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Toyota finds way to protect pedestrian

Toyota finds way to protect pedestrian

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Vehicles

Toyota, the world’s biggest automaker, has sold nearly 337,000 third-generation Prius cars in Japan. It has sold more than 2.68 million hybrids around the world so far, a million of them in Japan
The new Toyata Prius hybrid is becoming little less hushed with a new electronic humming device. The device is the automaker’s answer to

Multi Tasking with Sony

Multi Tasking with Sony

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Software

Sony Corp broadcast a new version of the “Location Porter”. The location porter is a professional-use real-time video transmission system.
The Location Porter is a structure that uses mobile phone networks and the Internet to transmit high quality video in real time without a mobile unit.
The RVT-SD100 approximately measures 143 x 80 x 222mm, and cameramen

Aquavista Unveils the World's First Clock Aquarium

Aquavista Unveils the World’s First Clock Aquarium

By Hippy Buyer | Consumer Goods, Electronics, Gadgets

Following the success of its award-winning wall mounted aquariums, Aquavista Enterprise Inc. introduces its newest invention and concept for keeping time and fish ~ the patented AquaClock™ Series—the world’s first clock aquariums. Or as some people call it, the world’s first aquariums that are clocks. Anyway you look at it, the AquaClock is a designer

UAE: To Suspend Blackberry Usage

UAE: To Suspend Blackberry Usage

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Events, Gadgets

The United Arab Emirates’ threatening crackdown on BlackBerry services will extend to foreign visitors, putting the government’s concerns over the smart phones in direct conflict with the country’s ambitions to be a business and tourism haven.
It was later announced through the Emirate’s telecoms regulator that foreigners and travellers to the city-state of Dubai and the

Royalties to share their photos online

Royalties to share their photos online

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Events

The royal family are now sharing her photo albums and those of the House of Windsor in the online Flickr photo site. These are not your average family snapshots.
The launch of the British Monarchy Flickr account will beef up Buckingham Palace’s online presence, adding to its Twitter account and YouTube channel. The site will

Gadgets overlooked

Gadgets overlooked

By janica | Electronics

You might want to double check your Smartphone’s if they contribute to rape and murder in the depths of Africa.A new U.S. law requires companies to certify whether their products contain minerals from rebel-controlled mines in Congo and surrounding countries.
It’s a travel aimed at starving the rebels of funds and encouraging them to lay down

Microsoft Phones for its employees?

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Events, Gadgets

Microsoft has been promising its employees for a new Windows Phone 7 was announced last Monday at its big sales meetup in Atlanta. Windows employees posted tweets regarding the reduction of the odds that any of them trying using the camera.
A Microsoft spokesman confirmed the news, saying that the specific devices will vary by market.

Amazon: E-books outsells hardcovers

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, laptops, mobile phones

Amazon informs everyone that ebooks are outselling hardcover books. E books have become so popular that they are now outselling hardcover books with 180 e-books sold for every 100 hardcover that go out the door at least last month. It’s really unbelievable where it boggles the mind. People are more on the e-books since its

China plans to approve Nokia’s mapping services

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Events

China now plans to give Nokia, the mobile giant a license to offer online mapping services. Nokia will be the first foreign firm to be approved since new rules were exposed in June, an official said Wednesday.
The official at the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping told AFP that Nokia’s application to operate its

Google has won permission with China

By janica | Business, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Events

If you remember my last post regarding Google and its problem with China has now been given a solution. Google has won permission last Friday to maintain its website in China and keep its website. They can now keep their world’s most populous nation after bowing to pressure to eliminate a virtual