NYT
BlackBerry vs. iPhone: The smartphone battle hots up
The New York Time’s Brad Stone has a very interesting Sunday story about RIM (Research In Motion) communicating how much the iPhone is a threat to RIM today. But how real is the threat?
Silicon Valley Seeing Effects Of Economic Downturn
The New York Times (4/9, Richtel, Stone) reports, “Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll on the country’s cradle of technology and innovation.” The Times continues, “Job growth has slowed, [...]
Advertisers Use Bleeps To Lure Audience
The New York Times (4/9, Elliott) reports, “In cartoons, the Road Runner goes ‘Beep, beep.’ On Madison Avenue, the popular onomatopoeia is pronounced ‘Bleep, bleep.’” Advertisers “are winking at the contentious issue of content regulation by using bleeping sounds in commercials and video clips. The bleeps mimic how television and radio obscure bad language in [...]
Now You Can See Where The Bloggers Drop Dead
Google and the New York Times, it has been announced, have collaborated to create a mashup that shows not only when breaking news forms, but where. The New York Times includes ‘geocodes’ in all their news stories, apparently, and that data has been utilized by some engineers in what is presumably their 20% time [...]
