In these pressing times when you hear about lay-offs constantly, it is rather difficult to breed job loyalty out of people. Especially when some people are hanging by a string compared to others. But that doesn’t mean you can’t lose your sense of humor. Jason Shugars quit Google and sent a funny e-mail before he left. “So long, suckers! I’m out!” stated Jason in the e-mail sent to 5,000 of his former fellow Google employees.
In the rest of the goodbye e-mail, Shugars reminisced about good times working at the search engine company. This includes the time when he put cake down his pants at a sales conference. He also stole his boss’ $8,000 leather couch. And he also sang “Hit Me Baby One More Time” while wearing a mini-skirt and braids.
“It took me a long time to write it,” stated Shugars. “I didn’t want to send out a stale ‘good working with you, please reach me here’ e-mail. Who wants that?” Shugars, 34, left Google to become Director of Ad Operations of Imeem. Imeem is a music social media company that receives abou 25 million visitors per month and gains about 65,000 new users per day.
Below is a video of Shugars being featured on The Today Show.
Edison Chen is a pop star, born in Vancouver and is very famous in Hong Kong. However he was disgraced when his personal photos leaked onto the Internet. The photos displayed his personal exploits with several female celebrities. Chen gave evidence that a computer technician Sze Ho-Chun posted the photos online. These photos forced Chen into an early retirement and sent him to flee to Vancouver.
Chen appeared in court yesterday regarding this incident. The women that Chen were involved with in the photos include pop star Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, and Bobo Chen. Chen said in court that the photos were his own and had been stored in a personal laptop that went missing last year. Chen said that there was “some foul play” in the computer store that his laptop got sent to.
“I’m quite a private person,” said Chen. “This was never meant for anyone else to see.” The hearing started yesterday and was wrapped up in a day.
Chen was discovered a decade ago in a Hong Kong night club. Chen recorded 16 albums under the EEG (Emperor Entertainment Group) label. His latest album was in 2007 and was called “Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself.” Chen also had a cameo in The Dark Night. The scandal caused his career to decline.
To make matters worse, Chen was supposedly dating Vincy Yeung at the time of the scandal. Yeung is the niece of the head of EEG. Basically the niece of his boss. Many people around China were arrested for reposting the photos. According to Google, Chen was one of the most searched for celebrities as of late last year.
This interview made me want to buy the Kindle 2 even more. Especially the part where Bezos said that with the Kindle 2, you can read with only one hand.
Does someone keep stealing your Huffy? The Giken Company in Japan has devised a way to safely store bicycles within a facility without the need for a lock. The Giken “Eco-park” has the bike owner place their wheels on a runway and then swipe an ID card. The ID card has a monthly fee.
Once the machine identifies the person, the bike is fulled into the garage and the doors close immediately. Each garage has about 144 rails for the bikes and they must abide within a certain size. Tire size can’t be any bigger than 28 inches.
Setting up an eco-park in Japan takes about 50 working days to build. The cylinder wall structure is about 23 ft. in diameter and can handle earthquakes. Giken has created a similar system for cars too. The cylinder wall structure for the cars are about 63 ft. in diameter.
This is the type of camera that you don’t want to leave home without. The Olympus E-620 is an upper entry-level DSLR. Some of the features include image stabilization, 2.7″ tilt and swivel LCD, and Shadow Adjustment Technology. There are also Art Filters, Multiple Exposure mode and 4 aspect ratio choices.
“Experimenting and creating your own unique masterpieces has never been easier or more fun,” stated John Knaur, senior marketing manager of the Digital SLR at Olympus Imaging America Inc. “Pop Art, Grainy Black & White, and Pin Hole are just a few creative options that can be effortlessly found on the camera’s mode dial. The access is easy, and the results are fun and limitless.”
The E-620 has Autofocus in Live View and Phase Detection AF. The camera uses Face Detection, even when the targets are moving. The camera has a 4:3 aspect ratio and can be set to 16:9, 3:2, and 6:6.
Availability will start in May 2009. The estimated street price is about $699.99. With a Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens, the price would be $799.99.
You may remember that Armin Heinrich created a $999 iPhone application called I Am Rich. A few people bought it, some on accident, but then Apple removed it and refunded the money. Now a similar application is showing up in the Android Marketplace for $200.
The $200 price is the maximum charge that a developer can have for a single app in the Android Market. The difference between the I Am Rich app and the I Am Richer application is the color of the diamond. The I Am Rich application has a red diamond.
To be honest with you, I believe that these “rich” applications are crap. They are pretentious and are a waste of money. I can think of about 200 reasons why you should not buy the “I Am Richer” application. All 200 reasons that I would give you all link to charity so don’t ask me to list them. Its your money.
You never know what a sleek black device like this can do. In terms of providing the ability to download-to-own HD and HDX movies on-demand, VUDU is the first company to provide the service. The service is available immediately and most movies are between $13.99-$23.99.
About 50 movies will be available upfront, including Oscar winner, Man On Wire. Man On Wire was put together by Magnolia Pictures. In addition to offering movie services, VUDU is able to connect to YouTube and Flickr. The VUDU player is available for $149 at Vudu.com.
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) has made a definitive agreement to sell their Good Technology unit to VISTO, A Redwood Shores, California based mobile push company. Good Technology’s services include wireless messaging, mobile VPN, and security services. In order to compete with BlackBerry devices, Motorola bought Good Technology for $500 million two years ago.
Visto offers messaging services to T-Mobile and Vodafone. They are making the purchase from Motorola in order to expand services to their clients. The terms of this acquisition were undisclosed.
“This transaction marks another important milestone in VISTO’s emergence as a worldwide leader for mobile access to applications and content, especially messaging and collaboration data. Good’s robust enterprise and government solution will complement VISTO’s strong operator presence in business and consumer markets,” stated Visto CEO Brian A. Bogosian. “As a result of this transaction, VISTO will now provide customers in over 100 countries an open, robust and secure mobile experience for enterprise customers, on over 400 different mobile devices.”
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