All entries tagged: BlackBerry

Why the New York Times is crowing about Apple’s marketing embrace

I don’t own an iPhone, but I play with one on TV. Apple’s widely praised ads, with their relentless focus on the phone itself, have demonstrated the magic of its mobile device even to those of us who cling to our BlackBerries. Lately, I’ve been made aware that the iPhone can shoot and edit video [...]

N.Y. plane scare: From terrifying tweet to news report — in 4 minutes

Shortly before 10 this morning, Amy Trachtman heard what seemed like a military jet zoom past her apartment building in Jersey City, N.J. Her first instinct? Tweet about it.
“just had a mild heart attack from a jet plane grazing the apartment…” Trachtman wrote at 9:59 a.m., becoming — as far as I can tell — [...]