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Postcards from the EDGE network

by Steven Sande (May 2nd, 2009)

Two new apps both provide the same service to iPhone users -- sending postcards to U.S. addresses from your iPhone. I'm not talking about virtual electronic postcards; instead, these are real postcards that are printed at a location near your recipient's address, then delivered by the U.S. Postal ...

Even more Postal Service/Apple Intel Ad drama: Apple 'censors' Postal Service video

by Scott McNulty (Jan 25th, 2006)

The above image is from a side by side comparison of the Postal Service's video for 'Such Great Heights,' to itself done by Elite Productions. It compares the video as it is seen on the iTMS (on the left) and in 'wild.' You'll notice that the video from the iTunes Music store has the ...

Apple Intel ad a ripoff of Star Trek First Contact?

by Scott McNulty (Jan 23rd, 2006)

I don't want to add fire to the Postal Service/Apple Intel ad controversy, but a keen eyed observer notes that the Postal Service video is a ripoff of a scene in Star Trek: First Contact, therefore Apple isn't just ripping off a rock and roll band but a cultural icon. Now, before you firing your ...

The Postal Service speaks about Intel Ad

by Scott McNulty (Jan 20th, 2006)

Who would have thought that the most controversial thing to come out of Macworld would be the commercial that Apple produced to hawk the idea of Intel inside Macs? Certainly not this pundit, though I also didn't think that iPod would sell, and I thought the Cube would be a hit. It seems that the one ...

Apple & The Postal Service: Friends

by Dave Caolo (Jan 19th, 2006)

Oh, what were we all so worried about? Consider the whole "controversy" (if you want to call it that) surrounding Apple's latest Intel ad and The Postal Service's video for the song Such Great Heights to be water under the bridge. As a number of our eagle-eyed readers have pointed out, the ...

Apple Intel ad not so original?

by Scott McNulty (Jan 11th, 2006)

Leander Kahney reports that Apple new Intel ad that is getting all sort of love from Mac fan everywhere, might have been done before and not by Apple. It seems that the Postal Service (a rock and roll band that the kids are listening to) has a video for 'Such Great Heights' which bears an uncanny ...