Google has bought the garage that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin has rented eight years ago as they set out to take over the world and they spent all their time in this Garage
The house belonged to Susan Wojcicki who is now Google’s vice president of product management. She did not work for Google at the time but knew the Larry and Brin because one of her friends had dated Brin.
Susan Wojcicki had rented out the garage at $1,700 a month for five months to the boys.
A three year old child from Lincolnshire bought a car for £9,000 (approx $23,000) when his mother was not looking. As she turned her back, he pressed the ‘buy now’ button and that has impressed his mother.
Rachel Neal said “Jack’s a whizz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons. I was horrified. We now have the parental locks on – and we make sure we sign out of eBay.”
All the right buttons? ummmm I dont think so. Maybe he was looking for the ‘Why would anyone look at buying a bright pink car’ button and could not find it.
Luckily for the Neals, the seller has laughed this away and agreed to re-advertise the car on Ebay.
Has anyone heard about a company called Seitz? Well, I hadn’t till now. Seitz is a Swiss camera manufacturer known for making cameras with great designs and not-so-great price tags. They have recently launched the panoramic D3 camera which can take 360 Degree Photos In Two Seconds.In these 2 seconds, D3 will capture 470 million pixels worth of color and light.
Before you head out to Geneva in 2007 to buy this 160 Megapixel bad boy, let us warn you that it will cost you about $38,000.
You can reserve your camera here.
Motorola is planning on installing “InstantMoto” vending machines, so take out your credit card and buy a brand new Razr. Motorola plans to start selling its cellphones and accessories in vending machines in over 20 malls and airports around the U.S. You can also buy phones without plans and insert your present SIM card and you are good to go.
“This on-demand retail solution is an interesting approach to the many extensions of our retail strategy,” said Motorola corporate VP of global retail Jason Few. INSTANTMOTO “is an opportunity to bring never-seen-before convenience to consumers.”
Would you buy a phone from a vending machine?
‘The Venetian’ will begin trials of mobile gaming this year. The Venetian will be using hand-held gadgets that will enable their guests to play video slots, poker, blackjack and roulette from almost anywhere on the property.
The gamblers will not be able to use these devices in hotel rooms and parking garages because all gambling in Nevada is supposed to occur in public spaces.
Joseph Asher, managing director with Cantor Gaming, said the first wave of the devices will be converted PDAs with 3-by-2-inch color screens, the brand of which he declined to disclose. Gamblers will have to show proof that they’re over 21 and put a security deposit down via credit card, but any money wagered must come from either cash or from a line of credit with the hotel, per Nevada law forbidding charges to credit cards for gambling funds.
Memory Spot is the size of a tomato seed and can be attached unobtrusively to any object and carry media or data. The Memory Spot will rival RFID tags in carrying information on movable physical objects, but HP calls it the better and smarter alternative.
“It has some of the characteristics of RFID but it’s very different because it’s orders of magnitude different in bandwidth,” said Howard Taub, vice president and associate director of HP Laboratories. “It’s like comparing a monkey and a human. There are some similarities but the capabilities are very different.”
The Memory Spot has a 10 megabits-per-second data-transfer rate and can store up to 4 megabits of data, although the demonstration chips stored only 256 kilobits. The chip has an integrated antenna, which is why it is so much smaller than an RFID chip, which gets most of its size from the separately attached antennae. It receives power through inductive coupling from a special read-write device that extracts data from the memory on the chip.