‘Tea Break’ Category
May 13 2008 Feb 18 2008Facebook loses 400,000 hits a month
The site had 8.9 million visitors in December 2007, but this has fallen to 8.5 million in January 2008. Maybe, it just isn’t as fashionable any more, but mostly users report that they are sick of spam emails or requests from complete strangers on log in.
Wireless technology makes nightclubs silent
A new trend is taking over the nightclub scene in Europe - Instead of massive 1000 watt speakers, nightclubs are pumping the music directly into party-goers ears over an FM radio broadcast from the DJ box.
The idea is going to be experimented in the United States on Saturday February 23rd 2008 in Boston - Silent Dance Experiment.
Virus programmer prosecuted for copyright
Sounds strange, but it was the only way the Japanese authorities could successfully prosecute the 24 year old student from Japan.
Wii doubles Nintendo’s profit
Recent sales figures released show that the Wii console boosted Nintendo’s profit by nearly 200% from the previous year - Sales rose 84.7 per cent from a year ago to 1.316 trillion yen ($US12.35 billion) from $US7.12 billion.
Signal from Everest, Olympic torch shines bright
China Mobile, China’s largest mobile phone service provider have successfully transmitted from Mount Everest, making it possible for climbers to make calls from the summit.