Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | Posted in Internet | No Comments »
Charter Communications, one of the largest cable ISP’s in the United States, accidentally deleted the saved e-mail of 14,000 subscribers.
Charter regularly deletes inactive customer e-mail accounts. Operator error caused the accidental deletion of 14,000 active customer e-mails accounts.
All of the saved customer e-mail is irretrievably lost. Charter is giving every customer who lost data a $50 credit. That amounts to a $700,000 penalty to Charter’s bottom line.
Customers can avoid this issue from affecting them again by linking their Charter e-mail to Microsoft Outlook and storing their email on their own computers.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
BiTMicro has just announced an 832GB NAND drive.
This is the largest 2.5″ NAND drive yet announced and places NAND technology firmly in competition with magnetic media for mainline storage applications.
NAND drives use a form of flash memory. As such, they have no moving parts and are therefore much more durable and reliable than traditional hard drives.
In addition, as NAND drives do not suffer from the tradition seek time delays inherent in any media designed with rotating disks, NAND drives can perform faster than magnetic or optical media.
This new drive is estimated to support 20,000 I/O operations per second and a sustained transfer rate of 100MB/sec.
Currently, price is the main limitation to the adoption of NAND drive technology. As memory prices decrease, NAND drives should slowly replace magnetic media for storage applications.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | Posted in Internet | No Comments »
eBay is once again modifying their fee structure in an effort to increase growth.
eBay is decreasing Insertion Fees and increasing Final Value Fees. This means that it will be less expensive to create eBay listings, but more expensive to actually sell items.
This should cause the volume of eBay listings to go up, but may also raise prices on goods sold through eBay.
In addition, eBay is changing the percentages charged for Final Value Fees at each tier. Goods priced under $25.00 are seeing the largest increase.
This should make eBay less desirable as a marketplace for smaller items. This may be a result of the success eBay has seen with larger ticket items such as found on eBay Auto.
The new fee structure will be implemented on 20 February.
Nassau Detectives said that they foiled the relocation plans of the two truckers even before they left town, they got caught last week for stealing 300 iPhones worth $150,000 soon after airline workers overseas discovered the gadgets were gone.The Apple iPhones with a value of $399 each were stolen by Emmanuel Etienne, 20, of 761 Grand Terrace, and Jarred E. Thomas, 22, of 520 Woodland Estates Dr, the men were arrested and charged with second-degree grand larceny and conspiracy.
They got $80,000 for the Apple iPhones and then went on a spending spree buying things like diamond stud Yankees earrings, Mark Ecko watches and much more.But their dimwitted plan was foiled by Hong Kong authorities, who became suspicious over the slipshod packaging around the two cartons that contained the 300 iPhones, said Nassau Police Detective Lt. John Azzata.
All in one music direction device
Striking Media attributes
MOTOROLA Z10 Mobile Phone is ready to hit the flame of the mobile market for its hottie-naughty media features like:
- Expandable memory up to 4GB with microSD™ (32GB when available)
- up to 12 full length movies and 40 hours of music storing capacity by using the external memory6
- HSDPA, Symbian UIQ and 3.5G technology
- 3.2 megapixel camera with Super fast burst mode delivering 3 shots per second
- 2.2″ QVGA display for 30 frames per second video playback
- Instant media download and streaming at HSDPA 3.6Mbps2
- Supporting AMR, AAC AAC+, MP3, WMA, 3GPP, H.263, H.264, Mpeg 4
Its ergonomic kick-slider design is further pampered with its 109×15.5 / 16.5mm dimension and 115g weight.
So don’t forget to engulf all the steamy experience of multimedia with the help of this Motorola miracle.
Kingston Technology is renowned for their flash memory products, and the company moves forward by expanding its line of USB flash drives by introducing the DataTraveler HyperX (also known as the DT HyperX) and the DataTraveler 110 (DT110) models. Both of them aim to leave the competition in the dust, designed for ultra-fast read/write speeds without breaking the bank. Both the DT HyperX and DT110 drives come in varying capacities, maxing out at 8GB.
The DT HyperX boasts a theoretical data transfer rate of 30MB/sec. read and 20MB/sec. write, and was specially designed to run on any Windows Platform but would probably fulfill its potential on Vista-based systems since it has already been enhanced for Windows ReadyBoost. As for the DataTraveler 110 , this targets the more budget conscious markets (can you say students and average office workers?) without sacrificing on performance. The DT110 also does away with the risk of you losing the cap, since it employs a capless, retractable USB connector for ease-of-use and safe housing.
Features and specifications of the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB Drive include :-
Capacities: 2GB, 4GB, 8GB
Dimensions: 2.76″ x 0.88″ x 0.44″ (70.0mm x 22.4mm x 11.3mm)
Speed Rating: data transfer rates of 30MB/sec. read and 20MB/sec. write
Enhanced: for Windows ReadyBoost on Vista-based systems
Compatible Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows XP (SP1 and SP2), Mac OS (10.2x and higher),
Linux (2.6 and higher)
Operating Temperature: 32° F to 140° F (0° C to 60° C)
Storage Temperature: -4° F to 185° F (-20° C – 85° C)
Easy: plug and play
Guaranteed: five-year warranty
The DTHX/2GB 2GB HyperX, DTHX/4GB 4GB HyperX, and DTHX/8GB 8GB HyperX will retail for $74, $131 and $266 respectively.
The Robotic Football League Robot is one interesting robot that plays American Football, featuring special gripping arms that come in handy to throw the ball with a fair bit of momentum. In addition, other actions include block, tackle, throw and even receive a small Velcro football. Unless you have a ton of money don’t bother to build a team
Each one costs - $139.95$
According to Toni Sacconaghi - analyst at Bernstein Research - there are about 1 million iPhones that were sold and are not being used with the AT&T network, which means that they were unlockedand 27% of the iPhones in the world don’t have a relationship with AT&T. Poor AT&T.
Taking in consideration that AT&T made a big contract with Apple to get the exclusive phone deal, these studies are definitely bad news for both parties involved. In the end, people that don’t stay with AT&T after buying the iPhone, aren’t making carrier payments, which results in a big loss for Apple.
Here are some numbers, so you can have an idea about the amount of money we are talking about:
If Apple hit its sales goal of 10 million iPhones by the end of fiscal 2008 but 30 percent of those don’t result in any carrier payments, its revenue and profit would be $500 million and 37 cents per share lower than expected.
The Eee PC from Asus has been out for a little while now, and we really haven’t seen any major competitors hit the market yet. We’ve however heard some announcements from Gigabyte and Acer, but those won’t be out for a little while. The first one that we’ll likely see is the CloudBook from Everex which should have made its debut this past week. Unfortunately, it has been delayed.
The CloudBook has a 7-inch screen, 30GB hard drive and run gOS Rocket as its operating system. With the larger hard drive, it has the ability to appeal to a larger crowd, as Windows could be installed much more easily . It will only weigh around two pounds and should give you around five hours of battery life.
Convergence gadgets are always welcome. A Skype phone that’s built into your keyboard. Innovative eh?
I much rather prefer a headphone but if in case its inappropriate you can get this one.
Look for Buffalo to launch this in Japan this October for around $65. There’s currently no word on a US release.
