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Day June 29, 2012

Beware of Media Shills

Most media analysts are legitimate and credible and stand above selling out or  trading in their veracity and believability for trinkets, financial rewards or pats on the back.

There are however some prominent pundits and analysts out there that simply can’t wait to sell out and barter their credibility to gain favor from big industry players with deep pockets or high-class swag to give away in the exchange. These shills extol the merits of bunk second rate products and make wild bonehead statements about companies that are hanging on by threads.

Their ill-timed, inelegant and more often offbase conclusions and misguided declarations are just too easy to see through and just as impossible to justify or rationalize in any way other than by the demented and insane.

In their zeal  they sell out by loudly touting inferior bunk products as “the best” and plant stories that go against what is commonly known in the marketplace and that defy the bounds of common sense and reason.

Sure once in awhile they can get something wrong or make bad choices but when their attempt from the beginning is to avoid truth they fall into the shill category.

 

Google+ Events Spam: Promises fix

Talk about “hand in the cookie jar”! Google, the company that warns against gaming the system has been caught doing just that. In this case after launch of Google+ Events last wednesday the new social invite feature was used yo spam millions of users of folks with large followings. Upset users have begun to revolt bringing a quick response from Google includong a promise to quickly fix the problem.

This is yet another example of the effect of inadequate testing or a compamies inability to anticipate how social engineers will play a new vulnerable system. Often when the horses are out of the stable it is too late to reel them back in.

Bits & Bytes 6.29.12

The weeks are just flying by and each one brings serious thrills and marketplace chills to the ever-evolving world of technology. Most of the past week’s news came out of Google I/O 2012 that was held at Moscone in San Francisco.

See our previous post for a quick review of the Google I/O haps wrap.

Bits and Bytes for the week:

  • Google I/O was a rousing success this year
  • Google Nexus 7″ Tablet announced
  • RIM in trouble: huge loses, deep cutbacks and many layoffs
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