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December 1 is World Aids Day. And to commemorate this event Google is higlighting a nice short video featuring cases of AIDS victims who are on their way to recovery, thanks to the valiant efforts of the global movement to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. This movement coupled with a ...
Online
Yahoo! ‘09 Rewind @ Yahoo! Video
It’s that time of the year again folks. Search engines are starting to release their yearly search zeitgeist. Bing already had their Top Trending Topics released a couple of days ago. Yahoo for its part has just unveiled a bigger ...
Online
Yahoo
With the Black Friday shopping craze in the U.S. finally over, it’s now time to look into some figures that were derived out of all the online retail e-commerce transactions by online retailers that participated. According to comScore , there was a total of $595 million online sales on ...
Online
Black Friday
Amazon
Oh Nokia, how far you’ve fallen from your once-lofty mobile gaming ambitions. The Nokia Mosh repository carried so many wild and wacky games — until you threw away your entire developer community in favor of your clean and shiny Ovi app store. Now you can barely give away top-tier ...
Mobile
Nokia
Nintendo
If you thought the Windows 7 house party ad was lame, wait ’til you see this. On November 8, Microsoft was planning to sponsor a special episode of Seth McFarlane’s animated comedy series Family Guy to promote their latest operating system.
You can see where this was going: ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
Ah, the Sony PlayStation 3. A Blu-Ray player, an online video player, a Linux box — it’s used as anything but what it’s supposed to be: a game console. Now the US Air Force is buying 2,200 PS3s to build a supercomputer.
No, I’m not kidding.
The U.S. Air Force is ...
Hardware
Sony
PS3
Eat this Apple! It’s like some anti-iPhone fanboys are screaming at us iPhone users – taunting us with the lines – “you can never get this on your iPhone, Steve fanatics.” Ouch! But honestly, can a mobile app store such as Mikandi.com which is short of ...
Mobile
Android
Apple
After getting various mobile innovation-related awards from several advertising organizations, here comes Pizza Hut iPhone app again bagging another prestigious plum. This time it’s from “the” Forbes Magazine, which named it the #Branded Mobile Application of 2009. Of ...
iPhone
iPhone
Entertainment industry execs, take note: this is how an old classic can successfully make the transition into new media. When The Muppet Show was cancelled in 1981, a lot of us felt like we lost our old gang of childhood friends. Fortunately, the Muppets just launched their own YouTube ...
Online
YouTube
Love him or hate him, Internet marketer Joel Comm has been bringing us fun stuff decade after decade. In 1996, he founded the company that Yahoo bought and turned into Yahoo Games. At the end of 2008, he released iFart Mobile, which spent three weeks at the top of the iPhone app charts.
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iPhone
iPhone
Apple
Steve Jobs
Yahoo
It must be because of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and everybody in tech world are spending some time with their family (Happy Thanksgiving to all friends in the US, by the way) that nobody seemed to have noticed Nokia’s announcement about the release of another one of its flagship mobile ...
Mobile
Nokia
If you are anywhere in Times Square on Black Friday, perhaps after long hours of digging through those electronic stores in search of the best Black Friday deal, you might want to check Google’s latest search experiment – Google search by voice .
Nope you don’t need a ...
Mobile
Verizon
Android
From eight-foot demo units to the Microsoft Surface to the iPhone, multitouch technology has experienced rapid miniaturization over the last two years. Now we go completely in the opposite direction, with the world’s largest multitouch wall. This tactile monster by Sensory Minds ...
Other
Microsoft
Lusting for the speed of Chrome, but enjoying the convenience of Firefox’s central plugin repository? Soon you won’t have to choose. Developer builds of Google’s browser currently feature support for extensions, but those extensions live in unofficial repositories like ...
Online
Chrome
If the video promoting Google’s mobile search with movies was rather inappropriate because it features three geek-looking Google engineers looking for a theater where New Moon is currently showing, wait till you see this new Microsoft video promoting Microsoft 7. Microsoft’s ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
The interactivity of new media allows levels of deeply personal engagement unimaginable in old media. In the case of one avid Japanese gamer, that engagement actually led to marriage.
…a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives ...
Gaming
Don’t you just hate when marketers tag you in some spammy promo picture on Facebook? Yeah, so do I. Ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors realized this, and found an interesting way to get around it for their client Ikea: get users to tag themselves in Ikea promo pictures.
As ...
Online
Did you watch the video first before reading this post? I really don’t think that those three fellas would watch New Moon together. Three geek-looking dudes checking out screening schedule of New Moon using a Google Android phone? It just doesn’t fit.
Anyway, just disregard ...
Mobile
Android
If the big honking banner ads on your favorite sites suddenly get less annoying over the coming months, here’s why: Google is buying display advertising startup Teracent .
How is this different from Google’s purchase of display advertising stalwart DoubleClick ? As is usually the ...
Online
Yahoo
Even the best hardware features need support from services with decent traction. Otherwise, they just become useless decorations. Some Nokia smartphones come with a front-facing camera, supposedly for video chat. Thanks to inconsistent network support for videocalls, nobody actually uses ...
