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Newegg Tutorial: HDTV Technology Guide
Posted by ShopinJA in Science & Technology on March 16th, 2010
It’s time to answer some questions about High Definition Television! In today’s video, Paul gives us a short tutorial on HDTV Technology, touching on the types of panels that are available and giving tips on selecting the right TV for your home.
Confused about the difference between LCD and LED? Want the right high-definition connection for your media box? If you’re looking for the perfect centerpiece for your home theater, make sure you watch this video first!
- Credits -
Editing & Special Effects: Lam
Camera, Lighting & Sound: Lam
Writing, “Acting”, Ad-libbing: Paul
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Newegg.com - SONY BRAVIA 40″ 16:9 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV KDL40EX700 - LED-LCD TV
Start your Car with an iPhone or Blackberry
Posted by ShopinJA in Mobile Tech on March 10th, 2010
What is Viper SmartStart?
Are you tired of carrying around another clunky remote control on your keyring, or finding yourself out of range when you really need to warm up or cool down your car before getting in? Now you can remote start or lock and unlock your car just by pushing a button on your BlackBerry; using the exciting new Viper SmartStart app from Directed Electronics, the leader in vehicle security and remote start.
The simple graphical interface gives you control over the following features of your installed Viper remote start or security/remote start system:
* Lock/arm
* Unlock/disarm
* Remote car starter
* Trunk release
* Panic or car finder
You can also control multiple vehicles – great for families! – and assign more than one user to control a vehicle. It’s easy with SmartStart!
Product Website: http://www.viper.com/smartstart/
Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105
Posted by ShopinJA in International News on February 14th, 2010
What treasures are in your attic?
Everyday folk discovering colossally valuable collectors’ items amid everyday junk has been the lifeblood of antiques shows for years, but it’s not every day you see a real-life gold-in-the-attic tale play out on eBay.
Last week, North Carolina eBay user lace_thongs35 thought she was putting up an everyday, 80s-era Nintendo Entertainment System (together with five games) up on the popular auction site. But less than an hour after the first bid, the price was over $6,000 — and on Wednesday, when the auction closed, the final selling price topped $13,000.
Why? Not the console itself, but one of the games bundled with it — a deeply obscure 1987 release called Stadium Events, a highly sought-after collectors’ item. But it wasn’t even the game itself that was worth the bulk of the money — it was the original cardboard box, which collectors value at a breathtaking $10,000. Fewer than 10 complete copies of the game are thought to exist, and retro gaming aficionados consider it one of the hardest-to-find NES games ever made.
Bet you’re wishing you hadn’t let Mom throw out your Nintendo collection now, eh?
Windows 7 is Fastest-selling OS in History
Posted by ShopinJA in Science & Technology on February 4th, 2010
Microsoft is all grins and cheers after posting record earnings, fueled by the fastest operating system sales in history (Windows 7). (Source: Gearfuse)
Windows 7 marked a complete turn around for the company
A year ago Microsoft was struggling. The world’s largest software firm had built up a massive user base, but it was losing their respect. Its current (at the time) operating system Windows Vista brought many innovations, but also frustrations that led to an icy public reception. So Microsoft decided to do something unprecedented — it would allow the public to try its latest version of Windows, and then take their advice and use it to produce something people could truly get excited about.
That gamble paid off handsomely and it reversed the fortunes of struggling Microsoft, returning it to dynamic growth. Windows 7 launched in October of last year and proved a commercial smash. All the Apple commercials in the world couldn’t damper the public enthusiasm about the new operating systems. And Microsoft stepped up its own populist ads featuring average Joes and Janes experiencing (or suggesting) the improvements, fueling further growth.
Now Microsoft’s brand image is at a new high and Microsoft just reported its best quarter in its history. Microsoft reports a net revenue of $19.02B USD, a 14 percent increase from the previous year. Microsoft also reported operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share of $8.51B USD, $6.66B USD and $0.74 USD per share, up 43 percent, 60 percent and 57 percent, respectively from a year ago. The revenue was boosted by $1.71B USD in deferred revenue on Windows 7 preorders, among other things.
Plane crash at airport
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on December 23rd, 2009
40 passengers injured in American Airlines accident at NMIA
BY ROLAND HENRY Lifestyle Co-ordinator henryr@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Go-Jamaica - Flash representation of the final moments of flight AA 331 - News
Forty passengers were reported injured when an American Airlines plane crashed and broke in two after landing at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston shortly after 10:00 last night.
“The injured passengers have been taken to the Kingston Public Hospital,” Information Minister Daryl Vaz told the Observer. “There are no reports of fatalities.”
Vaz, Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry and National Security Minister Dwight Nelson were quick on the scene and engaged in a head count from the passenger manifest to determine if anyone was missing.
An injured American Airlines flight 331 passenger is being pushed in a wheelchair by a member of the flight crewl at the Norman Manley International Airport last night. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
Flight AA331, a Boeing 737-800, had just arrived from Miami in pouring rain with 148 passengers and a crew of six when the accident occurred.
“The plane crashed and broke almost in front of me,” said a shaken Naomi Palmer who was in seat number D8.
Palmer said she was feeling some pain and was being supported by a friend on the outside of the arrival area when she spoke with the Observer.
The plane overran the runway, smashed through the perimeter fence, crossed the Port Royal road and ended up on the beach.
Wray & Nephew warehouses go up in smoke
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on December 2nd, 2009
At about 6:00pm Last night (Dec, 01 2009) A Raging fire broke out at the Wray & Nephew warehouse located on Spanish Town Road (Kingston Jamaica). The Amateur video below will show just how big of a Blaze the fire was.
Jamaica Observer Article
Wray & Nephew warehouses go up in smoke
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
FIRE fanned by a brisk evening breeze yesterday destroyed warehouses owned by the country’s main rum distillers — Wray and Nephew — on Spanish Town Road in Kingston.
The fire sent jitters throughout the trade ahead of the Christmas season when demand for the company’s popular liquor products hits peak. But no one was injured in the blaze, although employees who watched helplessly from outside the premises estimated that millions of dollars worth of goods went in the flames.
Neither the cause of the fire nor the extent of the damage were ascertained up to late last night.
Facebook Exodus
Posted by ShopinJA in Science & Technology on October 30th, 2009
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: August 26, 2009
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.
The exodus is not evident from the site’s overall numbers. According to comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the United States in July. But while people are still joining Facebook and compulsively visiting the site, a small but noticeable group are fleeing — some of them ostentatiously.
Leif Harmsen, once a Facebook user, now crusades against it. Having dismissed his mother’s snap judgment of the site (“Facebook is the devil”), Harmsen now passionately agrees. He says, not entirely in jest, that he considers it a repressive regime akin to North Korea, and sells T-shirts with the words “Shut Your Facebook.” What especially galls him is the commercialization and corporate regulation of personal and social life. As Facebook endeavors to be the Web’s headquarters — to compete with Google, in other words, and to make money from the information it gathers — it’s inevitable that some people would come to view it as Big Brother.
“The more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook — and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent — the more Facebook can and does abuse us,” Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. “It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile about you.”
LIME hits Digicel with $100-m lawsuit
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on October 28th, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
LIME filed a $100-million lawsuit against Digicel on Monday, claiming that the Irish-owned telecom unfairly priced its landline-to-mobile rates by as much as $2.48 per minute below the rate it charges LIME to terminate its landline calls.
But the amount now being sought by the British-owned telecom is dwarfed by the $3.9-billion lawsuit it brought against Digicel earlier this year - a case which is scheduled to be heard on Friday - only days after the current action was filed.
LIME Jamaica's country manager, Geoff Houston makes a point at a press conference held yesterday at his company's head office. Listening in is Camille Facey, regional vice-president, legal regulatory and corporate affairs.
In that suit, LIME is claiming for the difference between payments per minute versus per second in respect of Fixed-to-Mobile (FTM) Interconnect Traffic. By LIME’s account, Digicel unilaterally changed the payment regime in 2003 in breach of the interconnection agreement.
Up to yesterday, the Business Observer was unable to get more details of the case to be heard on Friday, except that in the case, which will be heard in court chambers by Justice M McDonald-Bishop and clerk S Rainford, one party will argue for a stay of proceedings.
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