Monday, March 19, 2007
Daily Update 3/19/2007
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do.Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
Google Inc. is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders and analysts, while a Google official in Spainlast week acknowledged the company is "investigating" such a project.
Google isn't commenting directly on leaks from Europe and the United States which describe a low-cost, Internet-connectedphone with a color, wide-screen design. Newspaper and blog reports in recent months have Google shopping itsphone design to potential mobile phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
"Mobile is an important area for Google," Google spokeswoman Erin Fors said on Friday. "We remain focused on creatingapplications and establishing and growing partnerships with industry leaders to develop innovative services for usersworldwide. However, we have nothing further to announce."
Gadget enthusiasts who only two months ago were obsessed with the potential revolutionary impact on the phone industry ofApple Inc.'s iPhone device -- due out in June and at prices starting at $500 -- have shifted their attention to whether Googleis developing an even lower-cost phone.
"We obviously need another mythical mobile to drool over and speculate about -- and the natural candidate is, of course, theso-called Google phone," geek hardware site Engadget wrote earlier this month.
To be sure, feverish speculation about Google products has been wrong before. Google was widely reported to be building itsown line of personal computers a little over a year ago. What in fact materialized was a set of free software programsdesigned to make any existing Windows PCs easier to use.
But Richard Windsor, a phone analyst with brokerage Nomura in London, told clients late last week that unspecified Googlerepresentatives at a major European conference in Germany had confirmed the company is working on its own phonedevice.
"Google has come out of the closet at the CeBIT trade fair admitting that it is working on a mobile phone of its own," Windsorsaid in a note entitled "Google Phone: From myth to reality."
"This is not going to be a high-end device but a mass market device aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC,"he said.
Over the past year, Google has branched out beyond computers to bring Web search, e-mail, mapping and other Webservices to millions of new and existing phone browsers worldwide. Rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.(Nasdaq:YHOO - news) also are racing to run Web services on mobile phones.
Simeon Simeonov, a Boston-based venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, said that an "inside source close to thecompany" had informed him that Google was developing a "Blackberry-like, slick device."
The device Simeonov describes could handle voice over Internet phone-calling. He said it is being developed within a 100-person mobile phone group at Google that includes Andy Rubin, the creator of Sidekick, a popular phone/Internet device thathe developed at a prior company he founded, Danger Inc.
Lending further clues, Isabel Aguilera, head of Google's Iberian operations, was quoted last week in Spanish news siteNoticias.com as acknowledging the existence of a part-time project by some Google engineers to develop a mobilephone.
In her interview translated from Spanish, the Google executive said her company "has been investigating" developing a mobilephone that works both as an Internet access device and as a way to extend Internet use to emerging marketscustomers.
In January, Engadget circulated a photo purporting to be a prototype Internet phone with a wide, color screen designed byGoogle and built by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.. This unconfirmed report replaced an earlier theory published by TheObserver in December that Google was working with Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) on a mobile phone.
A source at a rival Internet company who has talked to the same mobile phone manufacturers said on Friday that "Google isgoing to build their own phone, whether it is with HTC or Samsung or some other ODM (original device manufacturer)."
Windsor, the London-based Nomura analyst who tracks mobile phone handset makers like Nokia of Finland, argues that aGoogle Phone "will meet with limited success and lose money" because it lacks the necessary phone industry relationshipsto reach the massive scale needed to compete.
Viewpoint - This is great news from google. I believe they will make a great phone.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Whatever Bruce Willis wants, Bruce gets -- playmates included ... maybe.
TMZ cameras caught the swingin' single in hot pursuit of former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal at Area nighclub inHollywood over the weekend. After the club shut down, Bruce had his instructed his people to wrangle the brunette beauty,"Tell her I have a quick question for her." Uh huh. Karen obliged, but they didn't leave the club together.
Also seen over the weekend: Hip hop couple Nas and Kelis, former UFC champ and "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy" TitoOrtiz along with girllfriend Jenna Jameson, Courtney Love and Paris Hilton -- who shared the limelight with her mamaKathy -- who was celebrating her birthday.
All this and much more in this "Die Hard" weekend editon of Star Catcher .
Viewpoint - Go Bruce!
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
As a result of the recent change in the law in the U.S., some online casinos and poker room have stopped accepting U.S.players.
Casino Top Guide has been offering a voice to the online gambling community that, at this point in time is screaming inoutrage about the action taken by the U.S. legislators with the passing of "The Federal Unlawful Gambling EnforcementAct" prohibiting online wagering.
The "Federal Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act" is aimed at stopping United States Financial Institutions from providingfinancial transactions to gambling related operations.
Casino Top Guide has numerous faithful followers and lately, players who are struggling to find reputable online casinos andpoker rooms, have asked for information about joining trusted online gambling sites that accept US players. In directresponse, a page has been composed and regularly updated that allows U.S. residents to easily find good sites thatsatisfy their quest for entertainment.
Casino Top Guide offers players the opportunity to send their comments and suggestions about their gambling experience.Through this method, the gambler has the advantage of choosing a poker room or online casino reviewed andrated by their peers and not by partisan or affiliated webmasters; Otherwise known as Independent Casino Reviews.
These gambling sites are trusted by the people who count the most: the wagering players. At the site the gamer will findUnbiased online casino ratings provided by the players.
It is well known that the odds of winning at an online casino are greater than at land base casinos
Many online casinos have stated that will not continue to accept US citizens. There are some that will accept all US players;others instead will block wagering from 11 specific states.
Residents in these states
IL IN LA NE OR MI NJ NY SD WI WA
will not be able to wager real money.
Viewpoint - I hope sometime in the near future that online poker laws will change in the United Stats.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
I don't know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I've decided topost my favorite spam e-mail daily.
Sir/Madam,
Superenalotto is happy to inform you that today is your lucky day!
Superenalotto is required to disburse the award of $1.000.000.00 to the correct recipient, but we must verify that you are theowner of the selected email address before we can send this money to you. This cash prize must be claimed not laterthan the 30th of March 2007 . After this date prizes not collected will be declared void. Claimants must be over 20 years of age. Allclaims must abide by the claim rules stated in our official page. Click here to view rules: or paste it in your browser. Youmust read the rules and understand them before responding.
To submit your claim for verification, contact your claim agent.
Rosso Fiorentino
Your Claim Ref Nr. MLM-28/555/07 in conjunction with your email address is yours and yours alone, and has not been issuedto any other person. Quote it when replying. You must act before the deadline date stated above or your claim will bevoid. You have received this message from Superenalotto prize disbursement department because you have visited one ofour sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors.
There is no fee to submit your claim, and no further obligation on your part to Superenalotto.
Sincerely,
Prize Disbursement Department
Superenalotto.
Viewpoint - I'm so lucky I won the spam lottery. NOT! I think I would have better odds flopping a royal flush in Texas Holdempoker then seeing a dime of this money.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
This Afternoon: Partly cloudy, with a high near 65. North northeast wind around 17 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. East northeast wind around 15 mph.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie
Don't worry if you're unsure about your purpose in life. That's normal. Stay loose.
Overview
Cash flow issues that seem out of control will get better if you make a good-faith effort to deal with them. Just remember thatcommon sense is worth its weight in gold. Be honest and unmerciful with your budget.
Advertising
Free Poker eBook
Download your free copy today at
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker.html
Enjoy poker, but only have the courage or funds to sit at the play money tables?
Here's the solution! This eBook will show you how to receive $100.00 absolutely free to start your online poker career!
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• No Credit Card Necessary
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• US Residents also qualify for this promotion
This eBook is not a get-rich scheme. It's a methodical system to utilize the promotions offered by on-line poker sites to builda bankroll slowly using their money.
Still not convinced? Read some of the reviews this eBook has received at
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do.Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
Google Inc. is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders and analysts, while a Google official in Spainlast week acknowledged the company is "investigating" such a project.
Google isn't commenting directly on leaks from Europe and the United States which describe a low-cost, Internet-connectedphone with a color, wide-screen design. Newspaper and blog reports in recent months have Google shopping itsphone design to potential mobile phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
"Mobile is an important area for Google," Google spokeswoman Erin Fors said on Friday. "We remain focused on creatingapplications and establishing and growing partnerships with industry leaders to develop innovative services for usersworldwide. However, we have nothing further to announce."
Gadget enthusiasts who only two months ago were obsessed with the potential revolutionary impact on the phone industry ofApple Inc.'s iPhone device -- due out in June and at prices starting at $500 -- have shifted their attention to whether Googleis developing an even lower-cost phone.
"We obviously need another mythical mobile to drool over and speculate about -- and the natural candidate is, of course, theso-called Google phone," geek hardware site Engadget wrote earlier this month.
To be sure, feverish speculation about Google products has been wrong before. Google was widely reported to be building itsown line of personal computers a little over a year ago. What in fact materialized was a set of free software programsdesigned to make any existing Windows PCs easier to use.
But Richard Windsor, a phone analyst with brokerage Nomura in London, told clients late last week that unspecified Googlerepresentatives at a major European conference in Germany had confirmed the company is working on its own phonedevice.
"Google has come out of the closet at the CeBIT trade fair admitting that it is working on a mobile phone of its own," Windsorsaid in a note entitled "Google Phone: From myth to reality."
"This is not going to be a high-end device but a mass market device aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC,"he said.
Over the past year, Google has branched out beyond computers to bring Web search, e-mail, mapping and other Webservices to millions of new and existing phone browsers worldwide. Rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.(Nasdaq:YHOO - news) also are racing to run Web services on mobile phones.
Simeon Simeonov, a Boston-based venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, said that an "inside source close to thecompany" had informed him that Google was developing a "Blackberry-like, slick device."
The device Simeonov describes could handle voice over Internet phone-calling. He said it is being developed within a 100-person mobile phone group at Google that includes Andy Rubin, the creator of Sidekick, a popular phone/Internet device thathe developed at a prior company he founded, Danger Inc.
Lending further clues, Isabel Aguilera, head of Google's Iberian operations, was quoted last week in Spanish news siteNoticias.com as acknowledging the existence of a part-time project by some Google engineers to develop a mobilephone.
In her interview translated from Spanish, the Google executive said her company "has been investigating" developing a mobilephone that works both as an Internet access device and as a way to extend Internet use to emerging marketscustomers.
In January, Engadget circulated a photo purporting to be a prototype Internet phone with a wide, color screen designed byGoogle and built by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.. This unconfirmed report replaced an earlier theory published by TheObserver in December that Google was working with Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) on a mobile phone.
A source at a rival Internet company who has talked to the same mobile phone manufacturers said on Friday that "Google isgoing to build their own phone, whether it is with HTC or Samsung or some other ODM (original device manufacturer)."
Windsor, the London-based Nomura analyst who tracks mobile phone handset makers like Nokia of Finland, argues that aGoogle Phone "will meet with limited success and lose money" because it lacks the necessary phone industry relationshipsto reach the massive scale needed to compete.
Viewpoint - This is great news from google. I believe they will make a great phone.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Whatever Bruce Willis wants, Bruce gets -- playmates included ... maybe.
TMZ cameras caught the swingin' single in hot pursuit of former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal at Area nighclub inHollywood over the weekend. After the club shut down, Bruce had his instructed his people to wrangle the brunette beauty,"Tell her I have a quick question for her." Uh huh. Karen obliged, but they didn't leave the club together.
Also seen over the weekend: Hip hop couple Nas and Kelis, former UFC champ and "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy" TitoOrtiz along with girllfriend Jenna Jameson, Courtney Love and Paris Hilton -- who shared the limelight with her mamaKathy -- who was celebrating her birthday.
All this and much more in this "Die Hard" weekend editon of Star Catcher .
Viewpoint - Go Bruce!
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
As a result of the recent change in the law in the U.S., some online casinos and poker room have stopped accepting U.S.players.
Casino Top Guide has been offering a voice to the online gambling community that, at this point in time is screaming inoutrage about the action taken by the U.S. legislators with the passing of "The Federal Unlawful Gambling EnforcementAct" prohibiting online wagering.
The "Federal Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act" is aimed at stopping United States Financial Institutions from providingfinancial transactions to gambling related operations.
Casino Top Guide has numerous faithful followers and lately, players who are struggling to find reputable online casinos andpoker rooms, have asked for information about joining trusted online gambling sites that accept US players. In directresponse, a page has been composed and regularly updated that allows U.S. residents to easily find good sites thatsatisfy their quest for entertainment.
Casino Top Guide offers players the opportunity to send their comments and suggestions about their gambling experience.Through this method, the gambler has the advantage of choosing a poker room or online casino reviewed andrated by their peers and not by partisan or affiliated webmasters; Otherwise known as Independent Casino Reviews.
These gambling sites are trusted by the people who count the most: the wagering players. At the site the gamer will findUnbiased online casino ratings provided by the players.
It is well known that the odds of winning at an online casino are greater than at land base casinos
Many online casinos have stated that will not continue to accept US citizens. There are some that will accept all US players;others instead will block wagering from 11 specific states.
Residents in these states
IL IN LA NE OR MI NJ NY SD WI WA
will not be able to wager real money.
Viewpoint - I hope sometime in the near future that online poker laws will change in the United Stats.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
I don't know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I've decided topost my favorite spam e-mail daily.
Sir/Madam,
Superenalotto is happy to inform you that today is your lucky day!
Superenalotto is required to disburse the award of $1.000.000.00 to the correct recipient, but we must verify that you are theowner of the selected email address before we can send this money to you. This cash prize must be claimed not laterthan the 30th of March 2007 . After this date prizes not collected will be declared void. Claimants must be over 20 years of age. Allclaims must abide by the claim rules stated in our official page. Click here to view rules: or paste it in your browser. Youmust read the rules and understand them before responding.
To submit your claim for verification, contact your claim agent.
Rosso Fiorentino
Your Claim Ref Nr. MLM-28/555/07 in conjunction with your email address is yours and yours alone, and has not been issuedto any other person. Quote it when replying. You must act before the deadline date stated above or your claim will bevoid. You have received this message from Superenalotto prize disbursement department because you have visited one ofour sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors.
There is no fee to submit your claim, and no further obligation on your part to Superenalotto.
Sincerely,
Prize Disbursement Department
Superenalotto.
Viewpoint - I'm so lucky I won the spam lottery. NOT! I think I would have better odds flopping a royal flush in Texas Holdempoker then seeing a dime of this money.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
This Afternoon: Partly cloudy, with a high near 65. North northeast wind around 17 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. East northeast wind around 15 mph.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie
Don't worry if you're unsure about your purpose in life. That's normal. Stay loose.
Overview
Cash flow issues that seem out of control will get better if you make a good-faith effort to deal with them. Just remember thatcommon sense is worth its weight in gold. Be honest and unmerciful with your budget.
Advertising
Free Poker eBook
Download your free copy today at
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker.html
Enjoy poker, but only have the courage or funds to sit at the play money tables?
Here's the solution! This eBook will show you how to receive $100.00 absolutely free to start your online poker career!
• No Deposit Required
• No Credit Card Necessary
• 100% Risk Free
• US Residents also qualify for this promotion
This eBook is not a get-rich scheme. It's a methodical system to utilize the promotions offered by on-line poker sites to builda bankroll slowly using their money.
Still not convinced? Read some of the reviews this eBook has received at
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker-testimonials.html
# posted by Bob Braun @ 12:11 PM 
