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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If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
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SVG a graphics format for 21st century
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Take Chrome OS for a test spin
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Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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