Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Apple introduces iLife ‘09 at Macworld Expo

Thursday, January 8, 2009 1:48 No Comments

Yesterday at Macworld Expo, Phill Schiller announced that availability of iLife ‘09. Not a huge surprise, as a few of us guessed we’d see an iLife update today, but it does offer some cool new features.
iPhoto
iPhoto has been updated with two features called “Faces” and “Places.” Faces, as you may have guessed, lets you tag [...]

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A very interesting slide show for Google!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 22:25 No Comments

This is a very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired.
This presentation gives a great overview of the company’s [...]

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The world’s first timesculpture ad by Toshiba

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:06 1 Comment

Toshiba’s new “timesculpture” ad takes The Matrix’s Bullet Time film technique one bizarrely cool step forward by animating within the freeze-frame. It was filmed with 200 Gigashot camcorders arranged on a special rig, recording a 20 terabytes of data from which the ad was composed. Check it out—it’s like a weird moving Bullet-Time ballet, and [...]

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42 Good Things from Samsung

Sunday, November 9, 2008 21:56 No Comments

Did you know there are 42 good things you can do with the Samsung Omnia mobile phone? You can discover each one of them by watching 42 short videos on the dedicated website. Yes, I know, at first sight the idea of watching 42 videos sounds a bit boring and frustrating, but if you give [...]

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Fake Calls in iPhone – AppStore

Thursday, November 6, 2008 6:08 1 Comment

There is a new application in AppStore. It costs only 99 cents but it can rescue us from many disasters! How many times did we want to have a call from someone in order to leave a place, a meeting or a difficult situation? With the new App Fake Calls, you can create your own [...]

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New software can copy your keys from a picture

Friday, October 31, 2008 5:37 No Comments

New software developed by scientists at UC San Diego allows anyone to make duplicate keys from a single photograph. Keys can be cloned from any type of photograph, like a cell phone’s camera, and even from pictures taken over distances of hundreds of feet away. The pictures are scanned into a computer, and the software [...]

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Yahoo fires the 10% of its employees!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 22:38 No Comments

This morning, all the employees of Yahoo had a surprise email from their boss. Jerry Yang, CEO amd co-founder of Yahoo, sent an email to all the Yahoo’s employees worldwide.
In the email Jerry Yang explained the reasons of his decision According to his words, Yahoo has to eliminate its costs by $400 millions!
The big economic [...]

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Nakheel Tower – The tallest scyscraper in the world!

Monday, October 6, 2008 8:46 No Comments

Nakheel announced that they will build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Nakheel Tower,will be built in Dubai, and its height will be 1200 meters!!! Responsible for the construction will be an Australian company (Woods Bagot) and the total cost will be $61 billions! The tower will be ready in 10 years!
Besides this tower there [...]

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The new Google Phone!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 17:52 No Comments

Google and T-Mobile finally took the wraps off the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to use the Internet giant’s Android operating system.
The phone, the first of several to come, crystallizes Google’s ambition to create an open mobile environment that gives users access to a wide variety of applications and the mobile Internet, which Google hopes [...]

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