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The much awaited new Apple iPhone 3G is here. A model above shows an Apple iPhone 3G during its launch sale in Hong Kong yesterday on July 11, 2008. The Apple iPhone 3G is twice as fast at half the price. Hopefully, I will be traveling soon to any of the country below whereby the Apple iPhone 3G has launched to get cheaper Apple iPhone 3G for myself: -

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• Germany
• Hong Kong
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• UK
• USA

So, are you buying one for yourself?

Dell launches new Studio laptops on Thursday June 26, 2008. These two new laptops, Studio 15 and Studio 17 cases consist of seven colors and a unique pattern with 4 trim color options. Picture shown above is Studio 15 (left) and Studio 17 (right). With the introduction starting price of $799 for Studio 15 and $999 for Studio 17, these two laptops is categorized between Inspiron and XPS.

Studio 15 comes with a glossy 15.4 inch widescreen display and Studio 17 comes with a glossy 17.0 inch widescreen display. Both Studio laptops processor support up to Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB) and memory support up to 4GB Dual Channel 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Besides, Studio 15 storage supports up to 320GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive and Studio 17 storage supports up to 640GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive. Both the wireless 802.11b/g and 802.11n is available separately for the Studio laptops. You have the option to choose a built-in cellular mobile broadband installed into the Studio laptops.

Perhaps, both Studio 15 and Studio 17 come with either Vista Home Premium SP1 or Vista Ultimate SP1 as your operating system and no Linux support at the moment. The Studio laptop comes with either a slot load CD/DVD burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)) or a slot load Bluray combo drive (Bluray Read Only Drive). You can select an Intel integrated graphics card or a dedicated ATI graphics card.

The Studio laptops comes with 15-pin VGA connector, HDMI connector, USB 2.0 port, IEEE 1394 port, integrated network connector (10/100/1000Mbps), 54mm ExpressCard slot and consumer IR. The starting weight of Studio 15 is 6.11 pounds (2.77 kilograms) and Studio 17 weight starts at 7.87 pounds (3.57 kilograms). The Studio laptops will be available through Dell online website or retail stores worldwide. I can’t wait to see Studio laptops unveil in Malaysia market.

Steve Jobs has unveiled the price and features of the new Apple iPhone 3G. This is the second generation of Apple iPhone prior to the first Apple iPhone which only support a slower 2G network. The low starting price of 199 USD for the 8GB version which surprised me compare to its predecessor. Converting to Malaysia Ringgits, it is 650.567 MYR (1 USD = 3.26918 MYR). While the 16GB version is selling at 299 USD. The price is incredible cheap and attractive.

The new Apple iPhone 3G will be launched on 11 July 2008 in 22 countries and going to 70 countries by end of the year. You can check out the countries listing here. However, I wonder when the Apple iPhone 3G available in Malaysia.

The Apple iPhone 3G redefines the first generation iPhone with new features like 3G network support, GPS mapping, enterprise email like Microsoft Exchange and the new App Store. Learn more Apple iPhone 3G feature here. I don’t own a first generation Apple iPhone but now I want to own a second generation Apple iPhone 3G. Are you planning to get one?

Source: BBC NEWS | PC World

Unfortunately, when I want to check my Entrecard points today, I got to know that Entrecard is down due to electrical fire at their datacenter. I do hope that Entrecard can bring their systems back online fast. I will be checking my points again tomorrow.

As the result, please do periodically backup for your website to avoid any downtime occurred. This reminds me to do my blog backup now. Cheers.

Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the Texas-based information technology outsourcing company and Hewlett-Packard (HP) confirmed they are in advanced discussion about a possible business combination involving the two companies but both gave no details. The Wall Street Journal reported HP is willing to pay $12 billion to $13 billion for this acquisition. This would be HP’s biggest since its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq in year 2002.

With this HP acquisition, do you think it help will EDS? Perhaps, let’s just watch for this acquisition to announce to deal.

Source: BBC NEWS | Yahoo! News

Not again… Advertlets website is down due to database connection lost between their database server and web server. Referring to the screen shot above, looks like their database server is having an public IP address of 202.46.116.101 and why in the world they put it on public IP address. Strange huh…

No news update from Advertlets Blogspot. I guess Josh and the team is busying troubleshooting it or busying preparing emails to reply. Hmm…I can’t check my daily earnings and statistics now. Luckily the ads is still working.

Due to popular demand, the Super Trio game show is back and now is called Super Trio Supreme featuring Eric Tsang (fourth from the left), Chin Ka Lok (third from the left), Louis Yuen Siu Cheung (second from the right) and Wong Cho Lam (first from the right) as hosts. This is the 7th season after it was ended on July 16, 2005. Yuen and Wong are the new hosts in the game show. In the game show, we will be able to see new creative games like Hole in the Wall, Hold Me Tight, Tweezers, Kissing Cards, Balance Beam, Hitch On and Creamy Face.

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Dell unveiled its first fully rugged laptop today, the Latitude XFR D630. It is design for outstanding performance with seamless integration into any existing environment. The XFR meets MIL-STD 810F strict military standards for extreme conditions from the Department of Defense. It is intended for government and commercial customers and available today in US at the starting price of $3,899.

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I read The Star newspaper Saturday’s edition on Sunday and found out Streamyx is having a promotion called Streamyx Combo. From the newspaper, they are promoting UNLIMITED Broadband with NO Fixed Line Rental. I am excited with this news because I am paying RM 103 monthly for my 1 Mbps Streamyx broadband plus fixed line rental. There is no information in the newspaper. So, I decided to search in their website and found they revamp the website too. Thumbs up.

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The more traffic you get, the happy you are, right? But not until blowing up a hard drive like Neowin.net forum. Their forum has over 9,000 members signing daily. The hard drive below was Quantum Fireball CR 8.4 AT according to them. Holy cow. Looks like the hard drive got smoked and fireballed.

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