Need to climb Everest but concerned about cell phone coverage? No more worries there as China’s largest mobile phone provider has now installed a transmission station at 21,000 ft. Says a spokesman, “the construction was very difficult”. The station was part of the Olympics initiative as they are taking the torch up to the top.
Ubuntu appears to be having an impact. Walmart started selling the $200 Linux machine (1.5 GHz VIA C7 CPU embedded onto a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB) 2 weeks ago and has already sold out. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=926
Meanwhile the One Laptop per Child is offering a give one get one program where for $399 ($200 of which is tax deductible) a laptop will be send to a child in a third world country plus you will receive one for the child in your life. In addition, you will receive a year free T-Mobile hotspot access. http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/give-one-get-one.php
GEEK CHICK
IRIS ON THE VIRUS
Mighty Morphing Ebay Trojan
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/11/15/trojan_bayrob_morphs/
Ebay trojan (Trojan.Bayrob) has morphed yet again. This trojan loads a webserver on the victim’s computer and serves up false pages for Ebay motors and CarFax reports to fool people into giving money to the bad guys.
SCHMIDT FACED
Sony?s lackluster PlayStation 3 sales more than doubled recently thanks to the introduction of the new 40GB model and a $100 price cut on the 80GB model.
TECH IT OUT
Google is offering up to $10 mill for developers of apps for their android platform.
Sales of the Sony PS3 are up as a result of the $100 price cut from 40,000/week to 100,000 for this week. They still have a long way to go to catch up with XBOX 360 and Wii which are double the total sales.
Look out for YouTube’s “high quality video” rolling out in the next few months.
Viddler has officially announced their monetization model which we have been testing for a couple of months. If you are a publisher go and tech it out http://www.viddler.com/advertise/
Concerns over Comcasts decision to block bittorrent and other P2P’s http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071019-evidence-mounts-that-comcast-is-targeting-bittorrent-traffic.html a comcast user has actually slapped a class action lawsuit over their traffic blocking or slowing practice. Comcast denies it.
Also keep a geek eye out for Virtual Vouchers where you can buy credit through one place to use anywhere that accepts Visa (up to $1000) to help assuage online shopping fears.
SITE OF THE WEEK
www.viddler.com
Congrats on the Green Room! That is kickass….I will have to come check it out
Thanks, It’s going to be a lot of fun! C’mon over!
Sorry for my absents from the web this last 2 months.
I was in a car wreck.
Hey, thanks for the shout-out a few weeks ago.
Thank Zod you guys finally whored out and monetized your show with ad’s.
Now you can buy some cool stuff and put that chroma key to work.
Fornicate you Randal Bradbury! I am in contact with the ninja division of the RCMP to set up an embargo, in order to deny you further Canadian beer!
That’s it Byron…hit him where it hurts.
Good to see you’re back (no pun I promise) Nimble.
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