Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 - you can now do so! We’ve seen quite a bit of questions in our comments so we want to communicate as much as possible surrounding Windows Vista SP1 and today’s release to Windows Update as we can. Continue Reading »
Vista Service Pack 1 is Here!

And you guys think that your credit cards are secure.

I don’t care if it’s Gold or Silver, Platinum or unlimited credit. Magnetic stripe or smart chip. Whether Citibank or Chase issued it- you’re in heavy risk of being defrauded.   You can lose a great deal of money- and I don’t mean about getting robbed  on the street. You will bleed your money to the shady call center agent who has access to your entire credit record. Everything.

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Credit Card Security? Oxymoronic!

Remember those quaint massage pads you place on your car seats? They were great for long haul drives. The vibration across your spine simply eased away your tension at gridlock. Now the folks at 3rD Space took the tech for something less relaxing- but far more enjoyable. They created the  3rd Space FPS Vest. This realistic gaming peripheral comes with eight pneumatic cells that are located throughout strategic locations on the vest, and with  a special compressor,  fires air into the cells at varying force levels.  Now imagine gettting wasted by a gatling gun at point blank range. Those  eight pneumatic cells simultaneously burst across your chest!  Hmmm… now only if you can use it in more laid back games like The Playboy Mansion.

But seriously- it’s really good stuff. It tried it with Call of Duty 2 and Medal of Honor Airborne. Never have I felt such realism- particularly when a tank winded me!

So what gear do you need?

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3rdSpace Vest- You’ll Know You Got Hit!

This just in: 

Telford, England, 25th February, 2008 - GETAC Inc., a leading, specialist rugged mobile computer manufacturer with extensive technological and manufacturing experience, is pleased to announce that it will be unveiling its latest solutions at CeBIT this year as well as offering visitors first-look information from its new Product Road Map. Continue Reading »
Getac’s Breakthrough in Sunlight Readable Technology

 Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a worldwide leader in card printing and bar code labeling solutions, today introduced the Zebra P110m for affordable, monochrome-only card printing applications. The P110m provides high reliability, along with advanced electronics — the only printer in its class to offer comprehensive printer status and diagnostic messaging via a built-in LCD screen.  Continue Reading »
Zebra Introduces Latest Addition to Value-Class Printer

GyPSii takes social networking mobile for Apple iPhone

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 5th, 2008 - GyPSii, the world’s leading geo-location and social networking service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, is now available on the iPhone - Apple’s market-leading high-end mobile device. The iPhone has shipped more than five million units worldwide since its launch in 2007. Continue Reading »
GyPSii launches iPhone platform

The biggest flops flop big because of hype. Supposedly sure bets get massively pumped up, then poop out fast. Ishtar couldn’t lose with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, but it lost Columbia Pictures $40 million. Heaven’s Gate was an “epic film” that lost $44 million, forcing Transamerica to sell off United Artists.

Boondoggled technology can be even more of a financial disaster, marketed year after year, at great expense, until one day the company either pulls the plug or relegates it to practical oblivion. With this in mind, I have come up with a few chips that have been hyped far beyond what was delivered. Some are still in the process of flopping (but may ultimately redeem themselves, somehow, as 20th Century Fox’s Cleopatra did). Continue Reading »
A brief history of chip hype- and flops

I’m pissed off by Adobe Acrobat. Fine,  the Reader is a free  download, but it’s also choosy, letting you only access PDF (Portable Document Format) publications  created with similar versions of Acrobat. Now for extra functions, like  extracting pages from a PDF, inserting pages, stamping it with “Approved” or “Self Destruct When Read,”  or if you want to master your own PDF files,  then you have to squeeze out $95 to $450 for the Professional version Acrobat. Sucks doesn’t it. Continue Reading »
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