Google and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum have partnered up to show what the Museum have called the evidence of atrocities in the Sudan Darfur region…
REUTERS LINK : http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1043905220070410?feedType=RSS
Gizmodo has given some information about the new Zune 2.0 and Flash Zune (Don’t know, don’t care). Here is what the information we were told by Gizmodo…
- Zune 2.0 and the Flash Zune will be out this year.
- Zune 2.0 is like Gen 1 but thinner.
- Larger HDD, same doubleshot finish.
- Flash Zune is 3 by 1 1/4 by 1/4.
- Flash Zune is video capable
- Flash Zune’s Screen covers 75% of the front
- Flash Zune will have WiFi
- Flash Zune will have doubleshot
- Design phase is over, but some tweaks to hardware will occur.
- 2.4 million next gen Zunes will be made before 2007’s holiday season, and that 2/3 of em are the Flash Zune players.
“This blog may contain crude language…”
This what will be on blogs soon if Tim O’Reilly gets his way. After controversial messages on Kathy Sierra’s blog, O’Reilly has posted the bloggers’ Code of Conduct.
WTF… This is just plain stupid. We, bloggers, are not journalists. We are in the web, but not in real life. Bloggers don’t deserve a code of conduct after some stupid messages that may include death threats by some stupid bloggers. The rest don’t deserve this kind of bloody treatment.
This is not freeing speech… It’s restricting you on what content you want.
By the way… if you want to see the draft, click here.
Starting on May 7, any users that have buddies on Windows Live Messenger [Previously titled MSN Messenger] will be able to chat to them. This software, titled Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, will allow gamers to chat to other Xbox 360s who have the software, Windows PCs or any mobile device…
As well, Microsoft plans to release a new controller with a QWERTY keyboard on it. Previously, you had to use the on screen keyboard or plug in a USB Keyboard.
Joost… that new service by those guys who created Skype, before selling it to E-Bay. Well, beta testing is one of the geek’s passion and dreams. But Joost decided to use it as marketing. Terence Huynh writes…
The Consumerist has a blog posting of Apple’s Return Policy. If you have a hard drive that needs repairing, you get a new one and Apple keeps the old one. And if you ask for a new one… You get a big fat NO!
MySpace has announced that it will create a voting platform for the 2008 US Presidential elections. However, this will be a mock vote and will not count to the results of the elections. Still, 11 candidates have signed on to be the ‘People’s’ Choice.
Criticism has arose as TechCruch says that Facebook, even though it has less members compared to MySpace, should be doing this experiment as it ‘requires an e-mail address…’
Lenovo, previously the least environmentally friendly company, has now gone to the top of the most environmentally friendly company; according to Greenpeace.
However, Apple is last on that list. Apple have denounced the result and claims that it has been doing it’s part. Apple Australia has backed this claim.
SonyBMG, the second-largest record label, have announced that they have ditched the hard copy demo discs in favor of posting your songs on their site.
Musicians will either have to sign up on www.columbiademos.co.uk or www.rcademos.co.uk to blog their music, photos and videos. SonyBMG hopes it breaks the barrier between the artists and the music labels.
SonyBMG is a joint venture between Sony and Bertelsmann AG
The BBC is reporting that teachers are now the victims of ‘cyber bullying.’ This is due to malicious comments on the web, via text or video.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has warned of the distress caused to teachers by anonymous, malicious comments on websites.
“Offensive” comments and mocking video clips should not be allowed to undermine teachers’ authority.
Such public attacks “belittle and bully” classroom teachers, says the teachers’ union.
The union’s general secretary Mary Bousted says that the public mockery of teachers “robs them of dignity and self-esteem”.
Such “verbal abuse” needed to be curbed, the union says - and it is calling on the government to “take all reasonable steps to protect the integrity” of teachers
