Microsoft’s $300 million ad campaign tumbles with new PC ads

Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Microsoft’s bizarre campaign to turn $300,000,000 into a marketing message took an even stranger turn Thursday with the airing of the company’s latest television commercial: “I’m a PC.”
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September 18, 2008 18 Comments
Osama Bin Laden’s Dream of US Economic Collapse

Daniel Eran Dilger
Supporters of the Bush administration like to say that there have been no terrorist attacks on US soil since the tragedy of September 11, 2001, suggesting that President Bush has kept the country safe from terrorism. What they forget is that Osama Bin Laden clearly outlined his strategy for battling America, not by flying more planes into new buildings, but by driving the US into bankruptcy.
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September 18, 2008 60 Comments
The iPhone Monopoly Myth

Daniel Eran Dilger
After initially dismissing the notion that Apple could ever break its way past entrenched rivals and make any significant impact on the smartphone industry, tech pundits are now aghast that Apple is running its business the way its executives see fit. Critics charge that the iPhone and its mobile software store amount to a monopoly and a restriction of free trade. They’re wrong, here’s why.
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