Welcome to the 7/11 edition of Who’s on Crack in tech. Today, we’ll look back at the, shall we say interesting, week in the tech world and perhaps dig just a little deep to see which companies are off their meds or perhaps are on something a bit stronger. Let’s get to the accused: RIM’s more »

Today we’ll look at a few companies in the tech world who have proven theres more to their inspiration than just perspiration. The moves of these companies suggest they’ve moved past reality into something they’ve convinced themselves will sell to the people. Here’s my list of company’s I suspect have hit the rock: Amazon refuses more »

What’s the most common phrase heard around the Gadgetell newsroom? Is it “I love Apple?”, “that’s cool!” or “sweet!”? Answer: none of them, it’s “they are on crack.” This week we take a look back at the things that made us chuckle in the tech world. This week, it seems there were more folks on more »

What’s the most common phrase heard around the Gadgetell newsroom? Is it “I love Apple?”, “that’s cool!” or “sweet!”? Answer: none of them, it’s “they are on crack.” This week we take a look back at the things that made us chuckle in the tech world. This week, it seems there were more folks on more »

Normally, this is my space to step out of the distortion field and ask questions we as bloggers sometimes forget. Things like movie-edition phones Vista advertisements and making fun of Appletell writers. This latest PR from Memorex makes it clear that the crack is flowing freely around corporate America. Just take a gander:

Read more on just how wrong PR can go:

It’s a veritable heyday for hackers. A playground for those bent on more nefarious purposes. Those nifty little Google gadgets available for users to download and add to their websites are a big part of the Web 2.0 trend, and a big back door that allows hackers to access information on your system. Uh-oh Google gadgets.

It isn’t only Google that is at risk; and it isn’t a matter of them simply being lax with security measures. Any time you have sharing going on in that type of capacity, you are obviously opening up your system to the chance that someone can get in. It’s just that because people find these little gadgets like photo feeds or calendars on a site that is so well known (and usually trusted) like Google; it is pretty much automatically assumed by average Joe user that it must be “safe”. Not necessarily true.

This is where we call out by names the actions and companies that seem odd, out of touch or just plain straight up smokin crack. Technology is an odd realm where PR speak doesn’t hold a lot of water if the 1s and 0s don’t line up. This week sees posturing, positioning and flat out insanity. Here is what caught my eye this week: