Talking While Flashing
Enter eNECESSITIES, a company that will brand your slogan or message to their line of products so you can hand them out as company Christmas gifts to the employees or tech swag to clients that visit...
View ArticleMSN-Zune “Promotion” Underwhelms
The software behemoth is giving away 50 Zune media players as part of a “Make MSN Your Homepage” promotion. Read the rules, though, and you’ll see you don’t actually have to make MSN your homepage to...
View ArticleEgyptian Blogger Gets Four Years Prison for Insult
Abdel Kareem Soliman, aka Kareen Amer, has been sentenced to four years’ prison for insulting various things bloggers are prone to insult. (Bite me, Tony Blair!) Soliman had some choice words about...
View ArticleCuba Embraces Open-Source Software
Cuba’s communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source...
View ArticleSony Announces Cheaper Blu-ray Player
Sony said Monday it is bringing out a cheaper player for Blu-ray discs early this summer, a crucial step in its battle to make the high-definition format the replacement for DVDs. The BDP-S300 will...
View ArticleThe Battery Recall Bug Is Back
In 2006 more than 10 million Sony-manufacturered notebook batteries were recalled — an error that cost Sony more than $444 million dollars to correct. Lenovo has issued a recall on 9-cell lithium-ion...
View ArticleWestern Europeans Love Laptops, Beating Out Americans
Western Europe became the biggest notebook market in the world in fourth quarter of 2006, accounting for 34% of worldwide shipments and beating out United States. In 2005, Western Europe accounted 35%...
View ArticleOnline Gaming Addict Dies
He spent almost 7 days playing online games. A 26 year old man from China died after engaging in a 7 day online gaming marathon. The 330 pound 26 year old collapsed after spending almost all the seven...
View ArticleNAT Expo 2007 – 19-22 November, Moscow
NAT Expo to take place in Moscow on 19-22 November, 2007. I guess it is not as hot as IBC – but might be interesting if you are targeting the Russian market.
View ArticleLooks at Silverlight
It seems that Silverlight, a new web streaming technology from Microsoft, will finally allow us to provide customers with video solutions for the web – something that was not really possible with just...
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