According to a recent study by research firm ChangeWave, Apple’s Macintosh line of computers is well on its way to gaining a sizable portion of the computing market in the coming months. Suffice it to say, Apple is the world’s best trend setter. And a world where Apple is commanding such a large portion of the market could be good for all of us.
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The company’s latest diabolical plan involves giving away free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate ‘07, Money Plus Premium, Encarta Premium or Streets and Trips — scary, we know. All you need to do is fill out a few surveys now and then, and download a little app that lets Microsoft watch your every move for three months.
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After not getting offered a discounted laptop in Amazon’s Customer Vote promotion, one customer wrote a “cheeky” letter to Amazon Executive Customer Service. It’s only appropriate that Amazon had their own cheeky response.
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Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to “w00t.”
“W00t,” a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher’s online poll for the word that best sums up 2007…
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Merriam-Webster’s president, John Morse, said “w00t” was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology.( iAsk, Why? Because this Morse code blends idiocy with out-of-touchiness)”
“It shows a really interesting thing that’s going on in language. It’s a term that’s arrived only because we’re now communicating electronically with each other,” Morse said.
(iSay, no we’re not, America’s writers are on strike and so of course we get a number-word. Next year it will just be numbers, then windowings, then gestures, grunts, blinks, until we either force telepathy on the human race, or more likely people stop speaking American English altogether. >>>More
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Ogg Vorbis and Theora are two media formats — for audio and video, respectively — that could have been part of the HTML5 spec, and would have allowed for a standard method of broadcasting audio and video. Apple and Nokia fought and seem to have successfully removed it from the HTML5 spec.
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