Remember the Tandy 2000 ad with Bill Gates from 1985?
How about the Honeywell ad asking “What the heck is Electronic Mail?” from 1981?
If you’re looking for a break, check out 10 computer ads from the past at 2Spare and see how many you recognize.
[Via Digg]
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The FlipStart UMPC, first showed at CES 2003 as a concept by Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft), has been facing stiff competition from, among others, the Asus Eee PC.
Plus not that many people really know the name FlipStart (at least not anymore sine they’ve been out of the news for a while).
Both of these problems [...]
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Last week Best Buy stores pulled a $230 Insignia 10.4-inch photo frame from shelves.
Why?
It shipped from the manufacturer with a Trojan virus.
The virus will only effect Windows computers and only if the photo frame is connected to a PC via a USB cable. Apparently its not a recent virus, so up-to-date anti-virus applications should be [...]
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On Tuesday Microsoft introduced a new red 80GB Zune, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
This hard drive-based model (as opposed to the thinner but lower capacity flash-based models) is not so different from the other hard-drive based Zune’s–same 80GB hard drive, same large, bright screen, same Wi-Fi.
Where it can get a little different is [...]
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Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable provider in the U.S., is preparing to test a new pricing plan for their data service in Beaumont, Texas.
Rather than charging your typical unlimited data plan, Beaumont residents will instead have a multi-tiered service with the price based on how much data is used per month.
The reason for [...]
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With the announcement by Apple on Tuesday about the updated Apple TV and iTunes software to allow for video rentals, one of the first things that crossed my mind was how similar it sounded to what Xbox LIVE has been doing with their Video Marketplace.
Luckily Joystiq thought the same thing and put together a table [...]
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The new MacBook Air. So thin th at it literally fits into a manila office envelope.
A very neat visual, but one that’s also very easy to make fun of…I’ve heard two people around the office (so far) mock it.
What if there really was a laptop sleeve that could protect the MacBook Air but looked like [...]
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If you’ve never thought about bringing your laptop to the beach, you’re not alone.
For those that have, you’ve no doubt ran into problems trying to read the screen with all that darn sunlight screwing things up.
The LapDome looks to set things right with their laptop tent.
The LapDome gives you and your laptop a sheltered, darkened [...]
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Sun announced today that it will be acquiring MySQL in a $1 billion deal, giving it two things:
1. Distribution deals with Dell, IBM and Intel.
2. A head on battle with Oracle and Microsoft in the database market.
MySQL has quite a following, but its open source and most users do not purchase support contracts or training, [...]
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