Me too!
Now I know what the Japanese have been doing all this time, working around the clock, sleeping in tubes so that they can get back to the office at five in the morning.
This little baby weighs only 0.85 kg and is made out of carbon fibre. They created the ultimate notebook – thin, lightweight, beautiful, powerful – but then…..
… They won’t share it with us! It’s only available in Japan! Gaarrrrrrr! Browsing through Dynamism.com, the only site that imports Japanese tech-dolls for the US market, is see lots of other marvellous gadgets, take the Sony Vaio U70 for example, a 0.6 kg pen-operated err, notebook?, pda?, err, kick-ass thing. Quickly I realise that the western world is WAY behind when it comes to electronics. Just take a look at the Clie PEG-VZ90 (whoever came up with that name should be shot). The first thing it says is "*Available in Japanese Language only*". Damn you Japanese! I want one too!
The next moment I realise that I’m browsing for tickets to Tokyo. "Watakushi-wa Tuomas, desu. All your gadgets are belong to me!"
Nokia 770 – Internet Tablet
Nokia announced yesterday their first non-mobile-phone-gadget since they focused on mobile communications (for those that unfamiliar with Nokia’s history, they did all sorts of things from cables to wellingtons in the early days).
The Nokia 770 looks like a great device for internet-browsing. I’m a little confused that they decided inculde Flash Player 6 instead of 7 (FP7 does exists for Linux, doesn’t it?), but I’ll get me one if the price tag is somewhat acceptable.
The only thing that’s missing is 3G (or even GPRS), so you have to find a Wi-Fi hotspot whenever you want to browse the web. But that’s where the Nokia 7710 comes in.
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Video Banners & Bandwidth
Just noticed today that a few banners we produced had not been tested sufficiently… The thing was this: We produced a banner with a video ad. Now in Finland, none of the mainstream sites accept that any video-banners be streamed from their servers (in fear of bandwidth congestion), so we had to create a banner that essentially says "Click me to play the video" and after user interaction would start streaming the flv from one of our servers. As it turned out, the banner had a *slight* flaw and would actually start downloading the video instantly (but not display it).
Well, what happens when a banner on three major sites download a video from our servers the instant it appears?
A whopping 178 Gigabytes of traffic over just two days! Luckily our server at Magenta Sites didn’t even cough (thanks guys for the great service!).
FP7 hits 90%
Almost one and a half years after release, the penetration of FlashPlayer 7 hits the 90% mark.
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Have you bought your nokia 770? I am thinking of importing 2 sets with my colleague. $680 Sing dollars including shippment. Is it a good deal…Any clue anyone?
No, I’ve not bought the 770. Shortly after this post rumors got around about the Origami project from Microsoft and I’m still waiting to get my hands on one of those to check out which one is better.
$680 Sing sounds like a ok deal. I guess the street-price in europe still is 399€, but that may have changes…