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Microsoft Haunted By Global Financial Crisis

Global financial crisis is haunting the world and threaten United States economy. Microsoft Chief Executive, Steve Ballmer admits that the crisis will weaken the expenses of all business aspects, which will affect all companies, including Microsoft

“We have so many business in both corporate and consumer, and whatever happen to the economy, it will surely affect Microsoft,” said Ballmer in Oslo, Norwegia.

Ballmer also said that no company in the world is immune with the effect of this financial crisis. Investors believe that Ballmer’s statement is an indication that Microsoft income will be affected by this continuous crisis. Read More …

The New Nintendo DS Will Have Camera and MP3

Game producer from Japan, Nintendo, is preparing the latest version of Nintendo DS. The new generation of this game console will be equipped with build-in camera and music player facility.

This console is said to be a threat for other music players such as Apple iPod and camera featured mobile phones. It is because, Nintendo offers all in one package in this gadget.

This console will also be equipped with wireless technology which even superior for internet connection. Read More …

Kapersky Get The Highest Point In Malware Detection Test

Kapersky has successfully pass several security tests for malware detection and new threat. This product has achieve highest point in several tests held by two antivirus independent laboratories. From several tests which was done by AV-Test.org, Kapersky Internet Security 2009 reach the best result by having the highest point in the category of “On-demand malware detection”, “On-demand spyware and adware detection”, and “Response times to new threats”.

This product has achieved 98.4% on malware detection and 98.3% on spyware and adware detection. Kapersky also named as the product with the shortest response time when new threat occurs. Read More …

Richest Men From IT Business In The World

Bill Gates has successfully being the richest man in the United States according to Forbes magazine from his software company, Microsoft. Beside Gates, who else are the richest men in US who have dig their gold mine from IT business?

As quoted from TechCrunch, Larry Ellison from Oracle is the next richest man from IT business after Bill Gates. He is on third position in Forbes list. He then followed by Michael Dell, the creator of Dell computer, in 11th position. Dell then followed by Paul Allen, the creator of Microsoft in 12th position. Another popular IT person who also listed is Steve Jobs in 61st position. The most interesting thing in the list is that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator, is on the list in 321st position. Read More …

Yahoo Zimbra, Email Access Without Internet

Accessing Email without Internet? You may want to try with open source owned by Yahoo, Zimbra. Zimbra is an open source messaging and collaboration unit which is intended to ignore all connections with Microsoft and yahoo merger talk. Zimbra can be used to test accessing offline, especially on YahooMail, Gmail and email application web, AOL Mail. Read More …

Sweet Like Chocolates

Mmmm, chocolate… I love it. I don’t know if you are crazy about chocolate like me, but let me tell you that I can’t stop eating chocolate. Everyday I always eat some; even sometimes it’s just a small bite. From chocolate bars, assorted ones, and also love the dipped strawberries. According to a research that I read once, eating chocolate regularly is good for your heart. Read More …

Nokia N98 8GB Review

At last, Nokia officially shows their new ‘toy’, which is more a perfection of N95 series and tagged with 8GB. The new Nokia N95 8GB comes with black color and has some changes. But the main different from its previous series is the size of memory capacity reached 8GB. Technically, the memory is 8.1GB and also 100MB memory system for messages and ring tones with other features. The twice as big memory upgrade in Nokia N95 8GB makes it faster to run an application, even a couple numbers of applications at the same time.

The perfection also can be seen on the screen. It has bigger screen which 2.6 inches before now is 2.8 inches. Although it was only 0.2 inches different, the effect can be really seen, especially when you browse the internet, choosing pictures from your photo albums, or even when you watch a video. Unfortunately, this new N95 screen is still only has QVGA resolution, even though it can shows 16 million colors.

For power, Nokia N95 GB uses new battery version 1200mAh Li-Ion, compares to its predecessor which use 950 mAh in Nokia N95. The changing of battery is clearly to guarantee its user more operational power of the mobile phone. This battery change will also eliminate problems and complaints from customer that N95 battery wasn’t enough. The change has made the camera lens cover disappears. The dimension of N95 8GB is 99mm x 53mm x 21mm. By volume it raise for 90 to 95cc and 8 gram heavier than the old one N95-1.

Here are the features of N95 8GB:

• Camera 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary CIF videocall camera
• Bluetooth v2.0, A2DP
• EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps
• 3G HSDPA
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
• Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1
• WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
• Built-in GPS navigation
• Installed Maps application covering over 100 countries
• Dual slide design
• Java MIDP 2.0
• MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
• 3.5 mm audio output jack
• TV out
• Stereo FM Radio
• Organizer
• Office document viewer
• T9
• Push to talk
• Voice dial/memo
• Built-in handsfree

My opinion in this Nokia N95 8GB review is a great phone. Slick design, still in the ‘pocketable’ phone category as well and has complete features. The downside is the price is relatively expensive. If you don’t often taking photos, browsing the internet, playing music or watching videos, this is not the right phone for you. But if you like to do the things I mentioned above, instead of having to carry a camera for taking pictures and a laptop to browse the internet, then N95 GB is an excellent choice for you.

Facebook Sued A Porn Site USD 500,000

A porn site has agreed to pay Facebook USD 500,000. The reason why this site has to pay Facebook USD 500,000 is because the site is trying to breach into Facebook security and steal its user personal information.

Facebook sued that pornography site, SlickCash tried to access personal information from Facebook’s users. For two weeks period in June 2007, the company which is located in Ontario, Canada, had tried to access Facebook server for at least 200 thousand times.

Quoted from Canadianpress, besides they agreed to pay USD 500,000 to Facebook, SlickCash and some people involved in this site agreed not to become Facebook’s member for 10 years. They agreed not to contacts Facebook members using personal information which they have got from Facebook website.

At present Facebook is so popular, it has approximately 34 millions users in the world. With Facebook, users can easily posted photos, personal information such as date of birth, address, e-mail, phone numbers and so on.

Car DVD Players Shopwiki Review

Last Friday my friend asked me to accompany him to someplace across the city to meet his colleague. He picked me up with his Honda CRV and he was with his wife, so I sat down at the back. When I enter the car I can see a TV screen attached in each of both headrests. And it really looks cool. I really enjoy the trip while watching a DVD movie, and I was thinking of buying one for my self.

After I got home I tried to find more information about Car DVD players in the internet. And then I stumbled to shopwiki.com. ShopWiki is an online store which has a huge range of products, almost any products for sale you can find here. Then I also found useful information about Car DVD players buying guide there. It really shows me which DVD players I should buy for my car.

First, I will need an in-dash receiver, this is where you put the DVD in and play it. Then I should get a couple of headrest replacement, perhaps the 8″ TFT monitor ones would be great. Though it won’t be cheap, but I am sure I will enjoy this luxurious entertainment.

Here Is The First iPhone 3G Owner

So many people were willing to queue for couple of days just because they wanted to be the first person to buy Apple iPhone 3G. They stayed all night in front of the store that will sell this smartphone from Apple, battling hard against freezing weather.

Finally, their long waiting is over. iPhone 3G is officially sold from today at Apple stores. A student from Auckland has become the first person who get the iPhone 3G. The college student who successfully bought the first iPhone 3G is Jonny Gladwell, 22yo. His determination to get his phone has been paid off finally. He has been queuing in front of the Auckland Apple Store from Tuesday, after he was challenged by his friends that they would pay for the phone if he’d willing to stay in the queue.

Struggle of The First iPhone Users

We really have to fight hard to get something that we dream to have. Including when we wanna be the first person in the world to have iPhone 3G, a long and hard fight have to be done.

This is what happen to Jonny Gladwell, a student who can’t wait for the iPhone 3G launch. This 22 years old guy never give up to challenge a very cold weather that can freeze him in his tent in front of Vodafone store in St. Queen, New Zealand, for two days.

Quoted from reuters, he had to do this only to chase his obsession, that is to become the first person who get the latest Apple gadget, iPhone 3G. This camping act by Apple fanatics is not the first time. Last time, it happened when the previous version of iPhone was launched in the market, where  many people queuing up in front of Apple stores. They have prepared to get their new iPhone by bringing chairs, sleeping bags, even building up tents to wait until the first second of opening sale.

Samsung W510, A New Phone Made From Corns

Samsung Electronics has released their latest phones which called W510 and F268. The interesting thing from these phones is that one of the materials to make its plastic case is corn plants

As quoted from PCWorld, corn has been chosen as a material of Samsung’s mobile phones to make Samsung products more environmental friendly. According to Samsung, W510 is the first phone of Samsung that has made from corn. Furthermore, other materials from this phone are claimed to be undangerous for environment.

As you might know, couple of other companies have also use corn as their product material, such as electronic vendor called NEC and Fujitsu from Japan. Fujitsu used corn to make plastic as their outer component of their laptops.

Other type of Samsung mobile that use corn aswell is F268. Accessories for F269 are guaranteed not containing any hazardous materials for environment such as PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and BFRs (brominated flame retardant)d flame retardant). Samsung has also planned a couple of other new innovations. Such as globally, Samsung will stop the usage of PVC and BFRs in 2010 from all of their products. At this moment, W510 will be launched in South Korea and F268 in China.

PayPerPost Review, The Best Way To Make Money From Blogging

Now I would like to give my opinion to one of many paid to review programs, PayPerPost (PPP). As PayPerPost has been around for a while now, I am quite sure that most of you have already know what PayPerPost is. What you might not know yet is that payperpost is the best paid to blog program on the internet. PPP has a revolutionary system that connects advertisers to bloggers, and pays bloggers to write a review about product or service of the advertisers. I will explain my reason of saying why you should join PayPerPost below.

When I started blogging, I did not know about any of these amazing money making programs. All of my blogging motivation was just to fulfill my need to express my feeling and share knowledge about what I knew to people. After a while, when I did blog walking to many established bloggers blogs, most of them were recommending their visitor to join payperpost. The reason was because you will be paid to blog on what you enjoy most, blogging. It is the best thing in life if we can earn money from something that we like to do.

By joining PayPerPost, I met new online friends who share the same interest as me through PPP neighborhood in Blogcatalog. Most of my friends from PPP have similar thought, we feel that we really enjoy many benefits after joining Payperpost. First we can earn money from writing articles in our blog, which forced us to improve our writing skills and knowledge. Second we can learn about new products around the world. And third, joining PayperPost could drive more traffic to our blog. By writing articles about products or service from PPP assignments, search engine will also show our blog on the search result page when someone looking for a product that we have reviewed. These are three of many more benefits that we can earn from joining Payperpost program. So, for those of you who haven’t join, what are you waiting for? Click here to join

One Billion Cellphones Can Spread Toxic On Earth

The mobile technology is growing really fast and new models of cellphones are coming out continuously. This trend makes people change their cellphone more rapidly, which brings an inevitable negative effects. Around one billion used cellphones in United States are potentially poisoned mother earth. This shocking data was published by CollectiveGood, a cellphone recycling company in USA.

People in USA have an average of 3.5 unused used-phones. Users of mobile phone in US, which are around 257 million contribute 155 million used phones that ready to be thrown to trash bin every year. According to CollectiveGood, this trend makes around one billion used phones potentially piling up the earth.

This amount is really amazing thus if we do not put it into account, it can poison soil component, water and air in century time. It happens because when we throw away the phones, its poisoning material such as mercury or arsenic is released to environment. To handle this problem, CollectiveGood is making sure that used phones have to be dealt carefully to minimize their effect to the environment.