While John McCain is still learning how to use email (we’re not kidding), his U.S. Presidential competition has completely mastered the micro-blogging service Twitter. This month, American presidential candidate Barack Obama dethroned Kevin Rose from Digg.com and became the most popular person on Twitter. According to Twitterholic, a website that measures the “followers” of Twitter accounts, Barack Obama has over 58,000 followers.
Caller ID is a common function that being included in most of the telephony application. Its ability to show the number of calling party has helped the receiver to identify the caller’s number before answering any anonymous call. However, without the name of the contact person being stored in your contact lists, you probably won’t know who the one is actually calling even with the […]
The opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has been one of the talking point recently, from its lavishness, artistic value, grandness of the presentation performance to its ‘fake’ elements, i.e. CGI cinematic enhanced effects of giant footprint fireworks and little cute solo girl Lin Miaoke mimed and lip synced after the actual singer, Yang Peiyi for “Hymn to the Motherland”, the patriotic song sang […]
“Tweet. Tweet.” Hear that? No it’s not a bird. It’s actually NBC producer Ryan Osborn “tweeting” Olympic related messages via Twitter for American morning news program the Today Show. Ryan has temporarily hijacked the Today Show’s Twitter account to connect Twitter users with daily tweets from Beijing. Everyday Ryan Tweets about everything from the weather in Beijing, to behind the scenes tidbits and how NBC’s […]
Awed and dazzled by Beijing 2008 Olympics Games (XXIX Olympiad) Opening Ceremony held in the Bird’s Nest (Beijing National Stadium)? The most recent Olympiad Opening Ceremony presented by China is considered a spectacular masterpiece and best ever opening ceremony of an international sporting event.
Intel has officially named its upcoming Nahelem processor as Core i7 under Intel Core family. This next generation processor, a successor of the Core 2 Duo series, will be based on a totally new Intel microarchitecture with native quad-core on a single die and further enhanced with Intel Hyper-threading Technology targeted for high end desktop and server markets.
Are you a fan of CSI? Are you intrigued by the sophisticated and technologically advanced devices which help David Caruso and his team to nail the criminals? The latest fingerprint test has helped give medical examiners and law enforcement officers a boost. While fingerprints have long been used to identify criminals, scientists have now taken the technology a step further. The latest fingerprint test, desorption […]
Toshiba has just unveiled a 32GB ultra high capacity NAND flash memory device targeted for various market segments in consumer markets. The new embedded memory device is claimed to be fully compliance with both JEDEC/MMCA v.4.3 and SDA V2.0 memory standard. Fabricated using 43-nm process technology, it is able to pack more memory cells into an ultra small form factor as compared to previous technology.
If you have watched the live, delayed or encore telecast of the opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, held in the “Bird Nest” (see the Bird Nest made in LEGO) and liked the Olympic theme song sang by British Soprano Sarah Brightman and Chinese singer Liu Huan, its name is “You and Me”, and […]
One of the world’s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, Micron Technology has announced its next-generation RealSSD solid state drives – enterprise-class RealSSD P200 and client-focused RealSSD C200. The Micron RealSSD P200 will use high-performance single-level cell (SLC) NAND technology for enterprise computing, while the RealSSD C200 using multi-level cell (MLC) NAND process technology for notebook applications.
Philips has come out with innovative LivingColors which is an innovative form of home lighting. By pressing a button on touch sensitive remote control, you can choose different lighting effects that match your mode and suit every occasion from infinite number of colours.
Tired of trying to find a parking lot in a big city congested with vehicles? This is a common problem encountered by most of the drivers while driving in a city especially during lunch break or peak hours. Now with this potential solution from Streetline through a wireless sensors installed along all the parking space, hopefully the drivers will be able to find the best […]
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