Samsung doesn't seem to be able to beat Apple in their legal copycat battle. But at the very least, they'll have this slightly insulting, mostly obvious, certainly expensive Super Bowl ad to help propagandize. War is all hell. More »

January 31st – February 6th

• Verizon Wireless to throttle data speeds of heaviest users, optimize content; starts today
• Verizon iPhone 4 units already shipping; deliveries could begin tomorrow
• Verizon can hear you now… with the iPhone [video]
• HTC Inspire 4G hands-on
• Motorola’s Super Bowl ad takes aim at Apple [video]
• Verizon Wireless proclaims ‘record sales’ of iPhone 4
• The Plaza in New York offers iPads in every room
• Is this why Apple and Google hate each other?
• Google dishes details on Android 3.0 Honeycomb
• Apple releasing iOS 4.3 beta 3 today; build 8F5166b?

Why even watch the game? All the hotly anticipated Super Bowl advertisements leak early nowadays. Like this one, from up-and-coming community buying powerhouse Groupon: More »

We weren't sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) shows how it's bringing "the best of the internet" with VIZIO Internet Apps. We still need to see if its picture quality will measure up and whether the widget experience has gotten any better (read: faster) in 2010 to be truly convinced, but a slick ad never hurt.

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