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Little-known media fact: Osbournes Big Book Of Lazy Television Commercial Stereotypes is referred to constantly by every advertising agency in the land. Sure, theyll try and claim the book doesnt even exist, and some idiot is making the whole thing up, but theyre lying, it does. In the book, theres a chapter on Advertising to Men, which begins with a list of hackneyed and obvious male character traits. Not so the creatives that weve come to know and love from hugely popular shows like The Persuasionists [SUB: please check] can avoid these clichs, you understand, its so they ensure as many as possible are crammed into every adverting spot they produce. The list is a handy time saver for them, as it gives them lots of extra time to go on YouTube, looking for ideas to steal.

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You remember our Top 100 TV Shows Of The 00s? You know, that never ending televisual breakdown that were still carrying out, currently scheduled to conclude some time in early November 2019? And how we said that Newswipe With Charlie Brooker was better than Screenwipe? Yeah. Well, its things like this that underline that decision:

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Sometimes, revelations can creep up and completely donkey-punch you straight in the brain. For example, youre playing Guitar Hero, frenzied fingers becoming at one with the funny shapes moving down the screen as the sound of Silversun Pickups spills out of your TV speakers. Youre heading on course for a perfect score, when suddenly your brain switches to default, where its confused by the concept of playing a videogame using a guitar-shaped controller, bewildered by what the funny shapes could possibly mean, and flummoxed by the very concept of colours. By the time youve composed yourself and worked out which button is red (and what red is), the crowd are booing, and your subconscious is softly weeping at the fact this actually matters to you.

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iCall announced that Apple has changed its developer SDK, and that VOIP calls over cellular networks can now be placed on the iPhone, iPod Touch and, theoretically, the iPad.
– The iPad wasnt the only Apple news to emerge on Jan. 27.

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Cisco Systems is releasing a protocol designed to improve interoperability with telepresence systems from other vendors. In addition, Cisco is rolling out applications to expand its TelePresence technology beyond the virtual meeting room and is offering new endpoints that are more energy-efficient and easier to install. The announcements come as VOIP and video conferencing rivals such as Polycom are looking for ways to keep pace with Cisco.
– Cisco Systems is aiming to expand the reach of telepresence capabilities,
releasing an interoperability protocol and pushing its own TelePresence product
beyond virtual meeting rooms.
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Google Jan. 26 rolled out a Web-based version of its popular Google Voice application for Apple’s iPhone several months after Apple rejected Google’s original submission to its App Store. The app will let Google Voice users do pretty much what they can do with the desktop version of the app, including listen to voice mail and read voice mail transcripts, send and receive text messages, and make inexpensive international calls. The Google Voice app represents a definite workaround to Google’s standoff with Apple’s App Store, which is incredibly strict if not inconsistent in its treatment of submissions.
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Maybe its just our Flag Of Saint David-tinted monocle, but it seems like for much of last decade, when it came to regionally produced or commissioned programmes going out nationally on the BBC, the majority of big hitters have been from BBC Wales. Alongside Doctor Who and Torchwood, shows such as Life On Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Casanova, Merlin and Being Human have had the BBC Wales Cymru badge stamped somewhere on their end credits. For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was BBC Scotland whod produced a higher proportion of the most enjoyable regionally-sourced or produced shows to hit the network, with shows like Naked Video, Film [Year], Rab C Nesbitt, The High Life, Bad Boys (post-Brush Strokes pre-cleaning product shill vehicle for Karl Howman, ah, you remember it), I Lovett, Athletico Scotlard Partick, and City Lights jostling for space in the Radio Times, to name but the ones we can remember.

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