Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that more and more sites inflict loud videos on you within seconds after their home page displays. Some bury the unwanted videos in a subsection, such as the Cars area of the Los Angeles Times, which is sponsored by the cars.com automotive site. Worse, the videos aren’t always […]

Since Apple moved the last iPhone upgrade from summer to fall, it is now assumed that this timetable is set in stone.  And I won’t say postponed, because Apple never said they were following a specific upgrade schedule. In any case, five months isn’t too early to take a ride on the speculation train, and it’s […]

Some felt that Apple CEO Tim Cook was being conciliatory when he suggested the company would be willing to work out settlements for those ongoing intellectual property lawsuits involving Samsung, Motorola and other companies. At the same time he didn’t hesitate to assert that he wanted them to invent their own stuff, so it’s not […]

Do you remember back in 1985 when some lame brained executives at Coca Cola decided that the soft drink’s famous recipe had to change? As you know, the unfortunate case of the “New Coke” is regarded as one of the greatest marketing failures of the 20th century. It didn’t take long before we had a […]