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&lt;strong&gt;Cost: &lt;/strong&gt;$39.99&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Size: &lt;/strong&gt;20.82 MB&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Release date: &lt;/strong&gt;02 Dec 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Platform: &lt;/strong&gt;Win7 x32,Win7 x64&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The worlds’ first utility suite for Windows 7: Tweak-7 – all the Vitamins your Windows 7 needs  Comparing Tweak-7 with other optimization and tweak tools is simply impossible since no competitive product covers such a huge functionality: from simple system tweaking to complex and fast registry cleaning and registry defragmentation and comprehensive system cleanup.&lt;br /&gt;
Tweak-7 is the premier companion to Windows 7: it gives you access to whatever you might need to keep your Windows 7 running smoothly, error free, and under your full control. System restrictions, system cleanup, system tweaking are just a few keywords describing the feature richness of Tweak-7.&lt;br /&gt;
After you have invested time and money in Microsoft’s latest operating system, it makes sense to ensure that Windows 7 is customized to meet your needs. Tweak-7 offers hundreds of Registry tweaks, intelligent system and Registry cleaners, an auto-optimizer that adds stability and speed, and a battery of settings that you can adjust to maximize the safety and security of your computer system.&lt;br /&gt;
Tweak-7 is built on the proven technology of Totalidea’s earlier tweaking applications for Windows XP and Vista. Tweak-7 includes the full range of performance tweaks and optimizations that you would expect in a professional Windows tuning application. &lt;br /&gt;
The integrated Registry cleaner keeps the Windows 7 system Registry clean and error-free. The program’s unique Registry defragmentation feature defrags and compresses the Windows 7 Registry by up to 80 percent, ensuring greater operating speed and rock-solid stability. &lt;br /&gt;
Tweak-7 includes an intelligent System Cleanup feature that automatically scans your drives for redundant files, as well as leftovers from system and software ins&lt;br /&gt;
Tweak-7 is available for all editions of Windows 7 – both 32bit and 64bit. Tweak-7 comes with an English, German, French, Spanish and Russian user interface.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-7028400715284732444?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/zfDBepY4OOk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/zfDBepY4OOk/tweak-7-101022.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><enclosure url="http://dl.totalidea.com/files/public/tweak-7_demo.exe" length="21835416" type="application/octet-stream" /><media:content url="http://dl.totalidea.com/files/public/tweak-7_demo.exe" fileSize="21835416" type="application/octet-stream" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Type: Shareware Cost: $39.99 Size: 20.82 MB Release date: 02 Dec 2009 Platform: Win7 x32,Win7 x64 Download: Tweak-7 The worlds’ first utility suite for Windows 7: Tweak-7 – all the Vitamins your Windows 7 needs Comparing Tweak-7 with other optimization a</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Type: Shareware Cost: $39.99 Size: 20.82 MB Release date: 02 Dec 2009 Platform: Win7 x32,Win7 x64 Download: Tweak-7 The worlds’ first utility suite for Windows 7: Tweak-7 – all the Vitamins your Windows 7 needs Comparing Tweak-7 with other optimization and tweak tools is simply impossible since no competitive product covers such a huge functionality: from simple system tweaking to complex and fast registry cleaning and registry defragmentation and comprehensive system cleanup. Tweak-7 is the premier companion to Windows 7: it gives you access to whatever you might need to keep your Windows 7 running smoothly, error free, and under your full control. System restrictions, system cleanup, system tweaking are just a few keywords describing the feature richness of Tweak-7. After you have invested time and money in Microsoft’s latest operating system, it makes sense to ensure that Windows 7 is customized to meet your needs. Tweak-7 offers hundreds of Registry tweaks, intelligent system and Registry cleaners, an auto-optimizer that adds stability and speed, and a battery of settings that you can adjust to maximize the safety and security of your computer system. Tweak-7 is built on the proven technology of Totalidea’s earlier tweaking applications for Windows XP and Vista. Tweak-7 includes the full range of performance tweaks and optimizations that you would expect in a professional Windows tuning application. The integrated Registry cleaner keeps the Windows 7 system Registry clean and error-free. The program’s unique Registry defragmentation feature defrags and compresses the Windows 7 Registry by up to 80 percent, ensuring greater operating speed and rock-solid stability. Tweak-7 includes an intelligent System Cleanup feature that automatically scans your drives for redundant files, as well as leftovers from system and software ins Tweak-7 is available for all editions of Windows 7 – both 32bit and 64bit. Tweak-7 comes with an English, German, French, Spanish and Russian user interface. 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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;Carl Weinschenk spoke with Joe Basili, the managing  director of the Telecom Expanse Management Industry Association .   Weinschenk :  Please describe telecommunication expense management. Basili : TEM has evolved  from simply auditing phone bills or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  01:02&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/mah/smb-tips-to-ensure-business-continuity/?cs=31919"&gt;SMB  Tips to Ensure Business Continuity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;I wrote about the The Importance of Business Continuity  a few days ago. In that post, I promised to share practical and simple ways to  adequately address some of the areas important to the business continuity of an  SMB.   Now, I must caution that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  00:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/verizon-4g-specs-published/?cs=31922"&gt;Verizon  4G Specs Published&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;Verizon released preliminary specs of its forthcoming 4G  LTE network. One notable requirement of the network is IPv6. According to PC  Magazine , Verizon's focus on the launch of the network will be moving data, not  phones. Engadget suspects that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  01:39&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/mt/blog/best-buy-will-sell-samsung-instinct-for-50/?cs=31921"&gt;Best  Buy Will Sell Samsung Instinct for $50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;The successor to the original Sprint Instinct will be  available to select customers for much less than originally thought, says  Softpedia . The Samsung Instinct s30 smartphone, due to launch on Sunday, will  be priced at $130 with a two-year contract&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  01:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/fast-servers-need-faster-storage/?cs=31923"&gt;Fast  Servers Need Faster Storage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;I've spent a lot of time talking about storage speed  this week, particularly when it comes to building cloud-based architectures. But  the simple fact remains that there is still quite a gap between how fast data  can move in and out of storage and how&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  01:57&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/smart-grids-go-to-the-head-of-the-class/?cs=31924"&gt;Smart  Grids Go to the Head of the Class&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;  This week, the National Institute of Standards and  Technology (NIST) took a major step toward elevating the status of the Smart  Grid, a network concept that marries IT, telecommunications and electrical  distribution. The goal is to make energy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  02:03&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/green-it-still-has-legs/?cs=31925"&gt;Green  IT Still Has Legs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;The green enterprise movement is still a going concern  despite fears that it was beginning to lose its steam, although more firms are  looking at it as a way to produce short-term gains rather than long-term  sustainability.   That's the conclusion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  02:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/security-strategy-among-vendors-tips-for-successful-cloud-integration/?cs=31926"&gt;Security,  Strategy Among Vendor's Tips for Successful Cloud Integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;I keep reading things that tell me how secure the cloud  is. The arguments usually run along these lines: Cloud vendors know more about  security than you do, because security so critical to their business. There  haven't been any security problems with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  03:33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-best-ways-to-find-a-short-term-consulting-project-while-looking-for-a-full-time-job-part-i/?cs=31927"&gt;The  Best Ways to Find a Short-Term Consulting Project While Looking for a Full-Time  Job – Part I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;  Mitch Paioff, author of “ Getting Started as an  Independent Computer Consultant ,” has been an independent computer consultant  for over eight years. He credits much of his success to using creative  strategies to land lucrative consulting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_14" align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;2009-04-18  03:52&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;a class="blue_24" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/googles-power-play/?cs=31928"&gt;Google's  Power Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="blue_14"&gt;One of the highlights of the Uptime Institute’s Lean,  Clean &amp;amp; Green Symposium I attended in New York City this week was the  presentation by Chris Malone, Google's Thermal Technologies Architect for Data  Center Research and Development. Malone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-5647964748260339359?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/gSDXSlEtpjQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/gSDXSlEtpjQ/headline-watch_20.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/04/headline-watch_20.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-4606155177715064303</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-18T12:53:36.475+07:00</atom:updated><title>Technology Headline Watch</title><description>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/despite-criticism-erp-vendors-satisfying-their-customers/?cs=30524' class='green_16'&gt;Despite  Criticism, ERP Vendors Satisfying Their  Customers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;  ERP suppliers in general are taking a lot of  criticism in the economic downturn for under-delivering functionality,  overcharging for subscription maintenance, and moving too slowly to  software-as-a-service (SaaS). But do you feel that way about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  06:09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/netbooks-continue-to-buck-the-negative-trends/?cs=30523' class='green_16'&gt;Netbooks  Continue to Buck the Negative Trends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;Two weeks ago, I posted on the confusing and very  promising world – or worlds – of mobile Internet devices (MIDs), netbooks, small  laptops and smartphones. All of these devices are evolving rapidly and jockeying  for position. Netbooks and smartphones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  05:56&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/forrester-eii-disappears-as-market-but-survives-in-integration-tools/?cs=30521' class='green_16'&gt;Forrester:  EII Disappears as Market, But Survives in Integration  Tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;I've covered integration for IT Business Edge for  nearly two years. In all that time, news about enterprise information  integration – better known as EII – has been almost non-existent.   OK, sure,  there was that Aberdeen Report back in February&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  04:26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/economy-having-negative-effect-on-broadband/?cs=30508' class='green_16'&gt;Economy  Having Negative Effect on Broadband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;As IT Business Edge blogger Carl Weinschenk can attest,  questions and skepticism remain over the broadband stimulus portion of the  economic stimulus package.   This GigaOm post notes that the economy has been no  friend of broadband providers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  04:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/pcie-as-data-center-fabric/?cs=30520' class='green_16'&gt;PCIe  as Data Center Fabric&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;There’s an interesting article in The Register  outlining what we’ve touched on here at ITBE a few times in the past – that PCI  Express has the chops to form a robust server fabric. A company called VirtenSys  has come up with a plan to offer virtual&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  03:50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/mt/blog/microsoft-re-brands-its-mobile-os/?cs=30519' class='green_16'&gt;Microsoft  Re-Brands Its Mobile OS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;Microsoft has re-branded its operating system for  mobile phones. Gone are the days of Windows Mobile phones. Instead, devices will  be known as Windows phones, reports PC World .   The company also unveiled its  new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  03:48&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/gov/blog/former-sprint-exec-named-to-telecom-agency/?cs=30518' class='green_16'&gt;Former  Sprint Exec Named to Telecom Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;Anna Gomez, former vice president of government affairs  with Sprint, has been named deputy director of the National Telecommunications  and Information Administration by the Obama administration. The agency shapes  telecommunications policy and will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  03:38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-ins-and-outs-of-cloud-storage/?cs=30517' class='green_16'&gt;The  Ins and Outs of Cloud Storage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;There’s a lot to like about cloud storage. At first  blush, it seems like the ideal way to expand storage capacity without having to  make significant investments in new infrastructure. And the more we hear about  its capabilities, the more it appears that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  03:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/state-unemployment-call-centers-adding-hours-upgrading-systems/?cs=30516' class='green_16'&gt;State  Unemployment Call Centers Adding Hours, Upgrading  Systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;It seems the most likely place to get a job these days  is the unemployment office -- and not for the normal reasons.   State  unemployment departments have been adding employeees , not only to handle the  overload of people trying to file benefits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='right'&gt;&lt;span class='white_14'&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;2009-02-17  03:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align='middle' valign='top'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='100%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr/&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='50' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt; &lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' width='95%'&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='center'&gt;&lt;span class='white_20'&gt;&lt;span class='green_16'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sec/blog/defense-departments-university-on-technological-threats/?cs=30502' class='green_16'&gt;Defense  Department's University on Technological  Threats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='1' bgcolor='#969fb1' align='right'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='green_14'&gt;In an effort to get a better grasp on technological  threats, the Defense Department is making use of the National Defense University  . The university is located at at Fort Lesley J. 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Even organizations that added applications, drivers, and utilities to their image typically ended up with an operating system image in the 1GB to 3GB range.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;With Windows Vista, image size begins at about 2GB—compressed. Once this image is deployed, the size is often around 5GB or more, and there's no way to reduce it. If you add additional applications, drivers, or other files, this image obviously grows even larger.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;2.    &lt;strong&gt;Bitlocker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows XP has . No Bitlocker option&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bitlocker Option available Bitlocker drive encryption, Bitlocker on volume&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prevents hard drive from hackers &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;   Windows defender tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows XP has No Windows Defender tool available&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows Vista has Windows Defender tool &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;prevents from spyware &amp;amp; unwanted S/W installing on computer &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;4.  &lt;strong&gt;  Parental control&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows XP has No Parental control Feature&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows Vista has Parental control Feature&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;This option enables parents to restrict Children’s which sites, games .software to use &amp;amp; not &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;   Security is enhanced&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some applications failed to work on Windows XP when users did not have administrator access because they assumed they would have full access to the C: drive and all parts of the registry.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A number of Windows Vista security enhancements will impact deployment. For example, configuring Windows Vista to support "low rights" users, where the logged-on user does not have administrator rights, is easier. S With Windows Vista, applications that attempt to write to restricted areas will have those writes transparently redirected to other locations in the user's profile.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;6.    &lt;strong&gt;No More HAL Complications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;With Windows XP, technical restrictions prevented the creation of a single image that could be deployed to all computers. Different hardware abstraction layers (HALs) meant you had to maintain multiple images. (For more on this see the Knowledge Base article "HAL options after Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Setup") Most organizations needed two or three images per platform (x86 and x64) and some chose to have even more—though each image brings added costs and complexity.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;In Windows Vista, those technical restrictions are gone; the operating system is able to detect which HAL is required and automatically install it. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;7.    &lt;strong&gt;Deployment Is Language-Neutral&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows XP supported different languages in two ways. You could either deploy localized versions of Windows XP, requiring a different image for each language, or you could deploy an English Multilanguage User Interface (MUI) version with added language packs. There were advantages and disadvantages to each approach, but in most cases organizations that needed to support multiple languages took the MUI route, dealing with the limitations of running with an operating system that was effectively English at its core. Organizations that worked only with one language typically chose to use only the localized versions. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now with Windows Vista, the entire operating system is language-neutral. One or more language packs are added to this language-neutral core to create the image that is deployed (although only some versions of Windows Vista support multiple languages). &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;8.    &lt;strong&gt;Text-Mode Installation Is Gone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Xp&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The image preparation process has also changed. With Windows XP, you would "Sysprep" a machine to prepare the reference operating system for deployment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows &lt;strong&gt;Vista&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;With Windows Vista, you'll still run Sysprep.exe (installed by default in C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep), which will "generalize" the machine for duplication. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Windows%20XP' class='performancingtags'&gt;Windows XP&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Windows%20Vista' class='performancingtags'&gt;Windows Vista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-3517532161379611506?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/X_xOLQBknWk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/X_xOLQBknWk/difference-between-windows-xp-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_EGs3oXqD0iU/SYfbqtPG7KI/AAAAAAAAAFw/X17hA_BnXCI/s72-c/vista_xp_314x314%5B12%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/02/difference-between-windows-xp-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-7611125334990973740</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-03T22:16:31.238+07:00</atom:updated><title>Intel® Atom™ Processor</title><description>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Intel's smallest chip. 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We believe it will unleash new innovation across the industry."&lt;/em&gt; 			&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='right'&gt;– Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney&lt;/p&gt; 			 			 							 			&lt;p&gt;As Intel's smallest and lowest power processor², the Intel® Atom™ processor enables the latest Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and another new category of devices for the internet called netbooks and nettops.&lt;/p&gt;  			 			&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height='76' width='62' class='imgfloat' alt='Intel® Atom™ processor' src='http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/pix/badges/atom/atom_62.gif'/&gt;Newly designed from the ground up, 45nm Intel® Atom™ processors pack an astounding 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 26mm², making them Intel's smallest and lowest power processors.¹ All this while delivering the power and performance you need for full Internet capabilities.+ &lt;/p&gt; 			 			 			  			  			&lt;ul class='bullets'&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get a new range of power-efficient devices&lt;/strong&gt; with excellent performance enabled by all new hafnium-infused 45nm high-k silicon technology&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Increase energy efficiency in smaller more compact designs&lt;/strong&gt; with a thermal design power specification ranging from less than 1W to 2.5 watts for mobile devices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extend battery life&lt;/strong&gt; in select devices with an incredibly low idle and average power allowing the device to stay powered on while also conserving energy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; 			 			  			&lt;p&gt;Based on an entirely new microarchitecture, the Intel® Atom™ processor was developed specifically for targeted performance and low power while maintaining full Intel® Core™ microarchitecture instruction set compatibility. Intel® Atom™ processors also feature multiple threads for better performance and increased system responsiveness.&lt;/p&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Intel%20Processor' class='performancingtags'&gt;Intel Processor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/CPU%20Ship' class='performancingtags'&gt;CPU Ship&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Micro%20Ship' class='performancingtags'&gt;Micro Ship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-7611125334990973740?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/mHCkrBCLJes" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/mHCkrBCLJes/intel-atom-processor.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/02/intel-atom-processor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-5997770697330523971</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-29T19:18:43.620+07:00</atom:updated><title>Extra News #290 Bikini Photos</title><description>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;div class='youtube-video'&gt;&lt;object height='355' width='425'&gt;&lt;param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/gv1bP5kEiSo'&gt; &lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name='wmode' value='transparent'&gt; &lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed height='355' width='425' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/gv1bP5kEiSo' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent'&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;    &lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Extra News #290 Bikini Photos: Vanessa Hudgens &amp;amp; Zac Efron [ZANESSA]&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a class='performancingtags' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Bikini' rel='tag'&gt;Bikini&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class='performancingtags' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Extra%20News' rel='tag'&gt;Extra News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class='performancingtags' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Bikini%20Photos' rel='tag'&gt;Bikini Photos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class='performancingtags' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Vanessa%20Hudgens%20' rel='tag'&gt;Vanessa Hudgens &lt;/a&gt;,&lt;div class='blogger-post-footer'&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-5997770697330523971?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/8-tIxv5VIso" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/8-tIxv5VIso/extra-news-290-bikini-photos-vanessa.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/v/gv1bP5kEiSo" length="1034" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><media:content url="http://www.youtube.com/v/gv1bP5kEiSo" fileSize="1034" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Extra News #290 Bikini Photos: Vanessa Hudgens &amp;amp; Zac Efron [ZANESSA] Technorati Tags: Bikini, Extra News, Bikini Photos, Vanessa Hudgens ,True2lifes.blogspot.comTrue2lifes.blogspot.com</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Extra News #290 Bikini Photos: Vanessa Hudgens &amp;amp; Zac Efron [ZANESSA] Technorati Tags: Bikini, Extra News, Bikini Photos, Vanessa Hudgens ,True2lifes.blogspot.comTrue2lifes.blogspot.com</itunes:summary><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/01/extra-news-290-bikini-photos-vanessa.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-4666103430095795952</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-25T21:18:19.297+07:00</atom:updated><title>SEO Techniques</title><description>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;So you want Your website to be on the first page of every Search Engine - &lt;b&gt;SEO &lt;br /&gt;Techniques&lt;/b&gt; will help You get there! The &lt;b&gt;Techniques&lt;/b&gt; on this page will &lt;br /&gt;enpower You with the information that will move You towards that goal. &lt;br /&gt;Set Your aim high, the sky is the limit!  Others have done it, &lt;br /&gt;so why can't You -- Search Engine Optimization ( &lt;b&gt;SEO&lt;/b&gt; ) is really quite simple!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If You have been putting off optimizing Your website for a higher Search Engine &lt;br /&gt;results position, today is a good day to make Your start.  &lt;em&gt;SEO Techniques&lt;/em&gt; will make &lt;br /&gt;it much easier that You expected!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following list of &lt;strong&gt;SEO Techniques&lt;/strong&gt; will &lt;br /&gt;help you optimize your website so you will get a higher Search Engine Results &lt;br /&gt;Position (SERP).  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Content-delivery network Akamai  Technologies said 7.7 million video st&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4042'&gt;Heartland Breach Could  Set a Record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;The security breach at Princeton, N.J., payment  processor Heartland Payment Systems could be the largest ever, according to The  Washington Post. Robert Baldwin Jr., the company’s president and chief financial  officer, told USA Today that hackers had &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4043'&gt;Google Eliminates Print  Ads Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;Though this Fortune piece ran with the subhead that  Google’s “CEO Eric Schmidt wishes he could rescue newspapers,” it ain’t  happening. The company is ditching its Print Ads service which partnered with  more than 800 U.S. newspapers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4044'&gt;Seagate Fix for Barracuda  Drives Needs Fixing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;Seagate has promised a second fix within 24 hours for  the issue causing Barracuda drives to fail, reports The Register. The firmware  patch for Barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drives addressing the issue in the 500GB  models now also affects 1TB models as well, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4046'&gt;Riverbed Buys Mazu  Networks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;WAN vendor Riverbed Technology will pay $25 million for  Mazu Networks, which helps companies manage global applications with its network  monitoring and reporting services, reports eWEEK. And like IBM, the company  issued an upbeat preliminary report on its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4047'&gt;Ericsson Earnings Drop,  Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;Thank that wacky world of accounting for Ericsson’s 31  percent drop in fourth-quarter profit, though it reported an increase in sales.  But the bottom line took a hit from restructuring charges and losses at its  mobile phone venture, reports a Dow Jon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4045'&gt;IBM Bucks the Trend with  Upbeat Earnings Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;Amid all the gloom-and-doom news of late, IBM reported a  surprisingly upbeat quarter and outlook for the year, reports Bloomberg. The  company reported a 12 percent gain in net income for the fourth quarter, even  though sales were down in all units except i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4041'&gt;Inauguration Creates  Anticipated Wireless Chaos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;Wireless carriers tried to head off a crush of traffic  from the inauguration of Barack Obama, but the networks were strained  nevertheless, reports MSNBC. The story quotes D.C. resident Matthew Schlesinger,  22, saying from the site: The general consensus is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4040'&gt;FCC Questions Comcast on  VoIP Issues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;It looks like Comcast’s new network-management policy is  doing a number on rival VoIP services. The Federal Communications Commission has  given the company until Jan. 30 to explain why Skype or Vonage users might get  lesser voice quality under the ne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4039'&gt;Hospital PCs Infected  with Fast-Spreading Worm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;More than 800 computers in the city hospital network of  Sheffield, England, have been infected with the self-replicating Conficker code  after managers turned off Windows security updates on the 8,000-PC network,  reports The Register. The hospital turned of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='40' align='middle' valign='bottom' class='white_20'&gt;&lt;a class='blue_24' href='http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=4038'&gt;Retirement to Leave SAP  with One CEO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height='10'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class='blue_14'&gt;Germany’s Heise Online reports that SAP Co-CEO Henning  Kagermann is moving up his retirement to the end of January. 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The Win32.Worm.Downadup, aka "Conficker" or "Kido," first hit the world last year by exploiting the MS08-067 vulnerability that let it spread in loosely secured networks. Microsoft issued a patch for the vulnerability, but a large number of PCs have remained unpatched. Now, security researchers believe the worm can spread via USB thumb drives. In addition, 8.9 million PCs have been infected, according to F-Secure.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-large-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-large-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Kido-Worm-Keeps-On-Truckin-via-USB-Thumb-Drives-65869.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-title'&gt;&lt;span class='story-storytype'&gt;WEEKLY RECAP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Separation-Anxiety-Obama-and-His-BlackBerry-Apple-and-Steve-Jobs-65868.html'&gt;Separation Anxiety: Obama and His BlackBerry, Apple and Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-photo'&gt;    &lt;a href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Separation-Anxiety-Obama-and-His-BlackBerry-Apple-and-Steve-Jobs-65868.html'&gt;&lt;img hspace='5' border='0' align='left' src='http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rws954929/blackberry-obama-apple.jpg' alt=''/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-teaser'&gt;There's been a fair amount of snickering over the possibility that Barack Obama will have to give up his BlackBerry after his swearing-in next week, with the implication that it's just a personal habit he'll have a hard time breaking, like quitting smoking. Apparently, the security risks associated with a president using a mobile device are too enormous for the U.S. government to contain.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Separation-Anxiety-Obama-and-His-BlackBerry-Apple-and-Steve-Jobs-65868.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-title'&gt;&lt;span class='story-storytype'&gt;OPINION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Will-Newspapers-Slayer-Be-Their-Savior-65849.html'&gt;Will Newspapers' Slayer Be Their Savior?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-photo'&gt;    &lt;a href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Will-Newspapers-Slayer-Be-Their-Savior-65849.html'&gt;&lt;img hspace='5' border='0' align='left' src='http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rws3696/newspaper.jpg' alt=''/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-teaser'&gt;It's a question fit for the asking in Seattle, home to some of the world's software, gaming and e-commerce giants: If technology is supposedly one of the villains threatening the nation's newspaper industry, can technology also ride to the rescue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer?&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Will-Newspapers-Slayer-Be-Their-Savior-65849.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-title'&gt;&lt;span class='story-storytype'&gt;OPINION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Linux-Elitism-Fact-or-Fiction-65853.html'&gt;Linux Elitism: Fact or Fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-photo'&gt;    &lt;a href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Linux-Elitism-Fact-or-Fiction-65853.html'&gt;&lt;img hspace='5' border='0' align='left' src='http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rws996059/open-source-linux.jpg' alt=''/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-teaser'&gt;For users reared on GUI-oriented commercial operating systems, switching to open source POSIX-type OSes can be an onerous task. Whereas Linux, and FOSS in general, are built around the ideas of inclusion and sharing, the communities built up around the open source operating systems often face accusations of exclusive techno-elitism.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Linux-Elitism-Fact-or-Fiction-65853.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-title'&gt;&lt;span class='story-storytype'&gt;PRODUCT REVIEW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Review-Blockbuster-Comes-Late-to-Streaming-Party-and-Underwhelms-65865.html'&gt;Review: Blockbuster Comes Late to Streaming Party and Underwhelms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-photo'&gt;    &lt;a href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Review-Blockbuster-Comes-Late-to-Streaming-Party-and-Underwhelms-65865.html'&gt;&lt;img hspace='5' border='0' align='left' src='http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rws6135/blockbuster.jpg' alt=''/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-medium-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-teaser'&gt;Blockbuster knows the days of the movie rental store are numbered, as video downloads over the Internet slowly start to replace DVDs. But knowing which way the wind is blowing doesn't mean you can sail it. Blockbuster's first box for playing Internet video on the TV doesn't measure up to competing devices.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-medium-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-medium-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Review-Blockbuster-Comes-Late-to-Streaming-Party-and-Underwhelms-65865.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-title'&gt;&lt;span class='story-storytype'&gt;SPACE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Mars-Methane-Belches-Mysterious-Microbes-or-Rude-Rocks-65864.html'&gt;Mars' Methane Belches: Mysterious Microbes or Rude Rocks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-photo'&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-teaser'&gt;A surprising and mysterious belch of methane gas on Mars hints at possible microbial life underground, but also could come from changes in rocks, a new NASA study found. The presence of methane on Mars could be significant because by far most of the gas on Earth is a byproduct of life -- from animal digestion and decaying plants and animals. Past studies indicated no regular methane on Mars.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Mars-Methane-Belches-Mysterious-Microbes-or-Rude-Rocks-65864.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-title'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Tweets-Related-Hudson-River-Crash-Landing-as-Drama-Unfolded-65867.html'&gt;Tweets Related Hudson River Crash Landing as Drama Unfolded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-photo'&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-teaser'&gt;News of Thursday's crash of a Charlotte, N.C.-bound US Airways flight into the Hudson River led countless people to tune to the Web and cell phones or other handheld devices for news. It was the latest example of how the Internet has grown into a powerful tool to spread breaking news.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Tweets-Related-Hudson-River-Crash-Landing-as-Drama-Unfolded-65867.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-title'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Invisibility-Cloak-No-Longer-Science-Fiction-65863.html'&gt;Invisibility Cloak No Longer Science Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-photo'&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-date'&gt;Friday - January 16, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-teaser'&gt;They can't match Harry Potter yet, but scientists are moving closer to creating a real cloak of invisibility. Researchers at Duke University, who developed a material that can "cloak" an item from detection by microwaves, report that they have expanded the number of wavelengths they can block.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Invisibility-Cloak-No-Longer-Science-Fiction-65863.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-title'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Scientists-Find-Too-Many-Cooks---er-Cores---Spoils-the-CPU-65855.html'&gt;Scientists Find Too Many Cooks - er, Cores - Spoils the CPU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-photo'&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-date'&gt;Thursday - January 15, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-teaser'&gt;A new simulation by Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has found that trying to use too many cores for multicore supercomputing processing just leads to slower, not faster, computations. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corp., a Lockheed Martin company.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Scientists-Find-Too-Many-Cooks---er-Cores---Spoils-the-CPU-65855.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;div class='main-story-delimit'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-chunk'&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-title'&gt;&lt;span class='story-storytype'&gt;PRODUCT REVIEW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-title-linked' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Portable-Password-Protector-Locks-Your-Secrets-Tight-65831.html'&gt;Portable Password Protector Locks Your Secrets Tight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-photo'&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class='main-small-date'&gt;Thursday - January 15, 2009&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-teaser'&gt;Creating strong passwords with letters and numbers is vital to keeping secure access to computers and online accounts. Remembering them and easily retrieving them are equally vital. A password is only as good as the user's ability to remember it. In today's world of mobile access and multiple accounts, that can be a very big problem.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class='main-small-story-link'&gt;&lt;a class='main-small-story-link' href='http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Portable-Password-Protector-Locks-Your-Secrets-Tight-65831.html'&gt;[More...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Power by : http://www.technewsworld.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='tag_list'&gt;Tags: &lt;span class='tags'&gt;&lt;a href='http://technorati.com/tag/Tech+news' rel='tag'&gt;Tech news&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='http://technorati.com/tag/Word+top+stories' rel='tag'&gt;Word top stories&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='http://technorati.com/tag/technology' rel='tag'&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='http://technorati.com/tag/iPhone' rel='tag'&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='blogger-post-footer'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/'&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-5237960041196442278?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/ZN3ntP0-v7E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/ZN3ntP0-v7E/technewsworld-top-stories.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/01/technewsworld-top-stories.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-2199848993876551872</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-12T00:48:36.819+07:00</atom:updated><title>Top ten gadgets from CES 2009</title><description>&lt;div class="entry-body"&gt;                           &lt;p&gt;CES is all over, bar the shouting and it's time for a round-up. Here's my take on the 10 best and most significant gadgets, gizmos and launches from Las Vegas. I have put them in no particular order - except that I have saved the best to last. And no, it's not the Palm Pre. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;1 SONY'S POCKET LAPTOP&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="380" height="295"&gt;&lt;param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZjldVqDIbwU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" name="movie"&gt;&lt;param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"&gt;&lt;param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZjldVqDIbwU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" width="380" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The early contender for gadget of the week (because I have a thing about laptops) was Sony's Vaio P Series, a mini-notebook (not a netbook apparently) which is about the size of a big envelope and not that much thicker. It weighs just 638g. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; The device has an Intel Atom processor, 2GB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. Other features include mobile broadband, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS technologies with pre-installed maps. The 8-inch display that has a light-emitting diode backlight for more vivid colors than a standard LCD screen. The display has a resolution of 1,600 by 768 pixels and is "ultrawide". &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The system runs Windows Vista, but has an instant-on option that launches directly into Sony's Xross Media Bar interface, which provides access to music, video, photos, and the Web. The Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC is available from February in the obligatory range of fancy colours. The only real problem is the price - from £849 in the UK - which is a lot for such a small screen. But it is a thing of beauty. Details &lt;a href="http://club.vaio.sony.co.uk/clubvaio/gb/en/vaiopseries/index.jsp"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p&gt;2 YAHOO! GETS INTERACTIVE WITH YOUR TV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/156388tv_widgets_yahoo_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 424px; height: 238px;" class="image-full" alt="156388tv_widgets_yahoo_1" title="156388tv_widgets_yahoo_1" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/156388tv_widgets_yahoo_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Yahoo led the show-wide charge into getting more internet content on your TV. The company unveiled an avalanche of deals with TV manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony to put its TV Widget platform into the living room. With a Widget-enabled set you can interact with content and services that complement your TV viewing (but you don't get the full browsing experience). Press one button on your remote to bring up the TV Widget Dock, select a TV Widget, and view content. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can track your favorite sports team, watch financial stocks, share photos with friends and family, go shopping, play games, view movies or web videos while you watch your favorite show. eBay, YouTube and MySpace are among the offerings. A significant move for the ailing company. Details &lt;a href="http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;3 SKYPE FOR MOBILES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Aleqm5gh5qt8utyoaqtwesqxlo7uaczq1" title="Aleqm5gh5qt8utyoaqtwesqxlo7uaczq1" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/aleqm5gh5qt8utyoaqtwesqxlo7uaczq1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Skype, free video calls over the internet, is the one technology that my move to San Francisco from London has turned into a true life-changer. The company is now doing the same for mobile phones.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Web-based voice and text messaging service owned by eBay has developed a "lite" version that can be downloaded for free to more than 100 models of Java-enabled mobile phones or those using Google's open-source Android platform.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The T-Mobile G1 runs Android software while phones from LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are Java-enabled. Skype "lite" is not yet available for the Apple iPhone. (ha!)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The "lite" version gives you the ability to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low cost calls to landlines and mobiles (no video but still pretty fab). Details of the beta &lt;a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/mobile/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;4 THE BEST HD MINI VIDEO CAMERA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/flip_hd2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 407px; height: 471px;" class="image-full" alt="Flip_hd2" title="Flip_hd2" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/flip_hd2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ok, so the Flip Mino HD, strictly speaking, was launched months ago but it was one of the ten entries in the Last Gadget Standing competition at CES and I think it is just brilliant. &lt;span name="intelliTxt" id="intellitxt"&gt;The world's smallest HD-quality video recorder features 4GB of memory and up to 60 minutes of recording time and all-new built-in FlipShare software for easy saving, organizing and sharing of video. It is pocket perfection. Details &lt;a href="http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_mino.shtml#scene=sceneMain"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span name="intelliTxt" id="intellitxt"&gt;Sony entered the market at CES with &lt;/span&gt;a new line of HD cameras called Webbie HD, both models coming in under $200. The PM1 has a swivel lens with 4x digital zoom and captures high-definition video at 1080p and snaps 5-megapixel pictures. It has a USB connection allowing easy transfers to a computer and uploads to services such as YouTube. Personally I still prefer the Flip Mino and they were first. But here's a picture of the Sony Webbie, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="156264mhspm1_349_original" title="156264mhspm1_349_original" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/156264mhspm1_349_original.jpg" border="0" /&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;5 SUPER-POWERFUL PC FOR GAMERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/gallery_firebird_1280x1024_11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 370px; height: 295px;" class="image-full" alt="Gallery_firebird_1280x1024_11" title="Gallery_firebird_1280x1024_11" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/gallery_firebird_1280x1024_11.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;One of the sexiest launches for gamers was HP Firebird, from the gaming supercomputer specialists VoodooPC. I'm no gamer but it was not difficult to see why everyone was getting so excited about this fantastic piece of PC engineering.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Currently only slated for the US, the top of the range model features a 2.83GHz Intel Core 2 Quad, 4GBs of RAM, two 2.5in 320GB hard drives, a slot loading Blu-ray drive, Bluetooth and Draft-N Wi-Fi, Creative Labs X-Fi sound and dual 512MB nVidia 9800S graphics cards. Which translates as everything a gamer might want. And because it is watercooled its runs in near silence. No word about when it is coming to the UK...&lt;br /&gt;Details &lt;a href="http://voodoopc.com/#/productsfirebird"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;6 PALM PRE HAS IPHONE IN ITS SIGHTS&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/pre1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 349px; height: 189px;" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/pre1.jpg" title="Pre1" alt="Pre1" class="image-full" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Palm Pre is the new cellphone sensation. There has been &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50c90bac-dede-11dd-9464-000077b07658.html"&gt;a lot of attention&lt;/a&gt; paid to this new smartphone from the old smartphone pioneers. I think it has great potential but because I have not had a chance to test it myself yet, I am going to sit on the fence. But it was easily the most talked about launch at the show. It will, I am told, be coming to the UK, probably in the second half of this year. Networkworld has got all the details and &lt;a href="http://edge.networkworld.com/news/2009/010909-palm-pre-apple-iphone.html"&gt;compares its specs with the iPhone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;7 NIGHT VISION CAMCORDER&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/viewmedia.jpg" title="Viewmedia" alt="Viewmedia" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My favourite "toy" of the show was the Digital Blue NightVision video camera. Aimed at kids and teenagers this camcorder employs infrared technology to allow users to see and record video in pitch black conditions up to 20 feet away. It is marketed at kids and teens who want to have "stealthy adventures in the dark". Now that sounds a bit weird but I think it is still a great gimmick.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; The recorded videos can be played back on the camera's LCD screen, on a PC, or uploaded to social networking sites like YouTube. It also features a built-in flashlight "for safety", and a daytime recording mode. It will be available in the US this summer for $79.99. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The company website does not mention the new product yet but here is the &lt;a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;amp;newsId=20090108005479&amp;amp;newsLang=en"&gt;press release&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;            &lt;p&gt;8 JIVE ROBOT&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/wowweebots.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 388px; height: 275px;" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/wowweebots.jpg" title="Wowweebots" alt="Wowweebots" class="image-full" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Cute robot alert. WowWee Robotics have been turning out award-winning androidy products for a while (Robosapiens) but I was particularly taken with the Joebot. He is your interactive friend with a sense of style and rhythm. &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(pictured here with his launch companion the Roborover)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Joebot responds to voice commands and can beatbox and dance - his movements are sharp and swift and he can get himself up if he falls over. He has various modes but my favourite was battle mode when he will blast objects with the LEDs in his hands. You can even duel against him using any infra-red remote control. Waddya mean, this is just silly? Here's &lt;a href="http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/01/wowwee-joebot-dances-while-roborover-is-a-shy-geek/"&gt;SlipperyBrick.com&lt;/a&gt;'s take.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;9 SEXIEST BLU-RAY PLAYER YET&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="intelliTXT" name="intelliTxt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/samsung_bd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 381px; height: 206px;" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/10/samsung_bd.jpg" title="Samsung_bd" alt="Samsung_bd" class="image-full" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="intelliTXT" name="intelliTxt"&gt;Samsung unveiled the thinnest Blu-ray player on the planet with the BD-P4600. It can be wall-mounted and features support for internet interactive BD Live and Bonus View. Add a USB dongle for Netflix instant movie streaming and Pandora Internet Radio. This is a very cool product indeed. Gizmodo has the &lt;a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5124091/samsung-bd+p3600p4600-super+slim-wall+friendly-blu+ray-decks"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;. The Samsung &lt;a href="http://www.samsung.com/uk/index.html"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; is pants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="intelliTXT" name="intelliTxt"&gt;10 THE WINNER - NEVER MISS A WORD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;First of all - a confession. No, two. This is not a brand new launch but as above, it was part of the Last Gadget Standing contest and I had not come across it before. So I can include it. And secondly, yes, I know I love it so much because I am a hack whose shorthand is not what it was.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But this gadget is a fantastic piece of innovation and my favourite from CES.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/11/41n8dbsduhl_ss400_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 344px; height: 344px;" class="image-full" alt="41n8dbsduhl_ss400_" title="41n8dbsduhl_ss400_" src="http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/11/41n8dbsduhl_ss400_.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Livescribe Pulse smartpen places a computer inside a writing stylus to deliver a pen and voice recorder that remembers everything it writes and syncs it all with your PC. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There is a tiny scanner in the tip of the pen that picks up invisible dots in the special paper to keep a timeline of where the pen comes into contact with the paper. The pen can have its voice recorder activated, so it records audio while the notes are taken and afterwards, simply by touching the pen to any point in the notes, you can play back what was being said at the time. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If this sounds amazing, it is and it works. A journalist colleague swears by the smartpen now. Livescribe sells notebooks of the special Dot Paper, and users can even print out their own Dot Paper using a 600 dpi or greater printer.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here's a video to help explain (it's a bit cheesy but it is aimed at students).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="380" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ag6R8v9YZ2k&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ag6R8v9YZ2k&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="380" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The pen is designed (by some ex-Apple people) to make note-taking - for journos and for students - really easy. What's more, the pen uses handwriting recognition to solve maths questions and translate words. No, I am not making that bit up.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The notes can all be transferred onto your computer using the Livescribe Desktop. The system is Windows compatible and there is a public beta to download for Mac users. A starter pack of the pen, the software, some of the special notebooks and other bits of kits costs around £185 in the UK. The Livescribe website is &lt;a href="http://www.livescribe.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And that's it. I hope you read this far. I should add that I have not included Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system update because I doubt very much that it will be fully released by the time the next CES comes to an end. So what did I miss?&lt;/p&gt;                    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gadgets" rel="tag"&gt;gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/CES2009" rel="tag"&gt;CES2009&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Sony" rel="tag"&gt;Sony&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Pocket" rel="tag"&gt;Pocket&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Laptop+min+Video" rel="tag"&gt;Laptop min Video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Camera" rel="tag"&gt;Camera&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Best" rel="tag"&gt;Best&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/mobile" rel="tag"&gt;mobile&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/game" rel="tag"&gt;game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-2199848993876551872?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/ItYjCZ3o9tg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/ItYjCZ3o9tg/top-ten-gadgets-from-ces-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZjldVqDIbwU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" length="957" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><media:content url="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZjldVqDIbwU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" fileSize="957" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> CES is all over, bar the shouting and it's time for a round-up. Here's my take on the 10 best and most significant gadgets, gizmos and launches from Las Vegas. I have put them in no particular order - except that I have saved the best to last. And no, it</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</itunes:author><itunes:summary> CES is all over, bar the shouting and it's time for a round-up. Here's my take on the 10 best and most significant gadgets, gizmos and launches from Las Vegas. I have put them in no particular order - except that I have saved the best to last. And no, it's not the Palm Pre. 1 SONY'S POCKET LAPTOP The early contender for gadget of the week (because I have a thing about laptops) was Sony's Vaio P Series, a mini-notebook (not a netbook apparently) which is about the size of a big envelope and not that much thicker. It weighs just 638g. The device has an Intel Atom processor, 2GB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. Other features include mobile broadband, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS technologies with pre-installed maps. The 8-inch display that has a light-emitting diode backlight for more vivid colors than a standard LCD screen. The display has a resolution of 1,600 by 768 pixels and is "ultrawide". The system runs Windows Vista, but has an instant-on option that launches directly into Sony's Xross Media Bar interface, which provides access to music, video, photos, and the Web. The Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC is available from February in the obligatory range of fancy colours. The only real problem is the price - from £849 in the UK - which is a lot for such a small screen. But it is a thing of beauty. Details here. 2 YAHOO! GETS INTERACTIVE WITH YOUR TV Yahoo led the show-wide charge into getting more internet content on your TV. The company unveiled an avalanche of deals with TV manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony to put its TV Widget platform into the living room. With a Widget-enabled set you can interact with content and services that complement your TV viewing (but you don't get the full browsing experience). Press one button on your remote to bring up the TV Widget Dock, select a TV Widget, and view content. You can track your favorite sports team, watch financial stocks, share photos with friends and family, go shopping, play games, view movies or web videos while you watch your favorite show. eBay, YouTube and MySpace are among the offerings. A significant move for the ailing company. Details here. 3 SKYPE FOR MOBILES Skype, free video calls over the internet, is the one technology that my move to San Francisco from London has turned into a true life-changer. The company is now doing the same for mobile phones. The Web-based voice and text messaging service owned by eBay has developed a "lite" version that can be downloaded for free to more than 100 models of Java-enabled mobile phones or those using Google's open-source Android platform. The T-Mobile G1 runs Android software while phones from LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are Java-enabled. Skype "lite" is not yet available for the Apple iPhone. (ha!) The "lite" version gives you the ability to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low cost calls to landlines and mobiles (no video but still pretty fab). Details of the beta here. 4 THE BEST HD MINI VIDEO CAMERA Ok, so the Flip Mino HD, strictly speaking, was launched months ago but it was one of the ten entries in the Last Gadget Standing competition at CES and I think it is just brilliant. The world's smallest HD-quality video recorder features 4GB of memory and up to 60 minutes of recording time and all-new built-in FlipShare software for easy saving, organizing and sharing of video. It is pocket perfection. Details here. Sony entered the market at CES with a new line of HD cameras called Webbie HD, both models coming in under $200. The PM1 has a swivel lens with 4x digital zoom and captures high-definition video at 1080p and snaps 5-megapixel pictures. It has a USB connection allowing easy transfers to a computer and uploads to services such as YouTube. Personally I still prefer the Flip Mino and they were first. But here's a picture of the Sony Webbie, anyway. 5 SUPER-POWERFUL PC FOR GAMERS One of the sexiest launches for gamers was HP Firebird, from the gaming supercomputer specialists VoodooPC. I'm no gamer b</itunes:summary><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-ten-gadgets-from-ces-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-6595935770323200263</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-07T23:18:02.237+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPhone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>iPhone Your Life</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;ul id="iphoneyourlife"&gt;&lt;li id="traveltile"&gt;       &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/world-travel.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.apple.com/iphone/home/images/hero_traveling_20081117.png" alt="" width="284" height="330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;h4&gt;World Travel&lt;/h4&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Carry on iPhone and keep a world of information at your fingertips. &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/world-travel.html" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li id="aroundtowntile"&gt;       &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/around-town.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.apple.com/iphone/home/images/hero_out_and_about_20081117.png" alt="" width="284" height="162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;h4&gt;Around Town&lt;/h4&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Find places to eat, people to see, events to watch, and music to play. &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/around-town.html" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li id="gamestile"&gt;       &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/games.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.apple.com/iphone/home/images/hero_fun_and_games_20081117.png" alt="" width="284" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;h4&gt;Fun and Games&lt;/h4&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Feed your phone games from the App Store and keep yourself entertained for hours. &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-your-life/games.html" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/iPhone" rel="tag"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/world+Travel" rel="tag"&gt;world Travel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Around+Town" rel="tag"&gt;Around Town&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Fun+and+Games" rel="tag"&gt;Fun and Games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-6595935770323200263?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/VUNdUwziuk0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/VUNdUwziuk0/iphone-your-life.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/01/iphone-your-life.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-6532685763451886338</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-07T22:59:25.307+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>Technology Headline</title><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3922"&gt;Comcast’s New  Network-Management System in Place&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Comcast told the Federal Communications Commission in  filings Monday that its new network-management program is in place in all  markets, reports Ars Technica. The company had come under fire for blocking some  peer-to-peer traffic and ordered by the FCC to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  23:54&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3921"&gt;Oak Ridge Gives Cray  Thumbs-Up on ‘Jaguar’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department  of Energy have signed off on the build of Cray’s XT5 supercomputer, giving the  company an additional $100 million in revenue at the end of 2008, the company  announced. The system, also known as &amp;amp;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  23:53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3920"&gt;IT Security Spending Not  Suffering from Weak Economy, Says Forrester&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;In spite of a troubled economy, a report from Forrester  Research indicates that both large and small enterprises are set to spend more  of their IT budgets on security in 2009. According to Dark Reading, Forrester  predicts that large companies’ IT sec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  22:42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3919"&gt;Best Buy Sells  Refurbished iPhones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;A little more than a week after Wal-Mart began selling  discounted iPhones, Best Buy announced that it too is selling refurbished Apple  iPhone 3G models. CNET News reports that devices that were returned to the store  within 30 days of their initial purchase&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  22:40&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3918"&gt;Tech Czar to be Named  Wednesday?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;All those speculating about who will be named tech czar  in the Obama administration won’t have to wait much longer.  According to the  BBC, that appointee will be named Wednesday. Lawrence Lessig, founder of  Stanford University’s Center for the Intern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  21:55&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3917"&gt;Microsoft Promotes Muglia  to President of Server Division&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Bob Muglia, an executive Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer  demoted seven years ago, has been named president of the company’s server and  tools business, signaling an attempt to focus more attention on one of the  company’s core businesses, reports The&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  21:53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3916"&gt;Logitech Ditches 2009  Outlook, to Cut Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Just a month after toasting the shipment of its  billionth mouse, Logitech International has abandoned its 2009 profit targets  and announced it will eliminate 15 percent of its non-manufacturing jobs,  reports Bloomberg. About 500 jobs are to be slashed amon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  21:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3915"&gt;Data Breaches Nearly  Double in 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Data breaches were up nearly 50 percent in 2008 and the  personal records of at least 35.7 million Americans were exposed, according to  figures by the Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego. The center said 656  breaches were reported in 2008, up from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  21:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3912"&gt;Scammers Go Phishing in  Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;In a campaign similar to the one that circulated  through Facebook, phishers are targeting Twitter users. According to CNET News,  direct messages with text like “hey! check out this funny blog about you…”  prompt users to click on a link th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  01:34&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3911"&gt;Sony Not Planning  Additional Restructuring Announcements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Times Online reports that Sony is set to undergo  fundamental changes that will alter its long-standing business practices.  According to the article, Sony is expected to make major restructuring  announcements following the Consumer Electronics Show in Las V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  01:33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3910"&gt;Swedish Software Maker  UIQ Files for Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Swedish software company UIQ, a joint venture of Sony  Ericsson and Motorola, has filed for bankruptcy, reports Reuters. The company  began laying off staff six months ago after its owners decided to merge its  software with the Symbian platform. Rival Nokia &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  01:00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="top"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" align="middle" valign="bottom" height="50"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="middle" valign="center" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3909"&gt;Taiwan Plans Aid to Large  Companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;The government of Taiwan announced Monday it will offer  200 billion New Taiwan dollars (US$6.1 billion) in financial aid to large  companies that are struggling, reports The Wall Street Journal. Its  second-largest memory-chip maker, Nanya Technology, is exp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2009-01-06  00:05&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technology" rel="tag"&gt;Technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Computer" rel="tag"&gt;Computer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IT" rel="tag"&gt;IT&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hardware" rel="tag"&gt;Hardware&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/iPhone" rel="tag"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Mac" rel="tag"&gt;Mac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-6532685763451886338?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/9bwyfSW_Zv0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/9bwyfSW_Zv0/technology-headline.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2009/01/technology-headline.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-3857050946023208339</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T17:10:44.892+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>2009 Technology Checklist</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Technology is so interwoven into the real estate business that keeping up with new product introductions and services is necessary to stay competitive and efficient. In 2007, 65 percent of sales agents and associate brokers spent anywhere between $251-$2,000 on technology for real estate purposes, according to the &lt;a href="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/2c0162004b51f3f89276934da34bf705/2008+REALTOR+Technology+Report+-+CRT.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=2c0162004b51f3f89276934da34bf705"&gt;2008 REALTOR® Technology Report&lt;/a&gt;, conducted annually by the Center for REALTOR® Technology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Here’s an overview of key products and solutions to help you make those dollars stretch in 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="subhead"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The 4 Essentials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Many real estate pros are finding they can’t live without these four essentials: a mobile phone, computer, digital camera, and navigation solution. New products are constantly being introduced, but there's good news for bargain shoppers: You can find great deals across the board on these products as vendors work to move product in a sluggish market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/7e92e4804c010d02a0befaaa79c7c89f/0812_tw_phones.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=7e92e4804c010d02a0befaaa79c7c89f" class="image_left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Phones&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The smartphone is the smart choice for most real estate professionals, giving you a portable office in the palm of your hands. NAR's 2008 technology survey found 42 percent of real estate pros already are using some form of Web-enabled phone. Notable introductions like the latest &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" target="_blank"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrybold/" target="_blank"&gt;Blackberry Bold&lt;/a&gt; have garnered the kind of publicity and visibility that helps legitimize the smartphone for more people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/8f445a004c010d04a0c1faaa79c7c89f/0812_tw_phone.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=8f445a004c010d04a0c1faaa79c7c89f" class="image_left" border="0" /&gt;Phones are evolving in other ways to become the one indispensable device for all your mobile needs. The &lt;a href="http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/ZN5/" target="_blank"&gt;5-Megapixel Kodak/Motorola Motozine ZN5&lt;/a&gt; was unveiled in June as a mobile imaging device good enough to replace a digital still camera. More models are on their way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/6ae97d004c010d06a0c4faaa79c7c89f/0812_tw_computer.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=6ae97d004c010d06a0c4faaa79c7c89f" class="image_left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Computers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;For most real estate pros, a laptop makes sense as a primary computer. You have many choices, even under $1,000: &lt;a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/vostronb?c=us&amp;amp;cs=04&amp;amp;l=en&amp;amp;s=bsd&amp;amp;%7Eck=mn" target="_blank"&gt;Dell’s Vostro line-up&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/321957-321957-64295-321838-89315.html?jumpid=re_R295_prodexp/busproducts/computing-notebook/go-versatile&amp;amp;psn=notebooks_tablet_pcs/notebook_pcs" target="_blank"&gt;Hewlett Packard’s “balanced mobility” laptops&lt;/a&gt;; and &lt;a href="http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&amp;amp;current-category-id=393651299AA2442B937039C5DECF1DBF" target="_blank"&gt;Lenovo’s Thinkpad SL series&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Another notable trend is the increased selection of ultra-compact mobile computers. For some, this might be the ideal compromise between a smartphone and laptop, delivering basic functionality and mobile Web access in a truly portable package. Examples include the &lt;a href="http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:expandcategory?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&amp;amp;current-category-id=02695ADDF94544E5A11D24AEBC064493&amp;amp;tab=1#tab-container-3" target="_blank"&gt;Lenovo IdeaPad S-10&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9" target="_blank"&gt;Dell Inspiron Mini-9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-321957-64295-321838-306995-3687084.html" target="_blank"&gt;HP 2133 Mini-Note&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eee-PC-900-8-9-Inch-Processor/dp/B00191PKJK" target="_blank"&gt;Asus Eee PC 900&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/d54eed004c010d07a0c7faaa79c7c89f/0812_tw_camera.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=d54eed004c010d07a0c7faaa79c7c89f" class="image_left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Cameras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The one area where camera phones continue to lag behind digital-still cameras is lens optics. Wide-angle capabilities can be especially important for real estate photography, and the selection of wide-angle cameras continues to grow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26114/COOLPIX-P80.html" target="_blank"&gt;Nikon’s Coolpix P80&lt;/a&gt;  launched this year is one good example: It has an 18X zoom for highlighting features and a wide angle setting for getting the whole room in the picture. Newer wide-angle models include &lt;a href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&amp;amp;fcategoryid=144&amp;amp;modelid=17630" target="_blank"&gt;Canon’s PowerShot SX 10&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1393" target="_blank"&gt;Olympus SP-565 Ultra Zoom&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/c10bef804c010d09a0cafaaa79c7c89f/0812_tw_gps.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=c10bef804c010d09a0cafaaa79c7c89f" class="image_left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Navigation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This year’s technology survey found that more than a third of real estate practitioners—34 percent—now rely on GPS navigation for help getting around. The technology is evolving in two directions: hardware and service.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;On the one hand, you have hardware systems like &lt;a href="http://b2b.sony.com/Solutions/subcategory/gps-navigation/nav-u" target="_blank"&gt;Sony’s Nav-U line&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.tomtom.com/products/category.php?ID=0&amp;amp;Language=4" target="_blank"&gt;TomTom’s car navigation systems&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href="https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=11545" target="_blank"&gt;Gamin nuvi 880&lt;/a&gt;. But you'll likely see more GPS capabilities becoming a function built into other hardware, or provided as a service, rather than requiring a dedicated device. For example, services like &lt;a href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/turnbyturn.jsp" target="_blank"&gt;Verizon’s VZNavigator&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.wireless.att.com/source/connect/navigator" target="_blank"&gt;AT&amp;amp;T Navigator&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://navigation.sprint.com/snweb/" target="_blank"&gt;Sprint Navigation&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.telenav.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Telenav&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; offer point to point directions on your cell phone.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="subhead"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tech Trends for 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So what technology is gaining traction and will likely only get bigger in 2009? Here are four tech toys—you’ll undoubtedly already recognize—that will help you stay ahead of the curve with the latest advances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. More mapping mashups.&lt;/strong&gt; Just a few years ago, a map to listings on a Web site seemed innovative. Now it’s routine, and map mashups have emerged as the next standard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;According to the 2008 REALTOR® Technology Report, 69 percent of real estate pros say they incorporate some form of map on their Web sites. Seventy-one percent of them have map-based searches, and 63 percent combine that map with other information about the area. Project the concept forward and property or neighborhood “wikis”— interactive compendiums of information and images about that home or neighborhood provided by the site host as well as visitors—seem the likely next step.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Virtual tours grow up.&lt;/strong&gt; Virtual tours will remain a focal point. The trend is to make them much more informative and involving. Video gives visitors a better sense of the property, but this is a complement to (rather than replacement for) the photo tour, which is still essential. Interactive floor and room plans let buyers explore the space and imagine how they might use it. (See: &lt;a href="http://www.realtor.org/rmotechnology/techwatch/columns/0811_techwatch_virtualtours" target="_blank"&gt;5 Ways to Dress Up Your Virtual Tours&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Social networking becomes mainstream for real estate.&lt;/strong&gt; One key challenge all real estate professionals still face online is connecting with consumers. In response, practitioners have become much more active in exploring and experimenting with social networking sites.  NAR's technology survey found a full third of respondents are now involved in some aspect of social networking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;They’re using social networking sites like &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/"&gt;MySpace&lt;/a&gt; to get before potential clients, &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" target="_blank"&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.activerain.com/" target="_blank"&gt;ActiveRain&lt;/a&gt; to network with peers, and other forums on sites like &lt;a href="http://www.trulia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Trulia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.zillow.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Zillow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and personal blogs to demonstrate their market expertise.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Social networking may well be critical to establishing relationships with younger consumers who already use these sites and are tomorrow’s mainstream property owners. But so far there seems to be more promise than practical business impact for many real estate pros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Not text messaging? You will be soon.&lt;/strong&gt; Another trend already changing communications with some clients is text messaging. Texting has become a preferred mode of correspondence with many, especially the younger set, and will be as standard as e-mail in the years ahead. It seems more likely to gain ground as a communications mode once a professional relationship is established. Up to that point, e-mail or a phone call will likely remain more popular points of initial contact. (Read: &lt;a href="http://www.realtor.org/archives/techwatch200708" target="_blank"&gt;Tech Watch: Drive-by Marketing&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So now that you're armed with knowledge on the latest products, it's time to make a New Year's resolution: Stay current on tech trends and learn how to master the tools that you buy. After all, a product is only effective if you really know how to use it! Happy New Year! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-3857050946023208339?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/T4MTWxm-GJk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/T4MTWxm-GJk/2009-technology-checklist.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><enclosure url="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/2c0162004b51f3f89276934da34bf705/2008+REALTOR+Technology+Report+-+CRT.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=2c0162004b51f3f89276934da34bf705" length="8401856" type="application/pdf" /><media:content url="http://www.realtor.org/wps/wcm/connect/2c0162004b51f3f89276934da34bf705/2008+REALTOR+Technology+Report+-+CRT.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&amp;amp;CACHEID=2c0162004b51f3f89276934da34bf705" fileSize="8401856" type="application/pdf" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Technology is so interwoven into the real estate business that keeping up with new product introductions and services is necessary to stay competitive and efficient. In 2007, 65 percent of sales agents and associate brokers spent anywhere between $251-$2</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Technology is so interwoven into the real estate business that keeping up with new product introductions and services is necessary to stay competitive and efficient. In 2007, 65 percent of sales agents and associate brokers spent anywhere between $251-$2,000 on technology for real estate purposes, according to the 2008 REALTOR® Technology Report, conducted annually by the Center for REALTOR® Technology. Here’s an overview of key products and solutions to help you make those dollars stretch in 2009. The 4 Essentials Many real estate pros are finding they can’t live without these four essentials: a mobile phone, computer, digital camera, and navigation solution. New products are constantly being introduced, but there's good news for bargain shoppers: You can find great deals across the board on these products as vendors work to move product in a sluggish market. 1. Phones The smartphone is the smart choice for most real estate professionals, giving you a portable office in the palm of your hands. NAR's 2008 technology survey found 42 percent of real estate pros already are using some form of Web-enabled phone. Notable introductions like the latest iPhone and Blackberry Bold have garnered the kind of publicity and visibility that helps legitimize the smartphone for more people. Phones are evolving in other ways to become the one indispensable device for all your mobile needs. The 5-Megapixel Kodak/Motorola Motozine ZN5 was unveiled in June as a mobile imaging device good enough to replace a digital still camera. More models are on their way. 2. Computers For most real estate pros, a laptop makes sense as a primary computer. You have many choices, even under $1,000: Dell’s Vostro line-up, Hewlett Packard’s “balanced mobility” laptops; and Lenovo’s Thinkpad SL series. Another notable trend is the increased selection of ultra-compact mobile computers. For some, this might be the ideal compromise between a smartphone and laptop, delivering basic functionality and mobile Web access in a truly portable package. Examples include the Lenovo IdeaPad S-10, Dell Inspiron Mini-9, HP 2133 Mini-Note, or Asus Eee PC 900. 3. Cameras The one area where camera phones continue to lag behind digital-still cameras is lens optics. Wide-angle capabilities can be especially important for real estate photography, and the selection of wide-angle cameras continues to grow. Nikon’s Coolpix P80 launched this year is one good example: It has an 18X zoom for highlighting features and a wide angle setting for getting the whole room in the picture. Newer wide-angle models include Canon’s PowerShot SX 10 and the Olympus SP-565 Ultra Zoom. 4. Navigation This year’s technology survey found that more than a third of real estate practitioners—34 percent—now rely on GPS navigation for help getting around. The technology is evolving in two directions: hardware and service. On the one hand, you have hardware systems like Sony’s Nav-U line, TomTom’s car navigation systems or the Gamin nuvi 880. But you'll likely see more GPS capabilities becoming a function built into other hardware, or provided as a service, rather than requiring a dedicated device. For example, services like Verizon’s VZNavigator, AT&amp;amp;T Navigator, Sprint Navigation, and Telenav offer point to point directions on your cell phone. Tech Trends for 2009 So what technology is gaining traction and will likely only get bigger in 2009? Here are four tech toys—you’ll undoubtedly already recognize—that will help you stay ahead of the curve with the latest advances. 1. More mapping mashups. Just a few years ago, a map to listings on a Web site seemed innovative. Now it’s routine, and map mashups have emerged as the next standard. According to the 2008 REALTOR® Technology Report, 69 percent of real estate pros say they incorporate some form of map on their Web sites. Seventy-one percent of them have map-based searches, and 63 percent combine that map with other information about the area. Project the concept f</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Tech News</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/2009-technology-checklist.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-2297150150221201673</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T17:06:22.578+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>2009 Men's Fashion Trends</title><description>&lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Deep-V-Neck-Tops-Mens-Trend-2009-1188.html"&gt;Deep V-Neck on Tops trend for men&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Deep-V-Neck-Tops-Mens-Trend-2009-1188.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/deepvnecktrend2009.jpg" alt="Deep V-Neck Fashion Trend 2009 Men" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It's one of the key cuts across men's clothing in 2009, and yet the Deep-V Neck has Daniel distinctly worried. Will deep v-neck cardigans be its saving grace, or will men be wearing it in completely the wrong way and throw 2009's men's fashion to the wall? Click here to read more on the &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Deep-V-Neck-Tops-Mens-Trend-2009-1188.html"&gt;deep v-neck trend&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Tuxedo-Mens-20082009-Fashion-Trend-1060.html"&gt;Tuxedo / Dinner Jacket trend for men&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Tuxedo-Mens-20082009-Fashion-Trend-1060.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/mens_tuxedo_trend.jpg" alt="Tuxedo men's trends 2009" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The death of the dress code factors in on the new wave of tuxedo dressing for men. Pairing dinner and tuxedo jackets with more casual elements is not unusual for 2008, though if you're looking to pick one up a timeless cut will last forever. Click here to read more on &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Tuxedo-Mens-20082009-Fashion-Trend-1060.html"&gt;men's tuxedos and dinner jackets&lt;/a&gt;, and how to wear them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Fashion-Trends-2009-1163.html#2009fashiontrends"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h5 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a name="womens"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Women's 2009 Fashion Trends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Autumn-FallWinter-2009-Fashion-Trends-1296.html" title="Autumn/Fall/Winter 2008/2009 Fashion Trends"&gt;Autumn (Fall)/Winter 2008/2009 Fashion Trends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Autumn-FallWinter-2009-Fashion-Trends-1296.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/fallwinter20082009.jpg" alt="Autumn Fall Winter Clothing Fashion Trends 2008 2009" align="left" hspace="10" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; What's in store for the colder months of &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-SpringSummer-2009-Fashion-Trends-1288.html"&gt;Autumn (Fall)/Winter 2008/2009&lt;/a&gt;? From feathers to foho, and boho to square-toe, add in the right hair styles and you'll be looking your best while everyone else looks as drab as the weather. Click to read our &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-SpringSummer-2009-Fashion-Trends-1288.html"&gt;Autumn (Fall)/Winter 2008/2009 fashion trends&lt;/a&gt; guide.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-SpringSummer-2009-Fashion-Trends-1288.html" title="Spring/Summer 2009 Women's Fashion Trends"&gt;Spring/Summer 2009 Women's Fashion Trends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-SpringSummer-2009-Fashion-Trends-1288.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/one_shoulder_50.jpg" alt="Spring Summer Clothing Fashion Trends 2009" align="left" hspace="10" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Keep up to date with what you'll be wearing for &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-SpringSummer-2009-Fashion-Trends-1288.html"&gt;Spring/Summer 2009&lt;/a&gt;. Some of it will be &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--One-shoulder-fashion-trend-for-2008-1155.html"&gt;single-shouldered&lt;/a&gt;, some &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Sheer-fabric-clothing-2008-fashion-trend-953.html"&gt;sheer&lt;/a&gt;, but what of bikinis, jeans, and colours? Read our constantly updated &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-SpringSummer-2009-Fashion-Trends-1288.html"&gt;Women's Spring/Summer 2009 fashion trends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; guide to find out.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Fashion-Trends-2009-1163.html#2009fashiontrends"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h5 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a name="hairtrends"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;2009 Hair Style Trends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt; &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-Hair-Trends-2009-Styles-Colors-Cuts-1229.html"&gt;Women's Hair Trends 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-Hair-Trends-2009-Styles-Colors-Cuts-1229.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/womenshairtrends2009.jpg" alt="Women's Hair Trends 2009" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Covering Autumn (Fall)/Winter 2009 and Spring/Summer 2009 hair trends for women, Fashionising.com's &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Womens-Hair-Trends-2009-Styles-Colors-Cuts-1229.html"&gt;women's 2009 hair trends&lt;/a&gt; guide will keep you looking hot and your locks perfect throughout the year. Pointing out key styles, and letting you know which hair styles from 2008 you shouldn't carry forwards, click to find out more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Mens-2009-Hair-Trends-Styles-Cuts-Colors-1225.html"&gt;Men's 2009 Hair Trends: Hair Styles, Hair Cuts &amp;amp; Hair Colours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Mens-2009-Hair-Trends-Styles-Cuts-Colors-1225.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/2009menshairstyletrends.jpg" alt="2009 men's hair trends" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  A lot of men's fashion trends in 2009 are about the classics revived, and so too is it for men's hair. Whether it's the &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Mens-2009-Hair-Trends-Styles-Cuts-Colors-1225.html#fringe"&gt;Regency revival&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Mens-2009-Hair-Trends-Styles-Cuts-Colors-1225.html#slickback"&gt;American slick back&lt;/a&gt; the classic origins of all of &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Mens-2009-Hair-Trends-Styles-Cuts-Colors-1225.html"&gt;men's hair trends in 2009&lt;/a&gt; cannot be denied. Read on to find out more about men's hair trends, as we keep you up to date throughout the year!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Fashion-Trends-2009-1163.html#2009fashiontrends"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h5 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a name="shoetrends"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Shoe Trends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt; &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Footwear-boot-shoe-trends-A-W-20082009-1073.html"&gt;Winter 2009 Shoe &amp;amp; Footwear Trends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Footwear-boot-shoe-trends-A-W-20082009-1073.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/shoe_trends_08_100px.jpg" alt="Shoe Trends 2009" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Solid heels or stilettos? Worse still, hooker heels? Don't count on the last one! &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Footwear-boot-shoe-trends-A-W-20082009-1073.html"&gt;Shoe trends in Winter 2009&lt;/a&gt; might bring plenty of variations, but none of them will stoop so low. Read on to find out about the styles you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be wearing including lace-ups, over-the-knee boots, and mary-janes. Click here to read more on &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Footwear-boot-shoe-trends-A-W-20082009-1073.html"&gt;footwear and shoe trends in 2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Fashion-Trends-2009-1163.html#2009fashiontrends"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h5 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a name="globalissues"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Global Influences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;For the most part, fashion trends reflect what is happening in the wider world; nothing greater highlights this than the effect the economic bubbles of the 1920s and 1990s had upon fashion. In the 2000s we're faced with much the same issues with a new stand out topic: climate change. What effect will such issues have upon fashion? Read on to find out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Economic-downturn-changes-the-look-of-09-10-1171.html"&gt;The Economy and Fashion in 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Economic-downturn-changes-the-look-of-09-10-1171.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/2009_dollar.jpg" alt="Economy and fashion" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It is perhaps the one issue getting more headlines than climate-change: the economy. How will the economic forecasts of 2008, which all point to a recession and worst and a down-turn at best, effect the clothes we're wearing in 2009? We pose the question in our look at &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/industry/b--Economic-downturn-changes-the-look-of-09-10-1171.html"&gt;fashion in 2009 and 2010, and the economy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="clr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Going-for-a-Solar-Trend-in-2009-1148.html"&gt;Solar Fashion Trend in 2009?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Going-for-a-Solar-Trend-in-2009-1148.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/fashionising/climatechangetrends.jpg" alt="Climate Change Fashion Trends" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; If you believe what you read in the papers, climate change / global warming is the biggest issue facing mankind. Though the debate itself fails to reach a conclusion, that hasn't stopped the fashion industry from using it as an influence for their 2009 product. But did you ever think you might be carrying around &lt;a href="http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--Going-for-a-Solar-Trend-in-2009-1148.html"&gt;solar powered bags&lt;/a&gt;? We still don't.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-2297150150221201673?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/ZGwZ-eThj90" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/ZGwZ-eThj90/2009-mens-fashion-trends.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/2009-mens-fashion-trends.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-7079187248844787551</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T16:58:12.461+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Game</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPhone</category><title>iPhone Game</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=xopnEjj17ns&amp;amp;offerid=146261&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D299484013%2526amp%253Bmt%253D8"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/images/appstore.png" alt="" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Overview&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;I Love Katamari brings the oddly entertaining Katamari series to your iPhone. Players control the Prince, a servant of the King of All Cosmos. The Prince’s job is to roll objects into a great sticky ball that grows in size as you roll more objects up. The main mode of the game tasks players with rolling a large enough katamari to capture a specific item for the King. This series has been somewhat of a cult hit on other systems, and the charm and strangeness are intact here. Unfortunately, this game falls short in a couple crucial technical departments.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-title.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-title.png" alt="" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-start.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-start.png" alt="" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Full 3D Environments &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unlike many other iPhone games that have 3D graphics but only two dimensions of motion, I Love Katamari lets players move in any direction they like. The graphics are nothing you’d find on a current-gen console, but they get the job done.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-big.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-big.png" alt="" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-bigger.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-bigger.png" alt="" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Combination Touch/Tilt Controls &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;The setup is good here - players tilt to control their katamari’s motion, and have a number of options available to them through touch to further alter movement. Strafing, 180 degree turns, and a braking function are all possible through various touch gestures. The implementation of this setup is, lamentably, a little off.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Lots of Modes &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;While there are only five levels, players can tackle those in any of four game modes. Story mode asks you to roll a specific item for the King of All Cosmos. Eternal mode lets you just roll around at your leisure. Exact Size Challenge and Time Attack modes are exactly what they sound like.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-menu.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-menu.png" alt="" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Breakdown&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Good:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This was my first experience with the Katamari series. I have to say, the first thing I’m renting with my new GameFly subscription will be a Katamari game on a console. Even though there were problems with the game, I Love Katamari it was straight up charming. The gameplay was a blast at times and I can imagine with a console version that didn’t suffer from control and framerate issues, I’d be addicted.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-biggest.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-biggest.png" alt="" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Bad:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The framerate on this game is tough to swallow. I read earlier that previous versions of this app were even worse, and I’m very glad they fixed it up before I went in for a download. The worst parts were when I reached a sort of critical mass and the camera zoomed out to accommodate my new size. The screen blurred (on purpose, I think), and the game slowed to a crawl. This needs to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-blur.png" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ilk-blur.png" alt="" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I found the controls to require too much wrestling and wrangling for my taste. I understand that I’m rolling around an object of ever-increasing size, so I expected to encounter inertia and resistance - I’m not turning on a dime with a 300 meter katamari. However, there were times where I felt like the game was taking longer than normal to respond to the moves I was making. The framerate could have contributed to that problem. Another big issue was that the neutral position for the accelerometer was not adjustable, which was awful since the default setting had me holding my phone facing away from my body to move forward at full speed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-7079187248844787551?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/_75TmpCbgKo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/_75TmpCbgKo/iphone-game.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/iphone-game.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-5649282892356611984</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T16:53:48.325+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPhone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPhone3G</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPod</category><title>iPhone Application Development Services</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 571px; height: 186px;" src="http://www.cybernetconsulting.com/images/iPhoneTop.jpg" alt="Your iPhone Development Partner" /&gt;                                  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td class="Heading_text" valign="top" align="left"&gt;iPhone Application Development Services&lt;/td&gt;           &lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td class="Bodytext" valign="top" align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have significant expertise in developing applications in iPhone. We offer iPhone application development services including iPhone web apps. We have experience in Mac development environment, Cocoa/Objective C , as well as Xcode / Interface Builder. We have used iPhone simulator for testing and runtime analysis with Instruments and Shark. We have good knowledge of iPhone SDK (SQLite database,GeoLocation,Threads) and experience developing iPhone GPS apps , iPhone Social Networking apps, iPhone Games and other niche apps.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; CyberNet Consulting's mLabs, focusses on next-generation mobile applications and provides innovative end-to-end mobile solutions for your business. We have been in business for 12 years and are headquartered in New York. We assist our clients by a combination of domain expertise, technology competency and our cost effective approach. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;           &lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td class="Bodytext" valign="top" align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Outline the mobile solution&lt;br /&gt;              - Define the iPhone solution architecture&lt;br /&gt;              - Develop prototypes for demos to user&lt;br /&gt;              - Design solution details&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-5649282892356611984?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/XiuFQIAq_q0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/XiuFQIAq_q0/iphone-application-development-services.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/iphone-application-development-services.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-7383903808849917292</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T16:48:23.713+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>Happy New Year 2009</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123newyear.com/images/category/2009-calendar/newyear-calendar2009-006-800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 494px; height: 370px;" src="http://www.123newyear.com/images/category/2009-calendar/newyear-calendar2009-006-800.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-7383903808849917292?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/Ru2N5OPdOHA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/Ru2N5OPdOHA/happy-new-year-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/happy-new-year-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-3042451953945806660</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T16:40:28.084+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>Tech Headline</title><description>&lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt;&lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3868"&gt;Downsizing the Consumer  Electronics Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Though LG Electronics will feature its “3G watch phone”  and Cisco is pumping up the volume on home networks, overall the Consumer  Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month looks to be a bit less electrifying,  reports the Los Angeles Times. Atten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2008-12-29  23:59&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3867"&gt;Fake Security Software  Booted Off 400,000 PCs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Microsoft claims December’s version of the Malicious  Software Removal Tool has booted one of the most popular phony security apps  from almost 400,000 PCs, reports InfoWorld. MSRT, which Microsoft pushes to  Windows users as part of Patch Tuesday, eras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2008-12-29  23:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3866"&gt;New Break Thwarts Efforts  to Repair Undersea Cables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Just as one break was repaired in undersea cable that  carries communications between Europe and Asia, another break occurred, this one  at a greater depth, reports Network World. France T?l?com used an undersea robot  to locate the ends of the cable at aroun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2008-12-29  22:29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3865"&gt;Google, Microsoft and  Apple Slapped with Patent Infringement Suit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Cygnus Systems, a Michigan-based networking company,  has filed suit against Microsoft, Google and Apple in a U.S. District Court in  Arizona, reports CNET News. Cygnus claims the tech giants violate its patent on  the use of thumbnails in operating systems. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2008-12-29  22:26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3864"&gt;Wal-Mart to Sell iPhones,  But Not for $99&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;The rumors about Wal-Mart offering Apple’s iPhone were  true, but not the $99 price tag that some media outlets reported. The retail  giant will begin sales of black, 8 gigabyte iPhone 3Gs this Sunday for $197.  Wal-Mart will also retail the 16 gigabyte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2008-12-29  22:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3863"&gt;AT&amp;amp;T Mobile Service  Restored&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;AT&amp;amp;T mobile service was restored about 9 p.m.  Sunday after the company said a power failure caused some users to lose service,  reports The Chicago Sun-Times. The problem started about 9:30 a.m. in  Bloomfield, Mich., and affected several Midwest states.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;2008-12-29  21:46&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-3042451953945806660?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/hVEsKqyessY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/hVEsKqyessY/tech-headline.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/tech-headline.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-4059974985930488985</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-11T23:30:24.598+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Car</category><title>New Car 2009</title><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;&lt;div class="s_c_410 pad_10"&gt; 	         &lt;div class="ieBug"&gt; 		&lt;div&gt; 			&lt;a href="http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0812_luxury_car_comparison/index.html" title="The Ex-Wall Streeter's Guide to Recession Rides" class="brdr_img"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; 			
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="The Ex-Wall Streeter's Guide to Recession Rides" class="f18 clr_title bold link" href="http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0812_luxury_car_comparison/index.html"&gt;The Ex-Wall Streeter's Guide to Recession Rides&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="clr_text"&gt;Now, sadly, the scheme has all come hideously undone. You no longer work on the Street; instead, you're out on the street. And, worse, your car lease is up. What to do?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a class="clr_more link" href="http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0812_luxury_car_comparison/index.html"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;  		&lt;/div&gt; 	&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-4059974985930488985?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/8L5jg1DdryA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/8L5jg1DdryA/new-car-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-car-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-4287958090443680520</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-11T23:20:17.193+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>True2lifes Technology Headline Watch</title><description>&lt;table style="width: 681px; height: 790px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt;&lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3765"&gt;Yahoo Revises Severance  Plan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;As part of the settlement of a shareholder lawsuit,  Yahoo has revised a generous severance package that Microsoft had complained  would raise the price of acquiring the company, reports Reuters. Yahoo spokesman  Brad Williams said the change is part of the s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;span class="white_14"&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3762"&gt;FTC Gets Court to Freeze  Scareware Operations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;The FTC is asking a court to shut down two businesses  it says are behind a massive scareware scam, reports vnunet.com. According to  The Inquirer, the FTC claims Innovative Marketing, Inc. and ByteHosting Internet  Services, LLC falsely represented themselve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3763"&gt;Sony Shuttering Last  Remaining U.S. TV Factory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Earlier this week, Sony Corp. announced cost-saving  measures that included the elimination of 16,000 jobs, outsourcing of some work,  a decreased investment in electronics, and the closing of 10 percent of its  plants. A Slovakian plant used for the manufact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3761"&gt;FBI Warns of Vishing  Attack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;The FBI has issued a warning about a vulnerability in  the open source VoIP package Asterisk. Ars Technica reports that initial warning  about the vulnerability was vague, saying only that recent vishing — or “voice  phishing” — attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3760"&gt;IBM Unveils New Version  of Its Web Conferencing Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;BusinessGreen reports that IBM is getting into the  hosted Web conferencing game through the latest version of its Lotus Sametime  Unyte service. IBM also struck a partnership deal with InterCall, which will  offer Lotus Sametime Unyte to its 400,000 customer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3759"&gt;Microsoft Warns of  Another Flaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Just as it released the updates for December’s Patch  Tuesday, Microsoft warned of another vulnerability. NetworkWorld reports that  the flaw lies in the WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files and affects  Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Servi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" align="middle"&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="white_20" valign="bottom" align="middle" height="50"&gt; &lt;table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td height="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="center" align="middle" height="40"&gt;&lt;span class="white_20"&gt;&lt;span class="green_16"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="green_16" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=3758"&gt;Google, Microsoft Slowing  down on Data Centers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="green_14"&gt;Google and Microsoft have hit the brakes on their rapid  build-out of data centers, reports internetnews.com, though not all the  assertions in the story seem to hold up. It says Google has put off breaking  ground on a planned Oklahoma data center by 12 to 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-4287958090443680520?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/6o2Uj0E7FAc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/6o2Uj0E7FAc/true2lifes-technology-headline-watch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/12/true2lifes-technology-headline-watch.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-8955346554322868492</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T16:15:28.386+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Portable Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hardware</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><title>BlueMic Snowflake USB Microphone Review</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/bluemic_snowflake_usb_microphone_review"&gt;&lt;img src="http://the-gadgeteer.com/assets/blue-snowflake-fp.jpg" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; You've no doubt heard of, or have seen the Snowball microphone  from &lt;a href="http://www.bluemic.com/"&gt;BlueMic&lt;/a&gt;. It's a very popular  microphone for podcasters and anyone that wants to record audio. BlueMic have a  new microphone to add to their product line - the Snowflake USB mic. This is  their first professional portable USB microphone, and I think they have another  winner on their hands. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/bluemic_snowflake_usb_microphone_review"&gt;(read  the full review...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-8955346554322868492?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/gj7-pIySHsw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/gj7-pIySHsw/bluemic-snowflake-usb-microphone-review.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/11/bluemic-snowflake-usb-microphone-review.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-7275925076646084421</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T16:12:07.454+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Portable Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wireless</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">World's Tallest</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WiFi</category><title>Rovio Mobile Webcam Review</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/rovio_mobile_webcam_review"&gt;&lt;img src="http://the-gadgeteer.com/assets/rovio-fp.jpg" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I  have a dog at home and I have a mounted webcam to check in on him. This system  works fairly well but occasionally he isn't on the couch in the living room and  it is at times like that, that I've wished for a camera that I could pan and  tilt. I was really excited when I heard about &lt;a title="Meet Rovio™" href="http://www.meetrovio.com/"&gt;Rovio&lt;/a&gt;, I thought it would be the perfect  solution! Forget pan and tilt, I could actually go find my dog and check in on  him where ever he might be. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-7275925076646084421?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/phvCwxgyrDE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/phvCwxgyrDE/rovio-mobile-webcam-review.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/11/rovio-mobile-webcam-review.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203209610429771581.post-2846933626516901598</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T16:10:28.035+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Portable Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tech News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WiFi</category><title>Logitech WiLife Digital Video Security System Review</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/logitech_wilife_digital_video_security_system_review"&gt;&lt;img src="http://the-gadgeteer.com/assets/logitech-wilife-digital-video-security-system-fp.jpg" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I've been on the look out for an easy to setup, web  accessible video home security system for awhile now. When the folks at &lt;a title="" href="http://www.logitech.com/"&gt;Logitech&lt;/a&gt; asked if I might be  interested in reviewing thier new &lt;a title="Logitech Digital Video Security" href="http://www.wilife.com/"&gt;WiLife&lt;/a&gt; Digital Video Security system, I didn't  hesitate to say yes. Especially because this system doesn't require you to know  anything about networking and can to support up to 6 cameras, located both  indoor and outdoors. Let's set it up... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;True2lifes.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8203209610429771581-2846933626516901598?l=true2lifes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~4/HozZn4ahxEg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/True2LifeTechnologyIntegretion/~3/HozZn4ahxEg/logitech-wilife-digital-video-security.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Augustmails)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://true2lifes.blogspot.com/2008/11/logitech-wilife-digital-video-security.html</feedburner:origLink></item><language>en-us</language><media:rating>nonadult</media:rating></channel></rss>

