October 2009

Uh-oh – Even Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch has bugs in it

Oh Microsoft. It’s really not a good sign that your launch celebration of Windows 7 with cascading dominoes had ‘bugs’ in it! (If you don’t feel like watching the whole way through, I’ll give away the ‘bugs’ – there were sections where the dominoes didn’t fall and in one case, someone had to manually push [...]

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Mozilla Labs’ Raindrop project aims to cut through e-mail clutter

Do you get too much e-mail, whose volume has grown significantly in recent times due to social networking notifications from the likes of Facebook & Twitter? How do you sort it out and quickly? Filters? Folders? Those methods may be doing the trick right now, but Mozilla Labs is working on a different approach – [...]

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Southwest shows off ‘green’ airplane that saves 9500 gallons of fuel per year

Southwest has unveiled a ‘greener’ Boeing 733-700 airplane that will serve as a test for potentially fleet-wide changes. The plane uses: recyclable carpet, lighter seat covers, lighter life vest pouches and seat foam . The weight reduction is about 5lbs per seat and about 500lbs total for a savings of 9500 gallons of fuel per [...]

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Speedo Aquabeat – Waterproof MP3 Player

I do enjoy a good relaxing trip on my $multi-million yacht, listening to my music whilst basking in the glorious sunshine, that is until my iPod gets wet and dies on me… Yeah right. But the point is, it could happen and Speedo have engineered solution to this (or, most likely, a gizmo so people [...]

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Wal-Mart to launch its version of Best Buy’s Geek Squad

Wal-Mart is getting in on the in-home tech service business a la Best Buy’s Geek Squad or the dead Circuit City FireDog service. Expect the service to start up in time for this year’s shopping season. via Hot Hardware

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The Lexus LF-A may become a reality

According to some leaked images and specs, the Lexus LF-A could become a reality next year in time for a 2011 model. Specs: “The LF-A is powered by a 4.8 liter V10, capable of delivering 560 horsepower at 8,700 RPM. 0-60 time has been clocked at 3.7 seconds and its top speed is a staggering [...]

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Sony and Netflix got together so you can stream Netflix movies to your PS3

Got a PlayStation3 ? Then you might want to think about getting one, because Sony just came up with one more reason for you to buy one: Netflix. Yes, Sony and Netflix got together so that you can stream Netflix movies to your PS3. As long as you have a Netflix account, there is no [...]

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Nexcopy Uses Movie Trailer Theme for USB Duplicator Product Announcement

If Nexcopy where to make a movie about USB duplicators and data loading USB thumb drives, this would be the movie trailer to draw your attention. We must admit the unique idea of taking an angle like this to introduce a new product [one which is kind-of mundane] is interesting to say the least. The [...]

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Yahoo shuttering GeoCities today. RIP GeoCities

In another step towards the future, a page on the past is closed: GeoCities is being shuttered today by Yahoo, which purchased the free website host in 1999. GeoCities circa 1996: In a move that puts more emphasis on the bottom line, Yahoo is nudging new customers to its paid hosting service. Of course, there’s [...]

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AMD working on 6-core CPU chips for home machines

Sure, we’ve all grown used to have dual-core CPUs in our home machines, and there are lots of quad-core machines in offices, but how about 6 and 8 cores?! Well, thanks to AMD, we may soon see 6-core chips geared for home use. Codenamed Thuban, it’ll probably be called Phenom II X6 when it comes [...]

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