This device is perfect for those who are paranoid and obsessed with their data and web security. StealthSurfer is a Windows PC compatible key-sized USB device that is preloaded with the following softwares:
Firefox - a popular high-speed browser with enhanced security
Anonymizer - offers anonymous surfing, complete network security and IP masking
RoboForm - a "one-click" form-fill with secure user ID/password management application
Thunderbird - for portable POP3/SMPT email, news groups, RSS feeds, and blog access
All softwares are configured and integrated for optimum privacy. When using StealthSurfer, all your sensitive Internet files such as cookies, history, and cache are stored on the StealthSurfer device instead of your computer.
You can buy the USB from StealthSurfer site direct at:
Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo has developed a ring that turns your finger into a phone receiver.
The ring Ubi-Wa, which in Japanese means 'finger ring' and 'speak by finger', converts speech sounds to vibrations, reports the online edition of BBC News. These vibrations travel down the bone and into the ear canal, which obligingly turns them back into intelligible speech, it said.
DoCoMo is continuing the development of the ring. As it shrinks, it will be too small to sport functioning buttons.
What about that? It reminds me of Inspector Gadget!
Note: This is the picture of Masaaki Fukumoto who came up with fingerphone idea.
The first UK vending machines selling mobile handsets are were unveiled by mobile operator Vodafone in Manchester earlier this week.
Voda UK's retail division spokesman said, "These will be popular with people who need a phone in an emergency, either because they have lost their phone or it has run out of battery. They are for people who know what they want and who don't want to go through the rigmarole of talking to a sales assistant."
Similar ideas such as disposable cell phones have been pioneered by companies such as Hop-On in the US, where Apple has also been using vending machines to sell iPods.
Isn't that nice? But what if the phone stuck inside the vending machine? Can I kick the machine to drop my phone ... I just can't walk away as I walk away a stuck 50 cents candy bar!
An Austrian chocolate maker has joined forces with Al Ain Camel Farm and Dairy to create a new delicacy - camel milk chocolates!
Vienna-based Chocolatier Hochleitner took six months to develop the treats. Company head Johann Georg Hochleitner said camel's milk was a good alternative to cow's milk because it was lower in fat and sweeter.
I can't wait to taske one of those! What about you?
The plan is to start production June 2006
NOTE: This is not the picture of the camel chocolate I'm talking about here ... it is just a picture of a camel shaped chocolate ... Would you eat it if it looks like this?
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon!
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I have read some rumors and spam emails before regarding the theory that man did not land on the moon. I found that theory interesting, but I never thought that this can be a very serious matter! Take a look at the introductory video when you click at this link.
The director (Bart Sibrel) clearly states that the Apollo moon landings are science fiction. He had made four documentaries to support his theory:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon Astronauts Gone Wild Apollo 11 Monkey Business Apollo 11 Post-Flight Press Conference
So what do you think? Are the Apollo moon landings really science fiction?
Google Base: Submit All Types of Your Online & Offline Content to Google!
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I'm back to Googlemania now ... rumors are spreading about the new Google service (Google Base). It is not wildly available right now. According to CNN, screen shots of the experimental service, dubbed "Google Base," appeared on several Web sites Tuesday shortly after the legions of people who dissect the online search engine leader's every move discovered a link to a page inviting people to list things like a used car for sale, a party planning service and current events. It looks like Google' is beginning to threaten eBay about starting its own online auction!
Google confirmed the development of the service a few hours after taking down the link. This is what Google said about this rumor in their (Google Blog) page:
"We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps. We think it's an exciting product, and we'll let you know when there's more news."
To give a brief description of this new service, I will quote what (About Google Base) page said about it:
"Google Base is a Google databse into which you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, where we'll host it and make it searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they seach Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle, Google Base, and Google Local."
Click at the following link to read the "print screen" shot of the (About Google Base) page:
Construction work is expected to begin next year and last for three years on the new 255-m Stellar Tower, which is to be built as a tribute to the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
The London-based architects Make designed the building, which is to take shape on Ittihad Square and will house shops, offices, a restaurant and a 300-bed hotel.
The building envelope has been designed to provide an efficient solar protective skin around the whole structure providing 90% solar protection, ensuring that the air conditioning system functions with a reasonable cooling output and minimises the energy required to operate.
The two technologies being considered for the ‘Stellar Tower’ are building integrated photovoltaic (PV) cells and wind power. Photovoltaic (PV) cell process converts free solar energy, the most abundant energy source on the planet, directly into electricity. And the wind power to provide additional natural electrical energy production.
Meet The Coelacanth: The 400 million year old "Living Fossil" Fish!
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Meet the coelacanth, a bizarre fish and the 400 million year old "living fossil" that has changes little in its 400 million years on Earth. It is purely amazing fish indeed! I was hooked on TV when I saw the TV program (NOVA) on PBS which talkes about the ancient creatures of the deep.
Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with them, 65 million years ago, the Coelacanth with its "missing link" "proto legs" was "discovered" alive and well in 1938!
You can read more facts and stories about the coelacanth at the following site:
I just came across this cool gadgets for the kids today!
Aimed squarely at kids 8 to 13 years old—who are getting too old for electronic games that look like toys—the FLY is a product sure to draw gasps whenever it's used. The FLY combines a scanner, computer, and pen, so that it sees what you write and responds appropriately.
World's Smallest Car: Slightly Wider Than a Strand of DNA!
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HOUSTON, Texas - The smallest car ever constructed - a single molecule "nanocar" just one 80 thousandth the size of a human hair - has been built by scientists at Rice University.
The whole car is no more than 4 nanometers across. That's slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair is about 80,000 nanometers thick.
How to make a nanocar?
At room temperature, strong electrical bonds hold the buckyball wheels tightly against the gold, but heating to about 200 degrees Celsius frees them to roll ... easy isn't it?
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a rare look at the moon to gauge the amount of oxygen-bearing minerals in the lunar soil that could be mined by astronauts and used in a new moon mission.
NASA said Wednesday that the telescope's ultraviolet observations of two Apollo landing sites and an unexplored but geologically intriguing area will help scientists pick the best spots for robot and human exploration. The space agency hopes to return astronauts to the moon by 2018 using Apollo-like capsules and rockets made of shuttle parts.
The data also will benefit a lunar reconnaissance spacecraft to be launched in 2008.
Programmers released version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org today, a major overhaul to the open source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 inculdes the following 5 applications:
What is also interesting is that OpenOffice.org includes built-in PDF export ... You can get all of these goodies for free! Donations are welcomed :) I would also recommend that you read the following aricle:
I just got this email from my sister telling me about the design of the new Abu Dhabi Airport. I tried to find some good reference in the internet about this new project, but couldn't find any. Anyway, you can view the images I received by clicking at the following links:
New Abu Dhabi Qatar Airport (1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8)
UPDATE: That's what I was told, when it looks like I was given false information. The pictures are for the new Qatar Airport. Sorry for this mistake!
NASA Space Probe Passes Over Dione (Saturn's Icy Moon)
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A NASA space probe has passed within 500km of one of Saturn's moons on Oct. 11, 2005 giving scientists the best view yet of its icy surface.
The Cassini spacecraft passed over the moon Dione revealing a landscape pockmarked with craters and showing signs of tectonic activity but no atmosphere.
It is indeed an amazing picture. It looks like a computer generated image, but it is not! Click here to view a larger image.
Maxtor has launched a new backup drive that promises capacities up to one terabyte (1TB or 1,000GB) for people who feel they never quiet have enough space for backup.
The new Maxtor One Touch III Turbo will allow users to easily configure the solution for either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
The drive will be available in December in two capacity points: 600 gigabytes and 1 terabyte.
This is another article by Sean Carton talking about the Fads of the future. Here are some highlights of the article:
How do you know if a new technology is a fad or not?
1. Does it meet a need? 2. Who's going to maintain it? 3. Does it match your overall site strategy? 4. Does the company have the resources to maintain it? 5. Can your customers/visitors handle the technical demands?
Sean Carton's list of the greatest potential future fads out there today:
1. Podcasting. 2. Weblogs 3. Video 4. RSS 5. Social Networking.
This is a very interesting article by (Sean Carton) that all web developers must put in mind when designing their websites. Beware of those 10 fads of the past! I used to apply 8 out of those 10 fads in my old (uaeforever.com) web page. I don't think I will every do the same for (Fahad Inc.) anymore! Those fads are:
I'm surprised how come I haven't noticed this article by PCWorld. It was published back in July 2005. It is very interesting article that lists the best 100 products in 2005.
Congratulations Mozilla FireFox for being the top product of 2005 and also Google Gmail for being in the second place! Let me highlight some of the other "interesting" winners:
1. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser 2. Google Gmail Web Mail 7. Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Drive Portable Hard Drive 16. Google Search Engine 28. Mozilla Thunderbird E-Mail Program 51. Flickr.com Photography Site 70. A9.com Search Engine 76. Google Desktop Search Desktop Search Tool 87. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Web Site 88. Opera 8 Web Browser 95. Garmin StreetPilot C330 GPS Navigation Device
Samsung SPH-V7900 Mobile Phone with 3GB HDD
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Samsung Electronics launched a cellular phone with a 3GB memory, the world's largest data storage capacity ever applied to mobile handsets.
The SPH-V7900 handset can hold up to three digital movies or 700 music files in its built-in memory chip, which also functions as a portable hard disc for computers, Samsung said in a statement.
The new product, equipped with a two-megapixel camera and dual speakers, is a follow-up to Samsung's September model with a 1.5-gigabyte memory.
Google AdSense: Add Sense To Your Website & It Makes Sense!
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It really works and finally I can speak out from experience! I would really recommend that all those who have websites to add (Google Adsense) to their websites! Why? First of all, signing for it is free and you have absolutly nothing to loose.
Advertisers sign up with Google and create text ads that they would like to be displayed. Google displays these ads on the results pages of searches that people conduct from Google.com. The Google AdSense program allows these advertisements to show up on pages all over the internet. To see some of the ads themselves, take a look at the Adsense bar on the top of this page. Click at the following link for an overview of this Google service.
Adobe Systems Inc. and Macromedia Inc. on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice had cleared their planned merger deal, leaving regulatory approvals in Europe before the deal closes.
On April 18, 2005, Adobe announced a definitive deal to buy Macromedia in an all-stock transaction for US$3.4 billion.
Tracking Cell Phones For Real-Time Traffic Data!
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In what would be the largest project of its kind, the Missouri Department of Transportation is finalizing a contract to monitor thousands of cell phones, using their movements to map real-time traffic conditions statewide on all 5,500 miles of major roads. In fact, it would be the biggest system of its kind in the world.
Officials say the data will remain anonymous, leaving no possibility to track specific people from their driveway to their destination. But privacy advocates are uneasy nonetheless.
Note: In the picture above, A camera located above highway signs along Interstate 35 monitors traffic in Shawnee, Kan. Missouri hopes to use a state wide cell phone system to do the same thing.
Thursday October 6, 2005 ... America Online, Inc. announced that is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire one of the online medium’s leading blogging companies, Weblogs, Inc. (http://www.weblogsinc.com) of Santa Monica, CA and New York, NY. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Weblogs will become a wholly-owned, stand-alone subsidiary of AOL. It will operate with full editorial control and independence.
Weblogs, Inc. is AOL Inc.’s third acquisition in 2005 – following the acquisitions of Wildseed, Ltd. and Xdrive, Inc. in August.
Several dozen stars have been discovered precariously near a gigantic black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers said yesterday.
The massive stars were born less than a light-year from the massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, which surprised scientists.
The stars were discovered by Sergei Nayakshin of Britain's University of Leicester and Rashid Sunyaev of the Max Plank Institute for Physics in Germany, with the aid of the Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
"Massive black holes are usually known for violence and destruction," Nayaksin said. "So it's remarkable this black hole helped create new stars, not just destroy them."
Houyuan Lu, of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing and his colleagues found the ancient noodles preserved in an overturned, sealed bowl at an archaeological site near the Yellow River in northwestern China.
"Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in China about 4,000 years ago," Lu said in an interview.
The United States is still the world's top spammer, despite new anti-spam law and a series of high-profile court cases. The top five spam-generating countries are:
1. United States - 26.35 percent 2. South Korea - 19.73 percent 3. China - 15.70 percent 4. France - 3.46 percent 5. Brazil 2.67 percent
On the other hand, percentage has fallen since last year (%42) of the world's spam originated from US machines.
Microsoft To Pay $761 Millions To RealNetworks!
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Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it will pay RealNetworks Inc. $761 million to resolve their disputes, including a lawsuit that accused the world's largest software maker of using its dominance in operating systems to promote its rival media software.
RealNetworks (up $1.92 to $7.66) stock soared after the announcement, jumping about 36 percent in active Nasdaq trading.
Microsoft (down $0.15 to $24.31) will pay RealNetworks $460 million in cash up front to resolve all damage claims. RealNetworks will also get licenses and commitments that give it long-term access to Windows Media technologies that will enhance the Real Player software.
DISH Network Introduces PocketDISH Portable Media Companion (PMC)
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EchoStar Communications Corporation and its DISH Network(TM) satellite TV service announced yesterday the rollout of its PocketDISH(TM), a new line of portable media companions.
Enhancing the most on-the-go lifestyles, the handheld PocketDISH downloads and plays thousands of MP3s, stores and displays photos and is one of the industry's first video players. PocketDISH gives TV viewers the ability to take their favorite sitcoms, reality shows or even last night's game with them to watch anywhere (Read this blog).
Microsoft, Yahoo Will Let Users Exchange Messages By Linking IM Networks!
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Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday that they will link up their free instant messaging services to create a combined community of 275 million users.
The deal comes as they take on entrenched messaging leader AOL and market newcomer Google Inc..
Donald Trump To Build Tulip-Shaped Hotel In Dubai
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U.S. real estate and gambling kingpin Donald Trump is joining forces with top Emirates developer Nakheel LLC to build a tulip-shaped hotel on a man-made island shaped like a palm tree (Nakheel).
The deal that Nakheel announced Wednesday October 5th brings together two of the world’s flashiest developers, and marks Trump’s first foray into the Middle East.
Update (May 6th 2006): Looks like the tulip design is no good! Nakheel and The Trump Organization have unveiled a new design for the Trump International Hotel & Tower, the centerpiece of The Palm Jumeirah.
The US$600 million Trump International Hotel & Tower, The Palm Jumeirah is a stunning 48 storey mixed-use hotel and residential building, anchoring the trunk of the 5 by 5km man made palm tree shaped island which lies off the coast of Dubai. The first of three such islands to be built in Dubai, The Palm Jumeirah will be one of the world’s premier resorts, offering a wealth of beachfront hotels, residences, retail and leisure.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman, Nakheel stated: “The new design ensures that the property will be a striking landmark – a bold monument at the heart of the island. The property’s taller, more slender design allows for a linear view through the building to the top of the island and provides spectacular panoramas of the island, Dubai and the Arabian Gulf, with all rooms benefiting from a sea view.”
"In building the vision of Dubai, Nakheel is committed to creating genuinely unique projects which are at the forefront of innovation", Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem continued. "The new design of the Trump International Hotel and Tower lives up to this commitment and will provide a fitting landmark centerpiece for The Palm Jumeirah, our flagship development.
UAE Donates $100 million & Sets Up Field Hospitals As A Relief Effort To Pakistan
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The president of the United Arab Emirates ordered yesterday provision of $100 million as an urgent relief to the victims of the earthquake which hit Pakistan.
On the other hand, The president of the UAE ordered the same day the UAE Armed Forces to set up field hospitals in the earthquake affected areas in Pakistan and to provide urgent medical aid in form of medicines and other means of treatment to the tremor's victims. Also the city of Dubai sent Dubai Police Rescue Teams to Islamabad as shown in the picture above.
It worth mentioning that the United States had pledged $50 million as urgent relief to the victims of Pakistan's earthquake.
eBay & VeriSign Form Strategic Alliance For Online Commerce & Security
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eBay Inc. will buy VeriSign's payment processing business for $370 million and merge it with its PayPal unit as part of a wider e-commerce payment services and security alliance, the companies said on Monday.
The move was seen as letting PayPal, already the largest online payments company, expand faster beyond its core audience of eBay-based transactions and to compete better with credit cards as an online-payment system, analysts said.
VeriSign's payment gateway software connects Web businesses with payment processors generally run by major banks. VeriSign also is the dominant supplier of software used to manage secure credit card transactions between consumers and Web sites.
Google Yourself Through (Google Logo Maker)
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Just to take a break from the usual, I decided to post this blog here about this cute (Google Logo Maker). You can also try (Yahoo Logo Maker). The picture above looks nice .... maybe this is what I will do to Google page if I decided to buy the company! ;p
UC Berkeley SIMS: Watch Online Archived Lectures By Sergey Brin, John Battelle!
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The School of Information Management & System (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley offers a course this semester (SIM 141) titled Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business .
The required book for this course is , The Search, by John Battelle which I have talked about in one Fahad Inc. Blogs (click here).
The class featuring many presentations by some of the biggest names in the search biz including John Battelle, Sergey Brin, and MANY others. Even more exciting, all of the lectures are on the web and archived!
You can read the UC Berkeley Press Release regarding Sergey Brin visit at:
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf called yesterday’s magnitude-7.7 earthquake the worst disaster in Pakistan history.
The quake was felt across a wide swath of South Asia from central Afghanistan to western Bangladesh. It swayed buildings in the capitals of three nations, with the damage spanning at least 250 miles from Jalalabad in Afghanistan to Srinagar in northern Indian territory. In Islamabad, a 10-story building collapsed.
“I have been informed by my department that more than 30,000 people have died in Kashmir,” Tariq Mahmmod, communications minister for the Himalayan region, told The Associated Press.
Some 400 children were killed at two schools in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor occurred at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). It struck about 95 km (60 miles) northeast of Islamabad and was felt across the subcontinent, shaking buildings in the Afghan, Indian and Bangladeshi capitals.
The first quake was followed over the next 18 hours by more than 20 aftershocks with magnitudes of between 4.5 and 6.3. Thousands of people in northern Pakistan slept in the open while residents of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, were kept on edge through the night by tremors.
Please Help & Donate for the sake of victims of this horrible disaster. One way you can donate is through Muslim Hands organization at:
Google announced yesterday at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco Google Reader, an online RSS feed reader. Google Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web. You can:
Automatically get the latest news and updates from your favorite sites.
Sort your reading list based on what's most relevant to you.
Organize what you read with labels and stars.
Quickly share interesting items with friends via email or by blogging them, directly from Reader.
Right away, I have signed in using my Gmail account and easily I was able to use search to find my new sites and add their rss feeds to my reading list. Google Reader will save me alot of time navigating between different news sites. Now I can navigate between all my news sites at one place ... Google Reader! Thanks again Google for this useful tool ;)
The Ilkone I800 cellular telephone generates five automated reminders a day at prayer time, points Muslims in the direction of Mecca and contains a complete, authorized version of the Islamic holy book, The Quran, in Arabic and English. Read the following article from MSNBC:
Made by the Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based Startup SAMCOM, Ilkone’s entry into the European market follows a successful introduction in the Middle East and Asia, where it is available in 23 countries.
World First WiFi Digital Camera: Kodak or Nikon?
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Kodak has begun shipping what the company claims is the worlds first digital camera to feature WiFi capabilities - the EasyShare One.
With WiFi capabilities, you can e-mail, upload, view and share pictures anywhere there is WiFi internet access, this means at home, Star Bucks or any Hotspot area.
The EasyShare One has an MSRP price of $599 which includes the WiFi card. Read the following article:
On the other hand, Nikon also announced the release of what they also claim is the first two new Wi-Fi enabled models. The Coolpix P1 and P2 are built-in Wi-Fi-enabled (IEEE802.11b/g) digital cameras. Click at the link below: http://www.physorg.com/news6183.html
So which one is telling the truth? Which one is the first WiFi digital camera?
Another free service to promote your site and possibly earn you some money. Using (Cafepress.com), it is very easy to design your shirts, mugs, clocks, mouse pads, stickers, and teddy bears! Just have your image ready and the rest is so simple.
Look at the sample products above with (Fahad Inc) logo and URL on them. It just took me few minutes to sign up. open a new shop, and add my logo to the products I select.
And by the way, you don't have to have a website to create your own products! You can put any picture or logo to those products and purchase them directly from CafePress.com.
OpenOffice.org 1.1: Great Alternative for Microsoft Office!
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If you would like to work on a Microsoft Document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), but you don't have MS Office or you think it is too expensive? Then you have this great alternative! It is very much compatible with Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) ... you can open MS Office documents or save the documents created by OpenOffice as MS Office documents!
Created by Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
The total download size is around (65MB). I would recommend that you try it .... and you don't have anything to loose and I'm sure you will like it as I have! :)
You can also download the USB portable version of OpenOffice.org at:
When I came to work, I realized that I don't have an Acrobat Distiller to convert my MS Word document to PDF! I was supposed to submit a proposal for my professor at the university for a final paper I have to submit at the end of this semester.
Luckly, I came across this free service online (PDF Online). You can convert your word documents (up to 2MB) for free and the PDF will be emailed to you. I also found the following interesting site:
The link is for (PDF Zone) which the online authority for PDF and document management professionals. You can find alot of interesting discussions and articles all related to PDF and PDF creation and management.
A press conference was held today by Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy and Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Google Inc. today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world. The agreement aims to make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, helping millions of users worldwide to participate in the next wave of Internet growth.
Interesting enough, Just after announcing the decision of holding this press conference both Google’s and Sun’s shares went up. Sun’s shares rose 26 cents, to $4.19 and the shares of Google raised $2.22 to $318.68.
This is a very nice list indeed published by Time.com. How did they come up with their 50 best? According to Time.com, they took readers' suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad!
The categories are Arts & Entertainment, Blogs, Lifestyle, Health & Hobbies, News & Information, and Shopping.
If you think that the free 2.5GB Gmail account from Google is not enough for you, then you might consider this other free service. This free invite-only web-based service is still beta. I cannot talk much about it cause I still have not used it. If you have used it, then give me some feedback in the comments section below.
Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe Systems PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said Saturday (two days ago).
Also according to CNET, Microsoft says Office 12 beta is coming this November 2005!
British Researcher Unearths 20 Million Year Old Spider!
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Paleontologist Dr David Penney from the Manchester University in England has discovered a 20 million year old spider that was embedded in amber and was thus preserved in a near perfect state.
Penney has used two droplets of blood found in the amber to accurately assess the age of the specimen.
The details about this find can be found in the latest issue of the Journal Palaeontology.
Xena, the possible 10th planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim little satellite called Gabrielle, its discoverers reported.
Xena, known formally as 2003 UB313, is nicknamed after the warrior princess of television fame. And its moon Gabrielle is named after Xena's TV travelling companion.
The moon is about 155 miles wide and 60 times fainter than Xena, the farthest-known object in the solar system. It is currently 9 billion miles away from the sun, or about three times Pluto's current distance from the sun.
It takes Xena 560 Earth years to complete one trip around the Sun, compared to Pluto's 250 years!
Finally after long years of hard work of the Muslim men and women of Fort Worth Islamic Center of Tarrant County (IATC), the new Mosque is officially opened today! Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi delievered the first Friday lecture in the new mosque.
The land was donated to the IATC back in 1996, and since then alot of hard work and donations has been gathered for this honorable project. May Allah bless all the people who contributed in turning the dream of building a new and bigger mosque for the Fort Worth, Texas community to reality! :)
Go Wireless Tablet With Nokia 770 Internet Tablet!
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Ready to browse the internet wireless with Nokia's new Internet Tablet?
With the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet you can browse your favorite sites and catch up on your email - from right where you are. Whether you're relaxing on the sofa or enjoying the moment at your favorite café, if you have broadband access over WI-FI the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet gives you instant wireless access to the Web. You can also stream files, tune in to Internet radio, News Reader, or play your favorite videos and music.
Ready to move? The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet will only be available online, direct from Nokia and is scheduled to be released in Q4 of 2005
Sony & SanDisk Develop "Memory Stick Micro" (M2) Format
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Yesterday, SanDisk & Sony announced the development of the Memory Stick Micro format, an ultra-small IC recording media designed to meet the growing storage needs of highly compact, multifunctional mobile phones. Licensing for the development of Memory Stick Micro compatible hardware will begin October 3, 2005.
The Memory Stick Micro media will be made available in the first half of 2006.
The dimension of the new M2 Memory Stick Micro is just (15 x 12.5 x 1.2 mm) & the maximum theoretical capacity is 32GB!
