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Philips Prestigo 12 Device Universal Remote

January 9, 2010 by · Comments Off on Philips Prestigo 12 Device Universal Remote 

Philips Prestigo 12 Device Universal RemotePhilips Prestigo 12 Device Universal Remote,Today’s Deal of the Day consists of a universal remote that is compatible with everything you have in your household. Check out the Philips Prestigo 12 Device Universal Remote which is available only today at Woot.com for no more than $29.99 plus $5 the usual shipping fee. ThePhilips SRU8112/27 12 Device Prestigo Universal Remote feature extensive IR database meaning that it works with most devices developed by various manufacturers around the globe.

The Philips SRU8112/27 12 Device Prestigo Universal Remote can control up to 12 devices at one time, it doesn’t require a manual, it features an easy to read 2-inch color LCD screen, it can learn IR codes from other remotes, and it features big buttons so that you can control your devices in a better way. Also you can setup icons from the library so that you can select the devices easier on the LCD screen. Well, the universal remote is still in stock so go to Woot.com to purchase one or more. http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fgoldbox&tag=ssdeals-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957


Facebook Tricks and Secrets

November 17, 2009 by · Comments Off on Facebook Tricks and Secrets 

(CBS)   In these tough economic times, more and more people are using their computers to save money at the grocery store.

CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reported that the popularity of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, have led moms to stop looking for coupon bargains in the Sunday newspapers, but online. In fact, she said, they’re creating their own virtual community of bargain hunters.

Nichelle Pace, founder of Stylemom.com said, “Whether it’s clothing, whether it’s food, whether it’s restaurant deals, there’s all kinds of ways you can save through social media and it’s immediate. It’s real time.”

But how do you find that information?

Wallace said the online world of coupon clipping has become a shared experience. Sarah Walton, founder of Betterwaymoms.com and a mother of two, says she checks Twitter daily to learn about deals — and tweet bargains she’s found to all her friends.

Walton said, “We don’t have coffee together in the mornings, we’re not out in the neighborhood while the kids are running around, this is our community.”

On Savings.com, which reports two million customers every month — so-called “deal pros” — offer tips and tricks on how to save for free.

Tiffany Ivanovsky, one of those deal pros, said, “Sometimes it feels a little good to be frugal.”

The use of online coupons, Wallace said, has jumped an astounding 172 percent between this year and last.

Pace added online coupons aren’t just for baby food and diapers.

“Dell sold millions of dollars of computers using Twitter and social media, so it’s for all types of products.”

Wallace, citing shopping experts, said social networking is guaranteed to save at least 15 to 20 percent on your shopping bill — and even as much as even 30 percent if you’re really looking for bargains.

But how do you get started?

Wallace suggested these social networking tips:

1. Go on Twitter and enter “#” or the word, “sale.”
2. Visit coupon sites like savings.com and RetailMeNot.com.
3. Combine your combine deals with in-store sales.

Demonware

November 12, 2009 by · Comments Off on Demonware 

Well, Modern Warfare 2 players it seems that we gonna have some bad days. I`m sure that every PS3 owner has problems with getting online to play.  Who is to blame here?

It`s certain that the game is experiencing some connectivity issues, but it seems that they aren`t related to the software patch which was just issued earlier today. (according to Infinity Ward).

One of the game developers, to be more specific Robert Bowling, assured us that the only problem is the server capacity, which is just overload and not a bug in the code. Bowling also said that the patch won’t fix immediate multiplayer problems, but they are struggling to make it work. And when Bowling said they i`m sure he referred at the hird-party providers that host PlayStation 3 multiplayer traffic.

With Xbox Live seems to be another problem because the servers are maintained and ran by Microsoft, but it seems that Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer will be available for play as soon as Demonware gets the servers back online.

Check out the video below:

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Hp 3com

November 12, 2009 by · Comments Off on Hp 3com 

Leading the call: Dave Donatelli, EVP of H-P’s servers and networking business.

Call Ends.

5:34 pm Jim Burns, vice president of investor relations, notes that this deal won’t have the same financial impact as H-P’s acquisition of EDS. The company has bought more than 30 companies since CEO Mark Hurd joined and has a strong track record of acquisitions and integration — “Integration is every bit as important as who you’re buying” — he says.

5:29 pm What happens to 3Com’s brand–will it disappear? We’ll discuss after the acquisition closes, H-P says.

5:29 pm Every customer I speak to has asked us to do more networking, Donatelli says.

5:26 pm Shannon Cross at Cross Research asks how we should judge the success of this deal. First step is getting it approved, H-P says, but longer-term you can evaluate based on market-share gains.

5:23 pm An analyst asks why 3Com has been so successful in China and less so in other markets. “Their challenge is having the scale in the go-to-market space,” the ability to show up at deals in enough places, Donatelli says–something H-P can assist with.

5:22 pm Donatelli declines to say who else H-P looked at but says that 3Com’s new products were key. “We think they have a long runway ahead of them,” he says. The company’s work in China was also important–H-P sees it as a critical IT market in the years ahead. H-P also tested 3Com products itself, and Donatelli admits that its data-center staffers were skeptical initially but have since become fans.

5:18 pm Q&A starts. Bill Shope from Credit Suisse asks what synergies we can expect. “We bought this to grow, and there’s no two ways about that,” Donatelli says. H-P values 3Com’s engineering expertise, so synergies will be “typical” and come up in things like G&A.

5:15 pm Today’s acquisition is part of H-P’s larger strategy around what it calls “converged infrastructure,” Donatelli says.

5:13 pm In May, 3Com introduced a new product family of data-center switches that increases performance and uses less energy and won plaudits from industry analysts Yankee Group, Gartner and IDC, he says.

5:10 pm H-P networking customers have been asking the company to do more in that market, he says.

5:09 pm 3Com has 32% of the enterprise switching market in China, he points out.

5:08 pm H-P looked around the entire networking sector, he adds, and chose 3Com for its products, open-industry standards, “a ton of innovative technology” and its R&D center in China.

5:07 pm This deal creates “a new global networking leader,” he says, and will make H-P No. 2 in enterprise networking world-wide, “a very important space for us.”

5:06 pm “We think today is a very exciting day for our customers and the industry,” Donatelli says.


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Google Go

November 11, 2009 by · Comments Off on Google Go 

Your humble blogwatcher selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention epic kludges…

Cade Metz getz going:

Google has open-sourced an experimental programming language that attempts to crossbreed a dynamic web-happy language like Python with a compiled language like C++. … Dubbed Go … Google says the language is type safe and memory safe, and it’s specifically designed for building software that runs on multi-core machines. Systems and servers are written as lightweight processes called goroutines.

The project’s developers include Unix founding father Ken Thompson; fellow Bell Labs Unix developer Rob Pike; and Robert Griesemer, known for his work on the Java HotSpot compiler. They call the language Go because, well, you know. “‘Ogle’ would be a good name for a Go debugger,” the company says.more

Jason Kincaid goes further:

Google … says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python. Go’s official mascot is Gordon the gopher.

For more details check out Golang.org.more

Google’s Go team members go on and on:

Here at Google, we believe programming should be fast, productive, and most importantly, fun. That’s why we’re excited to open source an experimental new language called Go. … Typical builds feel instantaneous; even large binaries compile in just a few seconds. And the compiled code runs close to the speed of C. Go lets you move fast.

Go is a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing, a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, plus some cool features like true closures and reflection.more

Dj Walker-Morgan:

The language itself has pointers but no pointer arithmetic; instead it offers bounded slices for random access to memory. Go promotes the writing of systems as lightweight communicating processes called goroutines. The developers say that an application can be made up of thousands of goroutines, which are supported at the language level. Unicode support, garbage collection and run-time reflection are also included in the design of the Go language.

The language already has two compilers, gccgo which uses a GCC back end, and a suite of architecture specific compilers, 6g for 64 bit x86 code and 8g for 32-bit x-86 code (the naming style for the compilers is inherited from Plan 9 ). The GCC based compiler is slower than the architecture specific compilers but currently generates more efficient code.more

But Ryan Paul wants to go home:

Creating a compiler is practically a rite of passage for computer science students, and half of the top vendors in the software industry eventually make their own programming language or extend an existing one to the point where it’s marginally recognizable. … Modern mainstream programming languages don’t fall far from the C tree.

Are there any influential software vendors who have the vision and leverage to liberate [us] from the tiresome anachronisms of C? … When I learned that Google was going to announce a new programming language, I was hopeful that the search giant would bring something truly novel to the table. They haven’t, but the result isn’t bad.more

And John Ripley goes further:

I really don’t understand the repeated banging-head-against-wall that language inventors are doing. There’s a good reason why C++ is still in wide and very popular use: precisely because it does have explicit memory management and pointer arithmetic. C++ is a static, explicit language. Go is not. It will not replace C++, and no language will until that is understood.

Stop trying to replace C++ with a language that does not fulfill every aspect C++ covers. If you ARE a language inventor and reading my comment, answer this: can you write a cache/MMU interface or an interrupt handler in your language? If the answer is no, go back to the drawing board.more

So what’s your take?

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