The Visionaire Group is a Los Angeles, California based digital agency that worked with the daughter of late martial arts icon Bruce Lee to create a website dedicated to Bruce himself.  The website is actually called BruceLee.com and was produced by Bruce Lee Enterprises.

Some of the features of the website include video clips, widgets, a blog by Shannon Lee, and other downloads.  There is also a dedicated Facebook Fan Page, MySpace page, Twitter account, YouTube channel, and a store.

“This is only Phase One of the BruceLee.com site and experience,” stated Bruce Lee Enterprises CEO Shannon Lee. “We’ll continue adding great new content to share the passion and wisdom of my father’s life and career with as many fans as possible.”

ReTweet.com is a service based on retweets, the repeating of status messages on Twitter of people that you follow.  ReTweet has about $1.4 million in funding no funding (e-mail from ReTweet) and their biggest competitor Tweetmeme has about €650,000 ($926,000) in funding.

Both companies are really picking up steam in the ReTweeting business and TweetMeme does not like it.  TweetMeme has threatened Mesiab Labs, the company behind ReTweet.com for copying their website design and copying their retweet button code.

The only problem with these two companies is that Twitter themselves are interested in getting into retweets too.  If Twitter starts counting how many times status updates have been repeated and even creates a widget that showcases the count, these two companies will be out of luck.

Update: ReTweet is valuated at about $4 million by Leapfish.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has officially launched a new version of their Movie Maker software.  Windows Live Movie Maker has been dubbed as “the the one-minute way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies that are easy to share — for free.”

To download Windows Live Movie Maker, you can install Windows Live Essentials which comes bundled with the new software.  The new version of Live Essentials also includes several bug fixes.  To discuss how the software works and offer tips, Microsoft launched a new website called MovieMakerPreview.com.

Some of the key features of the new version include auto movie, video editing, easily fit content to music length, and share videos online.  There is a YouTube and Facebook plugin that makes it easy to upload videos.  Windows Live Movie Maker requires Windows Vista or Windows 7 to work.

BlackBerry company Research In Motion is rumored to have full Flash and Silverlight support.  Well that is just great, I just bought the iPhone.  Had I known this rumor before, I would have saved my money.  Flash and Silverlight support may not happen until a while from now.  This probably won’t happen until a summer from now.

[via BGR]

Dell decided to stop the production of the Mini 12, but the company recently announced that they will be selling a computer over 10-inches again.  The Dell Inspiron 11z  weighs 3 lbs., has an Intel 1.2GHz Celeron 723 processor, 1,366×768 LED resolution, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB (5400RPM) SATA hard drive, GS45 integrated graphics, WiFi, and 3 cell battery.  The webcam is 1.3 megapixel and there are twin stereo speakers.  Some of the built-in ports include Ethernet, three USB slots, 3-in-1 multicard reader, and HDMI input.  The laptop costs $399.

Specs about the Canon G11 has been revealed.  There won’t be a CMOS sensor and the camera won’t have HD video, but the camera has 10 megapixel quality and mini-HDMI support.  The LCD screen can tilt too.

Below are the full specs:
Effective: 10.4MP, Recorded: 10.0MP
1/1.7″ CCD
RAW, JPEG, QuickTime
Image Stabilization
6.1-30.5mm f/2.8-4.5 (35mm film equivalent: 28-140mm)
Optical: 5x, Digital: 5x
Normal: 1.6″ (50cm) – infinity
Macro: 0.4? (1cm) – 1.6″ (50cm)
Integrated Mount for the LA-DC58K Lens Adapter
ISO 80-3200
Evaluative, Center Weighted, Spot
Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash, Underwater, Custom 1, Custom 2
Effective Flash Range: 1.6″ (50cm) – 23? (7m)
SD/SDHC
Still Images per GB: RAW: 67
JPEG: High Res: 374 – Low Res: 7,684
Video: 640 x 480 @ 30fps, 320 x 240 @ 30fps
Viewfinder Coverage: 77%
2.8? LCD Vari-Angle
USB 2.0, Dedicated A/V Out, mini-HDMI (Type C)
Windows XP, Vista
Mac OS X (10.4 or later)
12.5 oz (355g)
NB-7L Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery

[via Canon Rumors, Gizmodo]

A man in New York City needed phone repair from Verizon so the company sent over a technician. But instead of fixing his phone, the Verizon technician ended up punching the customer in the face.  The Verizon technician may have taken a page out of the Radio Shack managerial guidebook.

The technician involved is named Robert Benjamin and the reason why he attacked Aubrey Isakson, 37, is because he was asked to show his ID.  Isakson claimed that Benjamin slapped him in the face with his ID back in December 2008.

“The guy essentially snapped. He cold-cocked me, hit me two or three solid shots to the head while my hands were down,” said Isakson, a limo driver.

But things got uglier, Isakson said, when Benjamin squeezed him around the neck and pressed him up against the wall.

“He’s prepared to kill me,” Isakson said. “That’s all I could think of.”

Isakson said he broke free and ran down the stairs — fracturing his ankle along the way — to get help in his building’s lobby.

Fortunately Verizon did end up fixing the problem. Verizon even said that they were able to fix the problem and did not even need to send the technician to Isakson’s house. That may have been useful information to have before allowing a technician into Isakson’s place.

Earlier this week Microsoft Corporation asked for an appeal to an injunction for selling Microsoft Word.  Last week a judge issued an injunction on Microsoft for them to stop selling Word software with custom XML functions.  A jury ruled that a patent owned by Canadian software company i4i is being violated by Microsoft.

Microsoft will be forced to pay over $240 million in damages to i4i in the process.  Now that i4i has won a case, a couple of other companies want to get in on the patent action.

Allvoice claims that a speech recognition system used in Windows is violating one of their patents.  And EMG claims that Microsoft is violating a patent they own that revolves around viewing web content on mobile devices.

i4i, EMG, and Allvoice filed the lawsuits in a court in Eastern Texas.  The reason why the cases are filed in this location is because The New York Times labeled that specific court as the “patent lawsuit capital of the nation, where plaintiffs are more likely to get a favorable judgment.”