Forget David Blaine’s recent antics of hanging upside down for 60 straight hours in New York City’s Central Park. The real challenge of human endurance commenced yesterday morning about a mile south of Blaine’s stunt, in the middle of Times Square. There in a makeshift “plexi-glass living room” for the world to see, eight brave souls commenced a competition to determine who is the world’s greatest couch potato.   The Netflix Movie Watching World Championship: The Quest for the Popcorn Bowl underway in New

Forget David Blaine’s recent antics of hanging upside down for 60 straight hours in New York City’s Central Park. The real challenge of human endurance commenced yesterday morning about a mile south of Blaine’s stunt, in the middle of Times Square. There in a makeshift “plexi-glass living room” for the world to see, eight brave souls commenced a competition to determine who is the world’s greatest couch potato.   The Netflix Movie Watching World Championship: The Quest for the Popcorn Bowl underway in New

With the laptop market growing daily, the developers at ASUS figured that the time was right to bring a USB 2.0 digital TV receiver to the market. With the ASUS EeePC doing so well it makes sense that ASUS bring a product like this to market and just by looking at the pearl-white ASUS My Cinema – U3100Mini you can see for certain that the EeePC was a key influence.

With the laptop market growing daily, the developers at ASUS figured that the time was right to bring a USB 2.0 digital TV receiver to the market. With the ASUS EeePC doing so well it makes sense that ASUS bring a product like this to market and just by looking at the pearl-white ASUS My Cinema – U3100Mini you can see for certain that the EeePC was a key influence.

With the laptop market growing daily, the developers at ASUS figured that the time was right to bring a USB 2.0 digital TV receiver to the market. With the ASUS EeePC doing so well it makes sense that ASUS bring a product like this to market and just by looking at the pearl-white ASUS My Cinema – U3100Mini you can see for certain that the EeePC was a key influence.

Emblazon this with a big “rumor” label, but according to The Register, Microsoft may be caving into OEMs.  As we know, OEMs can offer users of certain versions of Windows Vista a downgrade to XP.  For some OEMs, this can mean they will actually downgrade the PC for you, prior to shipment.  For others, this means an XP install CD with your shipment.According to The Register, while partners originally had up until January 31 2009 to provide the Windows XP Professional recovery media with machines

Some on the Web are billing a recent quote from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concerning porting Zune software to future Windows Mobile devices as a grand revelation – but it’s been known since early January that Microsoft was planning (at the very least) to bring a Zune-type media player to Windows Mobile 7, the next version of the company’s mobile platform.

As you can see from this screenshot, Windows Mobile 7’s media player has a Zune icon, presumably to connect to the Zune store to purchase and download tracks.  The screenshot was part of a package of captures released on a Microsoft-related blog in January.

It is unclear how much Zune will shape future version of Windows Mobile; its entire interface could be changed to reflect Zune, or a Zune-inspired player could simply replace the current Windows Media Player Mobile.  I would welcome each of these changes.

Given the evolution of the Zune software (the Zune players’ UI and the Windows Zune application) over the past year, adding it to Windows Mobile it would certainly prove a great improvement over the miserable Windows Media Player Mobile, which remains largely unchanged for years and is about as limited as mobile media software can be.

I don’t expect a Zune-phone, but there will be a greater marriage  of Zune and Windows Mobile in the future.  Exciting stuff.

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A new commercial PC game came out two days ago from a brand new game development and publishing company. The game is called CellZenith and the company is called Faramix Enterprises. What make this a unique story is not actually the game (full disclosure: we’ve not played the game, so we cannot comment intelligently about it), but the story behind the game’s making and the genesis of the company… Credit: Faramix Enterprises Three young men in their twenties, from three different states, enrolled in the online

Microsoft is expected to announce its new Cloud-based OS later this month.  This ‘Windows Cloud’ OS (or whatever it comes to be called) could mean big things for Windows Mobile, depending on how it evolves.

The mobile market is moving quickly toward Cloud-based syncing, as seen by Apple’s MobileMe and Android’s Google-dependant wireless syncing.  We hope to see Microsoft move similarly, but without the hitches and lurches of MobileMe or the Google service dependency (at least at first) of Android.

Microsoft could build a new Cloud-based ActiveSync whose connections are entirely wireless, with syncing between Live services, Windows, Outlook and Windows Mobile devices, all without USB cables. The potential of this type of technology is incredible, and will affect data syncing, software distribution, online storage, mobile control, web-based applications and more.

We’ll keep you updated on the evolution of Windows Cloud over the coming months.  An official announcement is expected later this month.