Funny ad, you don’t need to understand Japanese to get it.

The PlayBook looks quite good on paper, it comes with 7-inch 1024x600 multitouch display, front and rear cameras, Flash 10.1 support, mini USB port, HDMI-out, WiFi, Bluetooth, 0.4-inches thickness, and weighted just 400g. From these specs, this thing feels like the tablet that everyone is waiting for. I own an iPad myself, there are certain things it’s really good at, and there are other things the iPad just won’t let you do conveniently. I am looking forward to see the PlayBook in action and hopefully it’ll be released on-time.

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(I Love Windows Phone)

Microsoft is set to unveil several new Windows Phone 7 handsets on October 21 worldwide. New Yorkers will get an early first-hand sneak peak during Microsoft’s open house event in NYC on October 11. Buyers in UK, France, Italy and Spain will have to wait a bit before purchasing the latest phone from retail shelves on October 21^st.

Windows Phone 7 Preview

Someone posted a video about the unreleased HP Slate on YouTube. This thing looks nicely constructed and aesthetically attractive, I really like diamond shape back plate. However, this thing runs on Windows 7, which I am completely not excited about. Let’s face it, Windows 7 is not a good OS for slate devices. It doesn’t do touch very well, it takes substantial time to wake itself up from either sleep or hibernation, and…I haven’t seen anyone has came up a virtual keyboard solution as good as Apple (of course, there’s still room for Apple make improvement, maybe take the number keys above the QWERTY keyboard? Hint hint). Alright, my call is that, this thing is probably not the iPad killer we all have been waiting for.

Now you can spend $50 extra to pay for an “upgrade” that already exists on your purchased CPU. According to Intel, the upgrade card unlocks your Pentium G6951 to full 1MB L3 cache, plus enabling HyperThreading. Yes, you heard me right, $50 for 1MB of L3 cache + HyperThreading. Putting the sour taste aside, how could they justify that the cache and HyperThreading worth 50 dollars? You probably won’t feel any difference after doing the “upgrade”. Greedy…just greedy…

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We Bing, we Bing, and Bing, Bing, Bing!

According to Nielsen, Bing has beaten Yahoo! and became the second largest search engine in US. Of course, Google still holds the number one spot with a more than comfortable lead. More info here.

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You’ve gotta give it up for this one, simply awesome! What is the best way to celebrate RTM? Put your competitor’s product in a coffin and have a funeral parade around town. I can’t wait to see the kind of party Microsoft will throw when Windows Phone 7 beats iPhone in market share. More Pictures.

Microsoft workers bustin’ a move

A Hacker named pod2g claim jailbreak on iOS 4.1. This new jailbreak seems to be the holy grail of all jailbreaks. The new hack is based on an boot ROM exploit which means Apple would need to exchange the hardware to seal the bug. Go out and your iPhone4 now before Apple rolls out the fixed batch from the factories.