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Google GrandCentral

I received a beta invite to GrandCentral, which was recently aquired by Google.  What is it?  The idea behind GrandCentral is “one number for life”.  When you sign up you pick the area code and can choose your phone number.  After this you can assign mobile, work and home phone numbers to it.
Once I […]

Apparently, buying your own island.  In an effort to get around piracy laws ThePirateBay.org is now attempting to buy its own island - Sealand
ACFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are now working on the Micronation of Sealand.
Recently it was made […]

AT&T Global NOC

Pretty impressive, it looks just like they portray in the movies!!
Click the link for the full size (it’s worth it)

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Apple iPhone - Cisco vs Apple

It’s amazing what you can bet on these days, I usually do sports betting at bodog and it turns out you can even bet on who will win the trademark battle over the iPhone name, Cisco or Apple.
Personally I can’t see how Apple could possibly win this….maybe I should bet on it

Toshiba continues to improve HD DVD storage capacity. At the HD DVD Promotion Group’s press conference this evening, the company announced it has developed 51GB triple-layer rewritable and ROM media.
This capacity is up from the company’s previous explorations of a higher-capacity 45GB triple-layer disc. Currently, HD DVD maxes out at a 30GB dual-layer disc. This […]

The RIAA has filed a complaint against Mediaservices, the company that owns AllofMP3.com, on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music. The lawsuit has been filed in a New York District Court.
The RIAA alleges that in the third quarter of this year alone 11 million songs were illegally downloaded from AllofMP3. They […]

RSS Feeds for BlackBerry

Found this today - and it’s free. An RSS reader for BlackBerry phones. Works pretty well too.

As you can see I only have the most important RSS feeds in it so far If you want to try it out you can click here. It has an OTA installation and all the […]

Windows Live Writer

Just downloaded Windows Live Writer tonight to play around with. Kinda like it so far, worked easily with my WordPress blog - I believe it also works with Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad and others.
Doesn’t seem to offer any new features that other software doesn’t already have but it’s free so I will probably continue to […]