End of an era: "Get a Mac" ads rumored to be finished
Apple’s “Get a Mac” TV spots featuring Justin Long and John Hodgman may soon be a thing of the past if the suspicions of its …
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Palm cuts ties with advertising agency
You know those God awful Palm Pre ads you haven’t been able to escape from for the past year? Well it looks like they’re going …
Apple rumored to introduce iAd on April 7th
Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt might have been able to put their differences aside yesterday as they enjoyed a cup of coffee, but the ol’ …
Apple set to purchase mobile ad company Quattro Wireless?
It looks like Apple is getting ready to take on Google in the mobile ad space as the latter had recently purchased AdMob for $750 …
MobileRL wants you to download its software so it can spy on you!
With rising concerns for privacy these days, advertisers are having an increasingly difficult time gathering personal consumer data. MobileRL, an Israeli start-up, is looking to …
What happened to being cool?
Avril Lavigne. Luke Wilson. Whoopi Goldberg. Those three names don’t exactly jump out and immediately connect with us when we see them. And isn’t that …
RIM's new loves: OpenGL ES, Java GUI Builder, Advertising and Push Services
We’ve already talked about some of the news from the first day of the 2009 BlackBerry Developers Conference, but another blast of PR from RIM …
Palm’s location-based advertising patent likely sheds light on background location reporting in webOS
Remember last month when a developer revealed some hidden functionality in webOS that periodically reports a user’s location back to Palm? Well as it turns …
Microsoft and Yahoo ink search deal
Microsoft and Yahoo fiiiiiiiiiiinally announced a search partnership this morning, bringing to an end months of endless rumors and speculation. The deal will provide Microsoft …
Microsoft to debut Bing search engine alongside $80 million ad campaign
It’s been a while since rumblings of Kumo, Microsoft’s codename for its new searching engine offering, made the rounds. From the looks of things, that’s …
Nokia Aeon concept phone hits the big screen with a lead role
We know Nokia loves showing off its wares in movies and music videos but it looks like the Finnish handset slinger may have taken its …
Microsoft’s new $150 million ad campaign stresses frugal enterprise solutions
Microsoft’s latest ad campaign, which began its run this past Sunday, is a sharp departure from the widely publicized I’m a PC campaign that has …
TiVo increasing on-screen ads, cable companies rejoice
Sometimes you just have to sit back and wonder what TiVo is thinking. Apparently the biz dev team there doesn’t think the unending onslaught of …
Microsoft prepares to launch its own clothing line; no, seriously
We’re not exactly sure if this is one of the worst marketing ploys ever, or one of the best. All we know for sure however, …
iPhone 3G ad banned in the UK by Advertising Standards Authority
Across the pond in the UK, they do in fact have something very foreign to us here in America called advertising standards. Apparently, in some …
Nokia allocates $150 million for Nseries advertising
Sure, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see Seinfeld score another easy $10 million like he did from Microsoft but it would definitely be an interesting …
YouTube to sell games and music in an effort to boost revenue
As if Google-owned YouTube wasn’t making enough money in ad revenue, they’ve decided to start peddling music and games for a little monetary boost. For …
“I’m a PC” Commercials Made on a Mac?
File this one under irony. It turns out that metadata within the creative copy images from it’s latest “I’m a PC” campaign has bitten Microsoft …
Microsoft Releases First Round of “I’m a PC” Commercials
Well there you have it. Microsoft did in fact ditch its Seinfeld / Gates campaign at least temporarily, in favor of a new run directly …
