Archive for the 'Headlines' Category
Mother of all Blond Jokes
Saturday, November 11th, 2006This has got to be the best blond joke there ever was, is and ever going to be!
Cloaking Device A Reality
Saturday, October 21st, 2006Scientists at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have made a breakthrough on cloaking technology. Going on the principle that an object can be made invisible by forcing light to go around it, the scientists constructed a device that does just that. The limitation right now is that the device can only re-route [...]
Buy An iPod And Get A Virus Free!
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006Apple is warning its customers that some of its iPods are infected with a virus. So far, Apple has received less than 25 reports of the RavMonE.exe virus infecting its video iPods. It seems that the culprit is Microsoft Windows. The virus made its way into the video iPod via a Windows [...]
Buying Songs Online Is Like MacOS vs. Windows
Sunday, October 15th, 2006At least that is what it is shaping up to be. iPod users who purchase songs from iTunes will have no problems playing the songs. Try to play a song on your iPod that you bought from Napster and you will be in for a headache. I am sure the songs sound [...]
Yahoo! Time Capsule
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Yahoo and Yahoo Telemundo are hooking up to beam a time capsule off into space. The digital data will first be beamed onto an the ancient Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. It is from this pyramid that the data will then be beamed out to space.
Content of the time capsule is [...]
Motorola Copies LG Phone Design
Monday, October 9th, 2006That is what [tag]LG Electronics[/tag] of Korea are saying. The said phones are the [tag]KV2300[/tag] from LG and the new [tag]Motorola[/tag] [tag]KRZR[/tag].
An LG spokesperson said that the LG phone is a ‘flat, rectangular flip phone with high-gloss black finish, and the KRZR K1m is also a flat, rectangular flip phone with high-gloss black finish’.
The [...]
Mosquitotone - If You Are Old, You Probably Won’t Hear The Phone Ring
Saturday, October 7th, 2006That’s right. As you age, you start to lose the ability to hear very high frequencies.
Generally, humans have a hearing range between 64Hz to 23kHz. As we age, we start to lose the ability to hear the top ends.
That is where the new trendy ‘Mosquitotone’ come in. Imagine a ringtone for your [...]
Mozilla Firefox Vulnerability A Hoax
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006Mischa Spiegelmock just wanted to have a laugh so he decided to tell the Toorcon conference that Firefox had a serious Javascript bug which made it simple to cause a stack overflow.
Ever since then, security buffs have been trying to figure out how that is - until Mozzarella Foundation security number one, Window Snyder, [...]
World’s Thinnest LCD Display by LG.Philips
Sunday, October 1st, 2006LG.Philips announced recently that they have developed the world’s thinnest TFT-LCD display measuring only 1.3mm in thickness - 30% slimmer than the current LCDs in today’s mobile phones (generally having 1.9mm and 2.9mm thick LCDs).
This new breakthrough will allow mobile phones that will be even slimmer than the presently available 6.9mm thick mobile phones. [...]
Bill Gates Quits Microsoft
Friday, June 16th, 2006That’s right. Seems that [tag]Bill Gates[/tag] will progressiveley move out from the day-to-day running of Microsoft to spend more time doing charity stuff at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. [tag]Microsoft[/tag] announced a 2-year transition to ensure a smooth handing over of Bill Gates’ daily responsibilities. After that, Bill will still be [...]
