Thu 28 Dec 2006
As the news spread that Apple CEO Steve jobs was handed 7.5 million stock option back in 2001 without the board of directors approval, an official investigation started to take place, and the Apple CEO have already appointed his lawyer for the case. The Apple stock saw a black day yesterday when his stock from $81.5 to as low as $78.34, lowest this month, before it adjusted to normal again. MSN News has more on the story.
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Destructoid is writing about his experience in the PlayStation 3 Kiosk freezing nature, saying that on different occasions he has seen the PS3 kiosk shut down. When he asked about it, some told him it’s because it keeps freezing. Later on a Best Buy employee told him the locking and freezing of the console is intentional by Sony. They have made the PS3 locking intentionally to disallow people sticking in the shop playing it all day long! A second sales person also indicated to him the same thing.
I am not sure how true is that. Is it a cover up story or a real awkward decision. If it’s a cover up story, we should see full list of bug reports, and if it’s true, then that means if your PS3 keeps freezing at home, the shop have sold you the kiosk version of it! So get back there and get your money back.
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PC World have published a very interesting article on the top 20 innovative products of 2006, arguably Microsoft Office 2007 leads the list! The list nevertheless is rich of useful information I advise you all to go through it. For me, the thing that really caught my eye and is something not known for many, YouOS.com , the heavily AJAX-Based WebOS. You can use a demo and see the desktop, run (still simple) word editors, view RSS feeds, do live chatting, run commands from the shell window. This WebOS and AJAX thing is a story to be told separately and cannot be covered in details right now.
Anyhow, enjoy the list, and tell me what’s your favorite afterwards!
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Starting from Dec 12, up till Christmas eve, every day there will be a clue outside Santa’s north pole, which if you could solve will lead you to the hidden toy on Google Earth. This is the new quest launched by Google, thats sounds really interesting and fun. Education to the end user as well. Google can use it to pin point the hot areas that people might miss otherwise.
Read more about it on the Google Blog or go to the main quest page.
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One of the trivial ways people usually lose their mobile handset is when it falls into water, or sometimes when babies chew it and their spit cause its circuits to disfunction. The latter happened with my Nokia 6600 phone 3 weeks back when I suddenly found out only the zero button does not work! This means I cannot call numbers with ZERO, or send an SMS of more than 1 word (zero is the space button). Ofcourse it was later I used the new line break to write SMS.
I was still holding to a hope however that within few hours the phone would dry and get back to normal. I opened the phone and started drying it from inside. I was shocked by how wet it was! All my attempts however did no good. Not even after a day or two, nor a week or two. I just went lazy on replacing the phone, which is a must now until this morning. I was half a sleep when I heard the phone battery going dead. Later on I recharged and started it, and voila! The magic happened and the zero button is working better than ever.
I don’t want to curse it or suggest this would always be the case, but the point is, with little care and try, you can save your self the cost of new phone.
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Here you will find a lits with some YouTube videos of the top 10 most promising games for Nintendo Wii in 2007. Enjoy!
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Zudeo is the code name of the new Azureus project for high definition movies and videos downloading. Azureus is well known for their BitTorrent java based Client for Peer-to-Peer file sharing. Now they have introduced Zudeo, mainly for full length high definition movies. All you need to do is download their small client and start downloading all the movies you want.
The good about the service is that all the movies are full length, well produced with high quality, and its all legally submitted by the content owners. You can’t find any short home made movies, it’s not the place for that kind of stuff. If you are a producer or a publisher of original content, you can upload your stuff through the client for the world to watch.
The bad thing however is that the site is still small in content (this is what happens when you restrict for original stuff only!) and it still needs to get more publicity, which is what I am trying to achieve here. Another bad thing, for me at least, is that once I start downloading anything, the client start eating all my available bandwidth. Theoretically, I have a restriction on the bandwidth for around 25 kb, and I am paying quite a lot for my 256 ADSL Connection. But I still lose it all for a single download, and I find my self forced to shut it down. I am still trying to figure out whether I am doing something wrong, and I sure hope I am.
Still, I like to open it before I go to bed and chose my next morning movie before I head to work. Tomorrow is the first day of our working week by the way, God help me.
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