Archive | May 20th, 2009

Updated Kindle app enables landscape viewing and more

20. May 2009

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Owners of Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone should be pretty thrilled with a recent update that now allows them to view content in landscape mode.  Previously, content was only viewable in portrait mode, which for some people made reading more of a chore than a pleasant experience. In addition, the Kindle app now lets […]

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iPhone marketshare more than doubles in 1Q 2009

20. May 2009

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Apple’s share of the smartphone market more than doubled in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to recent data released by Gartner.  In the first quarter of 2008, the iPhone had a 5.3% marketshare with 1.7 million units sold.  One year later, the iPhone had a 10.8% marketshare […]

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Sprint CEO predicts Pre shortages early on, we disagree

20. May 2009

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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, who you might remember from those black and white Spring commercials, recently had this to say about his company’s advertising efforts, or lack thereof, regarding the upcoming Palm Pre. We don’t intend to advertise it heavily early on because we think we are going to have shortages for a while.  We […]

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Old Apple ad captures the swinging lifestyle of the 70’s

20. May 2009

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Apple advertising sure has come a long way.  Long before Justin Long and the infamous dancing iPod silhouettes, there was a naked guy just hanging out in the jungle, equipped with only an Apple II to hide his shame.  The following ad is from 1980, and interestingly enough, we called the 800 number listed below, […]

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