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Gap Employs GPS-Equipped Reindeer in Holiday Promotion
In: web resources
18 Dec 2010There’s no Donner, no Blitzen and no Rudolph in Gap’s latest social media promotion, but there’s plenty of weirdness. The clothing retailer, working with AKQA, has unleashed an admittedly odd campaign that tracks eight real reindeer (not the flying kind) in a pasture in Lake Crystal, Minn. The reindeer, which are equipped with GPS, compete [...]
Apple vs Nokia: ITC Sides With the Finland-based Company [ITC Surprises by Saying There’s No Proof to Back Up Alleged Apple Patent Infringement; Nokia’s Grin Spotted Over the North Pole]
In: gadgets
3 Nov 2010I told you the Apple vs Nokia conflict will be an interesting one to consider, given that the companies have sued each other over various alleged patent infringements. Today the first results are in from the ITC, the International Trade Commission, and Apple has plenty of reasons to be annoyed while Nokia can go ahead [...]
Fifteen-year-old Parker Liautaud will forever be remembered as the first person to legitimately check in at the North Pole and unlock the Last Degree badge on Foursquare. Liautaud used his spring break to attempt to ski to the Last Degree of the North Pole and compete to be the first to check in there. The [...]
Google/NORAD Santa Tracking About to Begin Again
In: web resources
23 Dec 2009The North American Aerospace Defense Command, otherwise known as NORAD is tracking Santa Claus’s rounds this year, keeping up a tradition that has been going on for 54 years. Norad has been working with Google for several years by way of Google Maps and Google Earth. Last year, they started using Google Analytics as well. [...]
Track Santa With Google This Christmas Eve
In: web resources
23 Dec 2009Want to know Santa’s whereabouts this Christmas Eve? Well, Google has you covered. The company has been helping NORAD track the man in red since 2004 — the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization had been tackling the task all on its lonesome since 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck magazine ad accidentally instructed readers to call [...]
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