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Samsung Offers Free Galaxy S smartphones to iPhone 4 users

By admin • Jul 25th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Mobile Market

You know that the marketplace is competitive when you can start getting things for free. Samsung has been giving away free Galaxy S smartphones to those that are sick and tired of their iPhone 4. Samsung has been busy finding ways to take advantage of the iPhone 4 frustration by [...]



BP Caught Altering Images of Oil Spill Process

By admin • Jul 21st, 2010 • Category: Design, Lead Story

The photo above is the REAL image.

This photo is the FAKE image.
Could BP be anymore ridiculous? BP was recently caught altering images on it’s website with no other than photoshop. A picture that was posted over the weekend showed workers in it’s Gulf oil spill command center in Houston monitoring [...]



Facebook Reaches 500 Millionth User

By admin • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Web Technology

Facebook is about to reach a major milestone this week as it reaches it’s 500 millionth user. In only 6 years, the social networking site has gained more users than the population of the United States. Serving every country on the globe, Facebook has reached and connected more people than [...]



Old Spice Guy: Coming to Your Living Room

By admin • Jul 14th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Web Technology

People constantly look for examples on how viral marketing campaigns can really take your product to the next level. Old Spice is a brand that has been around for a while, a deodorant made for the man of men. It recently launched a series of commercials featuring ex-NFL athlete, Isaiah [...]



Consumer Reports Says ‘Meh’ to iPhone 4

By admin • Jul 12th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

Well, it’s as official as it will get. The iPhone 4 has a major flaw in it’s design. I mean major. Consumer Reports, one of the most trusted source in product reviews, came out and said that they would not recommend the iPhone 4 to mobile buyers.

The antenna’s were [...]



AT&T Points Finger at Software Company

By admin • Jul 7th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Mobile Market

It seems like everyone is putting their hands up as the iPhone 4 complaints keep on rolling. AT&T, the second-largest mobile carrier, has now come out and claimed that the slow loading speeds of the iPhone are from software that was provided by Alcatel-Lucent.

One week after Apple Inc. admitted that [...]



Netflix Challenges Premium Cable Stations

By admin • Jul 6th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

Netflix is stepping it up as Hulu and Blockbuster strategies tank. Netflix will be letting it’s subscribers watch movies at the same time they are added to premium cable stations like HBO.

Netflix first became popular with it’s mail-order DVD rental service. It has now exploded as an on-demand streaming service [...]



Absolutely Amazing Gravity-Defying Art

By admin • Jul 3rd, 2010 • Category: Design, Lead Story

With gravity-defying photographs and images of amazing situation that are not computer generated, Li Wei is definitely one of our favorite artist. Wei’s art creates illusions of dangerous appearances from extreme heights to acrobatics.

Li Wei was born in Hubei, China back in 1970 and his art is really categorized as [...]



Google Buys Airline Data Company

By admin • Jul 1st, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Web Technology

Google is moving to buy ITA Software for travel data. The deal will cost Google $700 million which is the equivalent to us buying a stick of gum… The idea behind the deal is for Google to make searches for travel information more targeted.

ITA hosts tons of airline information used [...]



Hulu launches new subscription service

By admin • Jun 30th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Web Technology

The online video site, Hulu, has now launched a paid subscription service for it’s users. For $9.99 a month, subscribers can watch their favorite tv episodes when they want. It’s one giant step at it’s competition against Netflix onDemand services that are putting Blockbuster out of business.

So far the new [...]