Microsoft's Black Friday and the Success of Xbox 360

"Microsoft announced today that on Black Friday its Xbox 360 game console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 at a 3 to 1 ratio. That record weekend of sales puts the 360 over 25 million systems sold worldwide, surpassing the sales of the original Xbox"Say what you will, but...

Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail

Google announced Tuesday it is adding video and audio chat to its free e-mail service. Have you use video and audio chat service in gmail ? " From viewing videos on YouTube to screening family events,...

Popcorn with the cell phone -

Watch these videos of cell phones poping corn!Just to add another thought to the discussion, wasn't it August 2005 when the sun's magnetic shield flipped? The earth's magnetic shield is slowly shifting. I've heard it said that this will cause birds to become "confused",...

A 'Handy' Guide to the Housing Market

Pretty funny cartoon about the housing-market crunch in the US right now -- although I got to say, the people who took out loans they couldn't afford deserve a lot more blame in this than they're getting...

Germany: Worldwide Eavesdropping By Handy?

Berlin: Yesterday media reports came up that German police eavesdrops on German citizens by using handys as room microphones, even if they seem apparently deactivated. Furthermore Police officials in adjoining...

Everybody Do the Aunt Jackie

A viral dance craze is a funny thing. In the early days of TV, a bunch of shiny teens doing the twist on a show like American Bandstand was enough to get their peers across North America to start shaking their...

Web CEO 6.5, Free Site Listing

Liamssoft writes: ''I stopped using the program on a daily basis as I found I had thousands of spoof blogs coming up, using the name liamssoft but no actual liamssoft at the end of it. This was mostly on MSN. I...

Tis Not the Most Wonderful Time of the Year for a Rat

"The Kingston rat is like most other rats in towns of this size. We should all count our blessings that it is not like the Vancouver rat, which is made from the same stuff that forms nightmares. In fact, were these critters in a cage and we could avoid their pink, ugly tails,...

MarketingSherpa's Top 10 Best Blogs & Best Podcast of 2006: Readers' Choice A...

"SUMMARY The results are in -- here's your guide, including handy hotlinks, to MarketingSherpa readers' favorite marketing-related blogs and podcasts of 2006. Our hearty congratulations to all the winners -- with thousands of votes tallied, this was hard-fought race indeed!...

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