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Below is an example of some recent company-mandated "fun" at the new Microsoft Store, featuring a team of badly choreographed and surprisingly puffy faux hipsters that obviously weren't hired for their ability to cut a rug. The whole thing comes off as a cross between Dance Night at the local senior center and the world's worst Johnny Rocket's, minus the food. Brace yourself -- here it comes...
Date Published: Nov 17, 2009 - 8:43 pm
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who recently called Apple's marketshare growth a "rounding error" in his world (and if anybody should know about that sort of thing, it'd be a Microsoft guy), has just secured yet another big, fat government contract -- as a spokesmodel:
Date Published: Nov 16, 2009 - 6:16 pm
An example of the dangers of unproofed templates in the newspaper business...
..which could also be a tribute to one of our all-time favorite TV character names:
..which could also be a tribute to one of our all-time favorite TV character names:
Date Published: Nov 16, 2009 - 3:40 pm
Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield debate the Mac vs. PC issue, Tarantino-style.
Date Published: Nov 13, 2009 - 7:36 am
In a refreshing display of candor, Microsoft partner group manager Simon Aldous freely acknowledged Windows 7's debt to Mac OS X for the OS's revised look-and-feel. Microsoft wasted no time in throwing Aldous under the bus, calling his comments "inaccurate and uninformed." Aldous posted an update on his personal blog that says everyhting is "just fine" brtween him and the company, and even released a photo of himself posing beside a proof for the next MS print campaign for Windows 7:
Date Published: Nov 12, 2009 - 9:15 am
This weekend, Macinquirer goes Tarantino:
The Weekend Dotcomic: Only on Macinquirer.com. We're tryin' Ringo. We're tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.™
The Weekend Dotcomic: Only on Macinquirer.com. We're tryin' Ringo. We're tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.™
Date Published: Nov 11, 2009 - 10:18 pm
The whole Social Media experience explained via a simple Venn Diagram.
More explainers here.
More explainers here.
Date Published: Nov 10, 2009 - 6:37 am
This item may be close to some kind of record for most tech buzzwords in one sentence:
Worm rickrolls unsecured jailbroken iPhones via SSH
That, friends, is just about as close to perfect as you're gonna get -- until the day YouTube spreads XML malware to the Apple Tablet via a LOLcats/Boxxy mashup vid with a Jonathan Coulton soundtrack. Well done, TUAW!
Worm rickrolls unsecured jailbroken iPhones via SSH
That, friends, is just about as close to perfect as you're gonna get -- until the day YouTube spreads XML malware to the Apple Tablet via a LOLcats/Boxxy mashup vid with a Jonathan Coulton soundtrack. Well done, TUAW!
Date Published: Nov 09, 2009 - 7:26 pm
The user in this Windows 7 ad from Australia may have bigger problems than spyware and malware on his PC.
Date Published: Nov 09, 2009 - 5:49 pm
Denver, Colorado finished fifth in a recent online listing of the brainiest cities in the US. The Denver Daily News apparently celebrated by handing the story over to a headline writer from...well, let's just say somewhere way further down the list:
Date Published: Nov 09, 2009 - 3:00 pm
Apple and Microsoft had an intriguing exchange at Tech League Bowling Night. Many White Russians died to bring us this information.
Date Published: Nov 06, 2009 - 6:45 am
The makers of Twitter Peek, which is already being hailed as America's least capable mobile gizmo, have just made it easier to part with your money for a device of dubious utility by introducing GetPeek for iPhone. At the crucial moment in the transaction, the app presents the greatest dialog box in tech history:
Okay, we made it all up. But it would be refreshing, wouldn't it?
Date Published: Nov 05, 2009 - 2:27 pm
From Fortune magazine's excellent gallery of rarely seen photos of Steve Jobs: In 1996, the wunderkind returns to the family garage where it all began 20 years before, and can't resist showing off the calligraphy skills he picked up at Reed College:
Date Published: Nov 05, 2009 - 12:32 pm
Coming this weekend: Apple and Microsoft go bowling. Mayhem and White Russians ensue:
The Weekend Dotcomic: exclusively at MacInquirer.com. You want a toe? We can get you a toe.™
The Weekend Dotcomic: exclusively at MacInquirer.com. You want a toe? We can get you a toe.™
Date Published: Nov 05, 2009 - 11:51 am
Cutl of Mac has an interview with Ken Segall, a former creative director at TBWA/Chiat/Day, best known as Apple’s longtime advertising agency. The major focus is Segall’s claim to be the man responsible for virtually every major Macintosh marketing idea of the past decade and a half. Says Ken “I’m the author of the Think Different campaign, and the guy who came up with the whole ‘i’ thing, starting with iMac.”
It sounds a lot like a guy who’s now stuck creating web ads for Dell reliving his Glory Days, though Segall does drop the revelation that Steve Jobs originally hated the name iMac, and had a list of his own names -- which the rest of the team thought were absolute high-tech horseapples. He describes one Steve-generated name as so bad “it would curdle your blood.”
Okay -- now we’re interested.
Ken doesn’t get specific about the SteveNames, but thanks to a guy we know who used to ride-share with a chick who once dated the landscaper at One Infinite Loop, we’ve managed to track down a copy of Steverino’s original baby-name list for the iMac. With apologies to David Letterman, here they are...
Steve Jobs’ Top Ten iMac Name Suggestions Rejected By Ken Segall
10. Avatar
9. Synergy
8. MacNext
7. Rounded, Flattened Cube
6. Lisa 97
5. James Bondi
4. MobileMe
3. MacGoldblum
2. Chumby
1. iPod
It sounds a lot like a guy who’s now stuck creating web ads for Dell reliving his Glory Days, though Segall does drop the revelation that Steve Jobs originally hated the name iMac, and had a list of his own names -- which the rest of the team thought were absolute high-tech horseapples. He describes one Steve-generated name as so bad “it would curdle your blood.”
Okay -- now we’re interested.
Ken doesn’t get specific about the SteveNames, but thanks to a guy we know who used to ride-share with a chick who once dated the landscaper at One Infinite Loop, we’ve managed to track down a copy of Steverino’s original baby-name list for the iMac. With apologies to David Letterman, here they are...
Steve Jobs’ Top Ten iMac Name Suggestions Rejected By Ken Segall
10. Avatar
9. Synergy
8. MacNext
7. Rounded, Flattened Cube
6. Lisa 97
5. James Bondi
4. MobileMe
3. MacGoldblum
2. Chumby
1. iPod
Date Published: Nov 05, 2009 - 9:36 am
