2008 May | Tech for Lunch!

My friend MK007 sent me a link to this site today and it seems like a neat place to start looking if you are a Google lover like me. Google has grown to be an extremely large place and in order to keep up with all the new features and applications that they offer, you need to...

Napster launches the lar...

I recently discussed the whereabouts of Napster’s founder, Shawn Fanning. I mentionned that Napster had been liquidated back in the day, but its name has always remained a very important one in the MP3 business. I should really say that it has always been a big name in...

Adobe Announces Flash Pl...

If you have been paying attention to the RIA world lately, you already know that it is becoming a very competitive market. Rich Internet Applications represent the web’s next generation. You have probably already heard of the most important contenders who provide tools...

Microsoft showcases its ...

Techcrunch had a great article about Microsoft’s new gizmo, the TouchWall. Basically, it is a cheap version of the Surface PC, meaning you could get some of the “touch” functionalities without the price tag of the Surface. In details, however, they are two completely...

Twitter beat the media o...

Twitter has become very popular for keeping everyone informed about what you are doing almost instantly. There are a few ways to get information to and from the site, the most useful and popular one is via SMS – aka Text Messages from your mobile phone. When the massive Earthquake...

Powerset unveils a Wikip...

We are seeing more and more websites who do not come up with a brand new product, but rather a product that sits on top of someone else’s site. In most cases, these sites are simply an interface to another tool or directly enhance your experience. This is the case with Powerset’s...

Yahoo! Glue...

The Search Engine world is a very competitive one and when something interesting is brought to the table, everyone usually follows. Combining search results for different categories is nothing new anymore. Google has had that for a while now and Yahoo! also offers the same thing....

It’s been a while ...

I’m sure most of you have heard of (and probably used as well) Napster. Napster changed the way we trade, discover and, most of all, download our music forever when it was launched in June 1999. After a very successful run and a whole bunch of lawsuits and pressure from the...

GTA4 – We stand co...

Earlier this week, I wrote about GTA IV and said that they had estimated hitting the $300 million mark for the first week of sales. Well, it turns out the estimates were a little bit off and not just by a couple million! Take-Two reported that they sold some 3.6 million copies on...

Microsoft withdraws Yaho...

Microsoft announced Saturday that it is withdrawing its offer to purchase Yahoo!, due to the inability of both parties to agree on an acceptable sale price. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer said in a letter sent to Yahoo! that the software manufacturer was willing to spend $47.5...