Entries Tagged as 'Products'

Friday, April 9th, 2010

The Future of iPhone

So I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the iPhone and what it represents. It’s a little amazing when you think about it, that in such a short period of time it has literally revolutionized the telecommunications industry. Just two years ago when Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone, smart phones were relegated primarily to [...]

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

How to Kill A Brand

How Sony Killed it’s Brand. A parody song written by Sarcasticgamer and available on Youtube. Definitely a parody, but kind of compelling, and definitely relevant in todays economy. Just watch.

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Definition of an iKiller

iKiller -Noun, plural-ers. Any device, the marketing or procurement of which, would result in the supplanting of a similar product of a culturally ostentatious or superfluous nature. eg. The HP Slate is an iKiller if it can outsell the Apple iPad.

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Google Changes Name to Topeka

In a rather surprising turn of events today, the publicly traded company (Nasdaq: GOOG) and popular search engine Google changed it’s name to Topeka to honor the announcement earlier this month that the city in Kansas, also of the same name, was planning on changing it’s name to Google. According to the article, the change [...]

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Companies in Culture

I’ve noticed a number of things have changed in the corporate world over the last couple of years, many of which are bound to have a lasting impact on popular culture. Of these, many will have a lasting impact on public perception as well. For instance, Ford has suddenly taken a turn as America’s favorite [...]