Daily Archives: October 13, 2008

T-Mobile Preorders 1.5 Million G1s

Lol! I am waiting for this phone and I am not gonna buy any mobile phone till this one comes around! The staggering number of presales comes just 10 days before the T-Mobile-powered Android’s official launch date Oct. 22.
Neither T-Mobile, Google or handset manufacturer HTC has confirmed the reports that first appeared on Motley Fool. [...]

Artificial intelligence test

UK university holds artificial intelligence test. Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading.
Typing away at split-screen terminals Sunday, a dozen volunteers carried out two conversations at once: one with a chat program, the other with a human. After [...]

MySpace gives online ad

MySpace on Monday unleashed a tool to let small operators with tight budgets easily target online advertising to preferred demographics on the world’s leading social networking website.
A “MyAds” platform available at https://advertise.myspace.com provides simple tools for garage bands, small businesses or anyone else to reach out to audiences they feel will be receptive to their [...]

Elephants send text messages

The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers’ crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time.
But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to [...]