Caving to popular pressure Facebook has dropped the mandatory ‘is’ from user status updates.
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Josh Groban Is Elvis Like (Thanks to Oprah)
I must admit, I didn’t even know this record was out. Josh Groban has tied Elvis Presley for the most consecutive weeks on the top of the Billboard chart for a Christmas album. His “Noël“ (Reprise) is at No. 1 for the third week in a row, selling 581,000 copies in the week that ended…
CompUSA RIP (1984-2008)
This was hardly unexpected (NewEgg, TigerDirect, and practically everyone else have been putting them to shame for years). CompUSA, the computer and electronics retailer founded in 1984 and once a major PC retailer in the country, will be no more come early 2008. [Internet News]
The Top Ten Search Terms of 2007
Google.com top ten fastest rising terms in the U.S. for 2007: 1. iPhone 2. Webkinz 3. tmz 4. Transformers 5. YouTube 6. Club Penguin 7. MySpace 8. Heroes 9. Facebook 10. Anna Nicole Smith Source: techcrunch.com (surprisingly, I couldn’t find it on Google.com) Ask.com top ten list of search terms in the U.S. for 2007:…
New Manhattan Apple Store to Open Tomorrow
Apple will open it’s newest and largest retail store in Manhattan on Friday, December 7 at 6:00 p.m. EST. The Apple Store West 14th Street is Apple’s first three-story store with two floors dedicated to products and a third dedicated to services, including a 46-foot Genius Bar and specially designed areas for workshops and…
New Times Talks Events: Feist, Mad Men, Schnabel, Auster, Krauss, Moody and More
NY TIMES ARTS & LEISURE WEEK January 7 – 13, 2008 Check out the full lineup here. Buy Feist tickets here.