It was the peak of the Internet bubble, and a former infomercial producer named J. Jovan Philyaw had the gadget that seemed to answer the prayers of old-line businesses looking for an easy way to get ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Fittingly, the CueCat is widely regarded as one of the worst gadgets ever made Fittingly, the CueCat is widely ...

WE ARE, AS THE FOLKS at Digital Convergence must have expected, exactly the right kind of people to appreciate the :CueCat: We are lazy, and we like presents. OK, so the much-heralded consumer ...

As advertising sales go to the dogs, an offbeat marketing scheme aimed at bridging print and online media with CueCat digital scanners is getting bitten. In the latest sign of trouble for the company, ...

Gather 'round, children. Storytime today takes us on a wild and baffling trip back to the '90s, filled with revelations about a local inventor, media personality and treasure hunter named Jovan, a.k.a ...

The dot-com bubble was inflated by companies built to please consumers, but lacking any real plan to turn a profit. The spectacular failure of a device called the CueCat, however, proves how badly ...

Pinterest is aiming for the big time. As Forbes's Jeff Bercovici explains in this fascinating cover story, the site that has turned online "pinning" into a global craze now intends to make billions by ...

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HERE’S MY BIGGEST GRIPE about technology: Unnecessary devices that greedy corporations try and pass off on the public as cutting edge convenience. So it is with a silly little thing called Cue Cat, a ...

I had seen mention of this odd plan by Google to show little barcodes in advertisements that were readable by cellphones and PCs. I was underwhelmed so I didn’t talk about it here but Joel Spolsky ...

A growing technology sector had finally made the big shift toward catching the interest of the greater consumer market. More people could afford the necessary devices and services to join in, and the ...