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KCC’s Number Portability System

November 3rd, 2008

Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has approved the number portability system which allows fixed-line telephone users to switch to Internet phone while retaining their home phone numbers. Meaning to say, South Koreans is able to make Internet calls without changing numbers. According to the company, “the introduction of new system was expedited through various efforts including support for the construction of location system for emergency calls and settlement of disagreement among operators.

[via Slashphone]

Chrome secretly love Firefox?

October 20th, 2008

Hey guys, looks like the Google Chrome is felling in love with Firefox. I’ve just installed the Google Chrome browser and I need that Google toolbar to get me easy browsing but unfortunately, this Google Toolbar installation requires Mozilla Firefox 2.0 at least :P

Google Chrome Beta

September 3rd, 2008

Google Chrome has been released under beta. It is a browser with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. You can download and try it now! It is compatible with Windows Vista/XP at the moment. If you are lazy to install one, you can check out the video demo after the break. Read more…

Condom Ringing Tone

August 21st, 2008

This morning, my mate sent me a link, it’s ar… www.condomcondom.org. I get into it and some condom condom music loaded up. O… it’s a Condom A Cappella ringtone, it’s downloadable.

The site is about: The BBC World Service Trust is producing a mass media campaign to prevent transmission of HIV in India. The campaign objective is to make condoms more socially acceptable and improve the images of the condom user as a smart and responsible person. The campaign is in four phases over one year starting from December 2007.

I have downloaded the ringtone for my phone, lol.

[Thanks Ryan]

Facebook in Reality

August 15th, 2008

Hey guys, do you have a Facebook? I’m sure most of us have one. Alright, can you imagine the Facebook played out in real life? It was featured on BBC Three show ‘The Wall’.

[via New Launches]

No Facebook No Work

June 14th, 2008

Are you into Facebook? Buying friends was fun, some you can live chat with your friends in there. Most importantly is to keep in touch with all friends, schoolmates etc. According to latest survey, many young people aged from 18 to 24 year old would consider quitting their jobs if their management banned the Facebook access at work. Wow!

About 39% fall in this category say IT services provider Telindus. Another 21% said they’d feel “annoyed” by such a ban. 16% of the people in the age group of 25 to 65 would consider quitting. Read more…

Friendster site hacked?

May 29th, 2008

I log on to friendster.com to check out my account and found out that everything is mess up. So I refreshed, clear cache and those temp files. But it is still the same. I refresh quite a number of times, and there are many strangers’ profiles were shown, even private messages. Luckily I didn’t upload any private pictures. Hope they are fixing it soon. Anyone know what’s happening? Someone just hacked the friendster site?

[Update: Yeehaa! The site is back]

Nintendo Launched the WiiWare for Games Download

May 14th, 2008

Good news to all Wii owners. Due to the success of Wii game console, Nintendo has launched WiiWare, a software service for games. Wii owners who have their console connect to the internet will be able to download games from both large developers and small shops. Looks like Nintendo is ready to compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade and Sony’s PlayStation Store.

“By reducing the barriers that make console game development prohibitively expensive,” the company said, “WiiWare showcases original ideas in the most democratic environment in industry history.

Full story available at Yahoo News

Firefox logo spotted in Space

April 11th, 2008

The Milky Way upon the heavens is twinkling just for you and Mr. Moon he came by to say goodnight to you. This is an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, an image of the variable star V838 Monocerotis which lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. Looks like Firefox logo huh.

[via New Launches]

Google Australia introduced gDay technology!!!

April 1st, 2008

Hey guys check this out, Google Australia is introducing their new technology called gDay which allows you to to search content on the internet before it is created. The core technology that powers gDay is MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation). Using MATE’s machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future. The gDay™ and MATE™ were developed in Google’s Sydney R&D centre. Try it now.

[Thanks Tony]