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Just yesterday in Europe, the Pioneer AVIC-F500BT, which is now known as the NavGate 500 was announced officially. This new GPS is a very nice one but is sure to cost you a lot of Euros, but if you’re looking for a high end model, this is definitely one to consider.
It starts off with its nice, big touch screen, which measures in at 5.8-inches. It has a 800×480 pixel WVGA resolution, which is similar to the HP iPAQ 310, and the Garmin Nuvi 5000. Other features include Bluetooth capability, RDS/TMC module for live traffic information, voice prompts, a 600 MHz processor, and a SiRF Star III GPS chip.
Maps are provided by TeleAtlas, which includes maps of 30 European countries - including Greece, Poland, the Czech republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania and Turkey. Also, it will be able to connect to your car stereo, comes with AV, USB port, a handy iPod connect, and an SD card.
Furthermore, expect this to be shipping in May costing around 699 Euros (I warned you), or about a little over a $1000 US.
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Written by Natesh Sood on February 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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We will all have our own views on what will be hot or not in 2008, but this list of 5 areas to look at seems pretty spot on to me:
- The Web To Go - The year for Gears, Air and Silverlight.
- Ultra Mobile PC’s - Building on the Asus EEE, and utilizing flash memory.
- IPTV - With the growth of broadband accessibility and speed expect to see Internet TV grow and grow.
- WIMAX - City, or even country wide high speed wireless connectivity.
- Mobile VOIP - Seamless switch between VOIP, landline and cell phone to get the cheapest calls all the time from one hand set.
If 2008 delivered these 5 I would be very happy indeed.
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Written by chris@chrismarshall.ws on January 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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A battle is emerging in Australia where the government wants “internet service providers to filter content to ensure households and schools do not receive inappropriate material” while civil libertarians “have condemned the plan as unnecessary, and say it will erode the freedom of the internet.”
As the main thrust of the governments argument is to protect children from violence and porn it is very hard to argue against it without sounding like you don’t care. On the other hand though once governments start determining what is right and wrong for us before we even make our own choices that seems equally as wrong.
Personally I think it is the responsibility of the parents to monitor and control what the children watch and have access to. Sure it is tough but that is what parenting is all about!
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Written by chris@chrismarshall.ws on January 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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The trend of buying more gifts on line during the holiday season continued in the US where sales between November 1st and December 27th have been estimated at $28 billion, excluding travel and the broadly named auctions.
This represents an increase of 19% over 2006, but interestingly was a slower rate rate of growth than the previous years 26%. It is pretty easy to figure that the credit crunch is having an overall negative effect on retail sales, but to blame the slower growth of Internet sales on the weather seems a little strange:
“Warm weather during the early part of November took its toll on online retail sales, and played a role in holding down the growth in spending over the entire holiday season,” said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni.
Maybe it is just me but I would have thought it would be the opposite - enjoy a day out on in the nice weather, come back home and hit the Internet for some bargains to round off a great day.
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Written by chris@chrismarshall.ws on January 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Piracy is far from dead, although most modern day buccaneers are too busy infringing on copyright laws to sail the seven seas. This is no more clearly evidenced than by the fact that Yahoo China lost another round in a legal battle in Beijing where a court upheld the ruling that the company infringed on copyright laws by allowing pirated music to be downloaded.
This news comes from an industry group suing Yahoo China. According to John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries or IFPI,
“The ruling against Yahoo China is extremely significant in clarifying copyright rules for Internet music services in China. By confirming that Yahoo China’s service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing Court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country.”
Yahoo China is owned and operated by Alibaba, a Chinese Internet company and Yahoo owns a 44% stake. Alibaba had nothing public to say about the results of the lawsuit. Filed in January 2007, the suit was filed on behalf of several recording studios including Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, and Universal Vivendi. It accused China Yahoo of violating copyrights because it allows links between its search engine and Web sites that have illegally copied songs from artists such as U2 and Destiny’s Child.
China is considered one of the biggest sources of pirated music and movies, as well as counterfeit goods. Many companies and organizations have been taking legal action to prevent the flow of this content out of China. Recent reforms in Chinese law have helped, but experts say that piracy is still a major problem.
It is perhaps fitting that it is a Chinese saying that speaks of the “journey of a thousand miles beginning with a single step.”
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Written by Marjorie Dorfman on December 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Gmail, a favorite email option for many offers a ton of available options for convenience. Some items are supported directly from Google and some come from third-party options such as Greasemonkey scripts or Firefox extensions.
Remember The Milk’s integration with Gmail is unfortunately only available through a Firefox extension, but it allows you to view tasks in Google Calendar, Gmail and iGoogle and if you are using Google Gears you can also view them offline also, this is all through a nice easy to use interface.
“Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail (complete, postpone, and edit tasks), add new tasks (and connect them with your emails, contacts, and Google Calendar events), automatically add tasks for starred messages or specific labels, and much more!”
Perhaps the best item to note is that the integration is so clean that it almost looks like it is coming directly from Google, if you are a Gmail and Google Calendar user than Remember The Milk should be something to check out.
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Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell, 2007. |
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Written by Robert Nelson on December 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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The fact that ‘blogging’ racked up its tenth anniversary this week was pretty amazing, but the real surprise must be how far the concept has reached. Who would have thought that blogs would be used to report the news like the recent unrest in Burma, where traditional news sources can’t get access, or that the whole social networking phenomenon would have evolved out of the blogging world.
For the record the proper name is Weblog and was created by Jorn Barger. In recognition of the ten years here are a few facts:
- Technorati is currently tracking more than 70 million weblogs.
- In late 1998 (it is estimated that) only 23 blogs existed.
- In 1999 the word “blog” was coined as a shortened form of the original term.
- There are now 120,000 new blogs being created every day.
- Posts are being added to blogs at a rate of 17 per second - a total of 1.5 million per day.
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Written by Chris Marshall on December 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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I thought this had all been said and done before, but it seems that Opera Software has been taking their turn to bleat about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer making it ‘too hard’ for rivals!
Yes, the fact that Microsoft puts it’s browser into the Windows operating system is apparently flouting web standards and makes it harder for browsers to become inter-operable.
In a statement Opera said it wanted the Commission to make Microsoft separate IE from Windows and pre-install alternative browsers on new PCs.
Now I am not Microsoft fan, but I don’t see this as a problem - rather it is the other way round surely. With 80% of the worlds computers using Internet Explorer surely that makes it easier to know who you have to either compete with or inter-operate with? If you buy a Windows PC you get IE. If you but an Apple computer you get Safari. You can run Safari on Windows, you can also run Firefox on Windows and OS X so what is the problem. Any serious computer user is going to run more than one browser anyway (personally I have three open all the time) so what is wrong with some variety and competition?
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Written by Chris Marshall on December 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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