The school at the center of the allegations. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Educators aren’t always comfortable with students having cell phones. While some might argue phones are a classroom distraction, other teachers face a different problem with mobile devices. It seems there’s too much temptation hidden within them to discover everything about their students. An …
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An Apple man? Really? TeamKobe/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When a covert lens meets fame, rumors attempt a slam dunk. That’s what happened this week when a man with a remarkable resemblance to Los Angeles Lakers star player Kobe Bryant was secretly photographed on a visit to Apple’s Cupertino campus. As 9to5Mac reported, Bryant was not only seen in the …
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Here he is becoming the world’s greatest. Fleksy/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It all started in 2009 when Marcel Fernandes Filho took a hammer to his Dell desktop. He’s not proud of the violence, but the monitor was flickery. What 13-year-old should have to put up with that? Because the young Brazilian didn’t have money for a new computer, he …
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Cristiano Ronaldo in training. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET There are only two types of people in the world: those who watch the World Cup and those who should be ordered to do community service for their refusal to watch the World Cup. Samsung has been building up to the event for quite a while. It’s been teasing a game …
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Stolen power? Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET To sacrifice yourself on the altar of originality takes courage. How can you be sure that some unconscious influence didn’t work its way inside your head and then manipulate you into some form of artistic reproduction? Just as Steve Jobs and Picasso were happy to steal rather than beg or borrow, so too …
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A brand being rear-ended? The Colbert Report/Hulu Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Product placement. Native advertising. Sponsorship. It’s all the same thing. It’s shoving a product into the sort of limelight where it wouldn’t normally be terribly welcome. How refreshing, then, that Stephen Colbert decided that, despite being paid by T-Mobile US, he would recommend that its phones be returned to …
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A scene from the “most effective” Samsung ad. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET How do you know when an ad has succeeded? Do you watch to see how many people talk about it? Do you observe as sales of one or other product zoom or crater? Or do you ask a research firm? Research firms are always right. Except for …
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Rakesh Agrawal Edo Interactive/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Was he drunk or was he bushed? Did he quit or was he pushed? These might be two tweets that waft through the socialsphere after the strange Twittered happenings surrounding PayPal’s new (and now old) director of strategy. On Saturday morning, news emerged on Business Insider that Rakesh “Rocky” Agrawal had emitted …
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Modern communication between husband and wife. Kraft/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You’re sitting in a meeting discussing a mac ‘n’ cheese ad. It’s tense and exciting. The ad is going to be fun. It’s an ad in which a man betrays his pregnant wife. Yes, it’s a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese ad, but this is the modern world. We have …
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The image that originally accompanied the police post. Prince George’s County Police Department In documenting progress, sometimes I find tinges of regress. I wonder, therefore, what you will find in the latest intentions of the Prince George’s County Police Department in Maryland. This police force will not take crime lying down. It’s going to take on the heinous and hit …
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