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April 11, 2005, Intel posted a search in eBay for a 1965 copy of Electronics Magazine that featured Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s thoughts on how silicon technology would evolve. Whoever is willing to sell that magazine to Intel will be awarded USD$10,000.

The issue contained an article by Moore that described how the number of components on integrated circuits was doubling every year. The article became the foundation for Moore’s famed dictum, which has been a favorite maxim of the IT industry for decades. Electronics Magazine went out of business several years ago, though, and copies are scarce.

One day after Intel posting that offer on eBay, David Clark, an engineer in Surrey, England, quickly sent a photo of the well-preserved copy of that issue and response off to eBay. So as promised by Intel, Clark has reaped the chip giant’s $10,000 by selling the magazine to Intel.

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Owners of Sony’s Play Station Portable (PSP) handheld video game player can now view Playboy pictures on their handheld.

The online arm of Playboy Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday, April 20, 2005, said it will offer photo galleries and videos shot and edited specifically for the PSP.

Don’t be so happy yet, though “PlayboyStation Portable” is available for free, it will be in the form of two non-nude picture galleries and one free video. Only subscribers to Playboy’s online service can access premium nude content. :D

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I’m wondering is that legal to subscribe to this “PlayboyStation Portable” here in Malaysia?

Search engine giant, Google Inc., recorded profit of nearly six times higher than a year earlier last Thursday, April 21, 2005. This news sent shares of Google more than 5 percent higher in after-hours trade to around $215 that day.

Google had net income of $369.2 million, or $1.29 a share, in the first quarter, compared with $64.0 million, or 24 cents a share, a year earlier. Results from the most recent quarter included a $49 million charge related to stock-based compensation.

Total revenue was $1.26 billion, up from $651.6 million a year earlier. Virtually all of the company’s revenue comes from ads that are triggered when Web users type certain key words into Google’s search engine.

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Can anyone borrow me some money so that I can afford highly priced Google share please? :p

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We have seen mobile phone with flashlight, but have you seen USB thumbdrive with flashlight?

ION Technologies came out a thumbdrive model built-in with a LED flashlight, named FlashLite^TM. Nowadays, thumbdrive is more like a key chain for some of us, so, it would be quite useful to have a LED light bulb on a thumbdrive. Who knows you might need that feature one day? :)

I know Opera 8.0 has already been released. It has some great new features as well.

Somehow, some of you might not like the advertisement to be displayed regardless Text Ad or Picture Ad on the toolbar of Opera 8.0. If you are still using Opera 7.54, here is a good news for you. You can get a free registration key for Opera 7.54, in order to remove the advertisement legally.

Here is how it works, please notice that this method only works with Opera 7.54.

1. Login to this address. (http://www.opera.com/ct-magazin/)
2. Key in OJD000MN into the c’t Magazine code field.
3. Fill up the rest of the fields too. :)
4. An email will be sent to you shortly with the registration key.
5. In your Opera 7.54, go Help>Register Opera…>Key in the registration key into the Registration Code field.

You are done !!

Hope you enjoy the ad-free Opera 7.54.

I need to give credit to the source of this idea as well.