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August 26, 2008

If Andy Warhol Designed Disks ....


... would not be very different from these discs external Meninos Design Studio. Your 250-500 GB hard drive, 7200RPM behind these boxes covered with vinyl acrylics customizable. They tease and imitate what commercial (Red Bulls false or packages of Marlboro giants). Only the boxes compatible with USB, have a price of $ 250. With hard drive prices start at $ 400, per unit of 250 GB.

Source: Gizmodo
        

August 25, 2008

The New SDK's IPhone Need ITunes 7.7


Apple has sent developers the eighth version of its development kit for iPhone, which first requires a special software to work with the iPhone: iTunes 7.7. Version 7.7, not yet made public, is supposed to be necessary to work with the new 2.0 software, which is attached to the iPod and iPhone 3G Touch.
        

Quasha heads Vanterra Capital

Vanterra Capital is a joint venture between the two managing partners, Alan Quasha and Shad Azimi. A private equity company, Vanterra caters to an exclusive high end clientele of individuals and institutions with high net worths. With global investments in the "best of class" equity funds – specifically those smaller and emerging funds, as well as direct investing with the purpose of long term returns.

August 22, 2008

Best Buy? I think NOT - Unfair Deals at BestBuy

Best buy

I just had a very unpleasant experience at Best Buy. Best Buy in Los Angeles sold me a DELL laptop.

I took it home and turned it on. When I did, I found the screen was very dim. So dim I could hardly read the screen.

Online I found that the particular model I bought was known to be very dim.

So I came back to Best Buy to return the laptop.

The guy at "the Geek Squad" at Best Buy was very helpful and assured me that this happens alot.
These laptops are really DIM and that even though nothing was technically wrong - like the device was not broken - he understood well why I returned it - the screen was so dim you could hardly use it at all.

Long Story Short - the polite customer service people told me that there was nothing the could do - they had to charge me a restocking fee of 15%. That came out to $120. So the fine for going to Best  Buy and buying a product that itself is faulty - is wasted time and wasted money.

I would like Best Buy to contact me and refund the restocking fee. Until such time I will continue to maintain that they are an unfair company who has acted in an unfair way.

Former Best Buy Fan and now A very unhappy Best Buy Customer.

August 19, 2008

Samsung Compete with the IPod Shuffle in Spain with the S2


Samsung Electronics has announced the launch in Spain of the new MP3 player S2: a digital MP3 player that combines a design inspired by nature with the simplicity of an analog product, which will be available in our country since September.
        

August 13, 2008

One Week After Digital Worlds 08, Dimension 2.5


Dimension 2.5 publishes a comprehensive chronicle of everything that happened at the event "Worlds Digital 08" devoted to technology and creating 3D: This issue has been my second experience with MD, with their similarities and differences compared with editing 2006.
As I did in the 2006 edition and I fear that all who come in the future, I could only attend the conference which took place from Thursday, lost among the other Miguel Angel Jimenez of Ilion Animation Studios, whom I am pleased to hear from virtually me? removal? to Madrid. Someone who is note his past as a teacher, always willing to discuss and share knowledge and impressions. As good account of them would attendees who had the chance to chat with him after his lecture or in some of the breaks digital world. The chronicle complete Dimension 2.5
        

August 05, 2008

Dell Tries to Register the Mark "Cloud Computing"


Dell might be trying to gain control of a term that could define the technological infrastructure for many years. The company has applied for registration of the term "cloud computing, according to a document on the website of the Office of Patents and Trademarks of the United States.