Gadgetory

this Super Bowl was a touchdown for Twitter I'm Bridget Carey and this is your seen it update there's always some social media story that comes out of the Super Bowl and its commercials and this year's big game Twitter was mentioned in half of the 52 national commercials usually as a call for fans to tweet out a hashtag about that commercial Facebook only got mentioned in for commercials Instagram and YouTube each got one commercial shout out but Google+ didn't get any love from advertisers but this year a 34-minute power outage in the second half made things more interesting both in the game and on Twitter advertisers were acting quickly and while the game was still suspended Oreo came out with a brilliant add the tweet read power out no problem with an image tag line you can still dunk in the dark tide detergent also tweeted a gag advertisement during the interruption saying we can't get your blackout but we can get your stain out it's not just the expensive commercials that are getting attention on game day advertising agencies are working in real time now to push out viral messages on social media BlackBerry's much-anticipated ad for its new smartphone give viewers lots of special effects but it didn't show any of the features of the z10 phone it went with the silly angle with the tagline in 30 seconds it's clear to show you what it can't do well if you have more than 30 seconds you can see what the z10 can do and our full review on cnet in this past football season head injuries were a big topic of conversation there were 160 head injuries this season alone and it's become a larger problem when you have stronger players taking more hits and many concussions are going undetected so one new product hopes to change that it's called the shock box and it's a helmet geforce sensor that measures the impact of player sustains and a message will be sent to a mobile device if you should see a doctor it costs 150 dollars today's apps to watch are ones to avoid to android apps have been masquerading as cleanup tools but they are malware that snoop on your computer's calls and your chats the programs are called super clean and droid cleaner and they were uncovered recently by security software company kaspersky when a user plugs their android device into a Windows computer the apps would auto run a program that recorded audio from the pc and then sent that data back to the malware creators but the apps were also able to tap into text messages the contents of a phone's memory card all the contacts and photos as well as the device info these apps are no longer in the Google Play Store but it is another example of how Google users can't just blindly trust any app you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey