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With less than 24 hours to go until WhartonBrooks' campaign for its Cerulean Moment Windows 10 Mobile handset ends, the company has only achieved 2% of its fixed $1.1 million funding goal.

Japanese company NuAns has failed to achieve its Kickstarter goal of $725,000 for its NuAns Neo Windows 10 Mobile handset, managing to amass only $142,368 from 489 backers in 45 days.

With the US presidential race heating up, a leaked document has suggested Hillary Clinton's plans to have broadband in every US household by 2020 and lend her support for net neutrality.

The British Government want to lawfully spy on its public by passing the Investigatory Powers Bill. Britain's EFF - the Open Rights Group - is not happy and are mounting a campaign to change minds.

Intel and Microsoft are teaming up with Dell, HP and Lenovo to promote their new Windows 10 devices by joining forces in what could be considered one of the largest advertising campaigns to date.

GameStop is offering a deal to potential Xbox One buyers, where trading in a last-generation console can get you a lot of in-store credit when purchasing Microsoft's new device.

Microsoft is launching a new campaign in time for the holiday season, called #MakeItHappen, where the company wants to help you achieve your 2014 New Year's resolutions before the new year hits.

A Kickstarter campaign requiring $250,000 to be fully funded, will allow its creators to build a peripheral gaming device which will suck the blood out of you, literally.

Lumia owners rejoice: free Windows Phone Store credit and games being offered for owners of select Lumia models

Microsoft have restarted their "Scroogled" advertising campaign against Google, hitting out at them over their privacy violations regarding the Play Store, claiming Google gives out sensitive info.

Apple has created a new mini-site which outlines the benefits of choosing the iPhone over other phones. The new site highlights Apple's uneasiness at Android, as well as competitor's handsets.

The three new Genius videos that aired only last month were not only popular for all the wrong reasons, but they painted typical Mac users as pretty clueless; enter a "Genius" who attempted to educate

The whispers have been getting louder and louder and with additional sources chiming in, Windows Phone 8 for September is a go and a new marketing campaign will come with it too.

Nokia uploaded two videos yesterday that explains why two people from different sides of the globe dumped their Motorola and Blackberry, respectively, and opted for the Nokia Lumia.

Social media campaigns can connect brands with their customers in new, interesting ways. But web users are an unpredictable bunch, as McDonalds discovered with its recent disastrous Twitter campaign.

There's not much love between Samsung and Apple these days, and a new campaign ad for Samsung's Galaxy S II has a bit of fun at the expense of Apple fanboys standing in line to buy their new phones.

Microsoft knows that to successfully launch Windows 8 to the consumers, you must execute a near flawless media campaign leading up to the platform release. Because of this, Microsoft has pulled in a director from...

Earlier this week Greenpeace launched a campaign aimed at stopping Facebook from using coal power in its data centre. Facebook announced in February that it will build a massive data centre in Oregon, U.S to house...

Microsoft brought its Hotmail "The New Busy" marketing campaign to Londoners in the UK today. Hotmail singers, dancers, hula hoopers and knitters (don't ask) took over Golden Square in the heart of London. Hotmail's "The New...

Google and Microsoft seem to be facing off against each other with increasing degrees of fierceness as of late; Microsoft launched Bing a while ago to compete against the search giant, and have recently partnered...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for the public's help in its new campaign to free cell phones from the software locks. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a U.S copyright law that...

Greens EFA, a coalition of two political parties that currently have 42 seats in the European parliament, have launched a pro-filesharing campaign named "I Wouldn't Steal". Their goal is to counter the anti-piracy propaganda put...

Mozilla has quietly launched a new viral campaign in support of Firefox, complete with song (YouTube TC exclusive above) and some fighting words against Internet Explorer. The main part of the campaign is a site...

Dutch anti-p2p campaigners have forced another filesharing website offline, bringing the total number of p2p sites that they have closed down in the past 15 months to 131. BREIN, a coalition of authors, artists and...

Using the UK implementation of European anti-spam laws, a man won £750 in compensation from a UK firm after receiving a single spam email. Edinburgh's Sheriff Court ordered Transcom Internet Services to pay a total...

Microsoft is expanding its fight against software piracy with a new educational effort that includes comics. The online campaign, set to start on Monday, is meant to tell people the benefits of using properly licensed...

To bolster their opinion among the average consumer, Apple has revamped its almost non existent Mac advertising campaign with instead a massive, in comparison, six TV advertisement campaign as well as a new addition to...

A group of self-titled "political activists" in Massachusetts has started an aggressive campaign to get browser users to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox. Taking advantage of a new program by Google, the...

Industry insiders say the world-wide MP3 accessory market is destine to become a half billion dollar business by the close of the 2005 calendar year. Apple, whose iPod digital music player dominates the MP3 player...

Real Network's recent media blitz has paid off well. Real have announced that they've sold 1 million songs (49 cents / song) in the first week of operation. This has been mostly through their 'Freedom...

Earlier this week RealNetwork launched another attack against Apple's control over the iPod. The attack this time consisted of a webpage and a petition. The petitioned titled "Hey Apple, Don't Break My iPod!"...