Apple Responds To New Microsoft Ads
Remember the Seinfeld ads for Microsoft? Getting tired of random people popping up on your TV screen decreeing that they are a PC? Well, it seems Apple has had their fill of this new advertising blitz by the makers of Windows, and they are ready to fire back.
JR Raphael of The Inquisitr pointed these new [...]
Apple Unveils All New Laptop Lineup
The Apple event that was announced last week took place today, and while some of the rumors proved to be true, the most important one did not surface.
The rumored new cases turned out to be real. Some of the MacBooks and all of the MacBook Pros received a new aluminum case that makes these the [...]
Microsoft Calls An End To The Seinfeld Ads
It seems all the negative publicity over the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads has led to them being called to an end after only two weeks. According to officials from Microsoft this campaign was always planned to move to a second phase fairly quickly, but it still seems a tad odd.
I think my personal problem with [...]
The Second Ad With Jerry Seinfeld And Bill Gates For Microsoft
Microsoft’s $300 million dollar ad campaign rolls on with a second installment.
While it’s safe to assume this mini-movie will be chopped down into bits for television airings, it has to be said again that this seems like the most pointless thing ever. It is trying to so hard to be hip and anytime you force [...]
German Government Warns Against Using Google Chrome
It seems the German government has some problems with Google Chrome, and they are suggesting that their citizens do not use it.
The Federal Office for Information Security in Germany is warning the citizens of the country that between Chrome, GMail, the Google search engine and so on, by using their browser you are putting too [...]
Microsoft Launches $300 Million Dollar Ad Campaign
While discussing ad campaigns isn’t the normal subject matter for StarterTech, this new one from Microsoft is just too odd to pass up.
While this new campaign is apparently designed to try to steal some of the thunder from the popular Mac/PC ads, but at least those ads remember to mention what exactly the product is [...]
International Travellers Hit With Heavy Fees On Their iPhones
If you travel internationally for business, and you have an iPhone, you can expect to be paying quite a bit for the right.
AT&T, the lone carrier of the popular phone in the United States, announced new plans this week for those users who travel internationally. The new plans run $120 a month for 100 megabytes [...]
Comcast To Limit Bandwidth
The largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the USA, Comcast, is set to begin capping bandwidth usage of their residential customers effective October 1st.
The ISP is going to cap bandwidth for their residential customers at 250 gb a month. This would be the equivalent of 125 standard definition movies, or 50 million emails. In other [...]
Voter Registration Comes To The Xbox
In a truly odd move, Microsoft has arranged with Rock the Vote to allow people to register to vote via their Xbox 360 gaming units.
While I have mixed personal feelings on this, as I wrote on my personal blog today in an entry called Xbox 360 And Rock The Vote Team Up, I do think [...]
TSA Approves New Laptop Bags For Faster Screening
Last month I had to fly for the first time in four years, and I had forgotten how annoying the “take out your laptop for x-raying” could be. Luckily those rules have been relaxed some as of today.
The new Transportation Security Administration rules only apply to certain styles of bags, you can see them pictured [...]
