Yahoo! has shown its true colors, and they’re not Fox gold and blue. CNN has reported MySpace drew more American website visitors in November than Yahoo!, for the first time ever. MySpace, the News Corporation-owned social networking site has been gaining on the giant Internet directory for some time now. While this does raise serious [...]
Here’s another one of those top 10 lists. 1. DLO HomeDock Deluxe: A home entertainment center for the iPod which is the world’s first iPod dock that lets you view and select your iPod’s music on your TV screen, allowing you to navigate, select and play your songs using the included 18-button remote control. 2. [...]
This just came over the wire. You be the judge. 10. SONY PLAYSTATION(R)PORTABLE PSP(TM) Who says games are just for kids? Even executives will love the fun and excitement of the Sony Playstation(R) in transit! Much more than simply a mobile Playstation, the PSP(TM) is a lightweight and compact portable entertainment center with MP3 and [...]
In a case of that could only happen in the South, an irate South Carolinian mother had her 12-year-old son arrested Sunday after he opened his Christmas presents early. The Smoking Gun website published the actual police reports showing the boy charged with Petty Larceny. Officers Michael Reid and Andrea Smith responded to the “scene” [...]
One of the first articles on PRrag.com came back in June when I declared my doubt that the Nintendo Wii would result in a modern gaming revolution and completely change the way people play games overnight, as Nintendo loyalists claimed it would shortly after E3. To say that I took fire for that article would [...]
The Market Rag took a little election-week vacation, but it’s back now and ready to talk shop. We have entered the age of Playstation 3 and Wii. Sony will sell its 400,000 American units promptly and unleash 6 million units by March, according to a CNNMoney article. The same coverage also points out a glitch [...]
Sony will release their next generation video game console tomorrow in its home market of Japan, where gaming fever is in full force and effect this holiday season with an Xbox 360 upgrade and Nintendo Wii also set to launch. Nintendo Wii will be released in the United States on Nov. 19. The relative success [...]
“One Laptop Per Child” seeks to put the power of computing into each set of tiny hands. Nicholas Negroponte set out to build a $100 laptop so that children in third world nations could get on the Internet with everyone else. People thought he was crazy. Intel knows he is. But in November, Negroponte’s dream [...]
It seems some advertisers don’t anymore, but the Market Rag does. This is the Mid-Week Market Rag for Oct. 18, 2006. The rebuilding, or deconstruction, of AOL is well underway. After May’s announcement that it would close its Jacksonville, Fla. facility, the dethroned Internet service pontiff is closing its Albuquerque call center according to a [...]
Mid-week is synonymous with the Market Rag. Firstly, Google is up in trading today after spending over a billion and a half dollars acquiring YouTube. Meanwhile News Corp is down today as the details of this trade begin to trickle down and bad news for the newspaper business continues. According to the Wall Street Journal, [...]