After 36 years and billions of sales, the floppy disk is to join the video player, cassette deck and film camera on technology’s scrapheap.
The 9cm piece of plastic will no longer be available from Britain’s biggest computer retailer.
PC World announced last night it would stop selling the disks when stocks ran out.
via Metro.co.uk
Wal-Mart is applying its famous price rollback strategy to health care by announcing it will make nearly 300 generic drugs available to customers and employees for only $4 per prescription.
The change in pricing affects both customers with and without insurance. Those with insurance will pay a co-pay of $4.00. Wal-Mart says they will still file with your insurance company, but will not charge them.
The program began in September of 2006, and is expanding each month with new additions to the list of offered prescriptions.
Visit the Wal-mart Pharmacy Website for more information.
Sending and sharing files is a daily routine. If you have the need in your working, or personal, life to send and share large files easily without tying up your email, senduit could be a service for you to try out.
The senduit service allows users to upload up to 100MB of data, and create a unique URL to share in two steps. This data is then given an available time frame in which users can access it. So if it’s somewhat private or sensitive material you can set it to be available for 30 minutes, and all the way up to one week of availability. A better known provider of this type of service includes yousendit, who allows for sending sizes up to 2GB with a subscription.
via Web Worker Daily
Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple’s rich financial terms and other demands.
Among other things, Apple wanted a percentage of the monthly cellphone fees, say over how and where iPhones could be sold and control of the relationship with iPhone customers, said Jim Gerace, a Verizon Wireless vice president. “We said no. We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn’t reach a deal that was mutually beneficial.”
Verizon’s decision to pull the plug on talks sent Apple into the waiting arms of Cingular, which will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone. The multifunction device is expected to ship in June and cost about $500.
Renkoo solves a problem we’ve all had: how does a group of friends decide on a place and time to get together (and maybe also an activity to enjoy)? Preferably without completely filling up your email box or spending all day on the phone :-)
Renkoo is a free, easy way to plan your social events, send out invitations and organize your outings.
For more information, go to renkoo.com!
Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap.They sell one item per day (24 hour period), and when it’s gone, it’s gone.
Cool gadgets are sold at insanely cheap prices, so log on to www.woot.com every day to see what they are featuring.
Each woot.com product is discontinued at 11:59pm central time, so don’t wait too long!
Windows Vista is coming, what should the average user expect from Microsoft’s latest operating system?
USA Today: It is the countdown to Microsoft’s most important product launch in at least five years and Microsoft has sky-high hopes. It expects Windows Vista to be its most successful PC operating system yet.
But the sheer size of the next-generation software — it packs dozens of new features — and lingering questions over security have caused anxiety among some business and home users. On Jan. 30, the software giant will make Vista available to consumers. It will also unfurl the 2007 versions of Microsoft Office, a suite of software programs that includes Word, Excel and Microsoft Exchange Server, an e-mail messaging server.
Vista presents plenty of new technology options, and as many personal choices: Is it wise to install the beefy operating system on your current PC now, wait a few months, or bite the bullet and buy a shiny — and pricey — new PC loaded with Vista? As one of the most significant days in Microsoft’s history approaches, consumers have some important things to consider…read more
If you feel like your inbox is suddenly overrun with spam again, you are right.
Not long ago, there seemed hope that spam had passed its prime. Just last December, the Federal Trade Commission published an optimistic state-of-spam report, citing research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during the previous year.
Instead, it now appears spammers had simply gone back to the drawing board. There’s more spam now than ever before…
Apple will likely have some wiggle room to cut retail prices on the iPhone, if a report from iSuppli proves correct.
The consulting firm on Thursday released an analysis of what the total component budget will likely be for the Apple iPhone. The $499 iPhone, which comes with 4GB of memory, will likely have a component budget of $229.85. Assembly costs will raise the total manufacturing price to $245.83, according to the analysis.
Meanwhile, the $599 iPhone, sporting 8GB of memory, will have a component budget of $264.85, with a total manufacturing cost of $280.83, according to the report.
The large margins make price cuts inevitable…
If you’re a home owner or renter, a secure inventory of your possessions should be a big part of your theft or disaster recovery plan. Having an up-to-date home inventory will help you get your home owner insurance claim settled faster, verify losses for your income tax return and help you purchase the correct amount of insurance.
Creating a home inventory can be a challenge. StuffSafe makes it easy!