How Flickr was born

March 5, 2006 on 12:50 pm | In Daily News | No Comments

USATODAY reports an article on exactly how Flickr was created, which is now a part of the Yahoo! group.

Caterina Fake the original founder knew she was onto something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a tool to share photos and save them to a Web page.

She and her programmer husband, Stewart Butterfield, transformed the project into Flickr. In less than two years, the photo-sharing site — now owned by Internet giant Yahoo — has turned into one of the Web’s fastest-growing properties.

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Fuel Laptops!

March 3, 2006 on 5:43 am | In Daily News | No Comments

There will be a demonstration on “fuel laptops” which are apparently ready for production by AVC and Antig Tech. This is set to take place at the CeBIT trade show in the coming week.

PC Magazine reports ‘the fuel cell as big as a CD-ROM will fit within the media bay of the laptop, replacing the drive with additional battery power.’

There are reports which say that the battery is extremely good and will last for a minimum of eight hours. The fuel generates 45W power with only a single methanol tank. The tank would weight approx 3.6 pounds.

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