Entries from April 2008

April 15, 2008

Google and Salesforce expand alliance against Microsoft

I’ve been quite interested about this war on the web between mircosoft and google. If you noticed from my last post that Both google and mircosoft are both trying to dominate the world wide web. We’ll see who wins
Google and Salesforce.com, two of Microsoft’s most conspicuous rivals, are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in [...]

April 11, 2008

« Previous post Next post » April 11 2008 Microsoft Live Maps Drinks Google Maps’ Milkshake

Last night, Microsoft pushed out a ton of new features to Windows Live Maps, including a face-lift to some of its 3-D cities (Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix), the ability to export your collections to GPS devices and GeoRSS feeds (which means I can make custom maps for my Dash GPS), support for 3D-map [...]

April 9, 2008

Japanese-Style Keyboards Look Almost Too Good for Typing

These traditional Japanese-style keyboards are a class apart from the grey or white boringness of the average keyboard. As well as looking different, and neat these devices are even handmade for that extra “creative” touch. The gold one’s damn attractive and would look cool on many a desk: but not the green “kara kusa” one… [...]

April 9, 2008

Space tourism is just two years away thanks to new rocket-powered plane

Wow , The advances in technology ! … I don’t know whose willing to spend 50,000 to go to space except maybe the rich folks.
A rocket-powered plane that will allow tourists to travel in space is in development and will start flights in two years.
Plans have been revealed for ‘Lynx’, a two-seater ’space taxi’, which [...]

April 4, 2008

Test Your Breath online

From Canada, test your breath using the mike of your PC or just typing in what you just ate. Silly. But viral!
http://testyourbreath.ca/

April 2, 2008

Video: Lenovo’s Ideapad U8 MID teases with Intel’s Atom

Oh my. Look at what Lenovo is cooking up with the help of Intel’s newest Atom processor. Unveiled at Intel’s IDF in Shanghai, the new Ideapad U8 device features a 4.8-inch touchscreen display and bullseye, optical mouse for (supposedly) one-handed operation while surfing the web over EDGE or 3G data — presumably China’s TD-SCDMA. The [...]