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Amazon-Pepsi Promotion Gets Official and Awesome: Free MP3s, Unbox Downloads, DVDs, CDs and Gadgets

Good news on the Pepsi-Amazon MP3 contest front: It's official, it's not a contest and they've giving away more than MP3s. It's a point-based promo that launches on Feb. 1, with 4 billion Pepsi products carrying points that you can bank on PepsiStuff.com for MP3s from Amazon store, which now has tracks from all four major labels. Five points scores one download. The bad news: More »

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Pepsi and Amazon Giving Away 1 Billion MP3s

The Great Pepsi MP3 Giveaway returns, but this time with...Amazon? Yup. Starting Superbowl Sunday (Feb. 3), Pepsi's stuffing 5 billion bottles of Coke soda with download codes, but you need five of 'em to get a free song. That's right, there will be no casual Pepsi drinkers getting free songs on Pepsi/Amazon's dime—which is about 40 cents a track, down from the 65-70 cents Amazon usually places in labels' pockets. Consequently, not all of them may participate, which is lame-o on their part. More »

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Mac Chick of the Month is the iTunes/Pepsi Girl, Mandy Amano

Context: The Super Bowl iTunes/Pepsi ad from 2005 featured a cute girl by the name of Mandy Amano who set the internets ablaze with her dancing. Websites such as thatpepsigirl sprang up just to keep track of her comings and goings. Wired's Leander Kahney, whom Silicon Valley sister site Valleywag thought was Fake Steve Jobs for a couple hours, even called her the new Ellen Feiss. That's quite an Apple rep to live up to. More »

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Starbucks Vending Machines Suck More Soul Out of Espresso

Starbucks has been on a downward slide for years quality-wise, exchanging solid product for McD's-style viral growth, ubiquity and speed. Since it's not enough that their subpar coffee is on every corner in NY, they've decided to invade every room too, with a new automated vending machine co-produced with Pepsi that churns out your favorite poorly crafted "roasted coffee, various lattes, and hot cocoa." More »

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Pepsi Cappuccino

I'm not entirely sure how Gizmodo waded into this Coke vs. Pepsi thing—isn't Nokia vs. Motorola and Apple vs. Everything Else enough? But Gizmodo loves coffee, and after writing about Coke Blak yesterday, reader Yves sent us this update on the cola-coffee wars:
Coke is actually one step behind Pepsi which just market-tested Pepsi Cappuccino in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. I tested it myself (repeatedly) and it's actually pretty good, or at least far better than any berry-flavored cola made so far by both companies...
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