Entry #3 Yahoo Eats AOL

Tech News

As I reported last week Yahoo has been looking at merging with AOL to make a a sub par search engine more readily available on a dieing AOL back bone. of course nothing is for certain till the bloated ad ware lady sings but sources say the deal is all but done and there will be an announcement soon.

Today is the big day and Apple has announced a brand new line of shiny over priced but got to have laptops.

Apple only really exciting new feature is a button less glass track pad that will allow for increased gesture recognition. The new glass track pad operates as the apple signal button mouse with click feedback although users can make the pad into a multi button mouse that most of the world uses with software. The pad is also 39% larger and will allow the user to gesture with four fingers now instead of two, greatly increasing the already popular two button gesture feature found on almost all Apple touch technology. Other then that Apple add some more power to the laptops and changed the look a little but did not introduce anything ground breaking. Overall a pretty disappointing year for Apple only announcing revamped products and nothing really new.

Gadgets

Finally a universal remote that does not look like the control panel for the star ship Enterprise.
This one button remote designed by Brian Garret Schuur allows users to perform basic remote functions such as play, pause, control the volume and power on and off your tv with just one button.
The remote appears to operate by pushing the button up and down to toggle the function you wish to control then you slide the button left and right to either turn the volume or channel up and down. All thought currently this remote is just a prototype the idea is intriguing and a welcome change to 103 button universal remotes that never really work.

Security

In the world of security Microsoft as released several new updates effecting everything from Office to Internet Explorer to Windows itself. Although the majority of the fixes are for Windows Server 2000 it is best we all fire up out computers and get the latest updates.