Last week we reported of Facebook asking its users to reset their notifications page. We all know this Facebook and many other services of the sort love sending a countless emails to its users notifying them of new friend requests, wall posts, etc. Dan Frommer has thrown light on another aspect (in fun); spam its users inboxes. It’s surprising that the great minds who have made Facebook the success it is right now couldn’t find where the fault was. So was that trick to boost traffic? Will Facebook be losing a few more things, like photos, info, etc? We all know it acts pretty funny every now and then.
Archive for November, 2008
The new Blockbuster set top box and media player that was announced yesterday is powered by Linux on a MIPS-based Broadcom chipset, as disclosed by a 2Wire representative – the company that is making these digital media players. The Broadcom chipset in the device is equipped with a 400MHz MIPS32/16e processor core, and is built on outsourced 65nm process technology.
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Toby Coppel, Yahoo’s Managing Director for Europe and Canada has left the company today. BoomTown has now managed to get hold of the Internal memo sent out by Sue Decker, President of Yahoo:
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If you are a fan of Apple and even a logo on a device would be enough then China’s flip version for the iPhone is the right device for you. The device is light (110 grams), small (105 X 53 X 17 mm) and comes loaded with a 3.0 mega pixel camera, much more than what most of the expensive phones offer. But trust me, I have used a couple of phones from China, all of them have a VGA camera whether it has 2.0 or 3.2 Mega Pixel written on it. But on design, I will just say it appear pretty neat. All hail to China for making the countless cheaper versions of the popular phones (it all started with Nokia).
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Fuelstart is startup that provides a shortcut to users looking to find out about information and prices on home heating fuels. Fuelstart’s search engine aims to provide home owners with a simple way to find, compare and contact heating fuel companies. This kind of service is especially useful in winter as people scurry to seek best prices for oil, wood, pellets, bio fuel, etc.
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BitTorrent client uTorrent which was available on Windows PCs only, is now available for Mac as well. uTorrent is one of the most largely used application of BitTorrent. The company started working on their Mac project two years back. The alpha version of the release was leaked a few months back but the official release contains some improvements and is much better. Currently in Beta, the latest release can only run on Leopard/Intel Macs.
According to the VP of Product Management at BitTorrent, Simon Morris:
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Fujitsu Siemens has come up with a very interesting proposition to lure consumers in buying their notebooks. The company has launched a Lifebook4Life initiative which allows you to buy a Lifebook series notebook from Fujitsu Siemens and than get a new Lifebook every three years for the rest of your life.
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When everyone’s busy thinking about holidays, Amazon has taken the opportunity to put out news of shutting down Alexa Web Search. New users had already been barred from using the service and those who had been using it since it began have till January to find an alternate to it. The following email had been sent to developers, citing low usage of the service to be the reason for pulling off the plug:
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Dell has now started offering its big business clients 0% Financing, meaning that you could just take equipment from dell and pay the principal over an agreed lease term without haying to pay any interest. Dell currently has $9 billion in cash and has now decided to put that cash pile to some good use in order to boost sales and help businesses get the equipment they need on the payment terms they can afford. Dell has also slashed laptop and server prices by as much as 20%. Expect more of this to happen in the future.
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