Telethon raises 59 million dollars for Chile
At the event organized by the popular entertainer Don Francisco Chilean participation of political leaders, artists and entrepreneurs, the money will go to earthquake victims.
Why NOT buy the iPad…
The iPad is in many ways one of the first products of its kind–making it hard to draw easy comparisons. When weighed against high-end smartphones, users should know that the iPad is not designed for voice calls or text messages (though there are apps that can work around this limitation). More importantly, the iPad does not include a built-in camera for taking photos or videos.
New device makes the human body touch!
The Skinput works with multiple sensors to locate areas where there are taps.
So far it is the presentation of the prototype of this technology which have been conducted by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft.
The iPad on stores, April 3rd!
Initially marketed only with wifi equipment. The price range will go from 499 to 829 dollars.
And Apple said in the last days of April, this highly anticipated device can be bought in Spain, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the UK.
Chile’s earthquake affected Earth’s Rotation axis. The day is now 1.26 microseconds shorter!
This was discovered a group of NASA scientists. The planet’s axis shifted 8 cm.
According to information collected by the portal ‘Business Week’, the scientists used a computer model to calculate the effects of the earthquake and found that on Saturday the day was shortened 1.26 microseconds (millionths of seconds) and that the axis of Earth moved about 8 centimeters.
71 year old wins the $10.000 Apple Contest!
Apple had a contest that rewarded the person down the track number 10,000 million.
Louie Sulca, a realtor pensioner, the amount gained after downloading the song Guess Things Happen That Way, by the artist Johnny Cash. However, only learned of the award until he received a call from Steve Jobs on 24 February.
No more application notifications in FaceBook!
The information was published officially in the Facebook Developers Blog.
The announcement is good news for those who were unhappy with the many reports without information was linked directly with them. However, there is a final remedy.
Bad idea to have your boss on facebook!
Of the thousand people polled, 520 found an error ‘add’ to the boss.
The survey, conducted between 12 and 15 January this year by Project Liberty Mutual Responsibility, also showed that 76 percent considered acceptable to be friends with a coworker.
Chile’s Earthquake was huge!
Today around 1 AM GMT -5, Chile suffered an earthquake of 8.8 in the scale of Richter.
It’s center was 90KM from Concepcion and around 500 away from Santiago(Chile’s Capital)
’80s actor is found dead
I’ll admit I have never seen an episode of Growing Pains but this is still sad. The guy battled through depression and finally fell to it’s evil charm. Well, my heart goes out to the family friends of Andrew Koenig. For those who don’t know, Andrew Koenig played the character Boner. (more…)
