Archive for January, 2009

Facebook down during the day.

It seems like Facebook has decided to go offline for maintenance during the day. Assuming majority of their users are in America. You would expect them to perform maintenance during off hours like at night.

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January 30, 2009   Posted in: Internet  No Comments

Sprint Palm Pre can be supoosedly Pre-Ordered

I emailed Sprint the other day to find out details on when the new Palm Pre will be available. This is what I got:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Sprint Customer Service
wrote:
Dear Chirag Shah,
Thank you for contacting Sprint.
You can visit to following link http://now.sprint.com/pre/?id12=iSearch_MA_010809_Pre
to preorder the handset Palm Pre.
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January 29, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Cell Phone, Mobile, Palm  One Comment

Superbowl Security to use Microsoft Surface

NFL security for the Superbowl will be high tech on Sunday. Microsoft Surface will be used by Tampa Authorities manage all the activities before and after during the nations most watched event. Read

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January 29, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Microsoft, Sports  No Comments

Engadget: Apple vs Palm and their patents

Nilay Patel of Engadget gives a preview of what all this Apple suing Palm potential is.
A must read for anyone excited about iPhones newest competition.

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January 28, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Apple, Palm  No Comments

New number One

Google is no longer the number one company to work for. Forbes magazine released its latest list of top 100 companies to work for and the new number one is NetApp. Read more

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January 28, 2009   Posted in: Internet, Off Topic  No Comments

Guitar Hero III – first video game to hit $1 billion in sales

Activation reported at CES that Guitar Hero III sales have reached a whopping $1 billion.
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January 13, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Video Games  No Comments

Palm Pre Accessories show up

Palm Pre Accessories have shown up on Palm’s Website. Which mean Palm Pre might be closer then you think.

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January 11, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Mobile  No Comments

Palm Pre will be instant competitor of iPhone

Although the phone will first come to Sprint, the Palm Pre should be an instant competitor to the iPhone. This is great news for sprint users and their extremely fast 3g network. (Best 3g data network I’ve used)
Reasons:
1. The use of multitouch.
2. Wireless charging ability
3. Cut and Paste (a must have for a smart [...]

January 11, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Cell Phone, Palm  No Comments

Windows 7 Keys

Microsoft doesnt have unique keys for beta release of Windows 7. Regular users are getting the following (tech net/msdn users are getting different keys)
32bit:
QXV7B-K78W2-QGPR6-9FWH9-KGMM7
6JKV2-QPB8H-RQ893-FW7TM-PBJ73
GG4MQ-MGK72-HVXFW-KHCRF-KW6KY
TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC
4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH
64bit:
RFFTV-J6K7W-MHBQJ-XYMMJ-Q8DCH
482XP-6J9WR-4JXT3-VBPP6-FQF4M
JYDV8-H8VXG-74RPT-6BJPB-X42V4
D9RHV-JG8XC-C77H2-3YF6D-RYRJ9
7XRCQ-RPY28-YY9P8-R6HD8-84GH3

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January 10, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Microsoft  No Comments

Windows 7 first freeze

Well it was too good to be true. I experienced my first Windows 7 freeze. I downloaded IM client Digsby (great Adium alternative for windows) with Firefox and while it was installing Firefox got not responding. I was unable to end task through task manager. Instead when I accessed task manager [...]

January 10, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Beta Review, Microsoft  3 Comments