LeBron

LeBron James wants you to forget the fact that he said he was going to take his talents to Miami.

Samsung wants you to forget the fact that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is quite big.

So in a marketing marriage of quite some convenience, the two have gotten together for mutual benefit.

I am grateful to TechCrunch for sizing up the new ad for the Galaxy Note 2, which attempts to turn LeBron James into, oh, Jesus Jordan.

He's friendly. He's lovely. He's a philanthropist. Yes, even though he's been a king from the very … Read more

As if LeBron James wasn't busy enough with the delayed NBA season starting and getting engaged, he also had to go and open his own retail store and stuff it to the gills with iPads.

The Miami Heat star recently launched Unknwn, a boutique clothing and lifestyle store. As you might expect, the sneaker section is especially well-stocked.

The store's wall full of sneakers is also a wall full of 45 iPads. The wall-mounting comes courtesy of iPad Enclosures, a company that specializes in kiosks and mounts for business and retail environments.

The idea is to give customers an interactive shopping experience with technical details, clothing suggestions, and pricing for each sneaker at their fingertips. The iPads also run videos showing the shoes in action.… Read more

To help celebrate Friday, we bring in our good buddy Tim Geisenheimer to end the week on a good note. Of course the big news we talk about right at the top of the show is the unprecedented announcement of LeBron James' decision to sign with the Miami Heat.

Being an actual fan of the NBA, Tim helps us break down what this means for basketball and how technology played a role in the ultimate decision.

Staying in the vein of sports-related news, we'll watch an interesting video of Paul, the octopus who is current six-for-six at predicting World … Read more

King Tawdry of Cleveland donned a shirt that looked like it came from Mervyn's, took out his earrings, and spoke down to his people. You knew he was serious because he was on ESPN and referred to himself in the third person.

He declared his commitment to leave the joys of his kingdom and "take his talents" to South Beach.

I like South Beach, a little more than I like LeBron James. So, in an attempt to see joy battle punishment, I decided to follow the Twitter feed specially created just for his vastly inflated moment of … Read more

Somehow I find it hard to believe that LeBron James needed a "decision engine" to make The Decision.

Nonetheless, Microsoft's Bing has graciously offered its sponsorship of what is easily the most ridiculous combination of hype and entertainment since Geraldo Rivera found two liquor bottles in a downtown Chicago hotel: the one-hour prime-time television spectacle that is scheduled to air Thursday evening on ESPN chronicling "The Decision," when James will announce which National Basketball Association team he'll allow to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years. Bing is also … Read more

With one leap, he leaves followers in his wake. With one tweet, more than 122,000 followers come to his fingers. Until I finish this post, when it will be at least a few thousand more.

Yes, LeBron James, he who used to laugh at how other NBA players post their latest on Twitter, has now succumbed. He has created Twitter.com/KingJames, a feed which, before it had even been fed, had 45,000 followers.

At around 1:30 p.m. PDT Tuesday, the man who would be king finally tweeted. And the followers kept coming to his court.… Read more

I cannot predict (though I can dream it) Kobe Bryant being sunk by Los Suns de Phoenix in the NBA playoffs. Can the alleged Superman Dwight Howard defeat those hardy assailants from Boston? My heart says probably not. My brain says absolutely, positively no way in this lifetime or any other.

But these are mere emotions. They fail us. And the more our emotions fail us, the more money the left-brainers make. (Look at Google, having invaded our laptops, now marching its armies toward our TVs.)

Yet what is lovely about some left-brainers, especially mathematicians beyond Wall Street, is that … Read more

In a move that might be a lesson for my beloved (and, just occasionally, beloathed) Golden State Warriors this Friday, Microsoft has shut down LeBron James.

Two years ago, MSN and the Cleveland Cavalier superhero who looks 35 and is, allegedly, 13 or 14, announced big plans.

Now the deal, just as that of Buick and Tiger Woods, has floated down the Styx with Charon the boatman.

While no one believed that Tiger Woods would ever have allowed even his Secret Service doppelganger to actually own a Buick, there was at least some reason to conjecture that a LeBron James … Read more

I haven't watched more than two minutes of NBA basketball--playoffs not included--since Michael Jordan retired (that'd be the second of his three retirements, in 1998). Then I got a HDTV last year and suddenly found myself tuning in for entire halves of meaningless regular season games--three-quarters of the game if Steve Nash was involved.

If you're hooked on high-definition professional basketball, there's another way to catch all the action without upgrading your TV or cable box. Throw a $99 tuner/antenna kit in your laptop bag and you can watch over-the-air HDTV no matter where you … Read more