Wednesday = Market Rag
The markets are up lately, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its second highest rate ever.
Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson, will work with Microsoft to develop the next title in the Halo XBox series. This is separate from Halo 3, which Bungie studios is already developing. Jackson is [...]
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both offer an impressive video experience. They also offer improved digital audio. Many people have been slow to upgrade because there are currently two heavily competing formats and the players and disks cost a bundle to take home. Blu-Ray players are still hanging around $1,000.
One British company may have found a way [...]
As the trusty yet archaic library card catalog fades from popularity and indeed existence, one blogger has create a great web-gadget called the Catalog Card Generator.
Designed by John Blyberg, this tool allows you to create your own, customized library card catalogs with whatever you want on them.
I’m fairly certain I am not using the tool [...]
Jackass 2 is the number one movie in America.
Not much else in the way of news today. Saddam was ejected from the courtroom during his trial. A report on CNN shows the Iraq war is making the terrorism threat worse. The Pope mea culpa’ed.
It’s all beginning to run together isn’t it? It’s starting to repeat.
Perhaps [...]
It has finally come down to it.
There are now more televisions in the average American home than there are people.
CNN is reporting on a Nielsen Media Research report indicating that there are 2.73 televisions versus 2.55 people in the typical home.
Where before there was barely one TV set in the living room of select American [...]
Penny Arcade continues to be on with their comical interpretations of all things technological. As one of the original successful web-comics, they have been commenting on everything from John Romero’s hair to their latest impression of video gamers as we near the launch of the Nintendo Wii.
Thus, for eight years viewers have watched Mike Krahulik [...]
Hello out there in PR land. This is the mid-week market rag.
You know you’ve had a bad day when this is on the headline that CNN/Money gives you:
The automaker’s failure to use simple good sense raises questions about company management.
That’s the situation at Chrysler right now. First they announced the possibility of a $600 million [...]
I am pleased to unleash a new, interactive feature of PRrag.com. The PRboard is a way for public relations professionals, journalists and the public to interact, share information and contribute to the ever-growing spectrum of content out there!
There are two important features on the PRboard.
First is the previously promised Buzz Machine. This is where you [...]
A dramatic development and indeed a huge piece of news is flying low and under the radar this morning.
Google News lost a court case in Europe and as a result, the Belgian court that heard the case has ordered Google to stop using content from Belgian newspapers without obtaining permission or paying a royalty/fee to [...]
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