Archive for October, 2009

  • <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4055625972_dfd3dc981a.jpg"/> What's the cost of not showing up to court? For PepsiCo Inc., it's a $1.26 billion default judgment. A Wisconsin state court socked the company with the monster award in a case alleging that PepsiCo stole the idea to bottle and sell purified water from two Wisconsin men. Now the company is scrambling to salvage the situation. The damages award was handed down on Sept. 30. PepsiCo filed motions to vacate the order and dismiss the claims on Oct. 13, saying it wasn't even aware of the lawsuit until Oct. 6.

    Price to PepsiCo for Not Being in Court: $1.26 Billion

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    What's the cost of not showing up to court? For PepsiCo Inc., it's a $1.26 billion default judgment. A Wisconsin state court socked the company with the monster award in a case alleging that PepsiCo stole the idea to bottle and sell purified water from two Wisconsin men. Now the company is scrambling to salvage the situation. The damages award was handed down on Sept. 30. PepsiCo filed motions to vacate the order and dismiss the claims on Oct. 13, saying it wasn't even aware of the lawsuit until Oct. 6.

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  • <img style=What is Twitter all about? What does it mean? Why was it invented? If you would like to know more about the micro-blogging platform, then watch this funny video by Danny, who talks about the possible impact that Twitter might have on the people of earth in this short clip! *Don't forget to check out this pink 'Sex' book next to his screen and burp towards the end of the video! :D" title="Twitter: The Small Town of Earth [VIDEO]" />

    Twitter: The Small Town of Earth [VIDEO]

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    What is Twitter all about? What does it mean? Why was it invented? If you would like to know more about the micro-blogging platform, then watch this funny video by Danny, who talks about the possible impact that Twitter might have on the people of earth in this short clip! *Don't forget to check out this pink 'Sex' book next to his screen and burp towards the end of the video! :D

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  • In an effort to bring together opposing sides in some of the most bitterly divided areas of the planet, encouraging online friendships between Jews and Muslims, US liberals and conservatives, and Turks and Greeks, social networking giant Facebook launches the “<a href="http://peace.facebook.com/"target="_blank">Peace on Facebook</a>” hub as part of the “<a href="http://peace.stanford.edu/"target="_blank">Peace Dot</a>” movement. The Internet company said it's passionate in "promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other" and "by enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term." <img src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/facebook.png"/>

    Facebook Launches Portal to Promote World Peace

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    In an effort to bring together opposing sides in some of the most bitterly divided areas of the planet, encouraging online friendships between Jews and Muslims, US liberals and conservatives, and Turks and Greeks, social networking giant Facebook launches the “Peace on Facebook” hub as part of the “Peace Dot” movement. The Internet company said it's passionate in "promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other" and "by enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term."

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://www.facebookeverywhere.com/images/screenshot.jpg"/>Love Facebook to the core and simply can't part with the social networking website? Hate it when you've to constantly signing into and checking your account every five minutes or so? <a href="http://www.facebookeverywhere.com/"target="_blank">Facebook Everywhere</a>, a free and easy-to-use Facebook toolbar that integrates your Facebook life into your browser, is sure to feed your addiction. With this true accessibility tool, you can keep you in touch with what's happening on the popular social networking site while browsing the web. For example, you can view live friends updates, update your status whenever you wish, share interesting websites/webpages with your friends as you visit them, access pages on Facebook with a single click, and even receive notifications.

    Facebook Everywhere: Facebook Toolbar for Firefox, IE, Safari

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Love Facebook to the core and simply can't part with the social networking website? Hate it when you've to constantly signing into and checking your account every five minutes or so? Facebook Everywhere, a free and easy-to-use Facebook toolbar that integrates your Facebook life into your browser, is sure to feed your addiction. With this true accessibility tool, you can keep you in touch with what's happening on the popular social networking site while browsing the web. For example, you can view live friends updates, update your status whenever you wish, share interesting websites/webpages with your friends as you visit them, access pages on Facebook with a single click, and even receive notifications.

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  • <img style=Created by Sahil Lavingia, the developer of ColorStream (a beautiful color tool for the iPhone), Twizzle is a newly-launched free iPhone Twitter client that enables iPhone/iPod Touch users to tweet using the Apple gadgets. You may think that it's yet another iPhone Twitter client which offers basic functions like retweet, @reply, direct messages or follow your friends, but Twizzle is actually the best free Twitter client for the iPhone in the market. I'm serious. It has some really cool and impressive features worth commenting about. For example, this app supports multiple accounts, which is particularly useful if you own both a personal profile used to interact with your friends and another account meant for business-related stuff to communicate with your clients." title="Twizzle: Free iPhone Twitter Client with Multiple Accounts Support & Landscape Tweeting" />

    Twizzle: Free iPhone Twitter Client with Multiple Accounts Support & Landscape Tweeting

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Created by Sahil Lavingia, the developer of ColorStream (a beautiful color tool for the iPhone), Twizzle is a newly-launched free iPhone Twitter client that enables iPhone/iPod Touch users to tweet using the Apple gadgets. You may think that it's yet another iPhone Twitter client which offers basic functions like retweet, @reply, direct messages or follow your friends, but Twizzle is actually the best free Twitter client for the iPhone in the market. I'm serious. It has some really cool and impressive features worth commenting about. For example, this app supports multiple accounts, which is particularly useful if you own both a personal profile used to interact with your friends and another account meant for business-related stuff to communicate with your clients.

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  • <img style="float:right" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ttr3bug1.jpg" alt="ttr3bug1" width="192" height="288" />A few weeks ago, Tapulous released Tap Tap Revenge 3, which is the latest version with dozens of new features and better social experience. I installed TTR3 this week and incidentally, I found a huge bug inside this app. I started the game and accidentally hit the Power button during the game, and the music paused immediately as normal. However, when I hit the button again and unlocked the device, the music continued while the popup window "Game Paused" was still on the screen. The most interesting part is, I didn't tap the "Resume" button until the track finished (i.e. all the tappers had gone), and I found that after I resumed the game, all the missed tappers were considered "perfectly hit" and calculated into the streak! I repeated this experiment again and again and I found that it's quite easy to get a Full Combo after a few attempts. This bug "works" for all songs, no matter themed, purchased or whatever.

    Tap Tap Revenge 3 BUG! “Full Combo” (100% HIT) Without Tapping

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    ttr3bug1A few weeks ago, Tapulous released Tap Tap Revenge 3, which is the latest version with dozens of new features and better social experience. I installed TTR3 this week and incidentally, I found a huge bug inside this app. I started the game and accidentally hit the Power button during the game, and the music paused immediately as normal. However, when I hit the button again and unlocked the device, the music continued while the popup window "Game Paused" was still on the screen. The most interesting part is, I didn't tap the "Resume" button until the track finished (i.e. all the tappers had gone), and I found that after I resumed the game, all the missed tappers were considered "perfectly hit" and calculated into the streak! I repeated this experiment again and again and I found that it's quite easy to get a Full Combo after a few attempts. This bug "works" for all songs, no matter themed, purchased or whatever.

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  • <img src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/tv.jpg"/> In the 1900s, black-and-white televisions covered with a wooden finishing was a popular trend among households. Gradually, as technology advances, Plasma, LCD, 720p, 1080p, HDTV start to emerge into the television market. Television has come a long way, but no one knows exactly what the future of television will be like, do you? Well, according to Ashley Highfield, the UK Managing Director of Microsoft, the so-called 'smart' television would be able to recognize facial expressions and body movements, similar to the concept implemented on Project Natal, the code name for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. He added on by saying within the next decade, TVs will be able to predict what you want to watch depending on your mood and choose appropriate programmes, taking into account past viewing preferences.

    TV of the Future Will Predict What You Want To Watch Depending On Your Mood

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    In the 1900s, black-and-white televisions covered with a wooden finishing was a popular trend among households. Gradually, as technology advances, Plasma, LCD, 720p, 1080p, HDTV start to emerge into the television market. Television has come a long way, but no one knows exactly what the future of television will be like, do you? Well, according to Ashley Highfield, the UK Managing Director of Microsoft, the so-called 'smart' television would be able to recognize facial expressions and body movements, similar to the concept implemented on Project Natal, the code name for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. He added on by saying within the next decade, TVs will be able to predict what you want to watch depending on your mood and choose appropriate programmes, taking into account past viewing preferences.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2511/4051764923_2e0dd3f631_m.jpg"/>At 330 million monthly users, Mozilla's open-source web browser Firefox is now on par with social networking giant Facebook, and has even surpassed that of the United States (307.8 million). Chief executive John Lilly revealed on Monday in a <a href="http://twitter.com/johnolilly/status/5192188998">Twitter post</a> that Firefox has gained 30 million users in 8 weeks, or an astounding 3.7 million people per week. "We've seen a significant increase in the number of users for Firefox," said Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe. "Firefox checks for new versions every 24 hours, when it's running, and when it checks, it pings the Mozilla server. We count the number of pings." "It's amazing to have 330 million users," said Nitot. "That's the size of the population of the USA."

    330 Million Monthly Users: Firefox Population Surpasses that of the United States

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    At 330 million monthly users, Mozilla's open-source web browser Firefox is now on par with social networking giant Facebook, and has even surpassed that of the United States (307.8 million). Chief executive John Lilly revealed on Monday in a Twitter post that Firefox has gained 30 million users in 8 weeks, or an astounding 3.7 million people per week. "We've seen a significant increase in the number of users for Firefox," said Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe. "Firefox checks for new versions every 24 hours, when it's running, and when it checks, it pings the Mozilla server. We count the number of pings." "It's amazing to have 330 million users," said Nitot. "That's the size of the population of the USA."

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