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Google leaps, Microsoft drops in brand value
Stephen Shankland | Sep 19, 2008
Microsoft slipped from second to third place, edged down a peg by IBM, according to the study by BusinessWeek and Interbrand, which base their results on the value of the brand as judged by how much revenue it will likely earn for the company.
Coca-Cola is king, but technology companies are common in the top 25 brands. (Credit: BusinessWeek/Interbrand)
Google showed the strongest gain, with a value that increased 43 percent to $25.6 billion, the study said. Next in line was 24th-place Apple, whose brand value rose 24 percent to $13.7 billion.
Coca-Cola remains the top, with a $66.7 billion in brand value, but technology companies are well represented on the list. No. 5 is Nokia, Intel No. 7, Hewlett-Packard No. 12, Cisco No. 17, Samsung No. 21, Oracle No. 23, and Sony No. 25.
Via CNET News
Study: Chrome reached nearly 2 million in US
Stephen Shankland | Sep 19, 2008
It appears that nearly 2 million people in the US downloaded Google's new Chrome Web browser in its first week of availability, Nielsen Online said Wednesday.
The online chatter about Google's browser surged to more than half the remarkable level of Apple's iPhone, Nielsen said. This chart shows the percentage of blog postings and other online commentary that mentioned Chrome. (Credit: Nielsen Online)
Nielsen, which bases its statistics on the behavior of a panel of Internet users, said that from September 1 to September 7, 1.93 million people visited the Google "Thank You" page associated with the download process.
That's nearly 1.4 percent of all US Internet users, Nielsen said. That may sound small, but it's a pretty good response for a beta version of a product that most people don't need, since so far, it only refines the familiar activity of using the Web.
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Feel the blows while gaming 
Darius Chang | Sep 18, 2008
Being a virtual soldier is easy. After all, getting shot and killed are no more annoying than having to reload the last saved file or checkpoint. But for the truly hardcore, a special first-person-shooter vest will be distributed by Movies with Motion that will allow the gamers to feel each shot as it lands.
Movies with Motion is also the distributor for motion gaming chairs.Made by TN Games, we reported on the FPS Vest previously and this product will now be coming to Asia. Working on the principle of air pressure, there are eight active zones that will simulate shots to the body. Thankfully, a Movies with Motion representative said the blows will feel no more painful than a friendly pat. There is a list of games, like Call of Duty 2 and Space Incursion, which this vest is compatible with. The availability date is not firm yet, but for now we know the unit should retail for around S$450 (US$325.87) when it hits the Singapore market.
Editors' note:
It was just received confirmation that the vest in the article is the same FPS Vest made by TN Games. This product will be distributed by Movies with Motion, and not D-Box as previously mentioned. The article has been amended to reflect these updates.Bring home the F1 experience for only S$19,000
Darius Chang | Sep 18, 2008
Editors' note:
After clarifications by a Movies with Motion representative, it turns out that the chair pictured above is not a D-Box branded product. There are also only two servos which move the seat left and right, while the GP-200 has three axis of motion including the back. The article has been amended to reflect these updates.The original D-Box GP-200 was a fantastic way to bring the F1 racing experience to your doorstep. With an integrated steering wheel, foot paddles and speakers, three servos would rock the chair to simulate the excitement of speeding down a track. However, at S$27,000 (US$19,552.47), it cost as much as some people's annual income.
So instead of adding even more features, another company seeks to make the motion gaming experience slightly more accessible.
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World's smallest PC?
Darius Chang | Sep 18, 2008
As reporters, we tend to be wary whenever a company claims to be the first, the best or the smallest of anything. But when we saw an image of the Fit-PC Slim, we though it could very well be the tiniest machine capable of running Windows XP yet.
The original Fit-PC 1.0 was already a minute machine, measuring 120 x 116 x 40mm and weighing 500g. The new model, however, makes the first version look bloated. Weighing a mere 380g, the Fit-PC Slim takes up only 110 x 100 x 30mm of space. Despite a reduced size, the new system only had to surrender the extra Ethernet port found in the original, but in return offers an extra USB slot and wireless connectivity to the mix.
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