Apple are releasing things left right and centre. They really have caught both the media – and the general publics attention with their range of MP3 players – starting with the 1st generation of iPods. Well today I got an email when I got home from Tibault, apologising that he couldn’t write any articles today but that I should write about this:  Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small...

The Wall Street Journal reported today that EBay is in talks to buy the Luxembourg-based Skype, whose software allows Internet users to speak to each other for free. The acquisition would cost $2 billion to $3 billion, the paper said, citing people familiar with the talks. Skype has held discussions with other potential purchasers including News Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the Journal said. The talks with EBay are at a sensitive stage and may still collapse, the newspaper said. Interesting, I heard there had been discussions, but I didn’t know Microsoft had been one of the potential...

Shock horror: After almost 8 years, Slashdot’s HTML is finally getting an overhaul. For now the changes are almost entirely under the hood, as we migrate the current skin to CSS. Slashdot itself will migrate in the next few weeks, but for now, we’d appreciate it if people who understand CSS could take a look at Slashcode. If you use a browser that lets you select a stylesheet, you can take a look at that site with the Slashdot CSS Skin. Keep in mind that Slashcode doesn’t look exactly like Slashdot, so there will be some differences between that site, and the final version that...

I had my ipaq in the cradle, working fine. Pocketed it, took it out of my pocket upstairs and dang screens busted. Image: Thank God for my Warranty! Anyways called HP today and told them this would be the 5th time they would be taking in my iPaq, I wanted more then another repair which produced more problems. The technical guy transferred me over to some other department, the woman looked @ my case referenece I told her my problem she said she’d issue me with: New iPaq from their stock, and 3 months extended warrantly. I am so far happy with that, i hope that this doesn’t dissapoint....

  ZDNet.co.uk reveals that a state-of-the-art computer system installed in a public swimming pool in Wales detected the motionless girl at the bottom of a extremely deep swimming pool and informed the life guard of her whereabouts and how long she had been there for. The computer managed to alert the lifeguard after 30 seconds of her being in the water. The local council installed the system after lifeguards were having problems seeing to the bottom of the pool in the deep end and cost around £65,000 to install. The computer detects whether someone is in distress by calculating swimmer’s...

In January 2005 I actually wrote a topic concerning such an issue, 8 months down the line and the topic is brought up again. Reading back the product which was announced by Kodak was said to become availiable in June. Well everyone forgot about that one, but now Nikon has released one and it’s reported on Slashdot. If you look at the title of the article i’ve quoted from, you’ll see that it says the ‘Worlds First Built-In WiFi Cameras’. I’ve never seen anyone with a WiFi camera, so it’d be interesting to see what happend with that Kodak one. Anyways –...

Well funnily all these posts are beginning to correspond. I wrote a post about WiFi and then something new came out in WiFi, and I wrote something about the future of cars and now something new has come out in the technological world of cars. Have a read: I never thought it’d be possible, but Mazda of all companies has embraced the inner geek inside me to make me want to run out and test drive one of their cars. Thankfully this is only a concept car for now, and my Honda is still running strong. Designed for "net-savvy youngsters", the new concept hatchback, Mazda Sassou, ditches...

Yeah you’ve probably heard about the upcoming release from Apple – The iTunes Mobile phone. If you haven’t, heres the score. Apparently (sources are slashdot and other links), Apple are having some secret press conference on the 7th September where they intend to release something new in music. Some other articles say ‘iPod phone immanent’. Well now thats prettey much confirmed and there are a couple more articles going aroud now saying stuff like ‘Apple joins with O2 to launch iPod mobile phone’. Heres a quote from one article from the times:  APPLE...