Sapo (the portguese word for “frog”) is the biggest portuguese ISP and portal. I decided to subscribe their ADSL offer (€35 month for 2Mb) and had a surprise today when I opened the “secret” envelop that contains my username and password…
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Professor Henry Petroski from Duke University North Carolina says to a Financial Times interview that it is difficult to get owners of sophisticated digital gadgets to use them at full potential. He points out the example of Duke that last year offered incoming students an iPod, to make it easier for them to listen to lectures and to stimulate creative uses of digital technology.
Well, this year there will be no iPods for the “kids”.
It seems that the experiment has failed: “students only used them for music” .
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Sony has unveiled its next-generation PlayStation games console, that includes its proprietary Blu-Ray DVD drive, to combat Microsoft’s latest showcase of its Xbox platform, the 360 console.
Update: Nintendo reveals its Revolution.
The new PlayStation 3 will arrive in the spring of 2006 and Xbox 360 is still expected this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Kodak’s EasyShare One is the first consumer camera that uses Wi-Fi to transfer files between your camera and PC. Read the rest of this entry »
RIM (Research In Motion) beats PalmOne on handheld devices according to Gartner consulting. Blackberry is the most popular PDA among north-americans. Read the rest of this entry »