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Smart business decision or classic shark jump? YOU DECIDE. Top VoIP/IM/chat service Fring has begun tentatively trying to actually make money via its mobile client by displaying adverts during chat sessions. The ads are fairly unobtrusive - just little banners, really - but stil.. is this the thin end of the wedge? The Fring team posted the [...]

Amobee Media Systems and Qualcomm have announced that they are partnering to enable Ads in mobile widgets, distributed by Qualcomm’s Plaza platform. Given the growth in popularity of widgets, this is potentially quite an impactful event for the Mobile Internet. As we know, widget are (typically) mini-apps that have some kind of stovepipe task - be [...]

So here I was this morning, reading the news checking my usual favorite blogs, when I came across another story about the Pomegranate NS08. You remember the device right? Looked kind of cool, it opened up into 3 distinct sections and offered some interesting ‘lifestyle’ features. Having been suspicious of it just a tad, I wandered [...]

So I’m back to school this week; and during my free lessons, I often find myself aimlessly wandering around. I probably shouldn’t be, as I have mountains of work to do, but it’s certainly more fun. But it turns out my aimless journeys around my over-crowded school can come in handy… And I came across a [...]

Saw this online last night, and you have to give Apple’s advertising gurus credit: they know how to show off the App Store. Never once do they get bogged down in the tech-talk quagmire of Social Network or Location Based services, nor do they trade comical barbs like their Mac Switcher ads. iPhone ads show cool [...]

Filed under: Culture , Sprint , Verizon Wireless , Misc Man, what's up with Verizon and its ad department? Just a few months back, the carrier was thrashed by PETA for running a controversial spot involving two pit bulls chained up in a junkyard, and now it's being fingered for making questionable remarks toward Sprint's push-to-talk network . For those unaware, the spots (one hosted after the break) included lines such as "We all upgraded to Verizon Wireless. Got push to talk and the reliability of the network. That old service is useless now." Sprint argued that the subtle drops could wrongfully influence people to believe that Sprint's PTT network was non-functional or that it would soon be discontinued, and eventually, NAD (an ad watchdog agency) recommended that VZW nix the ads. As it stands, the commercials in question have indeed been dropped, but Verizon asserts that it did so as a normal part of business. Ah well, it's the end result that matters, right Sprint? Continue reading Verizon cans ads that batter Sprint's push-to-talk network Verizon cans ads that batter Sprint's push-to-talk network originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments