Tag: OPRAH WINFREY

What do you give to a daytime talk audience upon whom you've already bestowed luxurious cars and exotic vacations? Apparently, you give them an Xbox Kinect. That's exactly what Oprah recently gave to a delirious crowd of audience members --none of whom looked like gamers. No sooner had the announcement left the talk icon's mouth than did her audience erupt in squealy bliss. Seriously, the place ...

Despite Oprah's attempts to prove her technical cognizance, including her recent foray into Twitter, the media mogul apparently still needs some gadget aid. Tasked with writing a tribute to First Lady Michelle Obama for Time Magazine's Time 100 list, Oprah recently told a crowd of reporters gathered at New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center that she initially wrote the piece on her BlackBerry. ...

Twitter's popularity has steadily climbed since its inception, and, as of last week, Oprah Winfrey may have finally pushed the micro-blogging site to its media saturation point. According to Hitwise, a media tracker, Twitter traffic skyrocketed 43-percent from the previous Friday's numbers after the Big O's inaugural tweet this past Friday. The Web trackers also contend that 37-percent of ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is notoriously awkward and cagey in interviews and seems to disdain questions of a personal nature. Yet for some reason, the world's youngest billionaire will be making an appearance on 'Oprah' today and we have a feeling the queen of talk won't be asking a lot of questions about the technology underlying the new Facebook homepage. Unfortunately, Zuckerberg isn't ...

That Oprah, she's a wily one. She's constantly selling something or giving something away in an effort to tighten her grip on the throat of the world. Which is why we're a little confused that when she decided to endorse the Kindle, she neglected to make sure she had any content to sell on it. After the TV talk show queen threw her hefty cultural weight behind her "new favorite gadget" last ...

How long have you owned a cell phone? We're sure there are some of you out there who still go without, but for most, a celly of some sort has been a constant companion for at least a few years now. Not for Oprah Winfrey, though, the world's richest woman in entertainment. She may have her own YouTube channel, but she's actually never owned a phone until very recently, and took Tuesday ...