Foxnews this morning has a doozy:? In? a research paper published this month ?by two professors at Texas A&M University, the authors argue that the only way to understand the slavish adoration and over-the top financial success of Apple and its “Jesus Phone” (the iPhone) is to understand its minimalist, white-walled stores as the new churches of the tech generation. um. yeah?
Read the rest here: Apple as religion?
Fortune caught up with the Boy Genius (Jonathan Geller) and got some interesting details out of the Mobile phone leak king.
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Section: Gadgets / Other , ebooks Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that two new Kindles will begin shipping on August 27th. Sales of the current Kindle 2 have been halted and orders for the new Kindles will be accepted beginning today. The release seems perfectly positioned to take advantage of the back-to-school season. Here’s what we know so far: There will be two versions, a $189 3G version ......Continue Reading
FROM GAMERTELL – Disney becomes the biggest Hollywood owner of casual games with its purchase of established developer Playdom… MORE ? Full Story ? | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Mobile Yesterday, we reported T-Mobile unveiling a teaser page for its first HSPA+ capable smartphone.? Instead of the teaser page showing a brand new phone, it left a silhouette of the phone, leaving it up to the imaginary of T-Mobile’s followers to fill in the missing phone.? However the word Vanguard, a phone that has become synonymous with HTC ......Continue Reading
Section: Web , Web 2.0 / Social Networking A 2.8GB torrent containing the personal information of over 100 million Facebook users reared its ugly head onto a torrent site. Hacking extraordinaire Ron Bowes developed a web crawler program that accumulated data on all users on Facebook’s o pen access directory. These list is comprised of those Facebook users that have not changed their privacy settings to keep their pages ......Continue Reading
FROM GAMERTELL – A British high court decided against accused Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan, determining that the carts – and its clones – are illegaly circumventing the DS security system and are illegal to import, advertise or sell in the UK… MORE ? Full Story ? | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Broadband Cards , Mobile Carrying an iPod touch and wishing that it was 3G ready? Well, assuming the item in this FCC listing actually comes to market—your iPod touch will not only be able to access the Sprint 3G network, but it will also be able to serve up 3G by way of a mobile hotspot. The device—the ZTE ......Continue Reading
FROM GAMERTELL – Retailing for $99.95, this hefty controller comes with a lifetime warranty and works with any game system… MORE ? Full Story ? | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Scott Olson is president of MindLink Marketing. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.) Quick marketing poll: Who has bought an industry contact list and used that to send out direct mail, email or some other marketing promotion? Guiltily holding your hand up? You’re not alone, but it’s pretty well established that this approach no longer works.
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