Posts Tagged ‘Tech’
Shooting Hoops With HP : Contest
9:54 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Marketing|Sports|Tech · 2 Comments
20 May 2009
HP has a new laptop out, the HP Pavilion dv2. As part of their promotion of the ultralight and portable new model, HP has teamed up with the NBA to send one person selected at random to see Kevin Garnett and the Celtics play a home game in Boston and an away game in a West Coast city. The package will include VIP tickets, airfare, hotel and great HP gear. You can enter for that contest here. Pero hurry because the contest runs only until the end of the month.
Pero we have something special for VivirLatino readers.
VL has been chosen, along with two dozen other sites, to be eligible for extra prizes. What are the prizes?
10 regulation basketballs, each signed by an active player of the winner’s choosing
2 trips to the 2010 NBA All-Star Game in Dallas: includes travel, accommodations and tickets for two – one winner and one site owner (yup so someone from the VL team gets a prize too!)
and there’s more. VL is getting one $50 gift card for use at The NBA Store, which will go one lucky VL reader who enters.
So how can you get in the game?
Come back here and comment with a valid email that you entered the contest.
Vl will choose who gets the $50 NBA Store gift card and all the entries will go into the random drawing with the entrants from the other two dozen blogs for the other prizes.
Please enter by 11:59:59 p.m. PT on May 31, 2009 to be eligible and sorry, this contest is only for peeps in the U.S. (quizas one day we’ll get an international futbol contest going or something).
Good Luck!
U.S. Latinos 20 Million Strong on the Internet
6:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Internet|Media|society|Tech · Comments Off
20 Apr 2009
Gone are the days when marketers and businesses doubted whether U.S. Latinos would use the Internet en masse. Well, actually, they still doubt — but now they have some hard numbers to contend with. According to a new study by comScore, there are some 20 million Latinos online and that number is growing fast. Latinos as a user group are growing at a rate of close to 50% faster than the general population. MediaWeek reports:
In February of 2009 comScore found there to be 20.3 million U.S. Hispanic visitors on the Web, representing a surge of 5.8 percent versus February of 2008. During that same period of time the general Web population grew by 3.9 percent. A similar growth disparity was evident for engagement measures such as total minutes spent online and total page views, where Hispanics exhibited growth that was five times as fast as the general population.
While the numbers look really good, MediaWeek reports that Latinos still only make up 11% of the total online population due to late adoption of the Internet.
Via / MediaWeek
Last Day to Win an AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro
8:38 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Marketing|Tech · 1 Comment
20 Apr 2009
Today is the last day to win an AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro phone ans $100 AT&T gift card.
Here are the details of the contest. Email us at info@vivirlatino.com, telling us how smartphone technology can help Latinos access and share information to further their political power (and you know I’m not just talking about electoral power). The most interesting (in my humble opinion) answer wins!
So far there are some interesting answers in the VL inbox. Tomorrow morning I will announce the winner.
Good luck!
Feliz Cumpleaños Computer Virus!
19 Jul 2007
Many, myself included, would rather be celebrating its death but alas the computer virus turns 25 years old this year. Sadly this is one thing that doesn’t look likely to get weaker as it ages. In fact, given the fact that everything and everyone is connected, it’s only getting stronger. Where does the story begin? With an adolescent urge to prank.
A tech-savvy 9th grader named Richard Skrenta got an Apple II for Christmas. Over the following few months he began cooking up ways to trick his friends using the machine. “I had been playing jokes on schoolmates by altering copies of pirated games to self-destruct after a number of plays,” Skrenta once told the tech news site Security Focus. “I’d give out a new game, they’d get hooked, but then the game would stop working with a snickering comment from me on the screen.”
Hola!
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