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Street-level view from Virtual Earth

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

They’ve done it this time . As if the aerial view of Microsoft Virtual Earth was not enough, now they created street-level view, where you can actually see photos of the streets when browsing through the map.
Since this is just a prototype, only Seattle and San Francisco are available at the time: http://preview.local.live.com/. You […]

Origami’s price - $395?

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Rumours on Channel 9 say the Origami device from Microsoft might have a price of only $395. If that is true, this device will have a tremendous amount of sales. This mini-tablet PC will be your portable XBox, media player, organizer and many other things. It will be like a Tablet PC that is more […]

Microsoft Origami revealed

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

A digital marketing firm accidentaly posted the video they created for Microsoft’s Origami project:
http://www.geekpedia.com/news94_Microsofts-Origami-revealed.html.
Microsoft Origami appears to be a smaller version of the Tablet PC, however I suspect there is much more to it, the video doesn’t tell much.
I think my Pocket PC will soon be replaced. I always wanted a Pocket PC with a […]

Origami - new gadget from Microsoft

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Microsoft released a teaser for their new Origami project, a Flash video can be seen at http://www.origamiproject.com/1/.
Could it be a gadget, perhaps an iPod killer? You can only guess what it is. But it’s certainly a hardware device, as Robert Scoble says: “I do know that Origami is the code-name for a new kind of […]

Autosubmitters are a fraudulent scam

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Submitting your website using automatic submission applications is generally a bad idea. One of the reasons is that some search engines detect this type of submission, and will penalize you for that.
Thus, you will be better off if you submit manually and fill in the fields yourself.
For the major search engines such as Google and […]