Archive for August, 2006

Keyspan’s Cordless Internet Phone

Keyspan, a computer peripheral maker announced on Monday that it will be shipping its $79 cordless VoIP Phone Service starting this month. The phone is designed to untether users from their PCs. And yes, you can still call a landline without missing a beat. [Read more]


DirecTV Is Testing Internet Phone Service

As cable companies make strong moves into the arena phone companies have been playing for a long time, DirecTV has finally figured out that it will not be wise for them to stand on the side lines for too long and watch this multibillion dollar industry go to the agile cable TV providers.  [Read more]


HP Photosmart 620 - The One That Seduced Me

HP Photosmart 620I am from the tinsel town of Los Angeles. I am successful in all aspects of life except my love life. I know it hurts but can’t help it. My friend wanted to change my world around by trying to fix me up with his cousin, the beautiful, Catherine Zeta Holmes, Oops! [Read more]


Terrorist Threat Alert Issued To Australian Citizens Traveling To Pakistan

The government of Australia has received some intelligence that there is a high probability of an attack on Westerners traveling to Pakistan. Australians are being advised to reconsider or cancel any trips to Pakistan until further notice.  [Read more]


4500 Lawsuits Filed Against Prempro Maker Wyeth

The class action lawsuit against Wyeth will go through the jury selection phase on Monday. The lawsuit alleges that Prempro, a hormone replacement therapy causes cancer.  [Read more]


Walk-in Clinics Coming Soon To 20 Walgreens In Chicago

Due to the exorbitant healthcare costs Americans incur some creative minds have come up with a solution. Open up walk-in clinics in retail store chains that are run by Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants.  [Read more]


Automakers Are Not Happy With Rules To Make Car Roofs Stronger

Foreign and domestic car manufacturers are lobbying the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to relax proposed rules to make car roofs stronger to prevent deaths from rollovers.  [Read more]


The Tesla Roadster Is One Electric Car To Watch

The Tesla Roadster Is One Electric Car To WatchThe signature edition of the Tesla Roadster just launched in Los Angeles and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was there to watch the action. The Silicon-based maker of the roadster was offering 100 of its cars for $100,000 each. [Read more]


Dell is facing some serious challenges

Dell is facing some serious challengesIt seems that the bigger companies get the less agile they get. Dell is known for pioneering the direct-to-customer sales model that cuts out the costs associated with running a retail outlets and sharing profits with computer hardware retailers.  [Read more]


More than 85% of Vonage VoIP Subscribers have Enhanced 911

Eighty five percent of Vonage’s subscriber lines now have Enhanced 911 – a feature that automatically allows emergency operators to identify a person’s phone number with a physical address.  [Read more]


Global IP Sound extending partnership with Skype

Global IP Sound (GIPS) has just announced that they will be extending their partnership with Skype so that hardware manufacturers will be able to offer Skype-compatible phones which will use GIPS’ Voice Engine.  [Read more]


Are You Booking Your Holidays Online? Better Make Sure The Site Is Legit

It is very easy these days for fraudsters to set up a website that looks like the legitimate ones that the average person, including yours truly, need to do some due diligence to ensure that the online site they are paying their funds to is not a criminal hiding behind a website.  [Read more]


E-learning Companies Could Be Impacted By Blackboard’s Patent

Blackboard has just been issued a patent on the technology that is used to deliver online education. If their recent lawsuit against a Canadian competitor is anything to go by, the e-learning industry may be in for a shocker.  [Read more]


Women With Cosmetic Breast Implants Die More From Suicide Than Cancer

Findings from a study that involved thousands of participants showed that women with cosmetic breast implants have a lower risk of dying from breast cancer and heart disease, than they of dying by committing suicide. The results of the study were published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.  [Read more]


Study Shows Cigarettes And Chewing Tobacco Can Damage The Heart

A recent medical study conducted by Dr. Koon K. Theo, MB, PhD, of the University of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, that involved 27,000 participants from 52 countries, showed that the use of tobacco can affect one’s heart attack risk.  [Read more]


Four Bargain Stocks For Your Portfolio

The stock market has been greatly impacted by the sky high prices of oil and the turmoil in the Middle East. Sure there are short term lows in the market, with the NASDAQ being down by 14% from its mid-April high, but that is no reason to be shy about buying stocks now that you can get a bargain prices.  [Read more]


10 Real Estate markets that are forecasted to grow the fastest

If you are a real estate investor and want to know where to buy your next investment property, it will only be wise for you to do some digging to find where property values are rising. This kind of information is equally important to those that are in the market to buy and want to know where the deals are. [Read more]


Palm GPS Navigator Smartphone

Palm GPS Navigator SmartphonePalm just launched a GPS solution for Treo users. The kit is preloaded with maps and a GPS receiver that communicates via Bluetooth with Palm Treo 650, 700w and the 700p. It looks like you don’t have to pay the high price auto manufactures charge to get the optional navigation system with your new car.  [Read more]


Yahoo And AT&T Launch Photo Sharing Service

Yahoo and AT&T have joined hands to launch a Photo sharing service that will tap into the burgeoning online photo service users that is estimated to grow to 2009, according to InfoTrends.  [Read more]


Microsoft’s Zune Portable Media Player To Come Preloaded With Music Videos

It looks like Apple’s iPod is going to have to work a lot harder to retain its market share with Microsoft’s Media Player soon to launch later this month. Just this Thursday, EMI Group Plc, the worlds, third largest music company, announced that…[Read more]


Trendnet ClearSky Bluetooth VoIP Phone kit

Trendnet ClearSky Bluetooth VoIP Phone kit The Trendnet ClearSky Bluetooth VoIP Phone Kit enables you to make your Skype and SkypeOut calls without being tethered to your computer or internet connection – within reason of course.  [Read more]


Nokia N90

Nokia N90The Nokia N90 is packed with every possible feature you can imagine to the point where the line between cell phone and PDA is starting to get real thin. The N90 is a Bluetooth phone that is equipped with…  [Read more]


Ford Motor Company To Cut Production By 21%

As part of Ford Motor Company’s plans to trim inventory to match consumer demand, which has been lagging behind lately, it announced that it will be cutting its fourth quarter production by 21%, much lower than it previously planned.  [Read more]


Skin cancer is striking young adults who love to tan

Tanning at spas has become one of the beauty regimens of young adult females who have essentially been led to believe that the tanned skin is the most beautiful. They see how society worships the likes of Paris Hilton, and the bone-skinny and tanned Hollywood stars that are supposedly the standard that everyone is measured by, and they simply copy what they do.  [Read more]


Exercise is the prescription for keeping your brain young and fit

If you are not getting some sort of aerobic exercise three times a week, your brain may just be aging at a much faster rate than the brains of those that make the time to exercise. A recent study has shown that there are tremendous benefits to be derived from regular exercise.  [Read more]


Ziff Davis’s Electronic Gaming Summit

The Electronic Gaming Summit is held every year in Northern California open only to top industry decision makers by invitation only. How many people do you think are usually invited? If you guessed 100 people, you are right.  [Read more]


Sony VAIO® UX180P Micro PC

Sony VAIO® UX180P Micro PCIf carrying your Laptop through the airport or at conferences is getting a bit much for you, or perhaps you just want to travel light and still be able to keep track of your business, happenings on the net, email, etc., then you may want to look into the Sony VAIO UX180P Micro PC.  [Read more]


GM announced they will cut down new big SUV production

2006 Chevy TahoeGeneral Motor’s CEO, Rick Wagoner announced today that GM will be cutting down on the production of their big SUVs due to excess inventory and rising gasoline costs that is leading customers to buy more fuel efficient vehicles.  [Read more]


FDA puts a stop to the production of unapproved inhalants

Three companies that manufacture inhalants used by people suffering from some breathing disease such as asthma, emphysema, bronchitis and cystic fibrosis, were told to stop manufacturing their inhalants.  The companies affected were, Rotech Healthcare Inc, CCS Medical and Reliant Pharmacy Services.  Apparently the drugs the sold in large quantities throughout the country did not provide any discernable relief.  [Read more]


Are you a Diabetic who suffers from Night-Eating Syndrome?

Do you eat late at night after dinnertime? You tell yourself you need to finish everything you have on your to do list before you settle down in front of the TV to eat your favorite food or snack and top it off with desert. How much weight have you gained as a result? Are you a diabetic who indulges in this bad habit? If you are, you may be heading for obesity.  [Read more]


My Casio EXILIM EX S1 helped me document my sister’s weight loss

Casio EXILIM EX S1My younger sister has decided to go on a diet. She has set a goal to lose 10 pounds by the end of the summer. I know it will be a daunting task for her. I am giving her all the moral support she needs. I love her so much and I want to capture her progress in living color. So I decided to buy a Casio Exilim EX S1 to show her how much she is losing. [Read more]


The Versatile Canon Powershot A400

Canon Powershot A400 Just recently, I did some research on the net about digital cameras and decided to go to the mall in my town to purchase one. I asked the salesman for one that was easy to operate and would give me good pictures, and he quickly showed me the Canon Powershot A400.  [Read more]


Canon Powershot A300

Canon Powershot A300Hunkering down in a bunker in the hostile terrain of Afghanistan, loneliness and anxiety fill my entire being. I try to overcome my sadness by looking at photographs of wife Jenny and my ten year old son Roger. I remember how excited he was when I gave him a Canon Powershot A300 for his birthday.  [Read more]


Let your imagination run wild with the Casio Exilim S3

Casio Exilim S3  The best birthday gift I have ever received is the Casio Exilim S3 I got from grandma. I know I’ll cherish it for a long time because I needed to purchase one to get my career in the field of photography off the ground.  [Read more]


The Canon Powershot A530 brought our family picnic to life

Canon Powershot A530 Things couldn’t have been better with the arrival of our Canon Powershot A530. You see we’ve been planning a dayout with the whole family, but just couldn’t find the time to get together. The new camera turned out to be a reason and we settled for Central Park.  [Read more]


I Captured An Unforgettable Moment with My Canon Powershot A520

Canon Powershot A520 It was a grand day for me, infact more than my son who was going to represent his team in the Hartley football cup. Michael, my son had been an ardent football player since his childhood, and I never knew that he was going to take it up as his full time career.  [Read more]