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Hold your poo for The Who

What would you do to get your hands on a Nintendo Wii? A little over a week ago, a woman died trying to win the new gaming console for her children. Check out the news story, "Family sues radio station in Wii contest death."According to the article, "Jennifer Strange, 28, a...

Tags: Contest, Radio, Nintendo Wii, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2007-01-31

A Challenge

I offer up to my friends at TechRepublic a little contest.We seem to have a troll lurking in our midst. Now I've seen and dealt with trolls for years in other forums, but I know there are some here with a unique wit, and frankly I would enjoy seein

Tags: JamesRL, troll

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

This looks like fun

http://www.brainhz.com/underhanded/I stopped using C a while ago, but I am going to take a swipe at this. What do you reckon ?? Fun enough ??]:)Well, if If you want to beaccused of writing mal-ware, spam, hardware killing virus or worse, please do.As parts of your writings and contributions to this...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY

Discussion threads 2006-04-06

iPod giveaway from TR

So... There have been only two winners?http://techrepublic.com.com/1200-22-5672734.htmlWhat gives? Budget cuts?No, we've picked six......and they've all been notified. Getting all six to sign, notarize, and return the legal release forms has been FAR more cumbersome a process than we expected. Who knew it was this hard to give stuff away?(Well,...

Tags: Apple iPod, contest, dpetrak, feedback, http://techrepublic.com.com/1200-22-5672734.html, ipod, techrepublic, tr

Discussion threads 2005-06-09

About the Carrot being offered for member profile updating...

About the Carrot being offered for member profile updating...Am I the only person who finds the offer of iPod minis totally un-interesting as a gimick?I'm personally NOT updating my profile during this period so I am not entered in the drawing.May I suggest offering something of interest and value to...

Tags: contest, feedback, LIKE TR, prizes, techrepublic birthday celebration, TR, zetacon4@...

Discussion threads 2005-05-05

Additional Resources

SportsBar - March Insanity (zip)

A contest manager that simplifies the task of running your college basketball tournament contest. Entice your customers to join your contest and bring them back to your establishment to watch the games throughout the tournament. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Tournament, Tesoro Software, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-08-31

Halfcourt Contest (zip)

Halfcourt Contest is a basketball game. Take up the challenge to be on the best and be in all time best score. Halfcourt Contest is an online or offline game with hi-score online. You can between 3 modes to show your capacity on the playground.

Tags: Halfcourt Contest, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-11-23

Images: Mars rovers' photo contest winners

NASA is sponsoring a contest to let space junkies choose the best photos taken by Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Tags: NASA, photograph

Image galleries 2007-01-24

Photos: Collegiate programming contest winners

A team from Russia's Saratov State University took top honors at this year's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The U.S. placed fifth.

Tags: ACM, photograph, programming, Russia, team, U.S.

Image galleries 2006-04-14

SEO Contest Tracker (GlobalWarming Awareness2007) (exe)

SEO Contest Tracker (GlobalWarming Awareness2007 edition) is an useful tool that allows you to monitor rankings during the SEO World Championship. It's easy to use, free, and has an intuitive interface. Results are exported into a TXT file. Results are calculated based on website position in top tree search engines:...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-02-02

Logitech Implements Akamai EdgeComputing for Java to Extend Marketing-Driven, Promotional Contest

Expecting to drive 100 times its regular traffic level to its site for a single day in December 2002, Logitech needed an infrastructure in place that could support a new contest application while scaling to meet the expected traffic surge. Utilizing Akamai EdgeComputing for Java, Logitech was able to extend...

Tags: Logitech, Akamai Technologies Inc., Akamai EdgeComputing, Programming Languages, Java, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies

Alternative desktops

theming contestwe should have a theming contest for one or any of the Linux desktops.

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, jlwallen@..., desktop

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

Mac hijacked in "PWN 2 0WN" contest

Via Rich Mogull, a fully patched Mac OS X MacBook has been rooted in the "PWN 2 0WN" contest at the CanSecWest security conference. Dino Dai Zovi developed the exploit last night and will get the $10,000 reward but Shane Macaulay who pulled off the exploit will get to...

Tags: Security, News, Malware alert, Desktop, Apple

Blog posts 2007-04-20

Ultra chess!!!

I am hosting a contest. It is related to my new concept, Ultra Chess. No i am not copying Omega chess, omega chess has 12 by 12 squares, my Ultra has 14 X 14! One of the pieces in Omega chess is similar to the Unicorn in ultra chess, except...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, chess, Ultra

Discussion threads 2004-11-19

Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: Silicon Valley Football Classic

SVFC was looking to accomplish the following objectives: engage the fans with an entertaining interactive experience, provide branding exposure for key sponsors, e.g. H-P, and pilot text messaging as a mean to engage fans. ILoop Mobile and the Silicon Valley Football Classic organized two standard rate in-game mobile initiatives for...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Case studies

Article - Bad Boss Contest

Hey all, just had to share. I found this news story on Yahoo that I thought you might be interested in. Check it out at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060619/us_nm/ba_life_bosses_dcBasically the labor department wants employees to go to a website and talk about their bad bosses. They are saying it is a contest with...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology

Discussion threads 2006-06-20

Intel offers prize for multimedia PC

Take Intel’s Core Processor ChallengeIntel unveils a developers contest, called the Intel Core Processor Challenge, to build the smallest, sleekest multimedia PC that features Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors with Intel’s Viiv technology. Intel will award up to $1 million in prizes to the most innovative system design.Are you up...

Tags: core 2 duo, developers, hardware, intel, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., multimedia, news, PC, Sonja Thompson, viiv

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

Translating glasses idea wins TI's Vision for Voice contest and 56-inch Samsung TV

As part of my VoiceCon 2008 coverage, I wrote about Texas Instrument's Vision for Voice contest. TI asked individuals to submit a short video that describes a specific VoIP product, improvement to a current voice technology, or a new voice technology they would like to see within the next 20...

Tags: Voice, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Vision, Texas Instruments Inc., TV, Voice Technology, Strategy, Management, Bill Detwiler

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Build an add-in for Windows Home Server and win $10K in Code2Fame Challenge

Is this "news"? And who will judge and at what price?As you mention in your article, the due date for entries is 11:59PM PDT on the 24th of August which, even for the most productive coders, would seem a serious stretch unless they already had a completed product ready...

Tags: raisch@..., Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

Your VoIP vision could win you a 56-inch Samsung HD DLP TV

Texas Instruments' new Vision for Voice contest asks individuals to submit a short video that describes a specific VoIP product, improvement to a current voice technology, or a new voice technology they would like to see within the next 20 years. Viewers can watch the submitted videos on TI's Vision...

Tags: VoIP, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Vision, Texas Instruments Inc., TV, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Telecommunications, Marketing, Management, Bill Detwiler

Blog posts 2008-04-08