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Data Recovery Corp Invents Terms To Convince You Your Hard Drive Is Broken
Fox 11 News in LA went undercover with an intentionally damaged hard drive to find out whether online complaints about Data Recovery Corp, Inc. were true. Can you guess what the result was? More » -
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Studio Turns High School Graduation Into Marketing Stunt, Nobody Cares
The Wall Street Journal looks at how an unfortunately named marketing agency called the Intelligence Group tried to promote recent bomb "I Love You, Beth Cooper" with a viral video on YouTube. (Can we just once and for all ban anyone who works in advertising from accessing YouTube?) They paid the valedictorian of a Los Angeles high school $1,800 to "spontaneously" blurt out a secret crush during her speech, and they hired someone to film the speech in a faux-homemade style to post online. More » -
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Time Warner Cable: You're Not Getting HD Because FOX Stopped Broadcasting It
Reader Dave has graciously shared with us a tragic series of emails he sent to Time Warner Cable, the highlight of which comes when he tells them about the time that he called in because the New York City FOX affiliate wasn't working (he wanted to watch the NY Football Giants) and was told that FOX 5 had decided to stop broadcasting in HD. More » -
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These Martha Stewart/Kmart Lounge Chairs Keep Cutting Off Fingertips
Holy $#!@, this lounge chair will eat your fingers! Fox5 New York has a video report on dangerously unsafe lounge chairs sold at Kmart under the Martha Stewart brand. Naturally (we're not making this up), the chairs are designed to complement the Martha Stewart Spontaneously Shattering Glass Patio Tables also sold at Kmart. More » -
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Ben Popken On TV Talking 'Bout Shrinking Packages
Here's the clip of yours truly, Ben Popken, on FOX 13 Tampa yesterday talking about the Grocery Shrink Ray that all the writers on the site have been doing a great job of covering. The interview was done over Skype webcam and I think it came out pretty well. "Shrinkage" and "downsizing" may be nothing new, but I think we're going to see more goods shrinking and by greater degrees in the coming months. It's practically a secret inflation. At the end of the story they say that some manufacturers are considering doing away with gallons of milk and instead selling 3/4 of a gallon, for the same price. If that happens, I think a lot more messages like the recording of the good ol' boy upset over the downsized Jimmy Dean's sausage are going to be left on customer complaint lines across America. As the guy in the New York Daily News shrinking package article (which I was also quoted in, whoo), said, "Soon people will be buying empty bags and empty boxes."
Shrinking packaging costing you more [Fox 13]
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Attention Floridian Consumerists! Provided everything goes according to schedule, I will be on Fox Tampa Thursday during the 10pm newscast, talking about the mysterious Grocery Shrink Ray sweeping across America.
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movies
New Die Hard DVD's Digital Extras: Too Little Too Late?
Well, the details of 20th Century Fox's new digital experiment are now public: the DVD of "Live Free Or Die Harder," which goes on sale tomorrow, will allow purchasers to transfer a digital copy of the movie twice, once to their PC's hard drive and once onto a PlaysForSure portable device. If you've got an iPod device or even a Zune, you won't be able to do anything with it. More » -
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Die Hard DVD Will Ship With Ripped Movie File Included
20th Century Fox has announced that the special-edition DVD for "Live Free or Die Hard" will include a "DRM-free" computer file of the movie, playable through Windows' PlaysForSure software. We suppose you can call this DRM-free, but it obviously doesn't mean it's not restricted. To access the file, you will have to insert the disc into your computer, then enter an authorization code that's included in the DVD case. Once it's copied over, you can play it on your PC or portable media players that use the PlaysForSure software. More » -
A group of Congressmen used Simpsons characters without permission in a weird press release that involves Mr. Burns, Mayor Joe Quimby, some anti-MoveOn swipes and a little incest humor. Fox has said they did not authorize the usage and that the characters "may not be used in this manner," but TechDirt wonders whether the network will sue? (We're thinking no.) [TechDirt]
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BREAKING: NBC and FOX Announce "You Tube Killer" Featuring Full Episodes of Popular Shows
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC and FOX have joined forces to produce an on-line video site meant to rival YouTube. From the WSJ: More » -
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Consumers Have Spoken: OJ Book/TV Special Canceled
You bitched and moaned, and called FOX's advertisers and you got your way. The OJ Simpson TV special and book have been canceled. More » -
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O'Reilly: Boycott FOX's Advertisers
In an interesting editorial this morning, FOXNews poster boy, Bill O'Reilly conflates the OJ Simpson confession, abortion and The New York Times. Far be it from us to question the mind that would make those connections...the point is: O'Reilly wants you to boycott FOX's advertisers. All of them. For life. More » -
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Myspace the Secret Garden of Conmen and Spammers?
According to these reports summed up over at Valleywag, Myspace isn't a megatacular grassroots operation run out of a garage by "Tom" and his buddy Chris, but a multi-million operation created by the cons and insider traders of Intermix Media. Among their other business ventures were installing spyware on millions of computers. Chris and Tom were just the "cabin boys" or "poster boys," the Valleywag source alleges. More »
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