Nokia Lumia 920 is a smartphone developed by Nokia that runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
Nokia was the world’s largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012.
Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) is an opéra bouffon (a form of operetta), or opéra féerie in its revised version, by Jacques Offenbach. The “Infernal Galop” from Act II, Scene 2, is famous outside classical circles as the music for the “Can-can” (to the extent that the tune is widely, but erroneously, called “Can-can”).
Shock advertising or Shockvertising is a type of advertising generally regarded as one that “deliberately, rather than inadvertently, startles and offends its audience by violating norms for social values and personal ideals.”
Old Milwaukee is a brand of American dry lager produced by the Pabst Brewing Company.
[Will] Ferrell became the highest paid cast member of Saturday Night Live in 2001 with a season salary of $350,000.
[Super Bowl XLVII] was the tenth Super Bowl to be played in the city of New Orleans, equaling Miami’s record of ten in an individual city.
SodaStream is the maker of a consumer home carbonation product based on the principles of making a carbonated drink as originally invented by Guy Gilbey in 1903. The device allows users to take ordinary tap water and carbonate it to create soda water (or carbonated water) to drink. [An] ad was expected to air during Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013 prior to being banned by CBS for jabbing at Coke and Pepsi (two of CBS’s largest sponsors).
Based on Interbrand’s best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world’s most valuable brand.
In 2011, The Brand Trust Report in India included Pepsi in the list of the most trusted brands of the country.
Super Bowl XLVIII will be the 48th edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 44th annual championship game of the modern-era National Football League (NFL). It is scheduled to be held on February 2, 2014 (Groundhog Day) at MetLife Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey to determine the champion for the 2013 season. This would be the first Super Bowl to be played outdoors in a cold weather environment, and the first in 38 years to be played outdoors on artificial turf.
Switch was an advertising campaign launched by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) on June 10, 2002. It featured what the company referred to as “real people” who had “switched” from the Microsoft Windows platform to the Mac. The Switch campaign, while distinctive, was not very effective, and was gradually phased out in 2003.
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” is an American Christmas song with music and lyrics by Tommie Connor. The original recording by Jimmy Boyd on 15 July 1952 when he was 13 reached #1 on the Billboard charts in December 1952, and on the Cash Box chart at the beginning of the following year.
The iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on November 10, 2001.
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order.
John William “Will” Ferrell (born July 16, 1967) is an American comedian, impressionist, actor, and writer. One winter, he even served as a mall Santa Claus.
The Hobbit is an upcoming film series consisting of three epic fantasy-adventure films directed, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel of the same name.
A tie-in is an authorized product based on a media property a company is releasing, such as a movie or video/DVD, video game, television program/television series, board game, web site, role-playing game or literary property. Tie-ins are a form of cross-promotion used primarily to generate additional income from that property and promote its visibility.
During the 1990s, Denny’s was involved in a series of discrimination lawsuits involving several cases of servers denying or providing inferior service to racial minorities, especially black customers.
The [iPhone 5] display is 1,136 × 640 pixels with an aspect ratio of almost exactly 16:9. With a diagonal of 4″ it has a display size of 1.96 square inches, compared to 1.94 in iPhone 4 and 4S.
The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outer-most digit.
Common sense is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.” Thus, “common sense” (in this view) equates to the knowledge and experience which most people already have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as, “the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way”.
