Archive for March, 2006
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Apple has just released software that allows consumers (or their parents) to control how loud their IPod players will play. This will be available to users of IPod Nanos and Video Ipods on a software update being released today.
They were recently sued by a man in Louisiana claiming that the Ipod ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
With the internet growing by leaps and bounds every day, it's not hard to understand why Microsoft and Yahoo are building out and expanding their networks. They are looking in a different direction for the growth of their operations, to Central Washington. Quincy to be exact.
According to news released yesterday, ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
GARFIELD HEIGHTS -- A new piece of technology is helping fight the war against drunk driving.
Authorities in Garfield Heights today were taking a look at a device known as a "Scram" bracelet.It monitors the perspiration of its wearer to determine if they've consumed alcohol.
Some areas have already begun having drunk ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
It like the way the internet keeps getting bigger, and the devices to access the internet keep getting smaller.
My PALM has been a pretty nice way to access email and do work that needs to be done without being in front of my primary computer terminal, but a lot of ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
It appears that Ipods are eroding the moral fiber of youth even worse than it already was! Here's the story:
A spike in teen-on-teen thefts of pricey iPods contributed to a 26% jump in juvenile robbery arrests last year, cops said.
"We're all looking at it to see exactly what's going ...
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Selling Treos is turning out to be a great business for Palm (PALM). For the third quarter ended March 3rd, Palm reported massive sales and increasing profits:
The company's revenue for the quarter was up 36 per cent to $388.5 million from $285.3 million a year earlier.
Net earnings in the ...
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Palm is in a tough business: selling handhelds is a business that has long been dominated by RIM's Blackberry device. Millions of users have come to rely on Blackberry's to retrieve email when they're on the road for business and pleasure.
Palm realized they needed to follow the ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
China, the world's largest emerging market, appears poised to embrace HDTV technology in a big way. China is looking to cease analog broadcasting by 2006. This represents a leap forward for the country:
“The market has yet to mature in mainland China,” Ma explained. “We are still working on ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Whilst making rounds about the net, I found an article from Kansas City about how they are going to be implementing portable fingerprint machines into their police cruisers.
54 law enforcement agencies have traded the ink-and-paper fingerprinting method for biometric imaging, which electronically scans a digital image of the print. Sixty ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Palms has release a preview of earnings which shows the numbers looking really good.
EXPECTATIONS: For the three months ended Feb. 28, Palm is expecting to earn 31 cents to 33 cents per share -- before a 2-for-1 stock split effective March 15 -- and revenue of $370 million ...
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