Technology Guides

When Yahoo first acquired the rights to use Rocketmail in 1997 it never dreamed of using it today, to try and help push forward in Web 2.0. With Facebook and Myspace continuing to dominate peoples way of communication, companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are trying to find ways to bring the young generation back and make things seem relevant again. One way to do that, is to offer a new email address where the options are unlimited in terms of what’s before the @ symbol. The most recent company to do this was Microsoft with @live.ca and the more popular rollout was with Google and Gmail (@gmail.com). Now Yahoo plans to do it again, but with two choices, Rocketmail and YMail.

These two domains will be available for you to acquire 4pm Thursday June 19, 2008 at the main Yahoo Mail page.

Why bother with this you ask. We’ll all the mail clients are being pushed back by the younger generation and so Yahoo is losing traffic which is the backbone of their advertising revenue. Without traffic, Yahoo loses tons of money. “There are lots of companies trying to extend the e-mail box further and have it be your dashboard for your personal life,” he said. “It keeps your brand attached to the user experience.”

Get your new domain name today, and be sure to spread the word.

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Silverthorne is Intel’s first crack at making a brand new processor aimed at ultramobile PCs except for those small cell phones like the iPhone. Intel is not only working on this processor, but an update to it’s upcoming Penryn family using a 45nm notebook processor, plus Montevina, a sub-notebook processor with 40% smaller components. Intel will make its integrated Wi-Fi/WiMax chip set available as an option with Montevina-based notebooks. As always, Intel is looking to shake up the industry and as usual, it will go off with a bang.

Around June 2008, Intel will release a new platform, Menlow, that will use Silverthorne and another chip set, Poulsbo. Using their new technology of a 45nm chip, which is being drooled at by other chip makers such as ATI/AMD, they will hopefully drill a new market wide open between the cell phone and notebook industries. Currently there are more than 15 designs in Intel’s arsenal with 2 in production by Christmas and 4 by the second half of 2008. The image above is the HTC Shift which will use Intel’s Ultra Mobile PC chip (UMP) also in development and should be released later next year.

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Going forward with technology in the automobile industry usually starts from the more expensive cars like the Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini Gallardo, Ford GT, but in this case it starts with a household brand by the name of Volkswagen. Audi is a part of Volkswagen or the other way around (who knows these days) so I’d expect this type of product to start in a high end brand like that. Better for the averge consumer I’d say and so I’m not complaining.
With a 7-inch touchscreen in the midle of your VW Jetta, Golf, New Beetle, or any other VW, you are pimping right there. It would honestly make me look twice at a vehicle that looks good AND comes with a crazy interface. Now the twist to this story is Apple has been recently collaborating with VW and if you look closely at the zoomed in picture of the display, you’ll see some coverflow.
As Autoblog describes it, the concept touchscreen monitor “controls all conceivable functions” and is meant to demonstrate how future human-machine interfaces might look and operate.
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Since it is developed by Apple you would think there would be multi-touch capabilites but there is no official word yet. Obviously this would increase the possiblity you’d be more focused on scrolling, or doing whatever on Space Up! that you’d completely forget that you’re driving. There are going to be later posts on removing that possibility.

The official word on it though is it will use sensors that react to gestures infront of the screen without touching it but it will also be capable of being touched which will be perfect to some late adapters or just old-fashioned people. The touchscreen is intuitive and makes for a great alternative to a GPS, MyGig, and Sync that are being offered on other cars. The beauty of this all is we won’t have to wait until 2015 or an unannounced date for this to be on our favourite VW model, VW says it will be available on all 2009 models. Some say this is what Apple has in store for us in January at MacWorld but I say they will have another completely new product to blow our mind. Bring in the new year with a new Apple.

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