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Behold, NVIDIA's New GeForce Graphics Logo

You know how we spotted a supposed photo of NVIDIA's First Kepler card not long ago? The one with an apparently unusual logo? It turns out that the Santa Clara, California-based company really is determined to start a new page in its history. That is to say, its GeForce graphics logo has gone through a trans...

8 March 2012
09:59 GMT

The Windows 8 Logo That Could Have Been

How many of you would say “I like it” if I asked you “what you think of the new Windows 8 logo”? Based on the comments received for the previous article on the matter, I would say only a few. However, it appears that things might have been different, and that there could have been more peop...

23 February 2012
10:36 GMT

HP Isn't Changing Its Logo After All

Last week, we stumbled upon reports about HP possibly wishing to change its brand logo and philosophy, but this isn't actually happening, it turns out. Going by the findings of Brand New, HP did commission the services of Moving Brands, but that was back in 2008. The company did use one of the designs, but n...

19 December 2011
16:31 GMT

HP Wants to Change Its Brand Logo

Looks like HP may be changing its brand logo again, quite soon even, if a pair of videos that just started to get the attention of the web are anything to go by. After all the strange things that HP went through over the past few months, the company is considering a change of face. That is to say that it might end...

14 December 2011
09:43 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Gets Reported Cover and Logo

After yesterday's report about the all-but-confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, three new images have appeared on the web, showcasing not only the logo and a possible cover for the new Call of Duty title, but also hinting at something called Call of Duty Elite. Activision didn't opt to release any d...

12 May 2011
04:40 GMT

The New Google Chrome Logo Is Official (Pics)

The latest Google Chrome dev channel update has a surprise for early adopters, along with the regular bug fixes, the brand new Chrome logo makes its official debut in all its glory. Google Chrome 11.0.696.12 Dev features the brand new logo that first made its appearance in Chromium.While it looked like Google was sav...

16 March 2011
10:29 GMT

The New Google Chrome Logo Spotted in Chrome OS

Last week, Chromium, the open source project on which Chrome is based, got a logo update. The new simplified logo started showing up just before Chromium 12 was launched. It looked certain that Chrome would get a similarly revamped logo and some designers envisioned what it may look like. But there's no need to ...

14 March 2011
06:54 GMT

THQ Unveils New Logo, Aims for Bigger Success

Video games publisher THQ has announced that it is adopting a new main logo for the company, one which is set to show off the new strategic vision from the company and its commitment to values like innovation and quality. The new logo, which can be seen in the screenshot attached to this article, has sleeker lines...

13 January 2011
05:37 GMT

Twitter Gets a New Logo, Updates Its Trademark Dos and Don'ts

Twitter has updated its official logo and guidelines for developers, bloggers and anyone else using Twitter graphics or terminology. While this mostly applies to those using Twitter resources in commercial applications, the site has a few dos and don'ts even for those just wanting to add a "Follow me on Twitter"...

30 October 2010
05:22 GMT

New MySpace Logo is My and 'Space'

MySpace hasn't been doing much lately, or at least it doesn't look like it's doing much, but it has been working on a redesigned logo. The new logo is "My" followed by a space, which is actually not as bad as it sounds. The idea is to emphasize the fact that users are the ones that make MySpace their o...

9 October 2010
07:22 GMT

The New Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Logo

Microsoft has offered a glimpse of the new logo for the next major iteration of Internet Explorer. Featured in the image on the left is one detail of the new visual identity of Internet Explorer 9, which has yet to be revealed to the public. The new IE9 logo was unveiled along with the Redmond company’s heads-u...

13 August 2010
12:09 GMT

Brands Dropping Logos as Demand for Low-Key Luxury Is on the Rise

Celebrities may have made designer handbags mainstream, but their creators are now trying to distance themselves from them, as they’re dropping visible logos in favor of the so-called “stealth wealth.” Recession and the need to offer the kind of luxury that doesn’t come with an expiration ...

10 August 2010
14:31 GMT

New Windows Live Hotmail Logo Makes Its Debut

Redesign is always an integral part of building a new generation of products for Microsoft. And while for some offerings the revamping stops at the graphical user interface, for others it also impacts the logo and associated brand identity. The Windows Live Hotmail overhaul, as the service evolves to Wave 4, is likel...

8 April 2010
09:09 GMT

Overhauled MSN Homepage Just Around the Corner

Microsoft is on the verge of rolling out what it called the most significant home-page revamp in over a decade to its MSN portal. The Redmond company first made public plans of a drastic overhaul of the MSN homepage and logo in the first half of November 2009. Users have had a preview version of the redesigned portal...

3 March 2010
03:37 GMT

Rob Janoff Tells the Story of the Rainbow Apple Logo

Designer Rob Janoff has posted a story on how the “rainbow” Apple logo came into existence in the 1970’s. In September 2008, Softpedia itself issued a “did you know” piece on “who bit Apple’s apple,” noting that while the “rainbow” logo had a more than ...

4 February 2010
09:35 GMT

Microsoft: Look for the Windows 7 Logo

Customers looking to buy new hardware or software products, as well as new computers, should look for the Windows 7 logo ahead of anything else, is the advice that Microsoft gives shoppers. Mark Relph - senior director - Windows Ecosystem Team, notes that especially holiday shoppers should be on the lookout for &ldqu...

24 November 2009
04:05 GMT

There’s Room for Only One Apple-Looking Logo on This Planet

When it is not busy patenting ways to further restrict hardware usage in its products, Apple also keeps an eye on those whose company logos are a tad too similar to its own. And it’s not surprising, with Woolworths Supermarkets being only one of many companies sued by Apple over such claims. As the story goes,...

5 October 2009
06:22 GMT

More Windows 7 Compatibility Program Details

There are only two weeks left until the latest operating system from Microsoft becomes available on the market, and the Redmond-based company has just unveiled some details on the Windows 7 compatibility programs it is running. The RTM version of Windows 7 has been on the table for a few months now, and both hardware...

2 October 2009
03:05 GMT

Microsoft Owns Office.com, Trademarks Microsoft Store Logo

Redmond-based software company Microsoft has reportedly acquired a new domain that should offer its customers the possibility to access some of its products much easier. The domain in question, Office.com, was previously owned by ContactOffice Group, a company from Europe specializing in virtual office solutions and ...

6 August 2009
11:28 GMT

Sony Ericsson's Logo to Become More Colorful

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly preparing new colors for its logo, at least when it comes to the marketing area. The company has a few devices that are yet to come to the market, and it seems that the advertising campaign the company is preparing for them will also bring to light a series of new color ...

31 July 2009
04:20 GMT

New Windows 7 Logo and Box Design

Microsoft is a tad late at the unveiling “party” of the Windows 7 box art. But what's a few months when you hold the keys to confirming the official packaging design for the next iteration of the Windows client? Approximately two months after the concepts for the retail flavors of Windows 7 were leak...

24 June 2009
03:04 GMT

New Windows 7 Logo Design

It seems that the email on “translucency” sent out by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, back in 2007, got lost in translation on its way to Microsoft China. Remember the leaked images featuring the new Windows 7 boxes?Images with the concepts of the packag...

20 May 2009
11:53 GMT

Did You Know: Apple's Store Logos Are Made by a 132-Year-Old Company

Care to know where the company behind the Mac OS “grows” the apples for its retail store logos? A recent ifoAppleStore piece sheds light on the topic, revealing that Apple has them retail logos made over at The Thomas Swan Sign Co., Inc., a company that's been in business for almost a century and a h...

6 May 2009
06:16 GMT

Apple Logo Used to Sell Apples

Apple's logo has been spotted on cardboard boxes carrying fruit distributed by Italian fruit seller Vanzetti. The logo is similar to the extent that it has the same single leaf pointing left on top of an already bitten apple.Leaving aside a few chromatic discrepancies (I find that it looks even better than the o...

10 March 2009
11:58 GMT

Windows 7 Client Software Logo Program Looking to Windows 8

The Windows logo program for software products has advanced to the next level as Microsoft is cooking Windows 7. In order to help software developers tailor their software to the next version of Windows, Microsoft has published the Windows 7 Client Software Logo Program Documentation, which is available for download....

5 March 2009
12:03 GMT

Stainless Gets a Cool New Icon

While Mesa Dynamics still has version 4.0 of its lightweight web browser on offer, Stainless now has a more attractive-looking icon. Meanwhile, the development team's promise to bring as much of Chrome to the Mac as possible appears to be on still. The free web browser that supports some of the features found in...

1 December 2008
09:53 GMT

Apple Sues Canadian School over Apple-Shaped Logo

Sure, Apple goes out of its way to protect the environment, but not so much to support education – or so we could infer from it suing the Victoria School of Business and Technology in Canada for using a logo shaped like an apple.The Victoria School of Business and Technology started using a blue and green apple...

7 October 2008
08:48 GMT

Photo Batch Watermark - Sign Your Digital Image Collection

We all love to take photos that immortalize our precious moments, reminding us of important events in our life, or people dear to us, or just for fun and the list can go on. For some of us, photography is more than just a hobby; it's a way of life. Moreover, it's well known that the Internet provides us wi...

30 April 2008
06:58 GMT

Google's Special Logos around the World

The super search giant Google replaces its well known logo with all kinds of funny pictures in order to celebrate holidays or events around the world. Since the company has regional versions of the search engine in lots of different countries, celebrating a local holiday is quite easy. Last week, the Google special l...

29 April 2008
04:00 GMT

Apple Patents AppStore Logo/Icon

The latest patent Apple has filed to protect is aimed at its AppStore icon/logo. The figurative trademark is filed under International Classes 035 (retail store services), 038 (Telecommunication services) and 042 (relating to software apps on mobile devices). The "mark" itself "consists of a stylized letter 'A&#...

1 April 2008
03:39 GMT

Yahoo No Longer the Ugly Duckling, Gets Facelift

Every time one of the Internet giants comes with a redesign of their official page, the entire world is talking about it. This is exactly what's happening right now as the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo has just rolled out a fresh facelift of its homepage. In fact, the entire redesign is actually a logo modificatio...

25 March 2008
11:58 GMT

Paris Hilton Is the Ultimate Narcissist

It has never been a secret for anyone that Paris Hilton is probably one of the most notoriously narcissistic celebrities in Hollywood. The socialite has never been one to feel ashamed of promoting her own name and the products she endorses, and when it comes to her own image, there's not much that she finds unac...

19 March 2008
11:56 GMT

Google Celebrates Lego

Today is the 50th celebration of the Lego brick, as Google lets its users know. It even created a special logo for it, made entirely out of (surprise!) Lego bricks, with a little person on the second "g". You all remember how popular Lego was when you were children. If you don't, then maybe you remember all the ...

28 January 2008
04:51 GMT

The Story Behind Designing the Google Logo

A very interesting interview by Philipp Lenssen was posted on blogoscoped.com, that of Ruth Kedar, the design teacher at Stanford University in 1999, the time of the logo's birth. The question was asked via mail and the answer came the same way, but despite not having the flavor of the personally taken interview...

15 January 2008
19:06 GMT

The Future Is Drawn on Google UK's Homepage

Purple or green? It's not a fashion statement question, it's a question mark raised by a fourteen old over our future. Claire Rammelkamp is the Google Logo Contest winner and had a rather gloomy overview of the way things will develop. Take a look at the picture on the right if you want to find out what I&...

20 November 2007
06:35 GMT

Google Celebrates Veterans Day for the First Time

Yesterday was a glorious day for Google, the first time since its inception in 1999 when it designed a special logo to honor the soldiers that sacrificed their lives for their country.The element that was set to individualize the logo for this special holiday was a World War One helmet, placed on both the "o"s and on...

12 November 2007
02:58 GMT

Windows Vista: Certified vs. Works

Even before the launch of its latest operating system, Windows Vista, Microsoft was inviting the software developing community to stand out of the crowd in the environment of products built around its operating system. In fact, concomitantly with the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, Sven Hallauer, release m...

3 October 2007
09:11 GMT

AMD Provides More Information About The Upcoming CPUs

After Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its quad core Opteron processing units designed for servers which are based on the Barcelona cores, the processor manufacturing company also revealed the logo of the new and upcoming desktop intended quad core processor, the Phenom.The desktop version of the much await...

15 September 2007
06:32 GMT

Here's Your Special Gmail Gift!

Back in July, the Mountain View giant Google invited the Gmail fans to create a collaborative video to show the world how the mail solution manages to connect the users. After one month of recordings and submissions, the folks working at the Googleplex created the final movie that now all of you can access. If you do...

29 August 2007
03:15 GMT

More AMD Barcelona Details

As the time draws near for the official launch date of the world's first native quad core processors, some more details are beginning to surface all over the Web. A number of things, like processors working frequencies and so on are already known but the latest bit of news is not strictly about technology, but a...

25 August 2007
06:19 GMT

Google Goes Black and White

Let's try a quick trick on the Google search engine. Go to its official page and type the following phrase in the search box: 'make google logo black and white'. Press the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button. Well, that's a black and white Google logo that appeared on the official page of th...

23 August 2007
02:55 GMT

"Give Your Gmail" Program Extended

A few weeks ago, Google rolled out an interesting initiative that is meant to connect the Gmail fans from every corner of the world and unite them into a single and attractive video published on YouTube. Basically, it's all about the Gmail logo that represents the mail service provided by the Mountain View compa...

15 August 2007
03:53 GMT

Join The Gmail World Tour! Forward The M-Velope!

Basically, it's all about a Gmail video created by the folks from the Googleplex in which the fans from all around the world are handing the Gmail logo from one another. All you need to do is record yourself while you're forwarding the Gmail M-velope to somebody else and then upload the clip on the official...

26 July 2007
03:23 GMT

Google Commemorates The Israeli Soldiers Kidnapping

Google has always tried to celebrate or commemorate certain events from every corner of the world by placing a new logo, also known as doodle, on the official page of the search engine. Today, after approximately one year since two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped at the Lebanon border, the Mountain View company decid...

13 July 2007
06:29 GMT

Windows Vista Grande Edition- The Largest Vista on Your Desktop

No, this is not a joke. You can download directly from Microsoft the largest Windows Vista that will ever reside on your desktop. And if you want to known the measurements of the Windows Vista Grande edition they are a whooping 1,564 * 1559 pixels across. Translated in centimeters that equals a side of over 41,5 cm...

4 May 2007
11:56 GMT

Windows Vista Free Packages

Windows Vista prize packages are an integer part of a Microsoft initiative designed to educate consumers about the Certified for Windows Vista logo program. And Microsoft has not held back when it came to putting the money where its mouth is, as "the total ARV of all prizes to be awarded during the Promotional Time P...

30 April 2007
08:38 GMT

Google Celebrates a Jewish Holiday

Once in a while, Google changes its official logo of the company with a funny or interesting image meant to celebrate a special event or to honor a celebrity from any corner of the world. Yesterday, the search giant placed a new logo on Google Israel's page to celebrate Purim, a Jewish holiday that "commemorates...

5 March 2007
05:35 GMT


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