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Google, the fashion house

One commentator has observed that Google is becoming the new Microsoft. Debatable. But it could be becoming the new Hugo Boss. The search giant teamed...

12 Angry Men With Twitter Accounts

Anyone who has watched a legal drama -- and Lord knows, it's hard not to, since coutrooms and hospitals seem to be the only...

Nothing … unless it’s an in-person greeting

A press release in my inbox hails an "innovative Web site" which delivers personlized video greetings from bikini-clad women to smart phone users. Truly innovative....

In other news: Oracle sponsors Tiger Woods

We in the trades often snipe at the gutter press – Who actually cares about Kate and Jon Gosselin, Brangelina’s tribulations, Heidi Montag’s plastic...

Traffic-stopping billboards

As Toronto city council debates the practicality of a billboard tax -- supposedly to combat visual pollution, but the cash sure would be nice...

A Bose for the Baby Bump

With the number of mobile applications available from Apple’s App Store having reached, by conservative estimates, about 1 kajillion, you’d think developers would have...

If only it could locate the nearest newsstand, too …

There are revolutionary products, and there are products that are ... jeez, I have no idea where I'm going with this. Let's cut the,...

I can haz cheezburger now?

The claws are out over claims that an IBM team has developed a computer simulation of a cat's brain. At the SC09 supercomputing conference in...

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