Toyota has been in the news lately regarding their recall for gas-pedal related issues. The number of Toyota vehicles recalled is above 8 million. Estimated costs for the recall and lawsuits is around 2 billion. Toyota in a newly released commercial essentially says “my bad.” It got me to thinking if this were an American auto company would this receive as much press? I don’t think so… Toyota earned it’s reputation by producing high quality vehicles so to have this happen to an automaker of their caliber is devastating. Toyota wants you to know they are sorry for this situation, watch the video here. Would an American company release a commercial like this?

I don’t know about you, but I’d say this years Super Bowl were the worst in recent memory. The target of many commercials was taking a shot at men’s egos. The commercials were really average. If Google’s “Parisian Love” makes the top spot, an ad that has been on YouTube since November, this shows you just how bad the commercials actually were. Did you see GoDaddy.com? The ads were meant to be edgy and may be at one time they were. Now the GoDaddy.com ads come across as corny at best. Here is a list of the best and the worst 2010 commercials http://www.heavy.com/post/the-best-and-worst-super-bowl-commercials-3573.

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Yesterday, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt Tweeted that Hell must be frozen over hinting at Google running a Super Bowl commercial. Blogger John Battelle was correct in that the ad “Parisian Love” would would in the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl. What did you think of Google’s Super Bowl commercial?

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Microsoft said it earned $6.66 billion or 74 cents per share on revenue of $19.02 billion. This is a percentage increase of 60% for profits and 13% for revenues. Investors thought Microsoft would earn 59 cents a share. This was a huge beat for Microsoft on boosted earrings from Windows 7. Windows 7 demand was said to be “exceptional” according to chief financial officer Peter Klein .

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While searching news articles for Apple Tablet pictures I discovered many sites linking to Apple Tablet pictures on blog.dustincurtis.com. They look legit. May be… possibly…? What do you think?

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According to InternetRetailer.com December 2009 search was up 46% from 89.7 billion to 131.4 billion. It’s fare to say search is booming right now. Here are the top 10 search engines riding the search engine explosion. If you want to read the full article click here.

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