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Google Phone Launch

September 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment

This Tuesday, T-Mobile will launch Dream, a phone made by HTC which is first Google phone or to be exact the phone that running on Google’s Android software. Android is the first complete, open-source, and free mobile platform. It is develop by a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies called The Open Handset Alliance.

Eventhough the launch will end the long-awaited introduction of Android base phone, some experts said it not likely won’t be accompanied by the mad rush that surrounded Apple’s introduction of the iPhone. Researchers from Strategy Analytics are predicting that 0.4 million Android phones will sell in the fourth quarter this year, making up 4 percent of the smartphone market share in the U.S. In comparison, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones in the first quarter the phone was on the market, although the iPhone was for sale for a full three months and the Android phone will only likely sell for two months before the end of the year. While T-Mobile is planning a launch event on Tuesday, the phone is not expected to become available until as late as the end of October.

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Blog World Expo 2008

September 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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The 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exclusive “Executive & Entrepreneur” conference beginning September 19th. The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld features the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. If you are currently blogging, vlogging, podcasting, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or just want to know what the blogosphere is all about, then you need to be at the most comprehensive blogging convention–BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at: 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109.

Get the detail at http://www.blogworldexpo.com/

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WordPress 2.6.2 Released

September 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment

WordPress 2.6.2 was released today and contains few bug fixes. Ryan from WordPress Blog explained,

“If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password.  The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit.  However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password.  Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly.  The attack is difficult to accomplish,  but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.”

Even though I’m not enable open registration on my blog, I already upgraded to this latest release to keep my wordpress blog up-to-date cause there are also contains a handful of bug fixes. To see the detail, check out at http://wordpress.org/development/.

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Google Chrome Browser : Simple and Fast

September 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

While we already have a perfectly good Web browser like Firefox, Opera, IE, or Safari, do we still need another Web browser? Yes, if we want something simpler, a little faster, and less prone to crashing… that’s what Google Inc.’s new Chrome want to offer.

As we know, Mozilla’s Firefox 3 and Apple Inc.’s Safari 3 browsers have their loyal users but aren’t as widely used as IE. So, last week released Chrome from Google, the search engine giant might be a Web browser that competes directly with market leader IE7, from Microsoft Corp.

I tested Chrome for a few days and yes I can feel it does offer a few innovations and hits the mark on speed, stability and simplicity. So far I thought Firefox is the fastest browser, but Chrome beat it during browsing the net with multiple pages open simultaneously.

Chrome certainly has the plainest user interface of any browser I’ve used, including IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Don’t try to find out where they put menu bar, status bar, or even an option to organize bookmarks cause its really not exist in this beta version. That features might be to be added later when official release. [Read more...]

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Gustav

September 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment

While everybody remembering Katrina 3-year anniversary which were killed more than 1,600 people, the Gulf Coast now wait for another powerful hurricane… its Gustav.

1. Historic evacuation of nearly 2 millions people from Louisiana coast complete. Thousands more had left from Mississippi, Alabama and flood-prone southeast Texas.

2. Gustav already killed at least 94 people on its path through the Caribbean.
3. It had top sustained winds of 115 mph, and was likely to stay a Category 3 storm when it made landfall west of New Orleans. Category 3 storms have winds between 111 mph and 130 mph.
4. The nation’s economic attention was focused on Gustav’s effect on refineries and offshore petroleum production rigs. The combination of prolonged production interruptions, such as occurred when Katrina and Rita damaged the Gulf infrastructure, could trigger rising prices.

Satellite Image of Gustav

Read recent Gustav’s news at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gustav_gulf_coast

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