesty of the statemen, which says, to paraphrase, that they are unbiased yet personally offended by the film.
Having them isn’t hard, [...]
Google News Delivers
Sometimes you have to wonder if someone from Google News is deliberately placing headlines for maximum irony. Check out the “10 reasons to fly through Heathrow’s new terminal” article sandwiched between the Heathrow in chaos stories. In all fairness the Forbes piece does acknowledge the chaos but then goes on to list the Tiffany boutique, [...]
Man Machine Failures Plague Heathrow Terminal Opening
Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opened yesterday with a resounding thud that left travelers and employees stranded and BAA and British Airways officials red faced and shamed. This is as much a failure of man as it is the systems that have been designed and implemented.
There is simply no excuse for employees not being able to log [...]
The Origami Space Shuttle
This is actually really cool, but considering there is no opportunity to instrument a paper airplane I am unclear on how you would study it’s flight effectively.
Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It’s no joke. A prototype passed [...]
GTA IV Trailer
Video game trailers are so much better than movie trailers… too bad this one isn’t embeddable, they are missing a huge viral opportunity.
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