The Hajime 33 is an athletic robot that can play soccer. Hajime Sakamoto built the robot and it can operate by using a Sony PlayStation 3 controller. The Hajime 33 can walk and kick soccer balls. The Hajime 33 weighs 44 lbs. and has a height of 6’5″. The reason why the robot has a low weight is to that it would be better able to balance and walk easier. One day Hajime hopes to build a large GUNDAM robot.
After the jump is a sample spam e-mail that is sent to millions of e-mail addresses. The spam e-mail mentions that a bank in Nigeria wants your contact information since no one has claimed the rights to the account. Given that millions of spam e-mails that are sent use the country of Nigeria as the basis, the spam e-mails are often used in a punchline. That includes a new Sony commercial.
“You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Otherwise I’d be a Nigerian millionaire by now,” stated a faux Sony company spokesman in the commercial embedded above. In response to the commercial, the country of Nigeria demands an apology. The Nigerian government claims that the commercial is harming the reputation and image of the country.
Fresh from losing a battle against the music industry causing Jammie Thomas-Rasset to be liable for paying $1.9 million in copyright infringement, lawyers Joe Sibley and Kiwi Camara has decided to sue Scribd. Scribd has “built a technology that’s broken barriers to copyright infringement on a global scale and in the process have also built one of the largest readerships in the world,” according to the two attorneys. “The company shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors.”
It is interesting to note that in Camara and Sibley’s last trial, they were defending a client from copyright infringement and now they are pursuing after a company that violates copyright. Camara and Sibley were interviewed back in July about whether they would ever defend copyright and they said yes assuming that they believe in the issue. The lawsuit was filed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiff Elaine Scott said that she found an unauthorized copy of her book “Stocks and Bonds: Profits and Losses, A Quick Look at Financial Markets” on the website. Scribd prides themselves as being the “YouTube for documents.”
Scribd said that they remove content when required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Scribd has built an automated filtering system that prevents unauthorized materials from being published too. “The West Coast technology industry has produced a number of start-up firms premised on the notion that commercial copyright infringement is not illegal, unless and until the injured party discovers and complains of the infringing activity, and (the) infringer fails to respond to such complaints,” states the complaint written by the lawyers.
On Friday night, a woman in Alabama won an auction that would allow her to have dinner with Sarah Palin. The woman in Alabama won the auction for $63,500. Cathy Maples of Huntsville will be able to take up to 4 guests with her too. It won’t be just the former governor of Alaska and the VP candidate, but it will also be her husband Todd. The proceeds from the charity auction will go to Ride 2 Recovery, an organization that supports veterans through cycling programs.
“She is, quite simply, one of the most talked-about people in the U.S.,” stated the auction. “Value: Priceless.”
Maples owns a defense contracting company and fully supports the military. Maples said that she would love to see Palin as the future President. The opening bid for the auction was $25,000 and about 61 bids were made. Palin has the right to bow out if the winner fails to meet standards of suitability and professionalism based on their background. The dinner will last about 4 hours or less.
Italian motorcycle company Ducati has a strong brand name. The brand is associated with luxury too. Ferrari and Lamborghini placed their brands on notebooks in the past, but this is the first time I’ve seen an automotive company stick their brand on a camcorder. Toshiba is putting the Ducati brand on the S10 camcorder. The camcorder is white with red accents and the Ducadi logo on the LCD. The LCD is 2.5″ and can record in 1080p resolution. The sensor of the camera is 5 magepixel and there is a 4GB memory card that saves the video. The 4GB can hold about 60 minutes of recording. Price is not yet known.
AT&T is going to get the HTC Touch Pro2 on their network starting next month. Only in this case, they are calling it the Tilt 2. The exact date of release is October 18 according to Boy Genius Report. The phone is expected to be powered by the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. Verizon is selling the Touch Pro2 for $199 after contract and rebates while Sprint is selling it for $349.99 after contract and rebates. My guess is that AT&T will match Verizon’s price since they can afford to subsidize high-end phones as proven by the iPhone.
Radiusly is a new start-up that is currently in private mode but demonstrated their product at the TechCrunch50 conference. I watched their presentation on UStream and was hoping for an upbeat presentation. Social media for enterprises is a boring subject so the presentation should compensate for the service offered. But instead the presentation seemed generic and I found my attention was lost.
Here’s how it works:
1. You sign up for an account on Radiusly and join your company network
2. The list of employees are listed on Radiusly and when you click on the employee, their social media involvement is showcased such as their LinkedIn profiles, Facebook profiles, Twitter status updates, etc.
The CEO of Radiusly is Chris Sel and the VP of Business Development that presented the product at TechCrunch50 was Adarsh Pallian. Pallian started the presentation by saying that Radiusly solves the problem of users being duped by fake corporate Twitter accounts. To find employees or contact someone in a company, any customer can go to the company’s account on Radiusly. Employees of the company are expected to showcase their education and professional information along with their social media presence.
Do I think this is a good idea? Not really. I’m skeptical because a lot of employees tend to be private about what they do. Those who want to let people know their opinion and just happen to be an employee at a company will be found by the public. For example, I always know what Dare Obasanjo (Microsoft) and Matt Cutts (Google) want to reveal to the public by their blogs and Twitter accounts.
Ernie Anastos of FOX News meant to say “keep plucking that chicken,” but ended up saying something that he’ll regret later. Silly anchorman, haven’t you learned from Ron Burgundy that sometimes people tend to trick you with the teleprompter. The video of the slip up on YouTube has become a viral hit and is inching close to about one million views. The engagement curve monitor used by Visible Measures, a video analytics company shows that a lot of people keep rewinding to see if the anchor is saying plucking or not. I thought that this anchor slip up was funny, but the bird feces landing in the reporter’s mouth was the funniest of all time. What is your favorite anchor man slip up of all time? Bill O’Reilly’s “we’ll do it live?”
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