Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Facebook Shuts Down Acquired Company

Facebook appears to have made a third acquisition — this one smaller than its two previous buys. What’s more, Facebook has shut down the company’s service immediately.
Octazen is a Malaysian company comprising two employees. It provides scripts to import a user’s contacts into a website upon sign up, reports Gigaom.

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Gift to the Wife: 47LG50 HDTV

Yep, along with some Addidas apparel and my mom’s bag, today I bought for my lovely wife here dream TV – a high-defintion TV with display capability of 1080p. The model? It’s a 47LG50, yes it’s from LG.
Bought it today at Futureshop. They have it on sale! If you’re going to buy this kind of [...]

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Sun Microsystems Buys Mysql AB!

Jonathan Schwartz’ (Chief Executive Officer and President of Sun Microsystems) announced yesterday from his blog that Sun has acquired Mysql AB, the company behind the widest used open sourced database platform, Mysql.
It was reported that the open source database was bought for approximately $1 billion. A price suitable for Mysql.

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Asus Eee PC for Eli?

I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about Asus’ cute little notebook called the Eee PC. I even have an office mate who bought one couple of weeks ago. Though I heard there’s a pink one, she bought the white cute little one.
There are lots of hacks and programs and things you can do [...]

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Smart Bro… Anywhere Broadband?

Smart Communications recently launched their Smart Bro Plug It. Now you can bring your internet connection anywhere you go… (Sure, sure.)
Anywhere Broadband is their tag line and is what they claim. I say, change to Anywhere Internet.
Since this technology uses 3G, I think this broadband thing will only be available for those places with [...]

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Ford and Microsoft… SYNC’d

This is the next best thing to KITT, (Knight Industries Two Thousand), that speaking car David Hasselhoff drove in the now defunct TV series ‘Knight Rider’.
America’s car company, Ford and America’s technology leader, Microsoft, when they join forces all things are possible.
Here are some of the cool things that the new Ford cars (released [...]

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Access Remote Computer With RemotePC

Have you tried using Remote Administrator? or any variant of VNC? or Windows’ own Remote Desktop (mstsc)? It’s great to control remote computer doesn’t it?
Well, good news to you! Here’s another cool application that you can add to your favorite remote access softwares! RemotePC!
RemotePC  is one of the leading remote access solution for PCs. You [...]

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Featuring Fedora 8

I have been a Linux fan for some time now, starting from (then free and open source) Red Hat Linux 6. When Red Hat Linux 9 was released in 2004 it was the last Red Hat version to be distributed by Red Hat (company) giving way to Red Hat Enterprise Server.
The end of life of [...]

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The New JPEG – JPEG XR – Is From Microsoft

The Joint Photographic Experts Group, those people who created the JPEG image standard has already approved the new JPEG format for images called JPEG XR – and it’s from Microsoft.
Since 2006, Microsoft has been promoting HD Photo, the image format that they would like to be the future image standard format that people will use [...]

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Photoshop Now OnLine!

The ubiquitous image manipulation software from Adobe System – Photoshop – will soon have an online version.
Photoshop Express online photo-editing tool will be completed in 2008. But you wont have to wait that long. The Beta version is set to be released before the year ends!
Here are some of what Photoshop Express can do [...]

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Google At Gas Stations Too!

Google really wants to, dare I say it… Rule The World! Or at least leave their presence everywhere we go.
We know that Google in the leader in online search, that Google owns Feedburner, Blogger, Jaiku and others (see a list of Google Services and Application), then there’s the Google Phone (gPhone) and the latest post [...]

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Windows Vista Aero VS Linux Ubuntu Beryl

Here’s one cool video that I found on Yutube. Head to head combat between Windows and Linux!
Watch the video after the jump and choose your pick!

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