http://www.51xingfu.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:03:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unlock its secrets. The demo only showcased a selection of tips for the Safari browser but a couple were interesting. Some were obvious, I already knew how to bookmark a Web pages and open multiple Safari pages, but I didn't know about the one-step process for getting to the top of a ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/09/04/learn-iphone-secrets/ Features include a 2-megapixel camera, GPS, a full HTML browser, stereo Bluetooth, and more. We didn't quite like that it doesn't have Wi-Fi or an accelerometer, but it's otherwise a very good handset. The Finesse is available from MetroPCS for a rather hefty $350, but bear in mind MetroPCS doesn't ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/29/samsung-finesse-is-one-fine-handset/ Microsoft and Japanese phone company NTT are joining 11 other companies in taking a stake in Japan's first 24-hour-English language broadcasting service. The new channel is expected to reach some 10 million households in North America, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world, according ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/24/microsoft-and-12-others-invest-in-japanese-tv/ Microsoft released its new Stirling security suite in public beta at RSA 2008 on Tuesday. The Stirling security package, the next wave of its Forefront software, offers one management console, enabling administrators to push policies out across PCs, servers, and other computers that access the Internet. The console is ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/microsofts-stirling-released-in-public-beta/ After meeting with another blogger in Beijing, I decided it's time to open up Pandora's Box and join Twitter. Follow me: gwbstr. http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/your-neighborhood-sinobyte-blogger-now-on-twitter/ (Credit: Rockstar) Grand Theft Awesome: The main attraction is the city itself, and it's beautifully rendered and full of activity. The game's random characters occasionally get involved in amusing bits of action--we saw a pedestrian get hit by a car, and a minute later, an ambulance pulled up and a paramedic got ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/gta-iv-the-good-the-bad-and-the-sometimes-ugl/ T-Mobile USA is expected to sell in the fourth quarter between 400,000 and 500,000 of the recently announced G1 phones, which use Google's Android operating system, according to Taiwanese news site CENS. Even at the predicted sale rate of 500,000 units in the fourth quarter, the Android phone won't be selling ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/500000-g1-phones-expected-to-sell-in-quarter/ Daily Tech also says Apple plans to always have a capacity gap between the iPod Touch and the iPhone. Right now, a 32GB iPod Touch is available, but the iPhone carries no more than 16GB of memory. The philosophy going forward is to maintain that discrepancy as Apple increases the ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/thinner-3g-iphones-planned-for-wwdc/ Predictions markets are no longer the province of academic research or consumer services, such as Hubdub and NewsFutures. In a new report from Forrester Research, "Prediction Markets: Wisdom Of The Crowd Comes To The Enterprise" ($279), Oliver Young makes the case that prediction markets are a valuable tool for executive ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/wisdom-of-the-crowd-comes-to-the-enterprise-2/ Microsoft said Thursday that it is buying Komoku, a Maryland-based company that specializes in software to detect rootkits. The Komuku name and independent product line will go away, Microsoft said, but most of the 4-year-old company's nine staffers are joining the software giant. Microsoft didn't announce financial terms of the deal, ... http://www.51xingfu.net/index.php/2010/08/23/microsoft-scoops-up-rootkit-finder-komoku/