Miss Cleo

BoomTown Psychic Prediction: "iPad" Will Be Name of New Apple Tablet (Take a Poll to Make Your Guess!)

Kara Swisher in News on January 20, 2010 at 3:33 am PT

While “iSlate” is classier and “iTab” or “iTablet” more descriptive, BoomTown is making an all-in bet that Apple will use “iPad” as the brand name of its new tablet device, which is expected to be launched one week from today. Interestingly, there was an intriguing post on MacRumors today that pointed to new trademark filings from what it claims is a dummy Apple corporation, suggesting that iPad could be the moniker of the much anticipated device. While I claim no such source for my own Miss Cleo prediction, here’s my case for the iPad name and a poll where you can vote for your choice (not that Apple CEO Steve Jobs cares what we think!).

BoomTown Is Once Again 100 Percent Prediction-Free for 2010–on CES, Apple's iSlate and Whatever Tech-tonic Shift Looms Ahead

Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2010 at 5:16 am PT

One good thing about taking a break between Christmas and New Year’s is getting to miss all the 2010 prediction stories out there about the tech world. Oh, BoomTown will admit that I used to do them years ago. But they were mostly off-base in some significant way or, if by some chance I got one right, it was definitely a very lucky guess. So, last year, I made a resolution I am keeping this year: No predictions. That doesn’t mean I will not make some promises.

BoomTown Channels Miss Cleo: A Twitter Transaction? More Facebook Follies? And Will There Finally Be a Yahoo-Microsoft Deal?

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2009 at 4:42 am PT

This weekend on Twitter, someone paid BoomTown a compliment of a sort: “I read you because you are a solid fact-based reporter with a Miss Cleo intuition :)” Yipes, because of being fact-based and since I had brought her up in an originating tweet, I had to point out that the well-known-via-infomercials Psychic Friends Network shaman turned out to be a bit of a fraud, although she’s always entertaining, with her jaunty Jamaican accent (she was not, of course, from there). Nonetheless, it got me thinking about how I would predict what would result from all the deal-making that is suddenly in the air, after six months of ennui from the current economic downturn.