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Microsoft Press Free E-Book On Microsoft Technologies and Products

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

While celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the leading publishing arm of Microsoft, Microsoft Press, offers readers the opportunity to learn and to improve their knowledge with various current Microsoft technologies and products. It is offering readers “Free e-book of the month”. Users who would like to grab this offer need to sign up and subscribe to the Microsoft Press Book Connection Newsletter to be eligible for the e-books.

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DragonBall (Dragon Ball) Live Action Movie Leaked Teaser Trailer

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

DragonBall is an upcoming 2009 American live-action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball Japanese manga series. For those who have no clue of what DragonBall is, it’s actually a Japanese manga (aka comic) series inspired by Chinese folk novel Journey to the West which was written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.

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Google Logos Series During the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

It’s not precedent for Google to change and replace its main search page’s logo to match the ongoing events and competitions during Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In 2004, during Athens Olympiad, Google also releases Olympic themed logos on its google.com and related country-specific domains homepage. Here’s the full and complete collection of the logo of Google during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games.

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Complete Collection of Google Commemorative Logo for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

During an important event or special day, Google will normally release corresponding commemorative logo to replace the original logo appears on the Google homepage (www.google.com or its country sites). The practice has became a tradition or culture for several Internet World Wide Web search engines such as Google and Baidu. The concluded Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was not excluded.

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Youtube Adding Click-to-Buy Non-Obtrusive Retail Links

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

The well-known American public corporation, Google has introduced a new e-commerce advertising platform for its popular Youtube video-sharing site, named as Click-to-Buy, the non-obtrusive retail links that allows users to purchase products including songs, concert tickets, books as well as movies related to content they’re watching on Youtube.


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MSI Wind U100 Netbook Hits Best Buy Stores

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, MSI Computer has announced that its popular MSI Wind (acronym for ‘Wi-Fi Network Device’) U100 Netbbok is now available nationwide at Best Buy stores. According to the manufacturer, it’s the first 10-inch Netbook to incorporate the speedy new 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor.


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Track Volvo Ocean Race Online

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Now the Sailing fans all over the world can follow the most dramatic moments of the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race live and directly online.


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Broadcom Collaboration with Skyhook Wireless to Promote Location-Based Services on Mobile Devices

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

As an effort to promote higher system reliability on GPS (Global Positioning System) and LBS (Location-based services) usage, Broadcom has announced the collaboration plan to work with Skyhook Wireless to enhance its next generation mobile device chipset and LBS infrastructure function. As you may know, Skyhook Wireless is famous for its location tracking capability based on Wi-Fi wireless technology that has been utilized extensively in Apple’s latest 3G/GPS based iPhones.


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