Fujitsu Announces Bendable Color E-Paper

December 19th, 2005 Update: Google engineer, Matt Cutts agrees with me in recommending not including date information in the url. In his guidance for SEO optimization for blogs he notes: I wouldn't bother with year/month/day in blog urls; I'd just use the first few words from the title of the post in the url.

June 28th, 2006 Google announces Google Desktop Gadget contest, with $8,000 in cash prizes. You can use Google Desktop Gadget Designer, a new developer tool for creating, maintaining and debugging gadgets faster than before.

June 1st, 2006 Jonathan Schwartz is probably the highest profile individual to blog as CEO of Sun Microsystems, a Fortune 500 company. But that is not what this article is about.

July 26th, 2006 YotoPhoto is an image search engine with a difference. It allows you to search for free-to-use stock photographs and images.

June 20th, 2006 Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) has sternly denied a report insinuating that the company was making iPods for Apple Computer in sweatshops. Edmund Ding, spokesman for Foxconn - chief maker of iPods - said there were huge discrepancies between the truth and the claims in the report, which he said seems like a vicious attack on the company.

July 5th, 2005 Ben Galbraith has created an innovative website with *nix shell theme. He follows the *nix everywhere.

March 29th, 2009 WELLINGTON - New Zealand's government welfare agency has confirmed it examines internet social network sites like Facebook to catch benefit fraudsters, a newspaper reported Sunday. Lauren Kaney, 22, of Mount Maunganui, was convicted in court last week of getting three times the weekly benefit she was entitled to, after claiming she lived on her own with her 2-year-old-son.

May 4th, 2005 The paper - "Grossly Excessive Penalties in the Battle Against Illegal File-Sharing: The Troubling Effects of Aggregating Minimum Statutory Damages for Copyright Infringement" by J. Cam Barker argues that the file sharers sued by the RIAA have a constitutional right to pay much smaller penalties than the millions of dollars they can be liable for under copyright law's minimum damages of $750 per song.

February 24th, 2006 Apple users have downloaded over 1 billion songs from the iTunes Music Store since it was launched in April 2003. The magic number was hit at roughly 12:38am EST on Thursday morning, according to TUAW.

July 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - Internet giant Google announced Wednesday the arrival of its own computer operating system, initially designed for use with Netbook computers. Google Chrome OS, based on the company's nine-month old browser software, is to be available to consumers from the second half of 2010, a statement on Google's blog said.

June 26th, 2006 In a typically sandwitched message format (good news-bad news-good news), Quentin Clark from Microsoft announces the death of WinFS filesystem in WinFS blog. "we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the previously planned Beta 2 release.

August 10th, 2006 What's wrong with Google and India? Did we hurt them in any way? Google provides GMail by SMS signup in Australia, Indonesia, Malayasia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and of-course US of A. However India is not there.

June 20th, 2006 Chinese students have adopted ingenious and sometimes dangerous devices (including microscopic earphones and wireless devices) for unprecedented hi-tech cheating. Chinese students upped the ante in the high-tech battle to counter cheating during university entrance exams this month, putting some in hospital as a result.

July 20th, 2009 SAP offers to buy Swiss-based software company SAFBERLIN — Germany's SAP AG on Monday offered to buy SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting AG in a deal that values the Swiss-based developer of ordering and forecasting software at euro63.7 million (US$90.6 million). Business software maker SAP said it has a "long history of successful cooperation" with SAF but currently holds no shares in the Taegerwilen, Switzerland-based company.

January 11th, 2006 United States Patent and Trademark Office released the annual list of top 10 organizations receiving most U.S. patents. IBM is still in the lead.