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Nuance's Dragon Go! Gets an Upgrade - Posted October 3, 2011
Dragon Go!, the free speech recognition app that lets you talk to your Apple devices, ... [semanticweb.com]

Users Can Breathe Easy: Skype Releases Update for Android App - Posted April 20, 2011
If you're a Skype Android app user, you can breathe easy; Skype has released an Android update which addresses the flaw reported earlier this week. Friday April 15th, and independent Android specialist discovered a flaw in Skype's Android app. This flaw allowed third party apps on the same mobile device to potentially... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter for Blackberry v1.1 Released, Adds Location, Push @Mentions - Posted April 12, 2011
Blackberry users, rejoice: the official Twitter for Blackberry app has been updated. Version 1.1 has been released, and will be in the Blackberry App Store within the next 24 hours for all your downloading pleasure. After six weeks of testing, Twitter for Blackberry v1.1 is now ready fo... [10,000 Words]

Twitter for Blackberry v1.1 Released, Adds Location, Push @Mentions - Posted April 12, 2011
Blackberry users, rejoice: the official Twitter for Blackberry app has been updated. Version 1.1 has been released, and will be in the Blackberry App Store within the next 24 hours for all your downloading pleasure. After six weeks of testing, Twitter for Blackberry v1.1 is now ready fo... [AllTwitter]

HootSuite for Blackberry Gets a Big Update - Posted February 24, 2011
HootSuite for Blackberry users, rejoice: the social media dashboard has been updated to deliver almost the same functionality as the robust web-based version. You can now manage multiple Twitter accounts, along with your LinkedIn profile, Facebook pages, ... [AllTwitter]

Saatchi Alum Takes Chief 'Innovation' Role at JWT - Posted October 28, 2010
JWT announced that James Cooper has joined the agency's New York office as chief creative innovation officer. Cooper, who we now recognize from ... [AgencySpy]

Third Party Crasher is Facebook Friend to Many - Posted January 5, 2010
Famous-for-D.C. types around town may want to check out the de-friending button on their Facebook pages. It turns out a variety of people are friends with Third Party Crasher Extraordinaire Carlos Allen, including some of the very people who will be covering them for their respective news outlets... [FishbowlDC]

Drumroll Please... Washingtonian's Obama Cover - Posted April 21, 2009
We told you yesterday a shirtless President Obama would grace the May cover of Washingtonian... and here it is. The issue featur... [FishbowlDC]

Rumor Has It - Posted August 14, 2008
We got a tip that Bacardi is doing a "reconsolidation" of their agencies. But the tipster didn't have any info on whether or not they are looking for new partners. I'm trying to get more information from Bacardi on this. But in the meantime, what do you know? thespywriter@gmail.com Update:... [AgencySpy]

Hyatt Close to Picking an AOR - Posted August 4, 2008
A couple of months ago we talked about Hyatt dumping Euro and looking for a new agency. We got an email from an AS tipster that says the Hyatt pitch is down to the final stages for some agencies: "It's down to BBDO and Cutwater in the Hyatt pitch. BBH is... [AgencySpy]

John Maeda's Wife Bet Their Five Daughters He Wouldn't Land RISD Gig - Posted January 9, 2008
It seems even the King of Simplicity feels vulnerable from time to time. New RISD president John Maeda reveals that during the selection process he was feeling less-than-confident in his ability to snag the gig. In this ... [UnBeige]

Barack Steady: Obama's Design Wins - Posted January 7, 2008
The standard disclaimer applies: We at UnBeige do not endorse political candidates (unless they buy us stuff off our Amazon wishlist) and we are not a partisan organization (unless you count our steadfast Scientology affiliations). We've touched upon reviews of the Presidential-hopeful logos before (back when Newsweek ... [UnBeige]

UnBeige Looks Back: The Year In No Spec - Posted December 31, 2007
Compared to the firestorm of 2006, the no spec work battle was waged quietly in the trenches this year. Everyone seemed to be in agreement: Don't do spec, don't get your kids hooked on spec, don't spec yourself before you wreck yourself. And th... [UnBeige]

MUJI Takes Manhattan - Posted November 16, 2007
This is the day that New York designers, and Michael Bierut especially, have been saving their paychecks for. The first stateside MUJI threw open its SoHo doors this morning with a litt... [UnBeige]

Heller Good! Two New Books to Celebrate Steven Heller Week - Posted October 23, 2007
It's fitting that during Steven Heller Week, the one person who has written more design books than any man or machine on this planet would have two new books coming out. Add titles #3,124,342 and #3,124,343 to your library today: ... [UnBeige]

Deadline Extended Until Midnight For People's Design Award Voting; TOMS Sandals Still Leading - Posted October 16, 2007
Except for a few nominated oddities including the Prince guitar, last year's People's Design Award sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt barely blipped on our radar; the Katrina Cottage ... [UnBeige]

Free Maira! - Posted September 24, 2007
When the TimesSelect wall came tumbling, crumbling down last week, reminiscent of a certain day in Europe back in '89, it didn't occur to us to pilfer our share of the riches horded by the moneyed elite and denied to the nonsubscribing huddled masses for so very long. For one, we now... [UnBeige]

Packing Up the Wagon for Dwell on Design - Posted September 14, 2007
This bird is headed north for the weekend to cover the Dwell on Design conference taking place in the fair city of San Francisco. We'll resume regular programming as soon as we get set up in the "blogger's bank," a sort of wireless playpen with all the accoutrements to keep us... [UnBeige]

NY Post Officially Kills Book Reviews? - Posted September 11, 2007
The news, if true, is hardly a surprise, but now NY Mag's Daily Intelligencer says the paper, which has been skimping on literary coverage since former books editor Jared Paul Stern was embroiled in a bribery scandal relating to his more high-profile job with Page Six, won't run book reviews in... [GalleyCat]

Saul Bass On Why Man Creates - Posted July 12, 2007
And you thought Saul Bass only made film titles. Here's a clip of the 1968 Oscar-winning short film Why Man Creates, directed by Bass an... [UnBeige]

Dutton To Publish Meg Gardiner in the US - Posted March 19, 2007
It worked for Ron McLarty, and now the Stephen King Anointment Test (TM) works once more for Meg Gardiner. After teasing her readers earlier this week with the news of an American deal, she sup... [GalleyCat]

Allan Chochinov and Peter Lunenfeld--From the Future! - Posted March 10, 2007
The post-lunch spot of the Schools of Thoughts conference was occupied by the "pragmatic utopians" as foccacia bread chicken sandwiches settled in our bellies. Same deal as the ... [UnBeige]

Otis Study Shows That "Creative Industries" Dominate LA's Economy - Posted March 2, 2007
A new study by Otis College of Arts and Design confirms what most design-savvy Southern California residents probably already knew: "Prepared by Jack Kyser, Chief Economist of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), the key fi... [UnBeige]

AIGA Launches New Zeldman-ified Site - Posted March 1, 2007
Well, we knew this day would come--in fact, we were so prepared for this day to come that we spent a little extra time on the AIGA site the other day, saying goodbye to its sweet, stodgy interface. We don't know how long ago that site had been around, but judging... [UnBeige]

AIGA's 2007 Medals go to Fella, Lupton, Mau and Olden - Posted February 27, 2007
Four big names were dropped into our mailbag late last night, the four names of the four people who will be receiving the AIGA Medal in 2007. Edward Fella, Ellen Lupton, Bruce Mau and Georg Olden will be honored at the ... [UnBeige]

Back When 'Google' Was a Five-Letter Word - Posted February 14, 2007
We don't get it. Yeah, we love the cutesy little Google Doodles. But as reader Jackie Larson points out to us today: Google Dude, where's your L? We know, the more optimistic of you will say that little stem is supposed to represent an L. No way, not in any stretch... [UnBeige]

Greenbuild Expo Moves From Brown LA to Green Chicago - Posted February 13, 2007
No doubt taking cues from its newly-minted City of the Future status, Greenbuild has announced it's ... [UnBeige]

Making Money from Government Commission Reports - Posted January 30, 2007
Fortune's Eugenia Levenson analyzes why freely available and lengthy government reports, such as the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group Reports, are selling like gangbusters. The latter book, published by Random House imprint Vintage, has spent six weeks on The New York Times... [GalleyCat]

Sevier Moves to Dutton - Posted January 22, 2007
After a very short stint with Touchstone/Fireside - where he acquired undercover FBI agent "Jack Falcone's" INSIDE MAN earlier this month - former St. Martin's editor Ben Sevier is moving to Dutton as a Senior Editor effective January 30. "Ben is generally regarded as one of the best crime fiction and... [GalleyCat]

Lorraine Wild Gives It Up For Her Soul Sister - Posted January 12, 2007
You know that people are always sending us UnBeige editors stuff, right? Mountains of stuff, cascading out of our mailboxes, pouring onto our desks like stuff fountains. Well, something funny happened three months ago. This gorgeous pink-red-orange book slid from between the stuff, filled with the fluo... [UnBeige]