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Friday, November 21, 2008

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Giving it away is the new... If Paul McCartney and Guns N’ Roses released new music online and nobody was there to hear it, did it really happen? Yeah, probably. McCartney previewing it for free on NPR, while Chinese Democracy has been waiting 17 years to see the light of streaming day. Will Guns’ nearly 500,000 friends pre-order? Are either still relevant? How is Slash not in this band? Can I ask more questions?




No more real fake chocolate. From now on, Hershey’s is going to use 100% Real Fake™ chocolate to save money and keep the FDA happy. So when does saving money as a brand backfire? Or is this the perfect Old Coke/New Coke set-up?






iGod misses the mark in India as the iPhone fails to catch on. In one of the largest cell phone markets in the world that sells 10 million phones a month—they’ve sold 12,000. Go figure. Guess a phone that costs as much as the monthly salary of an IT engineer makes wasn’t such a good idea. Or maybe Steve plans on making up the difference when they start appearing in Walmart in December.

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