Ads. Consumers hate them with a passion, though they’re a necessary evil. Consumers like free stuff. Developers, producers, and manufacturers like money. Advertisements help to bridge the gap between the two, giving end users free or greatly reduced access to products and services while those making said products/services still get paid. With the big push to the mobile internet, manufacturers and developers are struggling to find ways of making money on this new...

Love your cellphone/smartphone because it gives you relatively ad-free hours of internet exploration and usage? I’ll admit it’s not my first praise for using a smartphone for getting around the internet, but it’s certainly one of my top reasonings. That’s all set to change for the worse in the near future. The impending doom is coming to us thanks to AdMob and their new “Interactive Video Ad Units” which more or less translate to...

Microsoft as of late has been really pushing the whole “value” mentality when comparing Windows boxes to Apple powered ones. More or less, the gist of Microsoft’s latest “Laptop Hunter” ads were that Microsoft is more affordable and gives you more for less. They portray Apple computers as overpriced with the consumer paying a premium for a simple fruit logo on the machine. Microsoft while still very much having a majority of the computer...