Microsoft’s software sales must be lagging pretty bad if they feel it’s needed to enter into the junk food business. We already were witness to the Microsoft Soda rage, but when exactly did they start releasing ketchup-flavored potato chips in Egypt? Ketchup Windows Chips can only be washed down with a large swig of Natural “Talking Rain” flavored Windows Soda. ...
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Windows XP Coming To OLPC In 2008
Microsoft has announced they will be testing out the One Laptop Per Child device with Windows XP, sexing up the current Linux based system. Microsoft hasn’t announced how likely an official Windows version of the OLPC XO device will appear, though if tests are successful we can expect a better idea by the second half of 2008. Adding XP to ...
Read More »Apple Thinks Windows Is A Virus
Type the word “virus” into the search field on the Apple site and you get an interesting result. The word “Windows” pops up with a sly looking smiley face, telling you that you’ll love Apple. Steve Jobs has always got a few sly tricks up his sleeve. All in all we think its just harmless fun rather than dirty tactics. ...
Read More »Elecom Vista Media Center Remote
Listen up, Vista owners. If you’ve been having any difficulty or pet peeves navigating through Vista’s media center, than the RC-MV01 from Elecom might be an attractive gadget to buy. The simple remote contains all the buttons you need to control media center “remotely”. — Andrew Dobrow Link
Read More »First “Window” XP dumbphone, Microsoft screams WTF
Chinese phone companies are amazing, after ripping off Porsche they’re going after Microsoft today… but this time it really deserves some attention. First off it houses a 3″ QVGA touch screen in a 17mm thin body, booo Nokia. Secondly it has stereo speakers, booo SonyEricsson; but seriously we’re starting to feel sorry for Microsoft, their Vista sold only 244 copies ...
Read More »A glimpse of how Windows Vista could have looked like
The new Windows Vista system is system-resource hungry, making your Core 2 Duo PC run like a PDA. The program itself isn’t cheap either, those who can’t afford it either go for illegal copies, or choose not to upgrade at all; but you got to give it to them, the new user interface (UI) does look good. Today we came ...
Read More »Genuine Windows Vista sold only 244 copies in the whole of China
Whilst Microsoft was bragging about the sales number of their latest OS Windows Vista, few would actually know that they have only managed to sell 244 copies in the whole of China in the first 2 weeks. You heard that right, and that’s the number quoted from the headquarters of the Windows Vista chief (90% national volume) distributor in Beijing. ...
Read More »Meizu rips off Windows Vista, after iPhone and iPod nano
Meizu (the Chinese company famous for ripping off other people’s designs and making them work better than the original) has done it again. After taking inspiration from the iPod nano and the iPhone, Microsoft is not spared either. But really, this time is just a soft rip-off, since it’s Meizu’s skin hacked by Meizu fans to make it look like ...
Read More »World’s first cellphone supporting both DVB-T and DVB-H
Taiwanese cellphone company GIGABYTE has unveiled the world’s first cellphone that supports both DVB-T and DVB-H digital broadcasting standards. The t600 is also a smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the CPU is an Intel PXA270 520Mhz which is reasonably powerful. The t600 has 256MB ROM and 96MB RAM, external memory used here is microSD. In terms of ...
Read More »HTC wants to merge with SonyEricsson and make babies
“Mobiltillverkaren HTC, v ¤xer lika snabbt som Sony Ericsson. Bolaget ¤r kund till Ericsson och i en intervju med di.se s ¤ger vd:n och grundaren Peter Chou att han g ¤rna pratar samg ¥ende med Sony Ericsson” What is that supposed to mean? Yeah we wondered too, apparently the founder and CEO of HTC, Peter Chou expressed his interest in ...
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