Wanted: Participants for Microsoft’s Office 2010 Real Life Stories program

Microsoft is searching for students or business users to participate in the beta testing of Office 2010. As part of the program, each user will be given a free copy of the final version of the product and a portable computer for a period of six months in which to test the application.

All this is part of the campaign "real life stories", which aims to show how to use Office in their daily lives, whether it comes to business documents, your school homework or just any comments. Microsoft will use some of the history of the testers as part of a marketing campaign once the final version of the package.

If accepted into the program, then not only will receive a laptop, but you will be given access to web based versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. At the end of the program, all involved in the campaign for testing of Office 2010 will receive a free copy of the final version of the product.
Office 2010 Real Life Stories Nomination Form

Google Flipper. A new project launch coming soon. Watch out!!!

As part of Google Labs, the company plans to start a new project, known by the name Flipper. Details of development are not much. It is that Flipper will provide more convenient and easy to read news from Google.The interface looks like paging through a series of magazine clippings.

Currently the service is unavailable . Which means this remains internal to Google right now. Flipper will make it possible to read news not only in standard categories, but will sort by sources and keywords. Moreover, there will be links as "Top News" and "Recommended". It is not known when Flipper will be accessible to the public.But look for it soon.

US Open 2009 Leaderboard

Here it is the Second round leaderboard from the weather-delayed U.S. Open at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, New York on Saturday.
Ricky Barnes completed a bogey-free round of 65 on Saturday to grab a one-stroke lead over Lucas Glover midway through U.S. Open championship.
Weather forecast shows another heavy rain storm to hit Long Island on Saturday afternoon.
The full leaderboard on the official site.
and
nbcsports.com/golf

Tevez leaves Manchester United

Carlos Tevez stay in the team of Manchester United is over. From the English champions announced that the attacker will no longer compete for the club.
A statement on the official website of the English champion says that the club agreed to pay the fixed price of 25.5 million pounds and offer the Carlos Tevez contract for 5 seasons, which would make it one of the most expensive players in the world. However, lawyers of the player announced that Tevez wants to continue his future at another club. Manchester United Tevez thank Carlos for his contribution to the success of the team during the last 2 seasons and wishes him the best in the future.

A Big Hoax: Ericsson Free Laptop T18 and R320 Promotion

A Big Joke

Email chain letter claims phone manufacturer Ericsson will give away free laptop computers to those who forward the message to at least eight people.

Few examples:
A Big Hoax: Ericsson Free Laptop T18 and R320 Promotion
"Dear All,

Ericsson is distributing free laptops for their brand promotion. They hope to increase their popularity and sale by this campaign. All you need to do is
send an email about this promotion to 8 people and you will receive an Ericsson T16 Laptop.However, if you send an email to 20 or more people, you will receive an Ericsson R320 Laptop.Make sure you send a copy to: anna.swelung@ericsson.com "

In Bulgarian:

"Здравейте,
Компанията Ericsson раздава безплатно преносими компютри, с цел да се противопостави на Nokia, която прави същото. Ericsson желае да разшири своята известност. По тази причина Ericsson раздава безплатно новия преносим компютър WAP.Всичко, което трябва да се направи, е да се изпрати това съобщение на 8 ваши познати. До около две седмици ще получите компютър Ericsson T18.Ако съобщението бъде изпратено на 20 или повече души, ще получите дори компютър Ericsson R320. Важно: Копие от съобщението си трябва да изпратите на anna.swelung@ericsson.com.Важно е да се знае, че това
не е измислица, а наистина действа! Затова, доставете си удоволствие, като си направите подарък с един от тези преносими компютри.
Късмет! "

This is the statement from the Ericsson site:

"About the "Free Phone/Laptop" Email Hoax

Ericsson is not giving away free phones or laptops. The chain mail you have received is a fraud and there is no person with the name of Anna Swelund working at Ericsson. At Ericsson, we are constantly looking at new innovative ways to market ourselves, chain e-mails are not one of them. We kindly ask you not to forward the chain mail further.

Thank you.


Sony Ericsson also released the following statement in response to a new version of the hoax:

"Hoax Competition Email

Sony Ericsson has been made aware of an online email campaign claiming that Ericsson will give away a free laptop computer to users who forward the promotional information. The same campaign includes a photograph of the Sony Ericsson logo and mentions an Ericsson contact name and email number.
Sony Ericsson confirms that this email campaign is a hoax. In addition, Sony Ericsson confirms that the Ericsson contact name does not exist. All competitions and promotions involving Sony Ericsson are run through official channels such as Sony Ericsson’s website or Sony Ericsson’s partners’ websites. Please be wary of any competition or promotion that appears to come from outside of Sony Ericsson or Sony Ericsson’s partners official channels. Examples of these include via spam emails or SMS.
Please do not reply to or forward the email if you receive it."

Official version of iPhone OS 3.0

Today has to be released the final official version of iPhone OS 3.0 as a free update for owners of iPhone and iPhone 3G (new 3GS will come directly to her) and only holders of iPod touch update will be paid.
The update includes many functions other phones have had for a while, including multimedia messaging, voice recording, buying and renting movies and TV shows over the air, full system search, tethering (again, if your carrier allows it), and push notifications.

Publishing information about iPhone 3GS

On the website of the Dutch T-Mobile were published characteristics of the iPhone 3GS, which Apple does not distribute information before the formal contract.
Became known that the iPhone 3GS processor core with ARM Cortex A8. Its frequency is 188 MHz higher than the previous two models - 600 MHz. Operational capacity of the memory was increased twice - 256 MB. Graphic processor PowerVR SGX supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and working frequency 100 MHz (with other data - 200 MHz).
New features allow the iPhone 3GS to load significantly faster to process applications and three-dimensional graphics.

Berbatov interview on BTV

Beshiktash ask for Bojinov

Manchester City attacker Valeri Bojinov falls in summer accounts for selection of the Turkish Grand Beshiktash, says "Trud". Turks want to strengthen the team for participation in the Champions League and Bulgarians is one of the four major transfers who come into the plans of the club. Timothy of Istanbul will offer salary Valeri 3 million a year, house and boat on the Bosporus, to tempt him to accept their offer. Representative of the Turks will travel to Manchester this week to negotiate with the "citizen" and player's manager Jerry Palomba . In any event, if it comes to deal, it will be for rent.
Bojinov's future in Manchester City is not completely clear and this can cause the attacker to take the temptation to play in the Champions League. It will rely on the Bosporus near to be able to recover the familiar form after contusion and revive his career. Such a thing has happened twice in two of the stars of football at the moment, in the person of Frank Riberi and Nicolas Anelka.