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Samsung’s two-minute Super Bowl ad starring Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen was pretty hilarious, but it also completely bashed all of its big game commercial competition. The premise of the spot is that Rogen and Rudd have to pitch ideas to “Mr. Show’s” Bob Odenkirk for Samsung’s “Next Big Thing” commercial. Their advice slams the following ads:...
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Bouncing around the Microsoft watching community today is a narrative indicating that Microsoft Stores will offer current Surface RT owners a full, retail-price trade in value if they wish to move to a Surface Pro device when it launches. This is incorrect. TNW has learned that no such trade-in program exists, and that Microsoft...
BlackBerry has made its first play for the US market after its BlackBerry 10 Super Bowl ad went live at today’s big game. Despite the occasion itself running into issues with an extended power outage, the company-formerly-known-as-RIM‘s advert did make it out before there were problems. The 30-second ad spot itself goes into no...
Apple didn’t join BlackBerry, Samsung and others in producing a Super Bowl ad but the company did unveil something significant during the commercials, via a promo for Paramount’s upcoming ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ film. As CNET first noted, the end of the commercial includes a vanity link for the app — appstore.com/startrekapp — rather...
On Friday six cities in North Carolina issued a request for proposal for gigabit connections at a reasonable costs for businesses and residents. The cities have been talking up their efforts which would include new investment from a company, as well as the opportunity to lease the cities’ dark fiber. Just like Seattle, Chicago,...
There was quite a bit of action in several cloud-based servcies this week. The good news: Microsoft launched Office 365 Home Premium edition on Tuesday. The bad news is that Office 365 went down Friday for many users. And, Twitter, which many (guilty here) view as a valuable productivity and communications tool, also had a tough week,...
Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand public appearance at the end of the ad for the new Star Trek movie, which pointed viewers to Appstore.com/StarTrekApp instead of perhaps, Facebook.com/StarTrekMovie or...
BlackBerry 10′s first Superbowl commercial squeaked in right before a power outage delayed the game for 34-minutes. Instead of focusing on what the new OS can do, however, the thirty-second spot showed what it can’t do: trigger spontaneous combustion, make users disappear in a puff of colorful smoke and then magically reappear out of...