Death, Cancer, Forced Labor: A Celebration of Apple's Deranged Metaphors
A journalist conscripted into writing propaganda. A sad pharmacist compelled to make drugs used in lethal injections. A doctor FORCED TO GIVE SOMEONE CANCER.
Two Months Later, Amazon's Still Complaining About That Times Hit Piece
It’s been over two months since The New York Times published a lengthy and rather scathing report on what it’s like to work at Amazon. (Working at Amazon is soul-crushing, by the way.) But Amazon just can’t stop defending itself.
Jeff Bezos: If You Have a Problem With Amazon, Email Me
Jeff Bezos hopes his minions are “having fun” and “laughing along the way.” The mega-billionaire said as much in a staff memo to address the accusations of widespread villainy and abuse in the ranks of Amazon’s best and brightest. “Dear Amazonians,” the memo begins. It should say: “Dear Amazombies.”
Report: Verizon's Tech News Site Will Ignore the NSA and Net Neutrality
Who doesn't want to have their own tech site these days? According to the Daily Dot, Verizon's recently launched SugarString will have two very conspicuous holes in its tech coverage: U.S. government surveillance and net neutrality. What a big fat coincidence that Verizon is embroiled in both.
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THIS IS A SCANDAL!Apparently the Kindle Fire HD versus iPad Mini comparative ad in Amazon's front page has "FLUNKED THE REALITY TEST"! Stop the fucking presses! As some astute [journalists/fanboys/amateur PR people] have discovered, everything is correct except for the fact that the iPad has stereo speakers, not mono!…
Meet Nestle's Squadron of Internet Comment Warriors
Every company has to deal with people who talk about it on the Internet, and different ones handle it differently. Nestle for instance, maintains an elite team of Digital Accelerators that, as an article by Reuters reveals, watches the wide world of Internet comments like a hawk.
Did Chick-fil-A Pretend to Be a Teenage Girl on Facebook? (Updated)
Chick-fil-A, home of chicken-loving bigots, is in the middle of a PR nightmare. After Chick-fil-A's COO admitted to being anti-gay, the Jim Henson Company (bless their heart) pulled their toys from Chick-fil-A's kids meals. Only Chick-fil-A claimed the toys were pulled because of a "possible safety issue". That, of…
Meet the Dozen Tech Publicists who Secretly Control the Media
The publicists and communications managers in the technology industry have tough jobs. They have to spin crap products into good stories. And let's face it, most of them are powerless. But not these dozen PR pros.
Apple Beefs Up On Gaming PR with Alleged Nintendo, Activision Hires
If the rumor that Apple is poaching PR talent from gaming companies plays out as fact in the coming days, let there be no more doubt the company is continuing to position iOS as a viable game development destination. [AppleInsider]
Apple's Ending the Free iPhone 4 Case Program September 30
As expected, Apple has reevaluated their iPhone case initiative: "We are discontinuing the free case program on all iPhone 4s sold after September 30, 2010." But they'll still give you one if you complain.
HTC Disputes Apple Cellphone Demo with Numbers of Its Own
In the wake of Apple's peculiar iPhone 4 Strikes Back! press conference, you'd be normal if you expected miffed competitors, especially after Jobs threw the likes of RIM, HTC and Nokia under the "Antennagate" bus. Now HTC is hitting back:
BP Takes PR Lessons From Domino's
Click to viewWhy fix the spill when you can fix the brand? That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? We've seen how BP deals with coffee spills. Here's how they deal with rebranding.
An Interesting Product Would Probably Work
I bet the Walkman would have trended, if Twitter was around then. I bet even Betamax would have burbled to the surface. Hell, I bet the first Walkman phone would have trended, back in 2005. So just do... anything. [SonyEricssonNA]
Introducing the BitterPeek
Yesterday, BlackBerry users across the country lost BIS email service, forcing them to switch to webmail, texts, calls, VoIP, instant messages or Tweets—for hours! But the real news is what didn't go down, rite guys?
Panasonic Bragging About Being #1 in Cordless Phones Is Kind of a Bummer
Oh, other companies are being hit by this so-called recession? Not Panasonic! It's headed to the top of the tech world on a pile of cordless phones. They're gonna ride this wave forever!
How Motorola's Clumsy Keynote Hurt the Cliq
Everyone's been waiting for the Cliq, Motorola's desperate-but-anticipated dive into Androidery, and we were ready to be excited about it. Problem is, you wouldn't have known from the launch, which was somewhat mishandled.
Psystar Sobers Up, Lawyers Up, Prepares to Die Go to Court
Oh, thank god, we almost went a whole month without hearing from everyone's favorite EULA-flaunters: Psystar is back, again, and ready to fight, again, except this time with real-sounding lawyers, and without the outward appearance of insanity.
Man, Don't Choices Suck?
Sony Ericsson's official Twitter account asks the critical question of our age, "Mobile Apps: too many choices?" The answer choices are, um, interesting.
Palm Tattles on Apple For Bad USB Etiquette (And They Would Know)
Did you hear about that Palm Pre update yesterday? The one that re-enables iTunes syncing? Yes, probably, but Palm would still very much like to emphasize to you, and now the USB Implementers Forum, that it's fighting the good fight.
Did Microsoft Just Announce a Zune Phone on Twitter?
The blogs are buzzing over some tweets from a Twitter account allegedly run by the Office 2010 team, noting what looks like the outright announcement of a Zune phone. Something doesn't feel right. Updated
