This is another I’m a PC commercial run by Microsoft targeting its chief rival, Apple as the focus. The storyline this time, ‘Lauren goes in search of a laptop – with “speed”, a comfortable keyboard, and a 17-inch screen – for under $1,000‘. If she can get it, she can keep it, that how the ads goes
I has caused a stir when it was aired on TV in the North America. You can guess why ,because this is just another never ending PC vs Mac commercial wars . We all know this is just commercial about the pricing war, but somehow, the human being is unpredictable. Someone goes another miles to dig who ‘Lauren’ is, which turn out an actress name Lauren De Long who lives in Los Angeles. I guess she never expect to be an instant hit like this, and on internet because of this commercial.
Although, she portrayed as geeks on the commercial, but you can judge the real person by her photos above. The commercial targeted only for North America, but who know there will be regional version later? And if you notice, this is only the first hunt for PC commercial, based on the ads title ‘Laptop Hunters #1 – Lauren‘
There are more Lauren bio on Apple 2.0 and photos at Gizmodo. See, how the big tech blog has become PerezHilton version of tech fame..
The folks at StatCounter just release the statistic of how web browsers are performing for the period of July 08 to March 09. Internet Explorer continue its dominance with 63% market, drop 8% from 68%, while Mozilla Firefox gain 2% to 27%.
IE experience lowest ever percentage of Internet Explorer usage had in recent years, thanks to its own image. It has something to do with the bad perception that tech savvy internet users had, toward Microsoft and its product, including Internet Explorer which is slow, bug-happy and malware-magnet. The emergence of better and open source web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome also contributing to the loss when users are looking for more secure, openness and promote standardization web browser.
The new StatCounter Global Stat is useful for in depth view of the stat. It is flexible, as you can filter the statistic based on period and region as well as the statistic type as bar or line statistic. There is option for you to download the data in .CSV format, or turns the statistic to image (.JPG).
Please note, this stat built from the data collected ONLY from websites that running StatCounter script. Hence it didn’t provide overall pictures of how this web browsers are performing.
Global
Asia
In verall, Asian countries still favor Internet Explorer over Mozilla Firefox with market share 74.72% to 20.79 respectively.
Malaysia
Unlike Asian statistic, Malaysian internet users are more favorable toward Mozilla Firefox compared IE with almost 36.61% to 59.13% market share respectively. For Firefox, this percentage is higher than Firefix global stat. The trend showing Mozilla Firefox is consistently capturing more percentage, while IE is consistently losing its market to Firefox and other rivals.
Sometime you don’t need an expensive anti-theft car system to protect or recover back your vehicle from being stolen. There are cheaper and more convinent alternative to do that.
The story of 1 car owner who relied on telco’s Friend Finder service to get back his stolen car is very insightful for other car owners. The mobile phone equpped with that service, is kept secretly on the stolen car, and with the service’s guidance, the car manage to be tracked and recovered.
This prove that simple mobile technology is useful for other purpose too, including keeping your belonging safe .
The article didn’t mention which telco service he is using, but Maxis and Digi are curently offering these service.
As I watch this video repeatedly, I can feel how easy the world would be. Call it the future.. All systems, tools are handled with touch (and multi-touch) screen and surface. It can be found everywhere, from newspaper, Id card or even the flight ticket.
Ah, forget it, that’s just the dream!
Not really actually. At least that’s what how Microsoft vision the future on the their Microsoft Office Labs‘s 2019.
Looking on the present trend, where touch screen technology is one of the must feature on devices such as smart phones and Microsoft very own Microsoft Surface, certain vision being showcased on the video is not that far away.
It still needs more touch up indeed, but as long as the ideas are properly crafted, nothing is impossible anymore.
It looks like that Techmeme has started publishing the ‘breaking’ news stories sent by readers via Twitter. The top stories will appears on Techmeme with the link back to the reader’s tweets to Techmeme, just like the screen shot below.
You know what I think, this might be just another way to boost your Twitter followers. Techmeme read by thousands readers, so even a brief spell on Techmeme page will at least provide your Twitter account with huge visibility.Some might end up following you.
So start sending tech tips to Techmeme. Who knows Techmeme will award the most tip someday
This is another I’m a PC commercial run by Microsoft targeting its chief rival, Apple as the focus. The storyline this time, ‘Lauren goes in search of a laptop – with “speed”, a comfortable keyboard, and a 17-inch screen – for under $1,000‘. If she can get it, she can keep it, that how the ads goes
