Best Damn Tech Show, Period. 11.20.07 Fun With Our New Green Screen
Uploaded on Nov 20, 2007 / 673 views / 2579 impressions / 4 comments
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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...
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
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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.
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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 a
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flemo 21:22
flemo 21:07
like this
schmidtultra 10:10
A little early, Rand?
iggs 0:27
Mmmmm Reon Kadena. Yummy!