October 9, 2008
5:43 pm |
1 recommendation |
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Google Invades Gaming; Outer Space
| posted by Chris Dannen
Adding to its already-formidable AdSense product-line this week, Google [GOOG] announced AdSense for online Flash games. Comscore says that up to 25% of Web surfers worldwide play these games, so Google might be tapping a sizable market: 200 million computer-users.
AdSense’s new gaming platform will allow game-writers to incorporate text, image or video advertisements within their games, likely with a similar content-related algorithm that drives regular text-based AdSense to make sure you’re getting relevant ads.
October 9, 2008
5:28 pm |
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LG Camera-Phone Makes You Look Prettier
| posted by Chris Dannen
LG [LGERF.PK] looks as if it’s prepared to challenge Nokia [NOK] and Sony [SNE] for the title of most camera-capable mobile phone. First came the KC920, nicknamed the Renoir, and now a new little-brother model: the just-announced KC780.
October 9, 2008
5:24 pm |
1 recommendation |
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Apple MacBook Release Official for October 14th
| posted by Chris Dannen
Not much to add to the already-reported rumors of new Apple [AAPL] MacBooks on their way in 5 days, but Apple has finally acknowledged the event by sending out an invitation to special media folks. The event will start at 10AM PST on the 14th of October, and will be held at Apple's Cupertino, California headquarters.
They haven't specified that this is a MacBook release event, but the invitation has a dimly-lit photo of a MacBook Pro shell on it, so this blogger has used his intrepid skills of deduction to come to the above conclusion.
October 9, 2008
2:58 pm |
1 recommendation |
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Log Off, Latch On, Make Facetime: Dentyne's New Campaign Turns Heads
| posted by Saabira Chaudhuri
If you've taken the subway, been to an airport or passed by a few billboards lately, you've probably noticed Dentyne's latest ad campaign, which launched mid-August of this year. It's hard to miss.
October 9, 2008
1:50 pm |
2 recommendations |
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Mergers Can Lead to More Security Woes
| posted by Fast Security
Every day it seems like we’re hearing about a bank merger or at least banks talking about merging. Washington Mutual and J.P. Morgan Chase. Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. It doesn’t look like we’ll be hearing any less of this anytime soon, as more banks are expected to fail. But some internet pirates are looking to take advantage of the situation, and you.
October 8, 2008
4:42 pm |
4 recommendations |
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The iPod: Apple's Innovation Strangler?
| posted by Saabira Chaudhuri
Tech columnist, Don Reisinger, minces no words in conveying his opinion about what the iPod's fate should be. In his blog entitled Why I can't wait for the iPod to die, he writes: "Although it may be difficult for Apple zealots and even CEO Steve Jobs to understand, the iPod is not going to be one of the most important devices forever, and if we consider the impact the Walkman had on the industry, the iPod should be moving to the execution chamber in the next 5 to 10 years."
October 8, 2008
11:17 am |
1 recommendation |
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Becoming a Doctor? That's So Dial-Up!
| posted by Tom Stern
October 8, 2008
11:10 am |
2 recommendations |
1 comment
Do Financial Brands Add Up?
| posted by Jonathan Salem Baskin
The global economic meltdown has been bad news for financial services brands, straining the media of marketing communications as much as balance sheets. The fundamental question is whether branding can overcome the rational as well as emotional reactions of depositors, investors, and policy holders.
October 8, 2008
7:05 am |
2 recommendations |
1 comment
A little rant about politics...
| posted by Brian Reich
I just have to rant a little about politics.
It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that if what you are doing isn't working anymore, you need to make a change.
October 7, 2008
1:58 pm |
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Microsoft CEO Defends Himself Against Class-Action Allegations
| posted by Chris Dannen
All it took was one flimsy product designation, and now Microsoft [MSFT] has a class-action lawsuit on its hands. The suit charges that Microsoft certified certain budget computer models as "Vista Capable" when, in fact, they were only barely so. The machines, which were low-performing CPUs with mediocre hardware, could only run Vista in theory; in practice, they were too slow to be practically usable.
