BDPCam!

We’e installed a webcam at the new office with up-to-the-minute views of downtown Seattle. Check it out: http://www.bdpnetworks.com/BDPCam1.jpg Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d238′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Dell sold faulty computers – then *lied* about it.

Will they ever recover from this breach of trust with their customers? Bill Snyder from InfoWorld explains… http://infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/the-ignominious-death-dell-882 Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d233′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

iPhone 4: Retinal Display Geekery

Were you also a bit skeptical when Steve Jobs said “the display on the iPhone 4 is a higher resolution than what can be perceived by the human eye?” Read more here… http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2010/06/apple-retina-display/ Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d231′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Volkswagen installs slide alongside subway station escalator…

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Google adopts background images, ala Bing!

It appears that Google now supports background images, just like Bing. This raises some questions… a) doesn’t that look like oil-tainted swampland, perhaps a retort to the fact that BP bought a whole bunch of AdWords on Google and Bing to try to do damage control? b) isn’t Bing turning one this week? c) I [...]

FAKE ANTIVIRUS OUTRAGE: Some news on the legal front

It took a while, but it looks like the legal system is starting to catch up to the “Fake Antivirus” guys who were pushing ‘Scareware’: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/052710-alleged-100m-scareware-sellers-facing.html Hopefully this helps put an end to this practice, but I’m sure someone somewhere else will come up with something like it down the road.  Be vigilant! Bookmark It [...]

Google not selling enough ads; announces Google TV as a solution

Google has announced ‘Google TV,’ a way to more easily search for and watch media on your television, no matter where the media is located. This platform should be built-in to set-top boxes, Blu-Ray players and TVs as early as this fall. Yes, you too can get Google’s very targeted advertising mechanism delivered directly to [...]

Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai, China

Expo 2010 opened on May 1, 2010 in Shanghai, China. This is the largest Expo or World’s Fair in history, and they expect to attract 70-100 million visitors by the time it closes on October 31, 2010. This year’s theme is ”Better City, Better Life.” As a huge fan of World’s Fairs I feel it is [...]

Towel-folding Robot (with video)

Folding a towel may seem easy to you, but it’s not easy to teach a robot how to do it: Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d151′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Windows 7 – Finally ready for business?

Introduced nine years ago, Windows XP is ubiquitous in corporate environments but it’s creaky and showing its age. As hardware & networks have improved Windows XP has had new services “bolted on” to it over the years but it’s really time for a new client operating system. The introduction of Windows Vista was a mess [...]