Rest in Peace: Microsoft Courier

CourierThe long rumored Microsoft Courier, the dual screen tablet, is rumored to be cancelled yesterday. This unit has similar concept to Apple's Knowledge Navigator at 1987. Conceptual video below. I guess the iPad success just proved that dual screen is not at its premier time yet. Considering screen is the most expensive part of iPad, a Courier device could cost more than iPad, with no significant functionality than other Windows machines.

Fun commercial from Taiwan

The opening title is: "42 Days After Broke Up".



It is a commercial for healthy tea drink. "One bottle per day, for six week. Enjoy your beauty" says at the end.

The death of netbook

Netbook is dying. Their enemy is not the iPad, but their own creators. Netbook manufactures keep making new "netbook/notebook hybrid" PCs. This means the manufactures really think netbooks are just cheap notebooks.

Taiwan Susan Boyle

Taiwan Susan Boyle The "Taiwanese Susan Boyle" is popular everywhere on the web. It even shows side-by-side with Oprah.
One of the news can be found here.

AJAX Windows 3.1

Windows 3.1 running in a browser. (Actually it is AJAX)

Top slow web sites (Your IT department needs more budgets!)

Dominos.com: The site response time is more than 30 seconds.

Spend millions on superbowl commercial but missed the web site (vizio.com)

There is a very cool commercial from TV maker VIZIO in superbowl Sunday. Unfortunately, the vizio.com web site crashed right after the commercial. How come a company spent millions of dollars on the commercial but forgot to spend a few tens of thousand dollars to prepare their web site? Even a static web page is better than connection time out.

If you are VIZIO executives, rent some web servers before your commercial next time. It is the Internet age. You are an Internet TV provider. It is disappointing to see a Internet TV provider missed this part.