Apple is gonna be everywhere
By Admin | July 1, 2008
Gotta go ipoo?
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$5500 Cell Phone?
By Admin | June 5, 2008
This high priced cell phone is constructed of aircraft steel and has a sapphire glass figure in the phone, from Russian company Gresso. Like all other Gresso phones, it has a gorgeous case made of African blackwood.
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New Addition Rumored for the Space Station?
By Admin | May 5, 2008
This would be a great addition to the space station? Astronauts from all different countries could grab a cup or a tube of java together.
Creative copyright Matthew Ostir
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Hitachi Stops Plans
By Admin | April 17, 2008
Japan’s Hitachi Ltd has given up on plans to sell a stake in its troubled computer disk drive business and aims to turn the business around by going after market share and cutting costs, the head of the unit said on Thursday.
Hitachi’s determination to go it alone comes two days after Seagate Technology’s outlook, hurt by price falls, missed expectations and sent its shares plummeting.
Capital expenditure at the unit, which Hitachi bought from IBM in 2002, was likely to be around 6 percent to 9 percent of sales this year while research and development would be about 10 percent of sales, he said.
Senior executives at parent Hitachi said this month that they would not be averse to resuming talks with private equity funds, once fears about the credit markets ease. The unit aimed to cut costs by roughly 13 percent, Nakanishi said. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has not once posted an annual profit in the five years since Hitachi acquired it. All this seems to spell bad news for investors.
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Can RFID Be Fun?
By Admin | March 18, 2008
I was thinking back today about some of the first websites I created in 2001. I had some very unique and interesting ideas back then and one of my favourites, which I wish I still had today was RFIDStatus.com. Most people would think that it sold all types of fancy 2.4 GHz, ISO 15693 RFID hardware or something like that but actually it was a humor spoof site.
The idea was that you could track famous folks through special RFID components installed inside them without their knowledge.
My personal favourite was one of Martha Stewart in her jail cell but she was sprucing it up with some niche drapes and a throw rug, ect… Right after I sold the site it actually changed into a more serious RFID site but now it is just a page of giberrish I wish I kept that one intact.
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Nice Modem
By Admin | February 10, 2008
Check out this old fashion modem
Penril Data Communications ”We call it a Penril Modem” (1971)
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Stay Charged - Sponsor
By Admin | October 10, 2007
Let me tell you from experience, there is nothing more frustrating than having your laptop battery die while working on an important assignment. And for some reason batteries love running out of juice when your whole school career is on-the-line.
My Sony Visio is my little baby and I love it to-death, but when it died while finishing my 9000 word essay and I lost 4400 words of it, I was ready to destroy it. Word to the wise, have at least 1 full battery available at all time. I now carry around two extra Sony laptop batteries just to make sure it never happens again.
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T-Mobile Makes a Move
By Admin | September 11, 2007
T-Mobile USA plans to acquire cellular company SunCom Wireless Holdings for US$1.6 billion in cash and assume SunCom’s net debt of $800 million, the companies announced Monday.
The acquisition will extend T-Mobile’s network coverage in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean through the addition of SunCom’s roughly 1.1 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
SunCom operates a GSM/GPRS/EDGE (Global System for Mobile communications/General Packet Radio Service/Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) network and has provided roaming service to T-Mobile in these markets since 2004.
“With the acquisition of SunCom, we will continue to implement our strategy to ‘grow abroad with mobile,’ which is part of our overall group strategy,” said René Obermann, chairman of the board of management of Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) , T-Mobile’s Germany-based parent company. “At the same time, we can realize significant synergies on the cost side and improve our market presence,” Obermann added.
T-Mobile expects the acquisition will let it expand its nationwide coverage — excluding roaming — significantly, from 244 million to 259 million potential customers, and will provide additional growth opportunities through the added markets. It also anticipates that it will be able to realize synergies of approximately $1 billion through reduced roaming and operating expenses.
SunCom’s customer base of more than 1.1 million users at the end of the second quarter of 2007 represented an increase of more than 105,000 since June 30, 2006. Total revenue in the first half was $242.5 million, up from $206.7 million a year ago. Following the closing of the transaction in the first half of 2008, subject to standard regulatory approvals, T-Mobile expects to fully integrate SunCom’s assets into the T-Mobile network.
Under the terms of the agreement, holders of SunCom common stock will receive $27 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 22.7 percent over the closing price of SunCom common stock on Friday. The owners of more than 50 percent of SunCom’s issued common stock have already voted in favor of the transaction, T-Mobile said.
Deutsche Telekom’s stock fell by 3.48 cents, or 0.18 percent, to $18.98 in Monday morning trading. The acquisition of SunCom will not only fill in some of those gaps in the southeastern United States, it will also open up some new market areas in the Caribbean, Kagan added.
“T-Mobile has always been a plain-vanilla cell phone company — they haven’t offered the wide variety of features that companies like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have,” he explained. Yet “they want to, especially given the direction the industry is heading in,” he added. “This makes a lot of sense.” Looks like an interesting move, we will have to keep a close eye on this one.
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Back to School PC’s
By Admin | August 2, 2007
Yes, it is back-to-school time, so getting the right laptop computer is on a lot of people’s to-do lists. Here we concentrate on Windows-based PCs in the US$800-to-$1,000 range.
You can spend less than a grand and get great quality laptops; $700 can get you a decent setup. Just about any laptop will do for getting facts off the Internet and compiling an A-plus class report, but most students — whether they’re in grade school or graduate school — want more out of their computers. Don’t expect to speed through demanding tasks such as editing video or playing big-name video games for less than $1,000.
Here’s a dollar-saving tip if you buy computer equipment online: Look for coupons from sites such as dealcatcher.com and 4computercoupons.com. These are Web-only coupons — you can’t take them into a store — but they apply at checkout if you buy online from a manufacturer such as Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) or from an stores such as circuitcity.com and newegg.com.
To get the most for your money, figure out how your student is likely to use the computer. (Note: Avid computer gamers will need to spend more than our $1,000 limit.) The junior high schooler who likes to play games and chat with other tweens at hangouts such as clubpenguin.com.
The person who listens to Internet radio while regularly checking out his or her MySpace or Facebook pages, constantly sending instant messages to friends and occasionally watching music videos at launch.yahoo.com and at YouTube . For these users, the laptop’s most demanding job will be handling some short videos, so a multitasking workhorse is a good choice. For example, check out the Toshiba Satellite A135 series, which covers the basics and a little bit more. Expect to pay around $800. The person whose laptop will also be the dorm room TV, stereo, DVD player.
Full-screen video capability and versatility are the focus here, so you’ll have to step up a bit in price. Examples include the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) dv6000 series, which comes with an optional TV tuner to record shows. Expect to pay around $900 for a nicely loaded version. Also, look at the new Dell Inspiron notebooks (above), which when ordered online come with free upgrades to a 160 gigabyte hard drive and 2 gigabytes of memory, starting at $749. Bottom line is technology moves so quickly that whatever you buy will be obsolete a year from now, so spend within your budget.
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Cell Phone Market
By Admin | July 9, 2007
Mobile telephone maker Sony Ericsson on Thursday reported increased net profits and sales of handsets for second quarter 2007 compared with the corresponding business period in 2006. The joint venture between Japan’s Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Sweden’s Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY) said net income for the quarter was 220 million euros (US$300 million), up from 143 million euros ($197 million) for the second quarter 2006.
Group turnover increased 37 percent year-on-year to 3.11 billion euros ($4.28 billion). Sony Ericsson said it sold 24.9 million handsets during second quarter 2007, compared to 15.7 million units in the corresponding business period 2006.
In the first quarter 2007 it sold 21.8 million units. The group said that the average selling price of its mobile devices in the second quarter 2007 was 125 euros ($172), down from 134 euros ($185) in the first quarter 2007 and 145 euros ($200)in the second quarter 2006.
The lower average selling price was “in line with Sony Ericsson expectations,” the group said, noting the increase in its sales of low and mid-tier priced phones in Latin America, Western Europe as well as Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“Sony Ericsson has continued to capture market share in a more competitive market,” Sony Ericsson chief executive Miles Flint said in a statement. Sony Ericsson estimated that its share of the global handset market in the second quarter was 9 percent.
In its outlook, the group said it estimated that global handset sales in 2007 would top 1.1 billion units. The group recently unveiled plans to establish a research and development unit in Chennai, India, later this year. Sony Ericsson was formed in October 2001 in an effort to challenge industry leaders Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Motorola With Apple’s iPhone release things are bound to heat up.
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