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January, 2008

Jan 15 2008

The Working Balance - Casual Office Space

With the advent of the smart phone, faster laptops, faster connections and wireless hotspots ever increasing, the ability to work anywhere is becoming much more the ‘norm’ compared to a few years ago. In fact, for the most part, it’s becoming much less important for certain types of SME’s to have an inner-city based office; with rental costs at an all time high, customers can get significantly better rates elsewhere, customers know this and have a lot of choice available.

Jan 14 2008

Worlds largest Plasma 150 inch

Panasonic have recently unveiled their long awaited behemoth Plasma screen, the largest Plasma screen ever made, at an astonishing 150 inches ~ 380cms. The new tele boasts 4 times the resolution of 1080p and is roughly the size of nine 127 cm TV’s!

Jan 12 2008

Google Pagerank update January 2008

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For those of you not yet aware or totally missed it (like we did) as of January 10th 2008, Google is updating its toolbar PageRank.

Each update causes a stir among the SEO community but does it really matter any more?

Jan 11 2008

First battery-less digital camera

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First it was the battery less Radio, now Sony have developed a battery-less digital camera. Using a twirling method, the camera generates enough juice in 15 seconds for one picture.

Aptly named the ‘Twirl ‘n Take’, the camera is located in the handle - but as it lacks a display you will still have to hook it up to a VDU to view any pics.

Jan 11 2008

World’s most Hi-tech Bed

Quite simply this bed has everything; Wireless Internet, check, LCD Projector, check, iPOD dock, yeap - it even has an anti-snoring device which raises the bed by 7 degrees until the snoring stops and then resets. This then is probably the best bed in the World; but it doesn’t come cheap.

Jan 10 2008

Could this be the end to Speakers as we know it?

In a strange twist, the British military discovered a revolutionary new method of converting ANY flat surface into a Loud Speaker. The flat surface could be anything from the screen your looking at to a Birthday card - the technology was accidentally discovered when trying to put a theory of sound deadening for military Helicopters into practice.

Jan 10 2008

New Mac Pro is an absolute beast

Forget dual or quad core, the latest Mac Pro will be shipped with a pair of Intel’s 45 nanometre Quad-Core Xeons, supported by 4 Terabytes of disk space! But it doesn’t stop there -

According to the press release, each processor is backed up by 12 MB of Level 2 cache, and the new high-bandwidth architecture runs dual-independent 1600MHz frontside busses with up to 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM.