iPhone 3.0 is finally going to have a feature which we all have been waiting for – the ‘cut-copy-paste’! I never understood what took this long time for Apple to embed this feature to the iPhone? But anyway, it seems we the iPhone users have something to cheer about. This feature was currently available via [...]
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March 12, 2009
Talking iPod shuffle
Apple finally rolled out it’s talking iPod shuffle. This is smaller than its predecessor – it talks to the user of what song it is playing in 14 different languages!
This tiny (smaller than an AA battery) iPod will cost you $79 and can hold 1000 songs – this is twice the number than the predecessor. [...]
March 9, 2009
Apple Netbook coming soon?
DigiTimes reports that Taiwan-based Quanta Computer will build a new netbook computer for Apple. A netbook (a portmanteau of Internet and notebook) is a class of laptop computer designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet. Netbooks “rely heavily on the Internet for remote access to web-based applications” (Wikipedia)
The plan is to ship the [...]
March 7, 2009
Twitter – an unecessary tool?
Twitter is the worst tool which has got publicity from people who have nothing better to do! I am tired of hearing about “Twitter” – especially on CNN. I get off from work around 3:45pm and while driving home I listen to CNN Radio on Sirius-XM. I tune the radio to catch Wolf Blitzer but [...]
March 7, 2009
Option to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7!
It is finally happening! Windows 7 will allow users to “remove” IE 8 and Media Player. This is a feature is made available today on the beta version of Windows 7 which was released last month.
According to AeroXperince blog, a site for Windows developers “There is a catch: For now, this only seems to wipe [...]
March 6, 2009
Are we alone?
NASA is launching “Kepler” a $600 million telescope this week. Its potential is enormous and the reason of this launch? The mission of Kepler is to measure changes in the brightness of more than 100,000 stars, every 30 minutes, searching for “winks” in light that happen when a planet passes in front of its star.
Kepler [...]
February 22, 2009
Worst technology quotes and predictions…
Sir Alan Michael Sugar, the founder of Amstrad, in Feb 2005: “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.”
Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube in March 2005: “There’s just not that many videos I want to watch,” At the time YouTube featured about 50 videos. Today it is 3 Million videos Per Second!
Ken [...]
January 13, 2009
Vonage sucks!!
I have been a Vonage customer for few months…that was until recently.
The story goes like this…
One day I decided that I was done with the Vonage phone service and decided to call it a day. Moving to a new place which made me decide to combine all my accounts i.e. HD Channels, High speed Internet [...]
December 6, 2007
Violinist or Domestic Helper Robot? – ask Toyota
From car manufacturing to the Robot manufacturing – now, that’s what Toyota all about.
Toyota introduced 2 robots, which can assist humans in transportation, domestic duties and care taking. One robot will have the task of transporting people one place to another @ the speed of 3.7 miles per hour. The battery life can last up [...]
December 5, 2007
Microsoft kills “Kill Switch”
Finally, Microsoft is going to get ride of “Kill Switch” feature of the operating system Vista. This feature will cease with the release of Service Pack 1 for Vista coming out in the early months of the year 2008. The current feature was where Microsoft would run Windows in a reduced functionality mode – denies [...]
