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Steve Jobs Iconic Moments

by Akid Lee on October 6, 2011 in Apple, Tech News with No comments
Steve Jobs Iconic Moments

Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple and industry icon for decades, has passed away. (1955 – 2011)

Apple has released this statement:

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

Let us relive one of his iconic moments – during his demo of Apple Macintosh in 1984…

Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ Event Video Now Online

by Akid Lee on October 5, 2011 in Apple, Tech News with No comments
Let's Talk iPhone

For those who have missed the event, Apple has posted the event video online. Relive the historical moment or for most us, a DISAPPOINTMENT – you may just want to give it a miss. Nevertheless do check out the stream via the source link.

Google Analytics Premium – At a Premium Price!

by Akid Lee on October 4, 2011 in Tech News with No comments


Last week, Google introduced the Google Analytics Premium – a new option built for their largest customers. Of cos, a premium product comes at a ‘Premium’ price… The folks at Uncrunched dropped them an email and here’s what they received:

Thanks for your interest in Premium. The program has a flat annual fee of $150,000 which we invoice monthly ($12,500 per month).

The Premium features (including faster data, unsampled reporting, more custom variables) can be enabled on your existing GA account within 2 business days of you joining the program – no retagging necessary.

Please let me know if you’d like to set up some time to discuss further.

Thanks again

Google Analytics Premium is here!

This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the right addressee please do
not forward it, please inform the sender, and please erase this e-mail
including any attachments. Thanks.

The above terms reflect a potential business arrangement, are provided
solely as a basis for further discussion, and are not intended to be and do
not constitute a legally binding obligation. No legally binding obligations
will be created, implied, or inferred until an agreement in final form is
executed in writing by all parties involved.

It’s $150,000 per year…USD!!!

Google Flights Takes Off

by Akid Lee on September 30, 2011 in Tech News with No comments


Web giant Google recently launched its new Flights Search Feature. Now when you search for flight information on Google.com (USA only), for example ‘flights from san francisco to new york‘, you will see a ‘Flights’ link in the left-hand panel. Clicking on the link leads to a new Flight Search feature.

It’s got an impressive, easy-to-use interface and it also includes powerful filtering tools to help you find tickets matching preferences like non-stop, duration, price and a tool to help you find the cheapest flight by duration.

Google said that these results are free of any commercial ties Google has to travel companies. Once the flight a user wants is found, Google Flights sends the traveller to the website of the airline that sells the ticket. The service will even match the search results to the specific page at the airline booking site where the ticket can be purchased.

The feature isn’t completely finished yet, as it’s only available in the US and only includes a limited number of US cities as well as show results for round-trip economy-class flights only.

You can access direct to Google Flights…. Try it out and share with us your thoughts.

Bing | Microsoft Search Engine

by Akid Lee on June 3, 2009 in Tech News with No comments

Bing Microsoft Search Engine

Bing, a replacement for Live Search was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital confernce in San Diego.

Check out the Bing Homepage which has a background image that changes daily.

POP3 Available for Hotmail Worldwide

by Akid Lee on March 18, 2009 in Tech News with No comments

POP3 for Hotmail

Hotmail has enabled its POP3 feature, allowing Hotmail users to easily access their emails using the email client on the PC, such as Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird etc… or even your mobile device such as Windows Mobile Phone, iPhone and BlackBerry…

Here’s the information to configure your account on your preferred email client:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes