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Mattel Implements Microsoft Technologies To Make Barbie.com Child's Play
White Papers As part of Mattel's overall strategy of maximizing its core brands, the Web offered a way to move the Barbie brand in new directions and develop longer-lasting customer relationships. Mattel teamed up with SBI to create a new Web site that would...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mattel Gives Barbie A Digital Camera
News The Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera can take up to six images then download them to a Pentium PC (90MHz or better recommended) via a serial cable. It includes software that allows girls to add their own images to those of Barbie, play with...
[November 10, 1998, 11:15]
Jane Wakefield: On Sexism And Bugs
News Barbie.com may offer the answer to every little girl's dreams with its Barbie PC, complete with pink flowers adorning the screen and keyboard. Mattel, the people who make Barbie, also offers a racing car shaped computer for the boys.
[December 20, 1999, 9:14]
AMD: I Want My MTV PC
News Mattel also backed brand-name computers for kids, such as the Barbie PC. The Barbie PC and its companion Hot Wheels PC crashed after their manufacturer, Patriot Computer, went bankrupt in late 2000. MTV is building what it considers the perfect PC...
[January 10, 2002, 8:56]
It's Techno Time At Toy Fair 2000
News Then along came a brave new world of robotic dogs and Barbie computers -- and those plastic SUVs became about as high-tech as an eight-track tape. Once upon a time radio-controlled cars were considered high-tech toys.
[February 14, 2000, 9:24]
Mail Room
News Story: iBook is so 'girly' it should sport a Barbie logo ZDNet UK News' Mail Room Got an opinion? Want to add some news of your own? Want to ask a question? Send your comments to The Mailroom Please remember to tell us if you don't want your...
[July 30, 1999, 16:48]
Sugababes Screensaver
Downloads Mattel has teamed up with Sugababes to create a new themed Barbie doll collection, which hit stores in May 2007. The Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning pop group trio from London, England. A must download free screensaver for fans of Sugababes.
[November 19, 2007, 19:46]
Tuesday
Blog So sang Aqua, in their zeitgeist-defining opus "Barbie Girl", which helped bring the 20th century to a fitting close. Tuesday 4/3/2003"Life in plastic, it's fantastic. But could even those savants foresee how appropriate their bien pensées would be...
[March 7, 2003, 14:37]
3D Display Could Be A Killer App For Wireless
News Her scantily clad, Barbie doll-like figure raises eyebrows of those who see her in full 3D glory on the phone's tiny screen. Her name is Ulala. She sashays as she walks, her tiny waist pivoting, her pencil-thin arms swinging like a runway model's.
[June 7, 2001, 15:15]
Flin4cell 2006
Downloads The simplicity of use and the capability to organize and to manage every kind of collection as DVD, CD, Telephone Cards, Coins, Film, Movie Music, Stamps, Wines, Books, Postcards, Dolls, Barbie, Games, Stones, Swarovski, Jewels, Recipes, Banknotes...
[August 24, 2007, 15:46]
Kiddy Surfers Unaware Of Cyberstranger Danger
News Director of NOP Family Barbie Clarke believes that children on the Net are "incredibly vulnerable". Kids may be getting Web-savvy but they are not surfing safely according to a report published Monday.
[August 7, 2000, 12:21]
Jane Wakefield: You've Got Mail
News In fact he finds the whole Internet experience a bit crap as do his wonderfully named children who, according to Geldof, logged on to barbie.com, pokemon.com and beaniebabies.com and thought they were all "shite".
[June 19, 2000, 7:23]
Intel Targets Toys With Mattel Deal
News Mattel has already developed Talk To Me Barbie, and the Intel/Mattel alliance is expected to take the concept a stage further. Unlike Microsoft which has a walking, talking interactive Barney the Dinosaur toy, Intel wants to develop an...
[February 13, 1998, 11:40]
Game Boy: Pocket Full Of Profits
News Mattel Media plans to release three titles, among them Barbie Ocean Discovery. Despite that, Nintendo's Game Boy Colour is the best portable gaming device yet, and it's flying off U.S.shelves to the tune of 2 million units in the first five months...
[May 20, 1999, 9:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can, however, look back at earlier interviews with the prolific Prof, in which he predicted a billion people online by the end of the year 2000, a world where there are more Barbie dolls online than people (presumably two billion or so), the...
[November 2, 2001, 15:45]
Microsoft Releases Designer Mice
News Hewlett-Packard rolled out its Barbie printer, featuring the doll's trademark pink and gray colours, and IBM unveiled a new line-up of colourful notebooks in that same year. Microsoft swapped geek for glitz on Thursday, rolling out a new collection...
[July 9, 2004, 9:25]
Instant Messaging Goes 3D
News The rise of the public Internet in the mid- to late 1990s saw attempts at several such cyberspace hang-outs, from Communities.com's The Palace to an offering from Mattel's Barbie division. Hoping to capitalise on the rising popularity of online...
[January 8, 2003, 9:59]
Study: Ability To Invent Inspires Engineers
News While an old Barbie might bleat, 'Math is hard,' the bottom line is that math illiteracy really isn't hip and we need to find a way to motivate kids," according to a statement released on Tuesday from MathSoft.
[February 21, 2002, 9:14]
US Report: Jobs Says Apple Ready To Strike
News He also ran through several upcoming software titles for the Mac, including Eidos' Tomb Raider II, Mattel's three most popular Barbie titles and Adobe Photoshop 5.0. Lightning didn't strike at Macworld Expo like it did last year, when Apple...
[July 9, 1998, 11:27]
Negroponte: "3G Will Not See The Light Of Day"
News Future gazing is something of a specialty with Negroponte, and he didn't disappoint, predicting that in the US there will be more Barbie dolls connected to the Internet in a few years than Americans. As if the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, didn't...
[September 14, 2000, 7:35]
