Category Archives: Consumerism

My God, that’s so cool!

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 30-August-2009
“I’ve never seen more pride at Microsoft. You walk through the campus, and you see people’s laptops that have ‘I’m a PC’ stickers on them. I walk in the company store, and there are these huge banners that say, ‘I’m a PC’ and shirts and ties and mugs. I think I made a difference. My [...]
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Hanging up on the Pom Phone

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 3-October-2008
The Pomegranate phone is the thrust of a $300 000 “viral” marketing campaign by the Province of Nova Scotia to lure ex-pats back home. It features a mythical mobile phone that can do all sorts of useful things (that actual cell phones can do nowadays) plus some extra “out there” features like a harmonica and [...]
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Grow One

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 16-September-2008
Win a Power Lunch* and a feature story – on you – in Backbone and an iPhone or a Blackberry *with Dave Chalk, technology expert and our editor, Peter Wolchak From a recent call from Backbone magazine to get it’s readers to fill out a survey. Very interesting approach, it you expect your readers to understand [...]
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To Be Revisited

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 2-May-2008
It just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty. — Eamon Hoey from Toronto-based management consulting firm Hoey and Associates Rogers inks iPhone deal with Apple | The Province
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