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Will The Zune Be A Flop?

Theres Many Reasons Why The iPod May Remain Top Of Gift Lists ANd As The Number Portable Gadget FOr Video And Audio.  One Main Reason Is That People Know iPod, They Know IT Works, They Know Its Reliable. Which To Be Fair Is More Than Can Said For Microsoft.
The Zune Has Maybe 1 Good Thing [...]

Microsoft To Be Sued Over Patent Breach

Alcaltel The French Telecommunications Company Are Threatening To Sue Microsoft Over Alleged Patent Breach.
Alcatel Are Saying That Microsoft Hasn’t Just Breached 1 Patent But Seven In Total. At present It Is unclear Which Software Developed by Microsoft Breaches These Patents, but Alcatel Are Saying That It relates To Video And Network Communications.
 
Alcatel State They Just [...]

Who Is The Richest Fictional Character? Find OUt Here

I Have Absolutely No Idea What This Actually Is About. But Maybe SOme OF YoU Will.
 Move over Santa. The red-clad philanthropist has lost the top slot on Forbes magazines’ list of the 15 richest fictional characters to defence contractor Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks.
 
[Bitten From]
Somebody Help Me Understand This. It Feels LIke My Head Is Gunna Explode.
 
Forbes, [...]

Top 6 Data Disasters.

A List Of Reasons How People Lose Data Has Been Released. In No Particular Order Here They Are.

A University Sprayed a Desktop PC With WD-40 In Hopes It Would Make The Squeak Go Away. Squeak Went, So did Data.
An Already Damaged Harddrive Was Sent To Ontrack In A Pair Of Socks. The Socks Caused More [...]

Fiber Optic Concrete Monitor. Yes Thats Right.. Concrete.

Who Would OF Thought a Monitor Made Out OF Concrete And Fiber Optics. 
This Is The Latest Piece Of Technology To Be Released From Behind The Doors Of Innovation Lab.
This Could Prove Alot Of Good Uses IN The World Of Undergroud Travel . As The Fiber Optics Can Transport Natural Light As Well As Artificial Light.
 
The [...]

Google Closes Deal On YouTube.

Google Has Closed The Buy Out OF Video Sharing Community YouTube.
The Purchase Which Has Just Cost THe Search Engine Giant $1.6 Billion Is FInally Over.
Google Announced The Purchase In October And Have Since Been Crossing the T’s And Dotting The I’s.
They Issued 3.2 Million Shares.
 
YouTube, Google, 
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Homeless People Queueing For The Playstation 3?

Its Been Said That Across Japan A Large Number Of homeless Peole Queued Outside of Japenese Stores In order To grab A Playstation 3, Only To Sell them On To other Consumers So That That Much Awaited Console Could be Sold For mass Profits On eBay.
Homeless People Allegedly Queued Up All night For The Console. [...]

Searching For Failure. Still Returns Whitehouse Website.

Have You Searched Google For The Word Failure Recently? Try It Out. The Top Result Is The Whitehouses Website And The Presidents Page. Why ? Well Its Case Of Googlebombing. A “loophole” Used By Webmasters To Edit Googles Index.
Google Say It May Be Distracting To Some.  But It Doesnt Alter The Integrity Of THeir Index [...]

Playstation 3 Sells Out Within Just Hours.

The Much Awaited Console Went ON Sale In Japan Today With Only 100,000 Units Made Available By Sony.  Gamers Waited Most Of Yeasterday And Last night For The Console To Go On Sale Today. 
With Pre-orders Closed By Amazon After They Sold Out Of Pre Orders Within Minutes OF Starting The Amazing Offer Of A Preorder [...]

Microsoft Offer UMG Royalties On A Per Device Basis On The New Zune.

Microsoft Have Offered Universal Music Group $1 Per Device Royalty For Every $250 Portable MEdia Device They Sell Plus A Percentage OF Download Sales.
The New Zune Device IS Believed To Rival The iPod And Possibly Remove Them FroM Top Of The List Of Portable Media Devices.
Could This Be The Death Of The iPod?
Microsoft, Zune, iPod, [...]

Google Deny Having $500 Million Set Aside For Legal Fees Over YouTube

A Rumour Was Started In Which Was Said That The Search Engine Giant Google Had Set Aside A Fund Of $500 Million To Deal With ANy Legal Issues That May Come Up Dealing With New Purchase Youtube.com.
Chief Executive Of Google, Eric Schmidt Denied That Such A Fund Existed.
Google Are Constantly Trying To Strike Up Deals With Media [...]