The most famous, and arguably the best, Super Bowl ad in history, Apple’s “1984” ad for the Macintosh, was nearly killed by Apple’s board…
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Happy Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
Today is the 39th birthday of Apple’s indomitable Macintosh. Thirty-nine years and two day ago, on January 22, 1984, during the Super Bowl…
Happy Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous “1984” commercial. The voice-over intoned…
Happy Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer unveiled its much-anticipated Macintosh computer, a sophisticated, affordably priced personal computer designed for…
Lee Clow, known for Apple’s ‘1984’ and ‘Think Different’ campaign, retires at 75
Slow worked closely with Steve Jobs, helping to create the dystopian ‘1984’ Super Bowl commercial that launched the Mac, as well as the ‘Think Different’ campaign in 1997…
Secrets behind Apple’s famous ‘1984’ Super Bowl ad that almost didn’t air
Apple almost didn’t air its iconic, dystopian-themed 1984 Super Bowl commercial…
Facebook’s surveillance machine
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
The problem isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company…
Delete your Facebook: The only way to win the social game is not to play
Facebook has been caught allowing the personal data of fifty million users — 50,000,000 — get siphoned off by political data company Cambrige Analytica…
How you access the super creepy data that Facebook has on you
Don’t be fooled by the ‘bring the world closer together’ motto: if Facebook’s here, it’s only to make money by selling ads…
Facebook asks users: Should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook whether pedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website…
European Union seeks power to seize overseas personal data from customers of Apple, Microsoft, other tech firms
The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data…
Study: Facebook is for old people
Facebook lost 2.8 million users under the age of 25 last year…
Mark Zuckerberg is fighting to save Facebook; announces major change to News Feed
On Thursday, Facebook announced a major change to News Feed, its central feature…
Facebook developing ‘Portal’ gadget which will let it put microphones and cameras in people’s homes
The oppressive rulers of Oceania used devices called telescreens to closely monitor and repress citizens…
Apple’s eye-popping history of visual storytelling
In addition to its memorable products, Apple is also known for…
“1984” in 2017: Apple’s Orwellian move in China
Most people old enough to have watched the 1984 Super Bowl will not remember the two American football teams…
UK passes the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’
The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called…
UK’s Orwellian ‘Investigatory Powers Bill’ seeks to track every Brit’s online activity
A planned British law to give spies and the police wide-ranging new surveillance powers…
Wikipedia founder: Apple should stop selling iPhones in the UK if ‘stupid’ new law banning Apple encryption is enacted
Apple should stop selling its popular iPhone line in the UK if a new law banning fully encrypted communications is passed…
UK Prime Minister Cameron backs law to make Apple’s iPhone encryption illegal
Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting customer communications…
Samsung warns ‘SmartTV’ users not to discuss personal info in front of their eavesdropping TVs
The potential privacy intrusion of voice-activated services is massive…
Apple’s Super Bowl past, present, and future
With the 2014 edition of football’s biggest game, and advertising’s biggest stage, approaching…
NBC: Vote for your all-time favorite Super Bowl commercial; Apple’s ‘1984’ ad among the choices
The Super Bowl is less than a week away!
New Mac App Store section celebrates 30 years of Macintosh with great apps and games
As part of celebrating 30 years of the Mac, Apple has created a special section…
Steven Levy: The Macintosh is 30, and I was there for its birth
Nineteen eighty-four was not like 2014…
20 ways Apple’s revolutionary, astonishing Mac changed everything
On January 24, 1984, at the Flint Center on De Anza College’s campus in Cupertino…
Apple invites website visitors to celebrate 30 years of Macintosh
In 1984, Apple introduced the world to Macintosh…
Happy 30th Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous…
Celebration planned for 30th anniversary of Apple’s Macintosh
The Macintosh was launched to great fanfare on January 24, 1984…
Happy 29th Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous “1984” commercial…
OS X Mountain Lion contains Mac App Store Easter Egg (with video)
Although many Apple devices used to contain easter eggs, Steve Jobs…
Rare video of Steve Jobs as Franklin Roosevelt surfaces
Set as a World War II tale of good vs. IBM, it is a broadcast-quality production…
Strange but true: Rick Santorum channels Steve Jobs
Arguably the most influential TV commercial ever is the minute-long ‘1984’ from Apple…
Top 10 Apple viral video ads of under Steve Jobs (with video)
Steve Jobs changed industries. But he also has an eye for great ad campaigns…
