Some people in Holland are collecting money for a firefox ad in the Dutch newspaper, “De Telegraaf” to heighten firefox awareness. The idea of course is inspired by the succesfull ad placed in the New York Times. The cost of the Ad is about 53.000 euros for a single page colour advertisement and 36.000 euros [...]
Entries from January 12th, 2005
Mac Mini Mini Review
January 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware
Looks like the guys at arstechnica have written the first review I could find on the Mac mini. Here follows an excerpt from the conclusion and the benchmark used: It’s clear that the xMac performs considerably faster than both my iBook, which cost me $200 more than an xMac, and nearly as fast as my [...]
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This Is Going To Be A Good Year For Apple
January 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, Mobiles & Gadgets
The year has just started and already apple is about to release two mouth watering pieces of hardware. First of all the the much anticipated Mac mini which I have written about before: Here are some specs: Processor and memory 1.25GHz or 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine 512K on-chip level 2 cache at [...]
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The $100.000.000 identity heist
January 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Crime, Privacy
The BBC reports that Philip Cummings, a 35 year old British national has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for identity fraud. This for information he got as a computer helpdesk employee. An excerpt: A Briton involved in what is believed to be the largest identity theft case ever has been sentenced to 14 years [...]
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