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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In case you’re wondering–and lots of stockholders/employees at Belo Corp. are–there were plenty of people who knew the CueCat was a ridiculous investment. Mark Cuban said as much. Newsroom grunts who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To enjoy the e-Newspaper ...

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 ...

The adage that cats have nine lives applies to electronic cats, too. The ill-fated CueCat bar-code reader has been reincarnated as a cell-phone application that recognizes corporate logos. In 2000, ...