Neowin News Feed for: Promo

Gemini Advanced members can hand out a free 4-month trial to their friends

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:36:02 +0000

Google is giving Gemini Advanced users the option to give a free 4-month trial to their friends as part of its "Invite a friend" promo. Read more...

eBay takes dig at Amazon in advert titled "Honest Alexa"

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:16:01 +0000

eBay heavily criticized its competitor Amazon in its latest promotional video for its upcoming Crash Sale. In the minute-long video titled "Honest Alexa", a tweenager named Alexa trashes Prime Day. Read more...

Nintendo Switch and Mario games are currently on sale to celebrate Mario Day

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 14:58:02 +0000

To commemorate Mario Day or MAR10 Day, Nintendo is offering the Nintendo Switch bundled with one of five Mario games at the discounted price of $329.98. Individual Mario games are also on sale. Read more...

LG releases new promo video for its upcoming V30

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:26:01 +0000

LG has released a new promo video for its upcoming handset. While you don't get to see the V30, it does make a point to tout its OLED FullVision display. The firm will announce the V30 on August 31. Read more...

Spotify is giving away Google's Chromecast to those in the US and UK

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:40:01 +0000

Spotify has started a new promotion that will give users of its Premium service a free Google Chromecast. The promotion runs until 11:59pm CET on February 28th 2016 or while supplies last. Read more...

Microsoft discounts Band 2 by $50

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 07:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has discounted the price of its latest health- and fitness-focused wearable device, the Band 2, and it can now be purchased with $50 off its regular retail price of $249.99. Read more...

Nokia's promotional video appears to show upcoming smartphone and tablet

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:30:01 +0000

Nokia has promised new hardware for 2016. And with the recent release of a new promotional video, two devices used in it, a tablet and a phone, are being touted as upcoming releases. Read more...

Get up to $800 off when you trade in your Surface tablet, for a limited time

Justin Luna — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 10:22:01 +0000

As part of its recycling program, Microsoft is currently offering up to $800 upon trading in an old Surface device towards buying a new one. The promo is available until the 7th of November. Read more...

LG is offering a 200GB microSD, extra battery and charging cradle with its new V10 flagship

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:10:03 +0000

If you were thinking about ordering LG's latest handset, the V10, be sure to check out the latest promo for the handset that offers a 200GB microSD, extra battery and charging cradle. Read more...

Carrier offers free Skype Qik service to iOS and Android, but leaves out Windows Phone

Justin Luna — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:36:01 +0000

A carrier in the Philippines is currently offering free usage of Skype Qik for three months. However, despite promoting the app's availability on Windows Phone, the platform is not part of the promo. Read more...

Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge show up in leaked promotional image

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:40:01 +0000

As we get closer to MWC, unintentional leaks are getting harder to contain. As is the case for the newly leaked promotion ad for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. Read more...

Stylish new Nokia Windows Phone shows up in promo

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:44:56 +0000

Nokia have inadvertently shown off what looks like a brand new Windows Phone in one of their promo videos. It's unreleased and unmentioned at this stage, but it sure does look nice and stylish Read more...

Old Spice guy, Isaiah Mustafa, stars in WP7 promo

Brad Sams — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:19:24 +0000

Microsoft has officially kicked off its multi-million dollar Windows Phone 7 campaign. Microsoft knows that its entire mobile future is riding on this platform and they will do whatever it takes to succeed. To that... Read more...

Microsoft's Vista promo video just a "spoof"

Steven Parker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:28:01 +0000

Thanks Zoue for this news tip on the now, infamous Vista SP1 [internal] promo video. Turns out Microsoft's unfathomably horrendous Vista SP1 promo video that turned up a couple of days ago was just one... Read more...

Windows Server 2008 Unleashed Promo

Steven Parker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:13:43 +0000

Thanks to dhan for posting about this in our Back Page News section. After the embarrassing Vista SP1 promo posted here earlier this week, it seems the sales team have got their act together and... Read more...

Dell Software Promo Rankles Microsoft Partners

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:15:49 +0000

Dell is quietly selling Microsoft Open License software at cost as part of a three-week promotion that runs until the end of July, CMP Channel has learned. In an email viewed by CMP Channel, Dell... Read more...

Sun Stuns And Angers VARs With Direct Sales Promo

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:37:20 +0000

Sun Microsystems' solution providers are in revolt after the vendor unveiled a two-week promotion that cut prices for many of its server, storage, software and services products by 50 percent and more, but only for... Read more...

Pepsi Super Bowl promo airs before caps available

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:32:45 +0000

Pepsi-Cola's attention-getting Super Bowl ad campaign offering free music downloads from Apple's iTunes Music Store hasn't paid off in a big digital sales spike — yet. Bottles with the winning promotions took longer to get... Read more...

Low-tech 'hack' takes fizz out of Pepsi-iTunes promo

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:37:25 +0000

It doesn't take a code breaker or a math whiz to lift songs from Apple Computer's iTunes online music store--it just takes a good pair of eyes and a trip to the corner store. ... Read more...

BT in free broadband promo

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 10:44:23 +0000

BT is offering free use of its high street broadband Internet kiosks as part of a promo to plug the service. From today, BT won't charge a penny for services such as... Read more...

Apple Jaguar promo doesn't apply to Jaguar

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:21:58 +0000

A promotion that promises to sweeten the pain of the $129 update to Apple's OS X 10.2 Jaguar release doesn't apply to Jaguar, leaving Register readers perplexed. One reader in New York... Read more...

BMG to issue promo CDs with copy protections

Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:08:59 +0000

Here comes another nail in the coffin to getting your beloved MP3's on the net early! BMG are putting the finishing touches to placing copy protection (or anti-copying measures) on the... Read more...

Exclusive: XP Promo Ad

Steven Parker — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:51:30 +0000

Hmm, funky if you are into that kind of thing, I have been handed a link by my good mate Vla of the new Windows XP ad. For us sad peeps here in Europe have... Read more...