All the stories tagged with: ad
Put on your thinking hats to decipher this mystery device
09/21/2010, An advert for a mystery device has left many people scratching their heads and wondering just what it is all about. After all, details on a manufacturer (or manufacturers) were scant, except for a lower case ‘m’ brand on the [...]
Verizon Fascinate ad coming your way
09/01/2010, We’ve already seen the Verizon Fascinate floating around in the wild, with its training materials leaked, so to add further excitement to those who have already made up their minds to bring home this smartphone, you will find the Verizon [...]
Apple Patent Hints At Ad-supported Version Of OS X
07/22/2010, A recently-discovered patent application by Apple shows that the fruity company has been considering the idea of an ad-supported version of OS X. Such an OS could disable some functions of the system while the advertisement is being presented; ensuring [...]
Nokia N8 Video Ad On Its Way?
04/05/2010, Do you remember the Nokia N8 (or N8-00) that we spotted a week or so back? According to a tweet by TV camera operator Danny Gagatt, Nokia is planning to release a viral ad video for the device, nicknamed Vasco. [...]
Spotted in Northern California: “Redneck Inside” truck
01/12/2010, When folks are turning marketing stuff into their own, that’s probably a sign that something worked really well (Intel did the “Intel Inside” campaign way back in the 90s). Before seeing this, my preferred “Intel Inside” hack was “Cyrix Instead”, [...]
Apple patents new device design
11/16/2009, Apple recently filed a patent on a design for a device which prevents its own owner from using it unless said person has shown that he/she has complied with an advertiser’s demands. This involves paying enough attention to an ad [...]
Apple to Microsoft: stop running the Laptop Hunters ad campaign
07/16/2009, You might like it or not, but we told you a couple of months ago that Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter ad campaign was paying off as Apple’s “value perception” was going down. Apple has since made a little effort on pricing [...]
Double Twist’s Ad Ripped Down by BART before WWDC; too dark, really?
06/06/2009, DoubleTwist is founded by former hacker “DVD Jon” Johansen Lech, known for breaking the movie protection code at age 16, allowing anybody to rip a DVD to a computer. He was sued and acquitted in Oslo. DoubleTwist, a start-up based [...]
Cool Google Chrome Commercial
05/11/2009, Google has a new video ad campaign for its Chrome web browser that looks pretty cool. It’s not meant to teach you what Chrome is, but in essence people should get away with the idea that Chrome is simpler, “less [...]
