Musings about my first love - Technology !
Orkut opens the gates!!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
I log on to my Orkut today evening on diwali day, and guess what is the surprise ?? Orkut Invites are no longer needed in order to sign up for Orkut !!! Its open for joining for one and all from front page !!!
There has been a mad rush lately to get the Orkut invite, which some people had time of their life selling on eBay or distributing through chats, playing the mating game all the way. But no more, simply goto Orkut homepage and click on Join Orkut link or log on with your Google Account.
This will give more traffic to Orkut and will give competetion to MySpace, with which ironically Google had a deal for advertising. Also read from insideorkut blog that Google is now allowing Orkut users to choose who they can get friend requests from based on language.
Sorry guys, i know u all will miss the brazillian beauties ;)
posted by Jas @ 10:01 AM,
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Zune launches on Nov 17th !!!
Monday, October 16, 2006
It has been quite a time since Microsoft came up with the teaser for Zune (see my blog post here). Finally Microsoft has come up with a date for its launch, not before the net got filled up with comparision and hatred sites. The date has been decided at November 17th, Tuesday with launch only for US market.
The Zune device will retail for $249.99 U.S. and is create new ways for entertainment fans to connect and share media experiences device-to-device through the use of wireless technology and new software scenarios.
Launching in 30GB storage, this places it head to head with other 30GB media players such as Apple’s iPod. The Zune features a couple of capabilities not present on the ubiquitous iPod including an FM tuner and wi-fi music sharing capabilities. In addition, the Zune marketplace is offering both pay-per-download songs for 79 Microsoft® Points each (99 cents) and a $14.99 per month “unlimited” music download option. The Zune will also come preloaded with a handful of music videos and tracks (See MS website for details)
Whether it will be all to take on iPod is yet to be seen.
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/sep06/09-28ZunePricingAvailabilityPR.mspx
Labels: Product Launch
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