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Archive for May, 2008

Chevy Volt to fill in for the 19,000 fleeing sheep at GM?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Chevy Volt to fill in for the 19,000 fleeing sheep at GM? GM just announced that 19,000 of its hourly workers in the United States chose to accept buyout offers with various options. The company will replace those leaving with fewer, lower paid workers. Struggling against a dropping demand for larger vehicles, will the thirst for green vehicles like the Chevy Volt fill the void?

Apple is planning the biggest Back-To-School promotion to date

Friday, May 30th, 2008

apple.jpegDid you know that Mac computers are number one in higher education? Yes, its true it beat out Dell earlier this year. Many schools have invested in Mac computers along not to mention the growing number of families that have school aged children.

PS3, Xbox 360 Battlefield Bad Company early hands on impression: live up to its hype?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

live up to its hype? Some of you maybe anticipating to get your hands on the demo of Battlefield Bad Company next week to determine if the game lives up to it’s hype. I recently had a chance to try the demo early courtesy of Xbox Solutions [...]

PS3 off life support and ready to overtake Xbox 360 in 2009

Friday, May 30th, 2008

PS3 off life support and ready to overtake Xbox 360 in 2009  When the Playstation 3 was released, although there were many people who wanted one, seeing it as the natural [...]

Cell Phones: Using your mobile phone could save you a speeding ticket

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Cell phone could save you a speeding ticket Don’t you just hate those annoying speeding tickets? Well rest assured, Trapster is here to save you. Trapster is the latest in cell phone/networking service where you can contribute as well as take advantage of, to ensure that you don’t get another speeding ticket again.

Wakeup call to RIAA: Idol winner scores 942,000 downloads

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Wakeup call to RIAA: Idol winner scores 942,000 downloadsFresh from winning American Idol and yet to cut a full album, David Cook’s already scored 942,000 digital downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan. This is fairly remarkable as the numbers are from the week ending Sunday, meaning Cook averaged six figure downloads a day. Not bad at all.

Report: Has Apple bought handwriting code for iPhone OS 2.0?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Apple-iphone.jpgIs it true that Apple has bought software for that enables handwritten input for the iPhone? Rumors have been circulating about a handwritten code that was supposedly purchased by Apple for the iPhone OS 2.0.

Google unveils ‘Android’ for cell phones, the iPhone killer

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Google unveils 'Android' for cell phones, the iPhone killer Recently Google unveiled its near finished software that will eventually run various cell phones throughout many different manufacturers’ mobile technology. With touch screen friendly interface capability ‘Android’ could give the iPhone a run for what its worth.

Linux users outlawed by Microsoft, their downloads disabled

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Linux users outlawed by Microsoft, their downloads disabled Microsoft has established quite a reputation by domineering the operating system industry and pressuring other players out. It seems that one way the company is maintaining that foothold is by throttling access to its MSDN network, making it difficult for Linux users to download files inside the system.

Media giants hire MediaDefender to hack torrent servers

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Media giants hire MediaDefender to hack torrent serversThough the battle between media protection groups like the RIAA and filesharers on peer-to-peer networks isn’t anything new, it seems that media groups have sank so low that they are now hiring seedy companies like MediaDefender to attack torrent indexing sites’ servers, even if those sites aren’t indexing illegal content. Evidence now seems to show that MediaDefender attacked popular site Revision3, and the FBI is going to get involved.

Microsoft tries to bank Windows 7 on iPhone’s success

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Microsoft tries to bank Windows 7 on iPhone's success Touch screen technology on CE devices up till recently have been a mere novelty with nobody taking the technology seriously; that was until the iPhone was released. The iPhone put touch screen technology in the forefront and brought mainstream acceptance as a method of navigating a graphical user interface.

Windows 7 is the equivalent of Vista SP2

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Windows 7 is the equivalent of Vista SP2 This isn’t new, this has been said before but it’s not exactly clear what Windows 7 will shape up to be when it finally ships.  If you are to believe what Microsoft has said that it will "be available three years after the general availability of Vista" then that translates to a late 2009 or early 2010 release.  So soon?  The only way it could accomplish that is if it is basically Vista (and it is) with little changes.

Wii overtakes Xbox 360 to become world market leader - PS3 flat lining

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Wii overtakes Xbox 360 to become world market leader - PS3 flat liningWe all knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make the new that the Nintendo Wii has now overtaken lifetime sales [...]

Dell’s 8.9-inch EeePC killer arrives as "mini-Inspiron"

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Dell's 8.9-inch EeePC killer arrives as "mini-Inspiron" We’ve been waiting for it and here it is, Dell’s 8.9-inch mini laptop dubbed the “mini-Inspiron” which sadly shares a similar design.  I’m not a fan of the Inspiron design, they’re bulky, fat and ugly, I liked the previous designs better like that of the Inspiron M1710 and earlier E-series models.  Though, the mini-Inspiron looks… okay.

Apple fixes iCal bugs in Mac OS X 10.5.3

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Apple-iCal-bug.jpgRecently I wrote about the iCal bugs that were discovered by Rodrigo Carvalho of Core Security Technologies. Core Security Chief Technology Officer Ivan Arce said at the time the company felt that it could not wait for Apple to address this issue.

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