BJ Gallagher: Apple and AT&T: Why Monopolies Make People Mad

Steve Jobs says that the iPhone antenna problem “has been blown so out of proportion that it’s incredible.” He seems puzzled and annoyed by the intense rage, frustration, and criticism bombarding him. What he doesn’t know is that whenever you establish a monopoly, you had better make sure that your product or service is perfect [...]

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BJ Gallagher: Apple and AT&T: Why Monopolies Make People Mad

Steve Jobs says that the iPhone antenna problem “has been blown so out of proportion that it’s incredible.” He seems puzzled and annoyed by the intense rage, frustration, and criticism bombarding him. What he doesn’t know is that whenever you establish a monopoly, you had better make sure that your product or service is perfect [...]

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Tina Wells: Top 5 Back-to-School Campaigns

It’s hard to judge we have come to the mid-point of summer, and with a new school year rapidly approaching, back to school campaigns are beginning to surface in the media. With that in mind, I wanted to impart with you the top five campaigns that I reckon will be most effective in targeting the [...]

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Alex Geana: Something Important Is Happening

We have come to accept ourselves. Come to stipulations with the last few years, the new world order – of sorts. We are spending a lot of money on the latest cell phone technology, then downloading applications that turn our cinema into a touch from the seventies, when cool kids walked around with Hipstamatic Cameras [...]

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Apple: iPhone 4 Drops More Calls Than iPhone 3GS

SEATTLE — Heartburn from some people about the iPhone 4’s antenna design have overshadowed many buyers’ observations that the newest smart phone from Apple Inc. gets far better reception than previous models.

As it turns out, the iPhone 4 drops more calls than the older iPhone 3GS – “less than one additional dropped call per 100,” [...]

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Youth Radio — Youth Media International: iSchadenfreude

The game of cat and mouse that tech writers play with huge companies has gotten out of hand. Today Apple seemed to take that poisoned relationship head on.

“We’re not perfect.”

That’s the sentiment Steve Jobs opened with in today’s unprecedented “mea culpa” in response to a highly criticized design flaw in its hugely well loved iPhone [...]

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Simon Sinek: I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising

What do you do if nearly every consumer despises nearly every product you yield?

This is exactly what has happened with advertising today.

Reckon about the lengths people go to to avoid watching ads on TV. As soon as they come on, we lunge for the remote to change the channel. We buy expensive DVRs [...]

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Travis Nichols: The E-Book Ugly Stick

As sales of e-books on various platforms continue to rise — Publisher’s Weekly reported a 176% increase over the past year — poetry appears to be getting lost in the shuffle.

Hillel Italie filed a tale this week for the AP detailing how contemporary poetry is not only underrepresented in the e-book marketplace, but [...]

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Need Murder Tips? There’s An App For That (VIDEO)

Apple is always saying that with the iPhone, no matter what you want to do, “there’s an app for that.” But is there really an app for everything? In a video for Amusing Or Die, Emma Stone proves that there really is an app for whatever you want to do, including murdering your boyfriend after [...]

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Microsoft Exec Mocks iPhone 4’s Antenna Issues

Some are calling the iPhone 4’s antenna issues a software glitch. Some are calling for a recall of the phone. And someone is calling it Apple’s Windows Vista.

That someone is Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO.

Turner criticized Apple’s iPhone 4, which has been shown to lose signal strength when held a certain way, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner [...]

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