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Meet The US Tech Publicists Who Secretly Control The Media

1:45AM July 30, 2011 | Mat Honan

The publicists and communications managers in the technology industry have tough jobs. They have to spin crap products into good stories. And let’s face it, most of them are powerless. But not these dozen PR pros. More »


Geek Out

Apple Beefs Up On Gaming PR With Alleged Nintendo, Activation Hires

1:00AM April 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

If the rumour that Apple is poaching PR talent from gaming companies plays out as fact in the coming days, let there be no more doubt the company is continuing to position iOS as a viable game development destination. [AppleInsider]


Gaming

Sony And Microsoft Battling It Out For Number One Spin Merchant Role

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1:45PM February 9, 2011 | Nick Broughall

You would think that companies like Microsoft and Sony would focus on trying to better their opponent with better software, better hardware and better support. Today, both Sony and Microsoft showed where the heart of their blood-fued really lies – PR. More »


Mobile

HTC Disputes Apple Mobile Phone Demo With Numbers Of Its Own

12:00AM July 19, 2010 | Jack Loftus

In the wake of Apple’s peculiar iPhone 4 Strikes Back! press conference, you’d be normal if you expected miffed competitors, especially after Jobs threw the likes of Blackberry, HTC and Nokia under the “Antennagate” bus. Now HTC is hitting back: More »


Entertainment

BP Takes PR Lessons From Domino’s

8:40AM June 18, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Why fix the spill when you can fix the brand? That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? We’ve seen how BP deals with coffee spills. Here’s how they deal with rebranding. More »


Online

An Interesting Product Would Probably Work

2:45AM February 18, 2010 | John Herrman

I bet the Walkman would have trended, if Twitter was around then. I bet even Betamax would have burbled to the surface. Hell, I bet the first Walkman phone would have trended, back in 2005. So just do… anything. [SonyEricssonNA]


Computing

VHA Wants To Taste That Sweet Apple Pie iPad

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10:30AM January 29, 2010 | Nick Broughall

VHA – the result of the recent Vodafone and Three merger in Australia – is either looking for some cheap publicity or sucking up to Apple. Or both, considering this announcement we received yesterday after the iPad announcement: More »


Gadgets

Introducing: The BitterPeek

4:31AM December 19, 2009 | John Herrman

Yesterday, BlackBerry users across the country lost push email service, forcing them to switch to webmail, texts, calls, VoIP, instant messages or tweets – for hours! But the real news is what didn’t go down, rite guys? More »


Science

Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM’s Cat Brain Simulation Bogus

9:35AM November 24, 2009 | Jason Chen

The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a “PR stunt” by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it’s all a “mass deception of the public.” More »


Mobile

Panasonic Won’t Stop Bragging About Being #1 In Cordless Phones

5:20AM November 24, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Oh, other companies are being hit by this so-called recession? Not Panasonic! It’s headed to the top of the tech world on a pile of cordless phones. They’re gonna ride this wave forever! More »