Author: Gary Cutlack
Steve Jobs in internet PR DISASTER! Calls fan "rude" as assistant "snort laughs" at photo request
It’s today’s most exciting Apple news!
Some woman (her side of the story) went up to Steve Jobs when he was standing around idly at MacWorld.
She “lightly touched his arm and said ‘hi'” and asked for a photo of her and the man, but was promptly told, by Steve, that she was being rude! He then turned his back on her as one of his Apple chums “snort laughed” at her.
Worse yet, the aftermath of the event was captured on film and is now doing the rounds on various video sharing sites. Like this one:
Google bored of having money – donating $175m to various charities
The piles of cash everywhere at Google HQ are getting a bit too much. Some office doors won’t even open any more, and there’s no cupboard space left for essentials like pens and envelopes thanks to all the bundles of fifties wedged in every cabinet.
That’s why (in one possible dimension) Google has revealed it’s throwing $175 million into helping fight global infection outbreaks – by developing new computer systems…
Internet beats Tesco – one pound in seven was spent online in 2007
Tesco has been pretty proud of the way it rakes in one out of every seven pounds UK shoppers spend and is by far our largest money-taker – but the all-powerful internet beat it last year.
Finally living up to all those promises made by dotcom shopping businesses shortly before they went bust in 2001, The Internet raked in £46.6bn during 2007, a massive 50% increase over 2006’s pocketmoney level of £30.2bn…
The Alternative debuts its "just like Minority Report" motion detection system in London's Orange shop
If you have nothing else to do and happen to live within smelling distance of the urine-soaked alleyways of central London, go check out the Orange store in Carnaby Street.
Tech/design/media agency “The Alternative” has created an interactive window display thing, that uses motion capture – and lets window shoppers browse the currently available Orange mobile phone text/minute packages by waving their arms about in the street like one of London’s particularly crack-addled tramps.
Here is a photo of some slightly confused people wondering what’s happening and what the point of it all is, and probably what’s it’s ever going to be “for”:
CES 2008 LEFTOVERS: An apology regarding our failure to mention the new 8" and 8.9" Eee PCs
We really ought to have done something about this, what with the blog liking Eee PC so much and mentioning Eee PC so often we might as well just go and change that masthead to a big photo of us all kissing an Eee PC and start calling the site “Eee PC News” or “Eee PC Daily Digest.”
Anyway. We didn’t mention the two new Eee PC models because they weren’t actually at CES in a physical new-plastic-smell sense – but Asus did confirm their existence in a press conference with US mobile company Sprint.
VIDEO REVIEW: PIFCO AA battery power performance tested under a variety of conditions
How do the PIFCO batteries perform? Is buying 16 PIFCO zinc carbon batteries for £1 financial suicide, or can they run a torch? And what about the holy grail of battery power tests – can they power up a digital camera?
There’s only one way to find out. Get some PIFCO batteries from the pound shop, get some things that take the same size of batteries, then record a video of the results for the internet. Here is that video.
OPINION: One MacBook Air or SIX Asus Eee PCs?
Gary Cutlack writes…
You could have one MacBook Air – UK price around £1200 – or you could get SIX Asus Eee PCs and leave them dotted about the house for the ultimate in connected futuristic living spaces.
Or you could just get one Asus Eee PC and have a grand left over to spend on doing up the house or buying a new TV. Or two new TVs. A 40″ for the lounge, a 32″ for the bedroom and an Eee PC. Or perhaps a different combination? Maybe you’d prefer two super-powerful Dell XPS laptops for the price of one MacBook Air? Or four decent Toshibas with the same spec only in slightly fatter cases?
Star Wars-branded Adidas Super Stars
It’s the time of the year when a man’s thoughts turn to what kind of new cool trainers he’s going to wear while not leaving the house this summer.
So you might want to consider these. They are about Star Wars. They use the Star Wars font, legally, and have the classic and proven chassis of the Adidas Super Star going-outside show for sporty people as a base. They will be ideal for putting on your feet and placing beneath any PC desk for 12 hours at a time.
Ferrari going green with ethanol-powered F430 Spider Biofuel
Just unveiled at the Detroit motor show is this thing, the literally world-saving Ferrari F430 Spider Biofuel. Place Jeremy Clarkson under 24-hour suicide-watch – Ferrari is “going green.”
The remixed and tuned F430 runs on the 85% ethanol 15% regular petrol mix that’s popular in the more forward-thinking bits of America. Ferrari’s doing this as part of a commitment it’s made to reduce its car range’s exhaust emissions by 40% in time for 2012…
Meet HECToR – the UK's fastest computer
HECToR is that room full of 60 cabinets to the left there. The cabinets are all linked up. Together they make one of Europe’s fastest supercomputers.
HECToR apparently has the power of 12,000 standard desktop PCs (or 250,000 if you base it on the one I’m using at the moment) and is now officially the UK’s fastest supercomputer. So as well as getting Crysis running at a really good frame rate…
