Mir

Member since: Mar 15th, 2006

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Hitachi's consumer PC, RIP: 1978 - 2007 (Engadget)

Oct 23rd 2007 6:47AM The hideous comment refers to the Fujitsu from the link, not the nice looking Hitachi.

Hitachi's consumer PC, RIP: 1978 - 2007 (Engadget)

Oct 23rd 2007 6:41AM Prius used to be very cutting edge - these from '98 had LCD screens with digital connection and dual boot with BeOS!
http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/E/1998/981111B.html

HP unleashes iPAQ series 100 and 200 PDAs (Engadget)

Sep 6th 2007 1:05PM Memory drains the battery. And PDA OS's aren't as bloated as desktop OS's.

Hey Palm, what's your reply?
Medical industry uses a lot of PDAs, so what about one with a mic (for dictating and Skype).
And with a cool design to compete with a certain music player...

RealPlayer takes online videos offline (Download Squad)

Jun 1st 2007 1:58AM "Oh yeah, and for now, the new RealPlayer is PC only."

Oh yeah? NOT! From the press release:
"Real plans a version for the Mac to be released later in the year."

Nokia excited about iPhone (TUAW.com)

May 16th 2007 1:31AM Actually Rick SIMonson is Nokia's CFO, the bozo running the company is Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.

Ukrainian 4x4 unveiled by boxer Vitaly Klitschko (Autoblog)

Mar 15th 2006 6:12PM Actually there's already Ukrainian SUV's, LuAZ (luaz.com). In Russia there's UAZ (uaz.ru), famous for it's military jeeps, and the biggest Russian car maker (about million cars a year) AvtoVAZ, who make the Lada Niva, legendary for it's passability, which is still sold also in Germany (lada-auto.ru, lada.de). Then there's the GAZ Tiger, made for the special forces (http://www.gaz.ru/eng/avt/pers/2330/index.asp). There's also an upgrade of the old Niva, made with GM (gm-avtovaz.ru).

#10 There was (some still is) plenty of top quality Russian consumer stuff (some companies even predate the Soviets like Lomonosov china), optics (rugift.com), shortwave radios, musical instruments (also synths), car models (store.diecast.ru), toys, speakers (rrr.lv), calculators (http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/contentsmk.html)...

The cars nowadays use plenty of import stuff, also from Germany (VDO and Bosch), from the ABS to Finnish fabrics.

I live in Finland, neighbour of Russia and the biggest trade partner.