Hasta La Gadget!

There’s a reoccurring foreboding in many
fairytales, that says: magic comes with a price. The Evil Queen that offered
Snow White the poisonous apple received her comeuppance in the end, and hopefully Orbitz
will be served a does of the same, when the traveling public learns
that Mac users are charged more than those using Windows. Yes, in this
case, you can think of Orbitz
as the Evil Queen! And the 30 percent higher rates they are offering to
Apple device owners, the fruits from their poisonous tree.

For those addicted to the HBO hit series "Game of Thrones," could you
imagine if those vying for the thrones of the Seven Kingdoms were
competing with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on today’s
political landscape. The Mother Jones
news team postulates how today’s dirty politics might be played out if
Daenerys Targaryen, Jeffrey Baratheon and Robb Stark were added to the presidential race in contention for leader of the free world.

Does anyone remember when iPhone prototypes
were left behind in Silicon Valley bars only to be found by those
looking to make a quick buck while providing the techie world with an advance sneak peak at Apple’s latest iteration? In both cases, Apple execs were none too pleased and subsequent police investigations and threats of litigation were filed against Gizmodo and ex-Apple employees responsible.

Being left behind on the mobile landscape has motivated countless
bloggers and techie prognosticators to cyberventilate as to FB’s future.
Based on an 11th hour stock devaluation by the company themselves (see
previous post, "Facebook’s IPO Morality Tale…"),
coupled with the claim the company can’t survive in the public sphere
relying solely on ad revenues, Zuck has ridden a roller-coaster of
criticism in one week’s time that has cast yet another shadow over the
world’s largest social network.