Here's one rumor I really want to see happening: Apple's Think Different campaign may be coming back. At least, according to a December 8 trademark application, and the whispering coming from TBWA\Chiat\Day, Apple's advertising agency. The new trademark covers the iPod and "portable and handheld digital electronic devices." Of course, this trademark renewal could just an obligatory update...
Citing his investigation into Apple's supply chain, analyst Yair Reiner claims that Apple will ramp up production of the wonderdevice in February 2010. His date for the Second Coming of the JesusTablet: March or April. And apparently, it'll kill Kindle. He says that Apple is offering 30/70 revenue split to book publishers. That's 30% for Apple, and 70% for publishers for a non-exclusive distribution...
There's a pretty interesting report that was just published today entitled “How much information'” It was put together by the Global Information Industry of the University of California at San Diego. It looks at the year 2008 and tries to quantify how much information the average American consumes across all forms of media: TV, newspaper, Web sites, radio, you name it. When you crunch...
On the eve of AOL's official reemergence as an independently-traded company (although in reality its shares are already trading), CEO Tim Armstrong gives CNBC's Julia Boorstin a lengthy interview on his message to investors and where he hopes to take AOL. He is fully aware that cost-cutting is only going to take AOL so far and he that investors are concerned whether the "newer business [is] gonna...
The Monitor Monster , a "prototype," is a bent/cut piece of cardboard that "docks" your iPhone on top of your monitor. That unto itself is amusing, but what's even funnier is the 12-minute instructional video explaining how to build it. But while we can chuckle at these detailed "second screen" iPhone mods, trust me, when that Apple Tablet shows up, there will be a run...
From Ross Sutherland's Eco-esque review of Atari's 1985 arcade game, Gauntlet: Wizard, as an ironist, you alone receive some sense of subjective freedom. Your outré dress sense deprives your surroundings of a finite degree of cognitive reality. In this manner, the dungeon can never truly hold you. I love it when people read between the lines of old video games, imagining a backstory and motivation...
Judit from Knowledge Ecology International sez, The World Blind Union has been for years requesting a new international legal framework that will allow them to produce and share accessible formats of books and other written material. The World Blind Union World Intellectual Property Organization treaty proposal, formally endorsed by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay is supported by nearly all developing...
People are freaking out all over Norway because of what you are seeing here. According to Norwegian news outlets, the spooky giant spiral was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country. Looks like an inter-dimensional portal: Could it all be a hoax? Maybe it's a massive joke, but all kinds of Norwegian news sites are reporting on it. According to NKR—Norway's national...
It has been long argued that the A5/1 encryption standard used to secure GSM traffic from eavesdropping is, in fact, insecure, and California based security firm H4RDW4RE is pioneering an effort to hammer that point home by cracking the encryption…
The animated little "doughboy" character in this new music video for "Viens Me Le Dire" by JP Nataf just stole my heart and covered it in glitter. More about the creative here. The song is available as an MP3 here. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin)...
As Mark Wilson of Gizmodo says, "There is so much odd and potentially wrong in regards to this vintage dishwasher ad, I don't even know where to begin." A 10-Year-Old Can Do It Blindfolded!...
The first two minutes of this double pendulum video are exciting. But only die-hard double pendulum video fans will want to stick around to watch the remaining seven and a half minutes....
An anonymous Boing Boing reader writes, Bollywood (I know it is one of your many interests) has a new movie out called 'Paa' - literally means 'father. Starring the First Family (father/son duo) of Bollywood - Amitabh Bachan and Abhishek Bachan. Roles are reversed in this movie. Abhishek (the son in real life) is cast as the father of Auro (played by Amitabh) who is suffering from Progeria. Like Tsimfuckis....
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