The 10 Most Viral Super Bowl Ads
The Super Bowl score may have been settled, but results from the broadcast's ads are just now coming in. Place your bets: It's time to reveal which commercials came out on top.
Super Bowl XLIII: Tech Vendors Pass on $3M Ad Spots
For the 2009 Super Bowl, several dotcoms were back in the Super Bowl mix (Careerbuilder.com, Cars.com and E-Trade), but the only company with a TV ad that resembles a high-tech vendor is General Electric, with a 30-second spot touting its Smart Grid technology.
Top 10: Singing the financial blues, again
We could just about cut and paste from last week (and the week before), change a few names and figures here and there, and call it a day. Thankfully, quarterly financial reporting is just about wrapped up for a while, and for (American) football fans the annual rite of the Super Bowl is Sunday (scoring it a Top 10 entry because there are, of course, some IT angles).
NFL's Super Bowl IT team gets ready for game day
The NFL is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that the NFL has assigned to work in Tampa, Fla., the site of this year's game.
Super Bowl super sites
We know many of you are looking forward to Sunday's big game -- if not to watch the Steelers and the Cardinals go head to head then at least to catch the commercials -- and we've got some online destinations to make 2009's contest the best Super Bowl ever.
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
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Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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