A company named Genetic Savings & Clone, based in California, was created to sell expensive pet clones: Clone your cat for 32,000$ and more. Unfortunately, in the 6 years of its life, the company could sell only 2 animals. They went bankrupt. Finally, not everybody is dumb enough to buy a cat of that price…
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Fujitsu and Hitachi caught in the Sony battery fiasco
This time, this is Hitachi who announces a global recall of its Sony-manufactured batteries. Only 16,000 this time, after Fujitsu (287,000 units this week), Dell (more than 4 millions in August) or Apple. Â Â Acer (one of the world’s largest laptop PC manufacturer who let a number of others re-brand their machines) is allegedly talking…
Total recall for Sony Li-Ion batteries
After several weeks of companies lining up to recall portable PC using Sony Lithium-Ion batteries (Dell, Apple, Lenovo/IBM, toshiba, etc.), the Japanese manufacturer decided to move boldly: In order to avoid further spontaneous combustions and explosions, all laptop PC batteries using the Lithium-Ion technology from Sony are subject to a worldwide recall. There were already…
6mn to move to OpenOffice
You are thinking about moving from Microsoft Office (expensive commercial bloatware ;-)) to OpenOffice (free). A few questions you can ask to orgniaze your transition, before you jump ahead.
Download your word processor (free)
For a very long time, one of the greatest hits of search engines sending visitors to Roumazeilles.net has been “free download word”. Now, we are nearly in position to offer another advice than the usual Go download OpenOffice. I still consider OpenOffice as the best replacement for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but new opportunities are…
A quote for a business jet trip
You were wondering how much it could cost you to rent a business jet for your next private trip. Just go to http://www.avion-affaires.com/. They present you the opportunity to request an online quote. You’ll see! This is no so expensive (!) after all: I believe that I did not find anything under 10,000 euros for…
Sony batteries really blew it
Lithium-Ion batteries from Sony are currently in the eye of a major communication tornado. Everything that could go wrong is going wrong. We had heard of the exploding DELL portable PCs; This was followed by a major recall of batteries. Then, we heard that the Apple iBooks were also subject to the same: explosions and…
Vista opening sound will be compulsory
I do not report each and every little news about the upcoming Windows XP replacement. But today, we are learning that Microsoft marketing got one weird idea. Since they want Vista to show a “common, and beautiful, face to the world”, they decided that the music/sound provided by Microsoft as an opening sound for Windows…
RyanAir solution is copied
Yesterday, RyanAir was offering a radical solution to the terrorist threats in planes. The idea is catching up.