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I travel a great deal and I am always shopping for better deals on Hotels and Airfare. Here is Hawaii we have a large number of Travel Agents, it seems they have new deal every day. You usually do not find out about the deal unless you call. Who has time to site in a hold queue all the time.
Some results of a intuitive project at the University of Michigan is starting to be published. Part 1 of the results of the project thus far is available here. [www.thecommunityengine.com]
It seems people like the concept of Podcast Connect. Withing 15 minutes of making my initial announcement we had 15 e-mails in our inbox and by this morning we am sending out, "We will get back to you as soon as possible messages". I was on the phone with the Press and people I would have probably never talked to
What do you do if your customers are happy with older versions of your software and you want to make more money off of them? Why you force them to upgrade by taking away some of the functionality of their older versions. That’s what Intuit is doing with Quicken users. People who rely on older versions of Quicken, 2001 & 2002, to download their financial data from banks and brokerages must upgrade to Quicken 2005 or lose this time-saving feature, says the publisher of the popular personal finance package.
Panasonic has released a new Oxyride battery that doubles the performance and doubles their life for the same price. These are disposables and we all know how expensive it is to keep those digital cameras and portable gaming devices in batteries.
As Yahoo turns 10 today, March 2, 2005, they are giving out free ice cream to all it’s members. All you need to do is go to this website and follow the instructions to receive a coupon for a scoop of free ice cream from Baskin-Robbins. Guess where I’m going for lunch? :-)
If you’re a C++ programmer, this will be of interest. Sean Parent and Foster Brereton have opened and will maintain a new website called opensource.adobe.com. Adobe's open source web site is the home for the Adobe Source Libraries (ASL) and information about other Adobe open source projects. ASL provides peer-reviewed, and portable C++ source libraries. The libraries are intended to
America Online is opening their services to non-members in an attempt to become a major online portal like MSN or Yahoo. Their first step was earlier this week when they announced that their AIM instant messaging service was opening up to third party software. Now they announced that AOL would start a webmail service for both members and non-members called AOL Mail on the Web.
Podcast Connect welcome's Podcast Promo's to the Podcast Connect family of websites. We are very happy to announce this strategic alliance. Here is their site launch Press Release (March 1st 2005) Trucker Tom says: I want to announce to everyone that a new podcast promo exchange site is now up and running called PodcastPromos.Com located at www.podcastpromos.com. The idea is
Not long ago we had a spirited discussion here on GeekNewsCentral about the fact that everyone was running WinXP and they all should be updated to the latest security patches. Well now I have some figures to show you just how old of operating systems we have on our computers. According to this Yahoo News article, “ The research firm IDC estimates that of the roughly 514 million paid-for copies of Windows on desktops and laptops worldwide at the end of 2004, almost 21 percent were the aging Win 95, 98 and Millennium Edition releases. Among the 19 million Mac OS desktop and laptop installations IDC surveyed, just about half were running releases predating Mac OS X.”
We all would love to have a cloaking device like the Romulans on Star Trek and now Electronic Engineers have taken the first step to developing one. “Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia say that a 'plasmonic cover' could render objects "nearly invisible to an observer". Their idea remains just a proposal at this stage, but it doesn't obviously violate any laws of physics.”
Did you ever wonder what information was on the magnetic strip on the back of your credit card? Well you’re not alone, many folks would love to find that out. Now a Sourceforge project has begun that gives you the tools to capture, modify, validate, analyses, and shares data from your magnetic stripes. “The data is captured through different hardware interfaces (or stdin), the contents decoded into the correct character set, and then a CDDB-like database attempts to figure out what the contents mean”
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