Netgear CEO Patrick Lo had a lot of interesting things to say yesterday at a lunch with journalists in Sydney. Like how Apple will need to go open after Steve Jobs “goes away”, and Microsoft is “over”. But in the face of a global PR backlash, it seems he regrets the way he expressed some of the things he said: More »
In a huge 1800-word apology on his Sun Times blog, critic Roger Ebert admitted it was stupid to complain about games not being art – as he wouldn’t review a film without at least sitting through the first 45 minutes. More »
It may not be a CGI apology (bet his wife would’ve loved that!) but Tiger Woods will be making his first public apology live on YouTube today. Updated. More »
Google has admitted that their Buzz testing process was equivalent to mine: Click enable, then disable it 90 seconds later. They said to the BBC that their testing sucked donkey balls, which is why many people hate it. The excuse: More »
Pepsi’s “Amp Up Before You Score” iPhone app is intended to help men score with women (and brag about it with their friends on Facebook or Twitter). Not surprisingly, this has created something of a PR issue. More »
T-Mobile sent out an update regarding the first great tragedy of the 21st century (involving Sidekicks): They’re still holding out hope for data recovery, but if they can’t, they’ll show how sorry they are with a $US100 credit. More »
Remember how we told you that there was a petition to ask the British government to apologise for chemically castrating computer science legend Alan Turing during WWII because he was gay? Yeah well, Prime Minister Gordon Brown did today! More »
Remember Amazon’s remote deletion of all Kindle copies of 1984? Big bro’ Amazon is trying to make nice by offering affected users some pretty words along with $US30 checks in lieu of redelivery of 1984 (with your original annotations). More »