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Have you seen the typo Apple made in iPhone update recently?

They managed to make a typo on a menu on the iPhone. Apple has written the Categories menu on the new Podcast download area of the new application as “Catagories”.

What makes this typo even more embarrassing is a comment from Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice president of Platform Experience, were he said: “I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel.”

iPhone Typo

A lot has been happening the past few months in the chip manufacturing business. While on one hand Intel’s sales have been soaring, the tiny rival AMD has been struggling. Not many years ago, Intel was troubled at the rate which AMD was eating into it’s profits.

Today, Things are a bit different. Intel still maintains it’s monopoly in the microprocessor business. With sales just dwindling by the day, AMD had no choice, but to take drastic steps in order to be in a position to take on Intel. Among these, was shutting down it’s own manufacturing plants and raking in as many investments as possible from wherever possible. Read more…

Although the controversy of a kill switch started in the days following the launch of the android based phone G1 from Google, it originated from the iPhone. Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent iPhone developer recently came across a secret line of code in the iPhone. Read more…

Are you looking for a way to buy a gift for your girlfriend but actually buy a gift for yourself?

How about this great wireless router shaped as an elegant vase?

Your girlfriend can use it as the vase to put some beautiful flowers in it while you can use it as a wireless router. It´s a win-win situation.

Wireless Router As Vase

The MSI R4850 is similar to many other HD4850 based graphics cards that are now out in the market. The only difference is that MSI decided to deviate from stock cooler design and gave it a bigger and better looking GPU cooler. So, if you have a transparent cabinet, this card can add some eye candy with it’s shiny copper heat pipes.

First thing first, the heart of the HD 4850 is a 55nm, RV770 chip that has 800 stream processors running at 625 MHz. You would think that the card is something that runs hot, especially since other cards that use ATI’s reference design do so. This card however, has a custom cooler, and runs cool and quiet. Read more…

Check out this Swedish video on how to use your laptop as skateboard.

Playstation has delayed the long-awaited launch of it’s PS3 title Little Big Planet. The reason for this is the discovery that background scores in the game are offensive to some users. This was brought to the notice of Playstation by some users on their forum.

In the run-up to the launch, users said “Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from the Koran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online patch, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it. ”These were with regards to lyrics and music of the track Tapha Niang by African kora player Toumani Diabate. Read more…

Apple is not the only company making money with iPhone. This cool phone has become a cash cow for all product developers who are making money by giving us cool accessories we can use with our iPhone. Here is 4 accessories you need to have with your iPhone. Read more…

The Yahoo Microsoft imbroglio seems to have gone through an extended gestation period. It’s high time we heard of the birth of a new entity. All the expectations are justified at least with all the attention the whole affair has been receiving, and the limbo it has been over the past nine odd months!

It all started close to a year ago with Microsoft pitching in to buy out Yahoo!. Steve Ballmer and Jerry Wang were in the news. At times the stock prices was the debate, while in the recent past, Google entered the limelight. There were talks of Google entering the deal with Yahoo to offset Microsoft from gaining hold of the online marketing business. Read more…

Following close on the heels of the Google deal that made everyone tremble because Yahoo! and Google would achieve an overwhelming monopoly in the market, has worked on its strong points and upgraded its image ads system.

The new system is named apt, changed from amp because of a trademark conflict. At present the platform is targeted at newspaper ads only, and complements web sites with extremely focused ads that are derived from the surfer’s online activities. This focus of the ads means more returns to the advertisers, and more revenues per ad for Yahoo! Read more…