Eric Johnson in Media on March 11, 2013 at 12:21 pm PT
As if you needed another screen in your home with Angry Birds on it, anyway.
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Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on September 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT
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Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 11:46 am PT
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event.
The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep integration–part of a deal announced last year–with Facebook.
The theme, according to Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi, quoting the Beatles, search with "a little help from your friends."
Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 5:33 am PT
Finally, a styllzed Google logo that BoomTown adores.
Here it is for the classic television cartoon “The Flintstones” on its 50th anniversary, as rendered by the Silicon Valley search giant.
Suddenly, I feel
very old, but who doesn’t love that Wilma?
Kara Swisher in News on September 29, 2010 at 12:10 am PT
Here’s the new trailer for “Yogi Bear,” a cartoon/live-action movie coming out in mid-December (and which I will surely be dragooned by the Swisher boys to see).
Lots of distracting CG and 3-D as usual, but it does look nice when Jellystone Park’s infamous gourmand is grabbing a juicy
pic-a-nic basket.
John Paczkowski in News on March 25, 2010 at 9:41 am PT
Google’s principled stand in China has very quickly turned into an ugly clash with the country’s government. On Wednesday, The People’s Daily, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, lobbed a searing editorial at the company, decrying its arrogance and accusing it of collaborating with U.S. intelligence agencies. Its title: “Google is Not God.”
Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2010 at 7:38 am PT
Here’s a cartoon, titled “All Things Digiphobic,” by Andrew Fowler of Guhmshoo, in which Walt Mossberg and I live under your desk…until night falls, that is.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 26, 2009 at 3:40 pm PT
Remember Microsoft’s plan to use “Family Guy,” Fox’s ribald, off-color cartoon sitcom, to promote Windows 7? No more, says Microsoft, which is pulling out of plans to sponsor a special episode of the show scheduled to run Nov. 8. What happened? Apparently, Microsoft realized that “Family Guy” is a ribald, off-color sitcom.