Contests Archive

  • Netflix settles lawsuit, cancels contest

    Netflix settles lawsuit, cancels contest

    Well, the lawyers have won again. Netflix settled the privacy lawsuit brought about by their last contest out of court, and canceled the next contest. Good thing we have outraged class action lawsuits to protect us!

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  • Congratulations to Peter Van Loan, winner of the Vat19.com salt and pepper grinders

    Congratulations to Peter Van Loan, winner of the Vat19.com salt and pepper grinders

    With the 171st comment (selected from 190 eligible comments using Random.org’s True Random Number Generator), CrunchGear reader Peter Van Loan takes home the grand prize from this weekend’s pump-action salt and pepper grinder giveaway with “i love salt! give them to me, please!!!!” That’s five total exclamation points!!!!! Vat19.com will be sending the salt and pepper [...]

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  • Congratulations to Andrew S. and his office, for winning our contest

    Congratulations to Andrew S. and his office, for winning our contest

    Lucky reader Andrew S. was picked by our sophisticated random number generator as the winner of our show us your office contest! Andrew tells us that "the only work that gets done is usually fueled by caffiene and any random snacks I have on hand." That pretty well describes my own work ethic, so good on yer, Andrew!

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  • CrunchGear’s “Clean Out My Office” Contest First Day Results

    CrunchGear’s “Clean Out My Office” Contest First Day Results

    Ok. Even for a holiday it’s clear you guys had a fever and the only prescription was more free stuff. I picked nine winners are random – plus one winner from CES times who never got a prize – and I’m posting another few contests to the CG and johnbiggs Twitter streams today, so follow [...]

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  • CrunchGear’s “Clean Out My Office” Contest

    CrunchGear’s “Clean Out My Office” Contest

    This week I’ll be running a “clean out my office” involving a whole bunch of stuff I can’t get rid of and is too valuable to potentially throw away. Today’s special treat? Lots of Plantronics Voice-Music-Gaming headsets with USB thinger for listening to stuff over USB and using Skype. I think I have like nine. How [...]

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  • And we’re back!

    And we’re back!

    You may have noticed things have been a bit quiet on the MobileCrunch front for the past few days. After a few months of nose-to-the-grindstone, the siren call of over-packed plates and family good times stemming from the Thanksgiving holiday was too much; we locked up shop for a few days, headed home, and had [...]

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  • CrunchGear wants to kiss you this Holiday

    CrunchGear wants to kiss you this Holiday

    We at CrunchGear love you. Yes you. Not anyone else reading this. Listen. We're going to give you free stuff from November 15 until December 20. It's going to be so amazingly great you won't even believe it. Here's what's going to happen.

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  • And our costume contest winner is…

    And our costume contest winner is…

    What do a crane game, two Iron Men, and Wall-E have in common? They’re all some of the amazing costumes you guys sent in to our First Annual Costume Contest. You’ve all picked your winners and it’s time to unveil him – or her – to the world… It was a heavily contested race and some [...]

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  • Thank you for reading MobileCrunch, folks.

    Thank you for reading MobileCrunch, folks.

    We don’t get a chance to do this very often, but I wanted to start this lovely Monday morning off with something I’ve wanted to say for a while: Thanks for reading us, everyone. MobileCrunch launched in September of 2006. Around mid-2008, we changed things up a bit – and we’ve seen monumental growth ever [...]

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  • Rumor: Verizon Storm 2 launching Oct. 28th at $179.99?

    Rumor: Verizon Storm 2 launching Oct. 28th at $179.99?

    storm-2-vzw-1028 It's almost depressing to see how far out of their way Verizon is going -- knowingly or not -- to tone down the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 on their network. The normal pre-launch fanfare (Mailers and posters and contests, oh my!) is non-existent. At this point, they're not even giving the device its own launch day.

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  • You can win $5,000 in some sort of Newegg college student contest

    You can win $5,000 in some sort of Newegg college student contest

    Fresh off its fancy IPO announcement, Newegg is running an equally fancy contest for American and Canadian college students. Provided you're 18-year-old (or older) and are attending a U.S. or Canadian college or university, you could win up to $5,000 to spend on whatever the hell you want on the Web site. What do you have to do to win such riches????

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  • These are the worst sci-fi costumes ever

    These are the worst sci-fi costumes ever

    You better act fast if you don't have a Halloween costume. I'm still debating mine: it's between being an Apple fanboy (dress up as an apple (with green trousers and shoes to keep it real), then wear a fan as a hat) or a death panel board member, which will play well in super liberal Manhattan. (Health care joke! Tip your waitress.) What you don't want to do, however, is dress up like any of these guys.

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  • Introducing our new running contest: Best Comment Ever!!!111!

    Introducing our new running contest: Best Comment Ever!!!111!

    You know what? We like you. We talk at you all day about cell phones, gadgets, and awesome stuff from around the Internets, but we rarely get the chance to hear back from you. We want to fix that. That’s why we’re introducing our new running contest: Best Comment Ever. Each week, we’ll throw a [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: Eee PC 900 w/ 20GB SSD for $189

    CrunchDeals: Eee PC 900 w/ 20GB SSD for $189

    Sellout.woot.com has a decent deal on the Eee PC 900 today. This model sports the slightly more expensive 20GB SSD option along with the standard assortment of a 900MHz Intel Celeron, 1GB of RAM and 8.9-inch screen. Not to shabby for $189 plus $5 for shipping.

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  • Play 2K’s The BIGS 2 for free tonight in NYC

    Play 2K’s The BIGS 2 for free tonight in NYC

    2K’s latest baseball title, The Bigs 2, doesn’t hit store shelves until July 7, but if you live in NYC then you can play it tonight for free.

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