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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale
Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:
“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”
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Cars: A hell of an accident
We’ve heard that some watch NASCAR races just for the accidents. Well here’s one to watch - Michael McDowell’s accident at the Texas Qualifying last Friday.
This is probably one of the worst NASCAR accidents we’ve seen ever, 185 - 190 miles on impact, flying through the air and then rolling across the track for a few hundred yards. The car looks like it went through the shredder and then - the guy just walks away.
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Linux: 9000 PCs in Swiss schools will switch to Ubuntu only
Beginning from next term, all computers at schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will be switched to Ubuntu Linux only.
Geneva newspaper Tribune de Geneve reports today that from September 2008 all computers at schools that currently are dual-boot MS Windows and Linux will have MS Windows removed and become FOSS (Free Open Source Software) only.
Besides lower costs for the administration, students will also profit from the use of Ubuntu, as they then will be able to…
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Gadgets: The RC Rubber Duck
From our completely useless but great department: Here comes the remote controlled Bath Duck…
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MS Multi-Touch Surface coming to an AT&T shop near you
Telecom giant AT&T is the first company worldwide that will use Microsoft Surface™ touch and device recognition technology in retail shops.
Starting from April 17 the multi-touch screens will be available in selected shops - to be more precise - shops in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco will be the first to get the devices. AT&T is planning to expand the deployment to more of its 2,200 shops throughout 2008…
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Time waster: Proximity of Needs
A great way to watch time passing by and how beautiful mathematics can be visualized.
It is an interactive animation where you can change the parameters for the calculations and graphical simulation.
More information on the project page at…
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Science: Time / Space continuum breaks open around the globe
Today, April 1st after various warnings raised by leading scientists during the last months, the selective opening of the Time / Space continuum could be observed at locations around the world.
Renown astronomer Gabriel Sunbreek had alarm bell ringing about 3 months ago when he together with his team for the first time discovered the brief opening of wormholes inside our solar system. Closely to Mars two of these phenomenons had opened up for about 5 to 7 minutes – enough to allow alien matter to enter our galaxy close to earth (in astronomical terms).
Together with colleagues he attributed the selective occurrence of breaks within the Time / Space continuum to global warming and increased pollution. The connection to the newly found wormholes is still being evaluated…
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List of Lists: The 25 most valuable Blog properties
You might say - yet another list of top blogs. It is but it’s quite well done and based on potential advertising value and not only on number of hits per months.
While the author admits that it’s actually not possible to value the largest blogs appropriately, he nevertheless comes up with an interesting valuing approach - the amount a buyer might be willing to pay.
Only privately held blogs that are…
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Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive
An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.
The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.
More information and a video…
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C-Jump: A board game for geeks?
A board game made specifically for computer geeks? Aimed at kids 11+ c-jump - as the game is called - tries to familiarize the players with fundamentals of computer programming languages like C, C++ and Java. Players move around the board by calculating the number of steps in programming syntax. Yeah, sure - and “…Skiing and snowboarding is a perfect programming analogy…”
Guys get real - our suggestion…
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