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How Motorola’s Clumsy Keynote Hurt the Cliq
1:54AM John Herrman | Everyone’s been waiting for the CLIQ, Motorola’s desperate-but-anticipated dive into Androidery, and we were ready to be excited about it. Problem is, you wouldn’t have known from the launch, which was gloriously mishandled. More »
Business
Apple and AT&T Answer FCC About Google Voice Rejection
7:27AM John Herrman | PR speak doesn’t usually come this blunt, but the situation warrants it. AT&T’s full response to the FCC’s investigation into the Google Voice app rejection can be summed up like this: This one’s on Apple. As for Apple’s? It’s complicated. More »
Business
Psystar Sobers Up, Lawyers Up, Prepares To
2:40AM John Herrman | Oh, thank god, we almost went a whole month without hearing from everyone’s favourite EULA-flaunters: Psystar is back, again, and ready to fight, again, except this time with real-sounding lawyers, and without the outward appearance of insanity. More »
Psystar Sobers Up, Lawyers Up, Prepares To Die Go To Court
2:40AM John Herrman | Oh, thank god, we almost went a whole month without hearing from everyone’s favourite EULA-flaunters: Psystar is back, again, and ready to fight, again, except this time with real-sounding lawyers, and without the outward appearance of insanity. More »
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Man, Don’t Choices Suck?
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Sony Ericsson’s official Twitter account asks the critical question of our age, “Mobile Apps: too many choices?” The answer choices are, um, interesting. More »
Phones
Palm Would Really Like You To Know That They’re Fighting With Apple
12:00AM John Herrman | Did you hear about that Palm Pre update yesterday? The one that re-enables iTunes syncing? Yes, probably, but Palm would still very much like to emphasise to you, and now the USB Implementers Forum, that it’s fighting the good fight. More »
Business
Microsoft Un-Cancels Campus Pub, Because They’re Totally Cool Dudes
9:14PM John Herrman | Last week brought a distressing tale of sobriety and job loss from Redmond, but following a concerted internet scorn-fest, Microsoft has come back around to the idea of a corporate campus pub. Mostly. More »
Press
My Mum to Public Relations People: Shut Up, You Bozos!
2:20AM Jesus Diaz | More than often, we get dumb press releases here in Gizmodo. This one starts with the following: “MAKE MUM THE ENVY OF THE BLOCK WITH STYLISH WESTINGHOUSE LCD HDTVs.” It goes downhill from there. More »
Random Stuff
My Favourite PR Christmas Card of the Year
11:00PM Mark Wilson | It’s not uncommon for the press to receive Christmas Cards from members of PR, but this one from Everpeace Tech seemed…particularly noteworthy. More »
Press
How Not to Treat People When Pitching Them Stories
3:59AM Jason Chen | Just when you think PR folks and bloggers got along semi-decently, you get a report of one such exchange where the PR person challenges the blogger to a fistfight. Updated 2:43 PM EST More »
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