w00t: Merriam-Webster’s word of the year
Merriam-Webster Inc. has announced their word of the year. They have named w00t as their winner.
w00t is essentially an expression popular online to express joy. It is primarily used by online gamers.
The dictionary states that the meaning of this word is yay.
Merriam-Webster added on their choice: “It could be after [...]
CPF-IP001: Wow! Sony launches an accessory for Apple iPod
Sony has joined Creative by launching an accessory for a product which is a competing product of their own. Sony has launched an iPod docking station.
The Sony CPF-IP001 will go on sale in the U.S. in March this year. It would be sold for about $250 and [...]
Pluto gets some respect: “Plutoed” chosen 2006 word of the year
The ex-Planet of our Solar System Pluto has finally received some much deserved respect. The word “Plutoed” has been chosen 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on Friday.
The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union last year [...]
Queen Elizabeth II’s traditional Christmas speech as a podcast
Royal officials have said in a statement that the Queen Elizabeth II’s traditional Christmas speech would be made available as a downloadable podcast for the first time this year.
Interested web users can order a download in advance for free on the British monarchy’s Web site.
The speech [...]
Intel launches their official blog!
Microprocessor industry giants Intel have entered the Blogosphere with the launch of their official Blog.
The company is using the MT Enterprise 1.03 blogging platform for their blog which they claim would feature inputs from their top IT leaders.
The blog would also offer an “inside look” at Intel’s IT operations and [...]
Agere Systems develops a cheaper mobile chip for digital music playing capability
Agere Systems has said in a statement that they have now developed a low cost cell phone chip, which could result in development of low cost mobile phones with music playing capabilities.
This could give a huge boost to their technology partner Samsung which are [...]
Most blogs continue to remain personal storytellers
Internet has become the most popular way for people to express themselves. Blogs empower them to say things they want to communicate to the rest of the world.
We also have thousands of popular blogs, which are mostly about news, technology and politics. However, research has found that if we [...]
Yahoo! wants customers to make ads for them!
It seems like Search Engine Company and the operators of the world’s most popular internet portal Yahoo! has taken inspiration from the open source project Mozilla Firefox.
Like Mozilla invited the users of Mozilla Firefox web browser to make television advertisements for them, now Yahoo! is inviting customers to [...]
Google makes it as a verb in Collegiate Dictionary
To Google something has been a part of vocabulary since many years now. However, the search engine giant now finds a place in the Merriam-Webster’s latest edition of Collegiate Dictionary.
Google is one of the 100 new terms that made the cut for this latest updated version of [...]
Google Blog: More accidents from Google
A company with so much power as Google cannot afford to make many mistakes. However, they are not immune to human errors after all as the company accidentally managed to delete their own official Blog hosted on Google Blogger service.
The address was then temporarily taken over by a third party [...]
