Is Apple’s iPhone-without-a-phone the McDonald’s Happy Meal of mobile communications?

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Peter Farago of the mobile analytics firm Flurry uses data from its November report to make the case that Apple (AAPL) is quietly — and successfully — using the iPod touch to lock in a loyal base of under-age users [...]

Here is a little experiment – how would you describe your blog in 120 characters or less?
Now, here is the reasoning behind this experiment – Twitter!
Twitter is forcing people to become more succinct in their communication habits given all you have is 140 characters to post about yourself or to carry on a conversation.
Lets take [...]

Just taking a break from Christmas music, digging out of the foot of snow and getting ready for a family dinner — Great song from the Muppets, a way back playback, Time in a Bottle with the Old Scientist.

Tags: ads, muppets, throwback

An Iraqi journalist flung his shoes at Dubya as he addressed a news conference in Baghdad — “”This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog”  reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi yelled as he hurled the footwear. 

Throwing shoes at somebody is a supreme insult in the Middle East. Iraqis whacked a statue of [...]

My reaction to this news —- Finally!
View the IT World Canada article here.

Tags: Travel, business, Air Canada, WIFI

Ok, I thought it was a misprint when I saw this on Sports Illustrated today — Slovakia women’s hockey team won their Olympic qualifier 82 – 0 over Bulgaria. 
Bulgaria was eliminated from Olympic consideration after scoring one goal and conceding 192 in the tournament.
How a team could score more goals than minutes in the [...]

Adam and Jamie, hosts of Mythbusters, compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls.  This was presented at NVIDIA’s NVISION Show

Tags: mythbusters, nvidia, nvision, paint, gun, video, game, [...]

So as we all wait to see if Obama will end up using Twitter to announce his VP running mate or just use traditional SMS – either way the news will hit twitter faster than a web newbie can figure out how to spell the microblog services name. 
Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Joe Biden [...]

So after a 4 hour opening ceremony, of what could be the best Olympics ever, Canada is tied for 1st place in the medal standings (as of Day 13 Canada is tied for 20th) (Canadian Viewers – CBC listing of daily schedules .
Breaking news…. Olympic Horse doping Jeez.
Olympic wrestler punished by [...]

Pepsico and Enable did a great job on this ad -http://www.pepsi.com/bobshouse/
 Talk about guts to air a silent ad during the most expensive per second broadcast media event of the year.