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Report: Microsoft chooses ad agency for Pink phone campaign

Report: Microsoft chooses ad agency for Pink phone campaignThe New iPhone 3G ...... turns pink all by themselves. Don't know if that's patentable.^o^Johnny Come LatelyIs this going to be the "iPhone Killer"?I don't care who the ad agency or manufacturer is, MS is too late and the market...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Pink, phone, advertising agency, Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Report: Microsoft chooses ad agency for Pink phone campaign

AdWeek is reporting that Microsoft has selected ad agency McCann Erickson to develop its campaign fo the Microsoft "Pink Project." Pink is the codename for a Microsoft-branded phone and set of accompanying premium consumer services being developed largely by the Danger team that Microsoft acquired last year. by Mary...

Tags: Advertising Agency, Advertisement, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Popup Ad Stopper 09.07.01 (Windows)

Popup Ad Stopper is a simple, easy to use popup blocker. Popup Ad Stopper works with any web browser, not just one or a select few, like most popup blockers. Popup Ad Stopper actually filters web page content as it is coming in from the Internet, before it reaches your...

Tags: Advertisement, Pop-up Blocker, Microsoft Windows, ElectraSoft

Software downloads 2009-07-01

AD Stream Recorder 3.3.1 (Windows)

AD Stream Recorder is a sound record program. It can digitize and record any signal connected to your sound card as well as live streaming audio including the Internet radio into MP3 and WAV format. Real-time sound visualization while monitoring and recording enables you to adjust the audio source level...

Tags: Audio, Advertisement, Recorder, Microsoft Windows, Live Streaming, Adrosoft, AD Stream Recorder

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Google, Yahoo agreed to IM deal a year ago; Apparently, it quietly died with ad deal

Google, Yahoo agreed to IM deal a year ago; Apparently, it quietly died with ad dealThis is a widespread problemand not limited to just yahoo and google. Microsoft allows IM with yahoo users, Google allows IM with AIM users. Unfortunately, voice and video is still not supported when it comes...

Tags: Instant messaging, advertisement, IM, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Google, Yahoo agreed to IM deal a year ago; Apparently, it quietly died with ad deal

It all started when I was reorganizing my iGoogle pages over the weekend and added a GoogleTalk widget. Some time back, I added AIM messaging into Google Talk so I could chat with the different friends I have on those services in the same window. So, naturally,...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, IM, Yahoo! Inc., Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Sprint ad targets lapsing iPhone contracts

Sprint ad targets lapsing iPhone contractsDoesn't Apple mention it's ...... cometitors in their ads? PC versus MAC ring a bell? How can we take you seriously when you call out Sprint for doing what Apple does? RE: Sprint ad targets lapsing iPhone contractsSmart move by Sprint! ...

Tags: Sprint Communications, Apple Inc., advertisement, ad target, PC, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Sprint ad targets lapsing iPhone contracts

Sprint is aiming its sights squarely on AT&T, Apple and the iPhone with a new print ad that says "Your iPhone contract is up. Perfect timing." The ad copy boasts that the Palm Pre "does things the iPhone can't" multitasking, that it's cheaper ($1,200 less over two...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Sprint Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies

Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companiesMicrosoftMS is clearly trying to reinvent itself, but can it do that without destroying its core business? Does MS have the cost structure and vision to survive?Disruptive Technology is such anidiotic phrase, I'm surprised anyone still uses it like it means something special.Pretty much...

Tags: Strategy, goodbye newspaper company, Disruptive Technologies, Pretty Much, Microsoft Corp., Disruptive Technology

Discussion threads 2009-06-27

No vertically-focused Microsoft Office on the docket (for now)

A report in Advertising Age earlier this week, entitled "Microsoft to Create 'Office Suite' for Advertising," had me wondering whether Microsoft had decided to pursue a strategy I first heard about years ago: Creating customized versions of Office for specific vertical markets. But it looks like this isn't the case,...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Google announces AdSense for Mobile Apps

Google announces AdSense for Mobile AppsOh great, now there is an "APP FOR THAT"!IF a dev puts advertisments in his app, then they better offer an ad free version for a few dollars. It simply drives me bonkers having a webpage riddled with Fake diet plans, the dancing mortgage rate...

Tags: Mobile App, Google AdSense, advertisement, Google Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Google announces AdSense for Mobile Apps

Here they come: Google ads are headed for smartphones. Google has announced the beta of Adsense for Mobile Applications, a program that will give advertisers a new way to reach potential customers while they're on-the-go and an opportunity for developers to earn revenue...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Mobile, Google AdSense, Beta, Mobile Application, Mobile Applications, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Ad tech can recognize gender - age next?

Ad tech can recognize gender - age next?oh hell no.this is absolutely ridiculous. this is big brother watching you. will we have any privacy in the future? and what about genderqueer persons?

Tags: Ad Tech, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

The media is dead. Long live the media

The media is dead. Long live the mediaInteresting comment about ads.Jeremy,I found your rejection of TV due to advertising very interesting, considering the revenues of your employer (and I presume your salary?), are utterly dependent on the same model.I would like the option of ad-free content. I understand that ads...

Tags: TVs, Advertising & Promotion, ghosting, advertisement, ad-free content, media, TV, Godzilla

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Bacardi Ltd., Rum

Discussion threads 2009-06-21

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

IconCool Studio 6.54 Build 90620 (Windows)

IconCool Studio is a complete solution for 32-bit icon and Vista style icon editing, modifying and creation. In addition to icon ad cursor formats, it also supports editing of GIF, JPEG, and PNG image files. The program includes standard image editing tools, as well as a variety of filters and...

Tags: Advertisement, GIF, Microsoft Windows, Image-editing, Newera, IconCool Studio

Software downloads 2009-06-20

Ad tech can recognize gender - age next?

Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a gender-recognition system that could change the way advertising works in future. A*Star's gender recognition system at work. (Credit: Leonard Goh/CNET Asia) Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) has developed a...

Tags: Advertisement, Agency, Gender, A*Star, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, facial recognition, advertising, Leonard Goh CNET Asia

News items 2009-06-18

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Outrageously cool new hard drive

Outrageously cool new hard driveYes, very cool. . .please let me know when I can buy one to evaluate. Until then, it is all just speculation ... and, who knows, it might not ever make it to market for unforeseen technical reasons and just end up as more vapor.Let's hope...

Tags: hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-06-15