Technology, Science, and other ridiculousness
If you want a really compact flashlight, check out the Pak-Lite 9-Volt LED Flashlight. No opening tops of lights, not little bulbs, just snap on the cap to a 9-volt battery and it’s a light for the using!
This weather resistant 2-LED flashlight can functions for about 20 hours. It’s obviously designed to handle emergency situations, […]
OK, speaking of odd buy-outs… why in the heck did eBay buy Skype? I can understand if a company like Google, or Yahoo, or even AOL or Microsoft bought them, but, eBay?
I’m attempting to assertain the synergistic logic behind the merging of an online auction and a proprietary VoIP calling tool. Maybe there’s some value […]
Oracle Corporation, In another major acquisition of a rival software maker on Monday September 12th, said it will buy up Siebel Systems in a deal valued at over $5.8 billion. Siebel, a maker of customer resource management (CRM) software, will provide Oracle with 4,000 new customers and 3.4 million CRM users.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said […]
It seems that the bloggers have been talking about the latest findings of the insides of Apple’s iTunes 5. They’ve been using their tools to peer into the resources DLLs and EXEs and have found that an image resource within iTunes 5 that suggests Apple has future plans for a video store. It seems they’ve […]
The TwinhanDTV Alpha is a mobile HDTV solution. What is it? It’s a tiny USB 2.0 powered HDTV and digital radio, right on your laptop! Complete with PVR features, and the coolest feature addition is direct to DVD live recording. Cost is about £64.00.
High speed USB 2.0 transmission gives you superb resolution of HDTV without […]
Here’s a really neat piece of hardware. The portable Fastora ExBoot USB drive. It’s a 40GB drive that can hold a full back-up of your notebook PC (provided your PC doesn’t have more than 40GB of stuff on it), and should your internal drive fail, just set the USB drive to boot and you’re back […]
I don’t often use this forum for this type of message, but this is one that deserves mentioning, always:
Let us not forget those who were senselessly lost on this day, 2001. To those families who have lost loved ones, there is nothing I can say that could mean enough, but please believe me when I […]
This isn’t something that’s tech related, but it’s definitely something that drives me. Please read this post and act on it. I’m sure many of you understand.
I am writing to you about a cause that is important to me and one I hope you will support. I have committed myself to a physical and fundraising […]
…and that’s not the kind with all of the fur! Well, at least I don’t think it is!
Mediabolic has signed a multi-year software licensing agreement with Buffalo, Inc., the number-one networking peripherals company in Japan and one of the top retail sellers of network-attached storage (NAS) products in the U.S. Using Mediabolic’s Source Code SDK, […]
Today in Germany, Global IP Telecommunications, Representative and Preferred Development Partner of the worldwide leading softphone manufacturer Xten Networks, Inc., had announced the release of X-Pro TAPI, the first fully TAPI (Telephony API) compliant software telephone on the market.
X-Pro TAPI is the result of continuous development of the X-Pro softphone, which had been known to […]
In a press release from AuroOne Systems, who is a privately funded digital multimedia storage, transport, and delivery company which is headquartered in San Jose, California, they announced that it would be forming a technology alliance and strategic partnership with Aphelion Communications. Aphelion has developed a unique patented sequential ultra RF multi-hopping technology that piggy-backs […]
In Houston Texas, on August 30th, the internet website Tagomatic.com introduced their latest software tool for music lovers: Tagosaurus! Tagosaurus allows Internet users to automatically search their MP3 collections to find similar, recommended, bands stored in the Tagomatic recommendations database.
Tagomatic.com is a free community-based service that allows users to “tag” similar entities of entertainment media. […]
On the “ummm…” list, today, is the latest in concept car design ideas from Mazda. With the new Sassou Hatchback concept car, Mazda has decided that it would include a USB flash drive “key” instead of the traditional design we’re all used to - you know, the kind you get ground at the hardware store […]
In an article reported by Forbes, it claimed that at least one of the upcoming Motorola iTunes will “…underwhelm analysts and Apple fans” because of a 25-song storage cap.
“A person who has seen a version of the phone says it was designed to accommodate just 25 songs, which would be ‘sideloaded’ from a user’s computer […]
One of my favorite iPod accessory companies, Digital Lifestyle Outfitters, has announced that it’s now shipping its DLO Mini Fling fashion cases for the iPod mini. Each case is priced at $34.99 and come in 12 really interesting styles; including a metallic pink and a “faux crocadile blue” - and since I haven’t seen any […]
