Droid Bionic ad has pretty much everything but a phone (video)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;"></span><br /> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-top: 0.6em;"> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;"> <img alt="" border="1" class="aligncenter" height="188" hspace="4" mce_src="http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8050/droidbionicswordad.jpg" mce_style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8050/droidbionicswordad.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; max-width: 640px;" vspace="4" width="346" /></div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> The new Droid Bionic ad sure has it all: a Portman-esque lady in an illuminated leather blouse, brandishing a giant sword against a<span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">Terminator</span>-looking 'bot shooting lasers from his hands, all taking place in some crazy sky coliseum thing. As for the actual handset? Not so much on that front, save for a name at the end and a promised September release date -- oh, and the implied promise that the phone will literally slice the heads off of its Android brethren. Video after the break.</div> </div> </div>

Droid Bionic ad has pretty much everything but a phone (video)

The new Droid Bionic ad sure has it all: a Portman-esque lady in an illuminated leather blouse, brandishing a giant sword against a Te...

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Telus recruits Leonard Nimoy to help you improve your Facebook status

<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="226" hspace="4" src="http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7838/telusnimoy04062011.jpg" style="margin: 4px;" vspace="4" width="360" /></div><br/><div>Sharp has George Takei to tell you about the fourth pixel it can't show you, and now Telus has hired none other than Leonard Nimoy to help out with another difficult task: improving your Facebook status messages. Using the WWLNS application -- that's What Would Leonard Nimoy Say? -- you can submit potential status messages to Mr. Nimoy and see what he thinks before you actually post them. Apparently, we've been writing in haiku without even realizing it. Of course, you will have to "Like" Telus in order to try it out yourself -- clever, Telus, very clever.... logical, even. More Nimoy after the break.</div>

Telus recruits Leonard Nimoy to help you improve your Facebook status

Sharp has George Takei to tell you about the fourth pixel it can't show you, and now Telus has hired none other than Leonard Nimoy to he...

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Apple iAd mobile advertising coming to UK in December

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///classifications/gadgets/phones/mobile-phones/iPhone/iphone-os-iad-200-200.jpg"><br /><P>Apple has announced that it is to bring its iAd mobile advertising service to the UK and France in December and will come to Germany in January.</P><br /><P>Mobile phones are being seen as the next big thing in advertising, what with print declining and television advertising choked by the rise of the EPG and VoD.</P><br /><P>Jobs and co have had <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/apple-aims-to-overhaul-mobile-advertising-with-iad-682362%20">success with iAd</A> in the US and they now hope to emulate this in Europe.</P><br /><P><STRONG>Valuable revenue source</STRONG></P><br /><P>Speaking about the service Andy Miller, vice president of iAd, said: "In just four months, we've doubled the number of advertisers on the network and thousands of developers now have a valuable new source of revenue."</P><br /><P>Although there has been talk that some advertisers being put off with the tight controls Apple puts on them, the UK launch will see Unilever, L'Oréal, Renault and Absolute Radio use the service.</P><br /><P>In September, figures showed that <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/apples-iad-closes-in-on-googles-mobile-ad-sales-719610">Apple's iAd service</A> was closing in on the more established Google mobile ad sales, with both companies looking to own around 21 per cent of the mobile ad market by the end of the year.</P>

Apple iAd mobile advertising coming to UK in December

Apple has announced that it is to bring its iAd mobile advertising service to the UK and France in December and will come to Germany in Janu...

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Facebook's advertising business is booming

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/internet-and-broadband/images/facebook-logo-angled-crop-200-200.jpg"><br /><P>Facebook's online advertising business is booming, with Mark Zuckerberg's social network running nearly one in four online display ads in the US.</P><br /><P>Facebook now owns a healthy 23.1 per cent share of display ad impressions in the US, up from 17.7 per cent in the last quarter of 2010. </P><br /><P><STRONG>Facebook races ahead</STRONG></P><br /><P>It puts Facebook at nearly double the number two ranked company, Yahoo, which has an 11 per cent share of America's online display ads right now.</P><br /><P>The latest figures showing Facebook's growing slice of the online advertising pie come from a new report by Web analytics firm comScore, showing that Facebook's website totalled more ad impressions than Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Fox Interactive media combined. </P><br /><P>Facebook delivered 297 billion impressions of display ads in the US in the third quarter of 2010, according to comScore. </P><br /><P>Evercore Partners analyst Ken Sena's estimates that the effective CPM (cost per thousand impressions) for Facebook's US display ads is around $1, compared with a $3 CPM for display ads on Yahoo's sites.</P><br /><P>"It certainly is an issue for the portal sites," said Sena. "While you still have the sort of traditional display players benefiting from strong growth trends in display (advertising), social is probably taking a disproportionate share of that growth."</P><br /><P>The US online display ad market is expected to grow by around 13 per cent to $8.56 billion in 2010, according to eMarketer.</P>

Facebook's advertising business is booming

Facebook's online advertising business is booming, with Mark Zuckerberg's social network running nearly one in four online display a...

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