Wireless Mighty Mouse by APPLE

Mighty Mouse is the mouse that changed the way you scroll, has gone wireless. Now you can take that seamless, touch-sensitive, 360-degree scrolling design with you wherever you go.

Plenty of applications require you to do more than scroll up and down.Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger. Explore the farthest reaches of your files, pan images in iPhoto, view timelines in iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro, traverse bars in GarageBand and Logic Pro,with one hand tied behind your back (or holding a cup of coffee or typing). Mighty Mouse gives you room to roam.

Bush Shoe Site Sold on eBay

The British-based internet media paid 5,215 pounds for the
Looks like US President George Bush's shoe fiasco is doing good to many. Now, after many online games on the same incident have created a ripple, Briton Alex Tew who created sockandawe.com, sold the property on eBay in just four days, he told Reuters.

The game called 'Sock and Awe' allows users to try their hand at hitting Bush's head with a shoe started getting millions of hits, threatening to overload the servers for a new humor site Tew is building. Thus, they put it up on eBay. The homepage of the website says '47,149,778 shoes have been successfully hit President Bush in his face.
It also displays the list of 'Top 10 Bush-shoeing players' and 'Top 10 Bush-shoeing countries.' Ironically, US tops the list of Bush-shoeing countries while Pakistan comes 10th. The buyer was a British-based internet media company and the price the site fetched on the online auction site was 5,215 pounds ($7,818)

For playing the game go to that link
http://www.sockandawe.com

Software Goes Cheap

Wednesday, December 10, 2008: This may actually be the best time for you to go and do some IT shopping. Only yesterday, we covered a news story about IT hardware industry deciding to cut down prices of the hardware and to pass on the four per cent across-the-board excise duty cut to consumers. Now, the software industry seems to have taken a cue from it and is reportedly reducing the price of software as well. The affect has come in force with the reduction in tax rates, thus boosting the import of software.
According to sources, post 8 December 2008, the CVD (or countervailing duty is an additional customs duty equal to CENVAT) on shipments will be charged at the rate of 8.24 per cent, instead of 12.36 per cent. Orders placed before 8 December 2008 will be charged at the previous rate of 12.36 per cent. This means a saving of almost 4.12 per cent. While dealers and distributors are going to get direct benefit with the boost in sales as the overall price of a box -- hardware plus software -- will be coming down, the customers can also stop worrying and go ahead with their purchasing for X-Mas and New Year!

Nokia's Security Appliance Business is acquired by Check Point Software Technologies

Nokia's security appliance business is based in California and has 500 employees and over 23,000 customers.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008: Nokia has signed an agreement to sell security appliance business to Check Point Software Technologies, for an undisclosed sum. The two businesses have collaborated for over a decade to deliver enterprise security solutions, and this agreement is the natural culmination of that long-standing collaboration, the company said.
For over 10 years, the security appliance business within Nokia has held a leading position in the security appliance market.Our IP security platforms have developed a well-deserved reputation as the premier platform on which to deploy Check Point's leading security software.

Tom Furlongsaid to senior vice president services and software, Nokia. "This business fits naturally with Check Point, and the combination will provide a great path forward for the thousands of customers who depend on Nokia security solutions today."

Gil Shwed, chairman and CEO, Check Point said,

"As a pioneer in security appliances, the Nokia security appliance business has been an important strategic partner for Check Point and has helped us achieve early leadership in the security appliance market".

Adding Nokia's security appliance portfolio into Check Point's broad range of security solutions is the natural conclusion of our long collaboration and will assure a smooth path forward for our mutual customers.

Nokia's security appliance business provides purpose-built security platforms optimised for Check Point Firewall, virtual private network (VPN) and unified threat management (UTM) software. About 85 per cent of Fortune 500 companies have bought Nokia's security platforms. More than 220,000 Nokia appliances have been installed with over 23,000 customers worldwide.

Check Point has a broad range of security gateways, available as software as well as dedicated appliances. More than 700,000 Check Point security gateways have been licenced with over 1,00,000 customers worldwide.

Check Point's customer base includes 100 per cent of Fortune 100 and 98 percent of Fortune 500 companies.The agreement between Nokia and Check Point is expected to close in the quarter ending in 31 March 2009.

Outdoor Display of LG's Laptop

LG's display manufacturing and supplying unit has announced the development of a unique TFT-LCD that can illuminate the screen with sunlight when used outdoors, instead of the backlight unit present in the laptop.
The 14.1-inch laptop screen uses LG Display's Backlight Data Signal Switching Technology that enables the screen to work under direct sunlight. With a small switch on the notebook, a user can change the reflective mode of the screen from sunlight to transmissive mode for using it indoors, on-the-go.
With such a technology in place, LG's advanced display will kill two birds with one stone.
1---It gives the freedom to work under direct sunlight
2---As the screen uses sunlight for illumination, it extends battery life.
LG Display will showcase these 14.1-inch displays at the CES along with products using other display technologies like improved motion picture response time (MPRT), other eco-friendly displays, and more speeds.