Today I got my hands on the Blueant V1 Bluetooth headse, which is I believe th first ever voice controlled headset available. I took some unboxing pictures and decided to share them with you.
It’s similar in design to other Blueant headsets we reviewed in the past like the Z9, the only difference is this one is silver. Before we get on with the pictures I wanted to mention that by far this was the easiest Headset to set up ever, a combination of the voice command prompts from the headset and the iPaq 910 allowed me to pair the phone in less than a minute.
Over the weekend, I learned that Virginia would require Internet Safety Lessons be taught in schools. The lessons will teach kids how to detect various scams, avoid predators and be more aware of what they should and shouldn’t do online.
Virginia is the first state to make such lessons mandatory, Texas and Illinois according to Fox News also have similar laws but do not mandate the lessons.
As a parent I love this idea, because I have falling victim to a scam or two and if my kids are aware of the bad apples (dear god apple doesn’t sue me) on the web maybe I could relax a bit more when they are on the computer.
In a letter from Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, to Microsoft CEO Steve Baller, Yang says that while he is not opposed to a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, he believes the current offer is too low, he also said the ultimatum issued on Saturday was counterproductive.
Over the weekend Microsoft issued an Ultimatum, if Yahoo did not accept Microsofts Offer by April 26th they would begin a hostile takeover and try to get Yahoo for a Much Cheaper price.
“Our board’s view of your proposal has not changed,” said the letter, signed by Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang. “We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders.”
Today AMD has officially dropped the price on three Phenom desktop processors.
In an email to System Builders, AMD said “This new pricing will allow you to offer your customers more performance from AMD-based desktop solutions at a lower price. This is a great opportunity to offer a true price/performance advantage to your customers!”
The following processors will see a price reduction: AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, 9750 and 9550.
No word on how much they will drop, but check Newegg for current pricing.
Today Nokia launched Globally the Nokia N-Gage games service with new games and additional compataible devices. Millions of Nokia owners can mpw try out games on their phone, directly from the N-Gage mobile service, they can also connect with other players through the N-Gage Arena Community.
“With N-Gage we’re offering a seamless experience for people around the world to try and buy games that are engaging, accessible and have wide appeal,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, vice president of games, Nokia. “We’re very excited to get this into the hands of our customers, because with them we will shape the future of mobile gaming.”
The N-Gage platform has a bunch of exclusive titles such as EA Sports Fifa 2008, The Sims 2 Pets, Dogz, Tetris and World Series of Poker Pro challenge just to name a few.
Earlier this week HP Introduced the HP Elite Autofocus Webcam, a stylish little webcam that sits on top of your monitor and can deliver up to 12 Mega Pixel pictures, and all for a low price of $99.99.
First thing that popped in my head was, wow a 12 MP camera for $99.99 that’s a bargain even if it is just a webcam. So can a $99 dollar web cam really deliver 12 MP pictures? Only one way to find out and that is to test the camera out, thankfully for us HP was kind enough to send us one.
We received the camera back on the 31st of March and made a little unpacking post to tease you, and first impressions by some weren’t great, some thought that it was too square and ugly, and while I may have agreed at first the webcam looks much better in person and honestly I like it, the square face it has fits better on my monitor than a round face camera.
Microsoft in a letter to Yahoo gave them a three week ultimatum, or Microsoft will go Hostile. Or as our business editor John Obeto puts it Nuclear.
“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo! board.”
Microsoft is obviously sending a strong message to Yahoo, but one also has to wonder if Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo before August 1st 2008 when Chinese law could possibly block any merger between the two companies.
New York City is known as the Big Apple, and we New Yorkers are proud of that, and recently our City started something called “GreeNYC”.
GreeNYC is a program that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg hopes will help reduce carbon emissions by 30% by the year 2030. The programs website offers tips to NYC Citizens on how they can help reduce emissions and on that website and in booklets the city has given out is a new logo, an apple which sort of looks like a figure 8 with a stem and a leaf.
Today Western Digital Introduced the My Book Studio Edition II for Macs. The My Book is an external hard drive with up to 2 TB of storage space.
The new Studio Edition II which are formated specifically for Mac computers and designed in a way that is eco-friendly is currently available at the online Western Digital store (ShopWD.com).
“WD developed the My Book Studio Edition II external drives to satisfy the needs of Mac enthusiasts and creative professionals who require extra-fast performance, but also want it to be as environmentally friendly as possible,” said Jim Welsh, vice president and general manager of WD’s branded products and consumer electronics groups. “Configured with RAID 0 out of the box, photographers, graphic artists, videographers, and others who require large amounts of storage will experience high performance combined with power savings and quiet operation when they use the new My Book Studio Edition II storage system.”
I got a nifty new project handed to me at work, investigating VMWare ACE to replace how we deploy pc’s. What VMWare has managed to do with ACE is, making a central repository of pc images that can be customized and distributed out to users on secure media. So your accounts rep can store his entire pc on a USB stick that follows him around and requires his credentials to login authenticated against your local DC (also works outside of AD but I use active directory). The contents can also optionally be encrypted. Additionally, the repository also acts as a management front end. I’ll be documenting my progress with it over the next few days.
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