Teh Archive » Misc http://teharchive.com Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:44:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Toshiba Applies To Join Blu-Ray Association http://teharchive.com/toshiba-applies-to-join-blu-ray-association http://teharchive.com/toshiba-applies-to-join-blu-ray-association#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:44:11 +0000 Leif http://teharchive.com/?p=103 Toshiba said Monday it is planning a lineup of products that support the Blu-ray storage format. Toshiba was one of the leading companies behind HD DVD, a standard that lost to Blu-ray.

]]> http://teharchive.com/toshiba-applies-to-join-blu-ray-association/feed 0 Google Reserves 1 Million Phone Numbers http://teharchive.com/google-reserves-1-million-phone-numbers http://teharchive.com/google-reserves-1-million-phone-numbers#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:38:07 +0000 Leif http://teharchive.com/?p=91 Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service.

The free service, announced in March, lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.

]]> http://teharchive.com/google-reserves-1-million-phone-numbers/feed 0 How Much Does Youtube Make Off Popular Videos? http://teharchive.com/how-much-does-youtube-make-off-popular-videos http://teharchive.com/how-much-does-youtube-make-off-popular-videos#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:07:15 +0000 Leif http://teharchive.com/?p=89 It’s lifted up those who have been dumped by their one-eyed lovers.

It’s made married couples turn to each other and think: “Why in the blessed blazes did I marry you?”

One can even imagine it will inspire those who are about to embark on one of life’s more treacherous paths to reassess their mode of transport.

Am I talking about the new health care bill? No, I’m talking about the latest and perhaps most inspirational video to have graced YouTube’s library of life.

]]> http://teharchive.com/how-much-does-youtube-make-off-popular-videos/feed 0 New Pirate Bay To Be Based On Give-And-Take Models http://teharchive.com/new-pirate-bay-to-be-based-on-give-and-take-models http://teharchive.com/new-pirate-bay-to-be-based-on-give-and-take-models#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:33:51 +0000 Leif http://teharchive.com/?p=74 STOCKHOLM – One of the world’s largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday.

“The more you give, the more you get,” said Hans Pandeya, chief executive of Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X, which announced last month it was buying the site and would start paying both content providers and copyright holders.

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Four police cars, a riot van and a helicopter were involved in the swoop on Andrew Poole’s gathering for his family and friends.

He was just about to light the barbecue and had not even turned on the music when the gazebo suddenly started flapping wildly and the sound of chopper blades filled the air.

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]]> http://teharchive.com/microsoft-to-open-retail-stores-near-apple-stores/feed 1 Microsoft Research and Bill Gates Bring Historic Physics Lectures to Web http://teharchive.com/microsoft-research-and-bill-gates-bring-historic-physics-lectures-to-web http://teharchive.com/microsoft-research-and-bill-gates-bring-historic-physics-lectures-to-web#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:38 +0000 Leif http://teharchive.com/?p=44 Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, today launched a Web site that makes an acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The lectures, which Feynman originally delivered at Cornell University in 1964, have been hugely influential for many people, including Gates. Gates privately purchased the rights to the seven lectures in the series, called β€œThe Character of Physical Law,” to make them widely available to the public for free with the hope that they will help get kids excited about physics and science.

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