| Samsung Soul Does Not Have GSM 850MHz
Other features on the flagship Samsung Soul include a 5MP camera, 2.2-inch QVGA display, Magical Touch by DaCP, a stainless steel finish, Web 2.0 tools, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, MP3 playback, and a Bang & Olufsen digital power amplifier. Via phonescoop.com .
Brooks resigns as COO from Broadstripe
Bill Shreffler was named president and chief executive of Broadstripe in September 2006 and replaced Westbrook, who was named chairman and chief strategic officer of the company. Westbrook resigned from that position in October 2007. Chesterfield-based Broadstripe currently provides voice, video and high-speed Internet data services to 120,000 residential and commercial customers in Maryland, Michigan, Washington and Oregon. Broadstripe is the 111th largest privately-held company in the area with approximately $105 million in 2006 revenue, according to St. Louis Business Journal research. .
Microsoft Mediaroom reaches a million television screens
Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, announced at the International CES show that its Mediaroom software is now running on over a million set-top boxes. Among them are customers of BT Vision, who will also be able to access the service through an Xbox 360 games console. Microsoft is expanding the range of movies and television shows that will be available on Xbox. It is also partnering with NBC to make the Olympics available online, both live and on demand. .
TURKEYS WHO GOT A EUROSTUFFING
Dustin The Turkey, an Irish superstar puppet, has ruffled feathers with his bid to represent his country in Belgrade this summer. But as any veteran viewer of this increasingly bizarre annual spectacle will know, being fowl by no means qualifies him as its weirdest-ever entrant. Believe it or not, he will not even be the first stuffed bird to take to the Eurovision stage. In 1980, Le Papa Pingouin a fat Luxembourger dres-sed as a penguin starred in perhaps the most derided Eurovision performance of all time. While Sophie and Magaly, twin blondes in jumpsuits, sang of his dream to fly like a seagull, he waddled mournfully around. .
ViewSonic Expands Display Heritage With New Line of High Resolution ...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Parks Associates research, more than two-thirds of the digital photos taken are never printed or displayed, keeping memories bottled up on memory cards and computer hard drives. ViewSonic(R) Corp. sets photos free from the hard drive and brings them to the coffee table with the introduction of an easy-to-use digital picture frame line. The company's first picture frames - the widescreen 7-inch DP701W4WH, widescreen 8-inch DF88W-523 and traditional 8-inch DF87G533 - are affordable, stylish and versatile, providing a high-quality display for consumers to show off digital photos that may have never seen the light of day. "From wedding days and a baby's 'first' to family vacations and birthdays, displaying personal moments through high-quality displays is a natural next step for ViewSonic," said Jeff Volpe, vice president of marketing, ViewSonic Americas.
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