Posts Tagged ‘News’

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs Passed Away Today

We heard lots of Jobs’s dead message. but this is real. The great man in this world of IT, passed away today, 2011 Oct 5, he is only 56 years old. We do not know whether there is other guy is greater than Jobs, maybe Bill Gates? But we know Jobs is the only one [...]

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China Government’s New Search Engine

2011 June 20, People’s Daily, a News and Media company which managed by China Government, rebranded their own search engine, the domain name changed from Goso.cn to Jike.com. Jike, means fastly and quickly in Chinese. People’s Daily said it also chose the name because it sounds like “geek” in English, “representing a computer expert or [...]

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Air Canada Workers Strike

Just now we received email from Air Canada: Dear customer, We are very disappointed that an agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) leadership has not been reached, leading call centre and airport customer service agents in Canada to take strike action. How will this affect your travel plans? Rest assured that we will continue [...]

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An interesting interactive ‘virtual mirror’ – Swivel

In the Spring of 2011 Demo.com, A company named FaceCake Marketing Technologies showed their virtual mirror system – Swivel. We found this kind of techs mostly based on some high interactive camera, such as Microsoft’s Kinect. Even the CEO in the interview mentioned they also can use other cameras, but I doubt it they can [...]

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Office 365 and iCloud news

Today we got 2 news about cloud computingL The first one is that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed Office 365 will be released in June 28, this is no more bate version. "June 28th is the date for General Availability of Office 365! > 100,000 real customers on beta…Partners, are you ready???" Jon Roskill, corporate [...]

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Microsoft to buy Skype tomorrow ?

Updated: We got a newest news: Microsoft has already done the deal, the purchase price is $8.5 billion. I think Microsoft will announce tomorrow morning  (May 10, 2011). ————— We read lots of message about Microsoft is to buy out Skype today or tomorrow or soon, the price is about $7 billion or $8 billion. [...]

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Japan Earthquake 2011

2011.03.11, Japan, 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake. God bless Japanese and Japan ! Here we collected some pictures from internet:

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Apple iPad 2 coming

Today, Apple iPad 2 was unveiled. The second-generation iPad from Apple is thinner, faster, lighter, and whiter, but not a radical departure from the original. Pricing is also holding steady, starting at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi-only model, up to 64GB with 3G (provided by AT&T or Verizon without contract) priced at $829.

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