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+ - Consumers Won't Pay $500 for iPhone

Submitted by

narramissic

on Friday February 23, 2007 @02:30PM

narramissic writes "A survey by online market research firm Compete Inc. finds that of the 26% of those who said they're likely to buy an iPhone, only 1% said they'd pay $500 for it, while 42% said they'd likely buy the phone for $200 to $299. Sixty percent of likely iPhone buyers would be willing to make the switch to AT&T wireless to get it."

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Journal by Are you a NIGGER on Sunday December 03, 2006 @04:31PM

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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Wikipedia 244

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 03, 2006 @03:58PM
from the who-you-callin'-non-notable? dept.

netbuzz points us to a somewhat snarky Washington Post article about the Wikipedians' work in upholding a minimum standard of "notability" for the collaborative encyclopedia. Here's his take on the Post's bemusement from a NetworkWorld blog: "The Washington Post this morning gets its snickers at the Wikipedians who do the best they can to apply the minimum 'notability' standards needed to keep the online encyclopedia's 1.5 million English entries relatively free of worthless junk. 'It's also safe to assume these are people with a lot of time on their hands,' the Post writer notes... These are people doing a truly thankless job... and they deserve a few thank-yous."

+ - Greek Mac users offer local systems

Submitted by ckotso on Sunday December 03, 2006 @03:42PM

ckotso writes "Mac users in Greece have stepped up their campaign for local support from Apple with the introduction of self-made Greek localisation and Greek fonts for Mac OS X, offered under the GPL. More in this Macworld article."

+ - You're Not Wiki-Worthy!

Submitted by

Rick Zeman

on Sunday December 03, 2006 @03:13PM

Rick Zeman writes "What makes someone or something worthy of remaining in Wikipedia after an article on them appears?
From the article: 'Casual readers might assume that Wikipedia's goal is a complete account of all earthly knowledge, but the site maintains a rather elaborate set of criteria for admission. The several thousand unpaid volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia spend a lot of energy ensuring that people, bands, companies, and everything else meet what it calls "notability guidelines."' These volunteers are '...just over 1,000 administrators at any one time, and none of them are paid. Generally, they are men in their 20s or 30s with jobs in the computer field, according to Wales, who is guessing based on his own informal travels to meet admins, as he calls them. It's also safe to assume these are people with a lot of time on their hands.' While not addressed in the article, I wonder if male computer geeks have too narrow of a view of the world and what's important, and whether more broadening of the pool is desirable."

+ - 3-D Porn... The next new thing?

Submitted by

jrwr00

on Sunday December 03, 2006 @01:46PM

jrwr00 writes "I found this on the google news feed

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Journal: Sorry, Wii Are Not Available 5

Journal by jZnat on Sunday December 03, 2006 @01:45PM

Nintendo Wii came out a week ago, and boy was it a hot seller! Amazon says they sold out in less than a minute on its launch, and they still haven't gotten any more Wiis. Nintendo reported that they sold every single one of their launch Wiis{{fact}}, yet they are producing tonnes more than Sony is producing Playstation 3's.

+ - Intelligent satellite notices volcanic activity

Submitted by Dik Zak on Sunday December 03, 2006 @01:36PM

Dik Zak writes "The Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra had been dormant for centuries when, in April 2005, it suddenly rumbled to life. A plume of smoke rose 1000 meters high and nearby villages were covered in ash. Fearing a major eruption, local authorities began evacuating 40,000 people. UN officials, meanwhile, issued a call for help: Volcanologists should begin monitoring Talang at once. Little did they know, high above Earth, a small satellite was already watching the volcano. No one told it to. EO-1 (short for "Earth Observing 1") noticed the warning signs and started monitoring Talang on its own. Indeed, by the time many volcanologists were reading their emails from the UN, "EO-1 already had data," says Steve Chien, leader of JPL's Artificial Intelligence Group."

Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop 244

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 03, 2006 @12:08PM
from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

Verunks writes "Parallels has released a new beta of its virtualization product for Mac OS X. This new release includes one major new feature, something Parallels calls Coherency: "Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS." Check out this Screenshot" More interesting to me is the Boot Camp support so you can have a single partition to run IE7 in Parallels to test compatibility of a website but reboot to play video games that need a little more juice.