06:57 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Alan McConchie from the California Institute of Technology and Lewis & Clark College makes an interesting dialect survey exploring the regional variations for describing carbonated soft drinks. Could the result of this survey trigger the next civil war?

Make sure you have a look at this map which depicts the lingual differences (based upon more than 120,000 respondants).

12:08 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Like every year, Wired has compiled an annual list of companies which lead the charge toward a connected global economy.

Here the top 5 in reverse order:

5. eBay
4. Genentech
3. Apple
2. Amazon
1. Google

09:26 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Keloland runs an article which tells us that ladies love gadgets, too. In fact, "[w]omen are actually out-spending men in the electronics aisles, accounting for fifty-five-billion dollars' worth of sales last year alone. More women are focusing their purchasing power on electronics."

Ok, to me the statistic says that women today simply buy more presents for their boyfriends and husbands

01:46 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

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08:49 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book Software | Reading and Management

We postulated this change earlier. Now it is official: PalmDigitalMedia is from now on known as eReader.com. The PalmDigitalMedia.com site will continue to operate for the next few weeks while the eReader.com site goes through a set of launch revisions based on customers' feedback.

There is an ongoing survey, which will provide you with a discount code (EREADER05) good for 10% off your next purchase over $3 at eReader.com.

05:42 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

PubSub is a free tool for all of RSS feed junkies. It monitors over one million weblogs and information streams to find the content you're looking for, in real time, and any time matching information appears, you'll see it in your news aggregator.

For example, you can subscribe to a feed for the phrase “Clie”. The feed is populated by matches against the weblog community or newsgroup posts. Very cool!

05:29 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

MyProductAdvisor.com offers a new (beta) tool called the PDA & Smartphone Advisor which aims to help you find the best PDA or smartphone for you. Although the site loads very slow for me, I was able to go through the selection process and the result was surprising: the first 6 PDAs I was offered as my personal choice were all Sony Clies....and I always thought I would tend towards buying one of the new PPCs

11:38 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

According to the Denver Post, Las Vegas section, Microsoft will begin selling portable music players for as much as 80 percent less than Apple's iPod later this year, promising a "look and feel" as good as the iPod.

Considering how Microsoft aggressively entered other markets recently (e.g. the game console market), a $50 MS Windows-powered audio player could be a real thread to Apple. No?