Friday Web bits

Some rather unrelated musings from around the Web on a Friday afternoon:

RIM is blaming a software update for the crash that left many ~~Crack~~BlackBerry users with their thumbs twiddling this week. Mine still isn’t pulling in any e-mail, but I’m not complaining considering the outrageous bill Rogers sent me last week.
Hotdoll is the (bizarre/creepy/hilarious) solution to the age old problem of Sparky humping your houseguests’ legs.
Dell encountered some serious resistance from its customers when they stopped offering Windows XP in favour of the newly launched Vista on its PCs, and were forced to bring back XP as an option. A good lesson in what happens when you try to push a rather un-necessary upgrade on your customers.
Nissan is working on an “Intelligent Transportation System” that will warn drivers of impending pedestrian collisions by triangulating the path of the moving vehicle with the signal of the pedestrian’s cell phone using 3G networks. Cue the inevitable marketing campaign from cell phone vendors, “Keep a cell phone on you and your family members at all times, or die!!“

Have a great weekend!

April 20, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized