The new LifeCam NX-6000 extends Microsoft’s existing series of webcams with a compact model designed specifically for notebook computers.

Key features:

• High Definition video: 2.0 megapixel – (1280 × 1024 resolution)
• Video effects
• Still Image Resolution: 7.6 megapixel – (3200 × 2380 pixels, interpolated)
• Wide-angle lens with 71 degree field of view
• Automatic face tracking software
• Built-in microphone
• Digital Zoom: 3x
• IM Compatibility: Compatible with all leading instant messaging software

The Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 is expected to be available from November for about USD 100.

After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it.

With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China.
The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible while the Chinese version (zh.wp) still has spotty access

via andrew lih

After companies like Major League Baseball, Harvard University, American Apparel Inc. and CNet.com today news giant Reuters announced that it has created a presence in the Second Life world.

From its Virtual News Bureau chief “Adam Reuters” who’s real name is Adam Pasick will report regularly. He has setup virtual office and his office hours are displayed online in a calendar.

We will see how many “Linden dollar” he will pay for getting tipped on something while chasing up news stories in Second Life. A look at his online office calendar although reveals that he will be in only a hour per day. It seems that virtual money alone might not pay his rent…

Those of us that did not get a chance to watch Chris Pane’s documentary “Who killed the Electric Car?” when it was released during June 2006 now, thanks to Google Video, got a chance to watch it in full length from our computers.

Wikipedia and IMDb both provide additional information on the movie.

We have included a link underneath the image below as the movie upload is good enough to be viewed in a larger size then when embedded. Movie length is about 1h32min.

link to movie on Google Video

Update 19-October-2006:
The full length video has seemingly disappeared from Google Video. We have changed the link above to the trailer for the movie.
More info on the movie can also be found at Sony Picture’s site for the movie

Today its exactly 80 years ago that A. A. Milne’s book on the fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.

“Winnie-the-Pooh” was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, followed by “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928), and the poetry books “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We Are Six”. All four books were illustrated by E.H. Shepard.

The Pooh-books are favourites with old and young alike since then and have been translated into almost every known language.

The long awaited new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will be hitting the stores next week. Microsoft Game Studios has further enhanced lots of the already exiting features of the previous version (Flight Simulator 2004).

Additional missions as well as new planes are include with many other new features. Microsoft has created a great Flash web site where you can browse interactively through the new features yourself.

A trial version that let you fly with three different aircrafts between two places in the Caribbean is available for download at MS Games web site (about 800MB).

MS Flight Simulator X will be available in two versions (Deluxe and Standard). The Deluxe Edition contains more planes, airports, cities, missions and tower control. Also included in this version is the SDK. Microsoft says that the application is enhanced for MS Windows Vista and graphics might even be further improved when running on that operating system.