Yesterday, Wall-E went on sale in Australia. If you haven’t already seen the film (and even if you have), do yourself a favour and go and pick up a copy today. It’s one of the greatest robot films ever made.
I heard these rumours last week, and was flat-out told that it wasn’t happening, but Current is reporting that NEC will be announcing this afternoon that they are pulling out of the consumer retail market in Australia, as well as closing their Sydney office and cutting staff. However, they will be keeping their business systems division.
UPDATE: It’s official. Announcement is below the fold.
Google really, really, really wants to kick Microsoft in the office application department, as Australian IT today is reporting that they’re looking to hire a heap of resellers to push Google Apps on Small and medium businesses in Australia. By April this year, resellers will be able to “sell, customise and support Google Apps Premier Edition for small-to-medium business and enterprise customers”. The plan has already been trialled by 50 partners worldwide.
Sorry Jimbo, you shouldn’t have gone there.
From a Sex and Electronics article: “Women buy 57% of consumer electronics (to the tune of about $US80B), but influence 90% of all CE purchases.” I find those numbers shocking.
I think the term “handmade” just about covers this, this…whatever it is. For about $US80 you to can own this freaky electronic Frankenstein that does nothing but consume sunlight and writhe around in agony.
Fortune’s profile on Apple’s Tim Cook is all the more interesting now that he’s (at the very least) going to take over for Steve Jobs until June. We took the most interesting facts out here.
Steve Jobs is taking a temporary leave of absence, which makes our Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure all the more timely. Plus, it’s fun.
This picture of Barack Obama is the first official presidential portrait ever taken by a digital camera. The details are in the EXIF data.
The Compulab Exeda won’t be the most high profile Android/WinMo handset coming to the market, but the squat candybar features enticing half-Blackberry, half-80s calculator styling and a robust feature set.
