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OK, so imagine this: You’re Apple Computer, Inc. (still) and it’s December 1997. You’ve just blocked British Mac-clone maker Shaye from licensing Mac OS 8, thereby putting it pretty much out of luck [...]
Amazon.com Widgets YouTube has removed all of the offending videos that led a Turkish court to order that YouTube be banned from the country earlier this week, and the ban has been lifted.
This sets a terrible precedent for YouTube, who should have stood their ground. The original videos were sophomoric jabs at Turkey [...]
Ikona, one of the big cheeses over at the N-Gage Arena, posted to the N-Gage Blog recently about an unannounced (first party?) game codenamed Project White Rock for Nokia's next gen gaming platform. Details were scarce, but it's being produced by Scott Foe, who produced the N-Gage's biggest hit Pocket Kingdom (which was the world's [...]
Hmmm….. methinks the HTC P5500 is looking awfully familiar - the screen size, the slider, the built-in GPS, the 3 megapixel stills camera, the Wi-Fi, etc. I doubt there are copyright issues at stake here, but you know what they say about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery… Nokia must be doing something right with [...]
Filed under: Humor, Rumors, Video
Robert X. Cringley is not the most reliable source of news, but he is almost always provocative. So take this one with a big grain of salt, but he is suggesting that Apple will soon incorporate hardware H.264 decoding and encoding chips across the Mac line. The big advantage of this [...]
What makes the most attractive, irresistible gift? The Kingmax Super Stick USB flash drive, which took the Taiwan USB flash drive market by storm in 2006, was not only a big hit with consumers but also the designated corporate gift for many major companies.
With the success of the promotional campaign in 2006, Kingmax Super Stick [...]
Remember the days when you went shopping to your local grocer and depended on him to tell you what to buy, or what the best prices were? You were sort of at his mercy. Today, a shopper is like a jailbird set free. Check out this post for some interesting “gyaan” on a typical supermarket!
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A Goldman Sachs trader in the UK named “Charlie” was warned by his employer that his visits to Facebook on company time were to stop. He spent, apparently, over 500 hours on Facebook in a six month period. That works out to about 4 hours per day.
Unwisely, perhaps, Charlie posted the warning email on his [...]
Japanese researchers have developed a prototype miniature robot that can be inserted through an incision and used to perform medical procedures deep inside the body. The beetle-shaped robot, which weighs five grammes and measures two centimetres in length and one in diameter, is the result of three years of work by researchers from Ritsumeikan University [...]
The photography industry’s most important event, PMA 2007 (The Photo Marketing Association Annual Show) is currently held in Las Vegas. Lots of new products has been unveiled including the 10 megapixel Nikon D40X and the Canon EOS-1D Mark III (What happened to the Canon EOS 40D?). Dpreview has the best coverage of the event with [...]
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