During summit talks with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, the North Korean leader proclaimed “”I’m an Internet expert too. It’s all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.”
The South Korean leader asked that SK businesses be allowed access to the internet. Il proclaimed if the problems were addressed there would be no problems allowing access to the internet.
North Koreans are only allowed TV and radio that picks up state run broadcasts, and regular citizens are not allowed cell phones, let alone internet services. Read more »
A report out of Japan has stated that Sony is planning to slash the price of its latest console, the PlayStation 3, by 100-200 Euros. The move will be an effort to boost sales of the console in the lead up to Christmas.
A new model is set to go on sale in Europe for 399 Euros, fitted with a 40 gigaoctet HD. The current 60-gigaoctet version will also sell for 100 Euros less than its current price of 599 Euros. Sony would not confirm the report. Read more »
‘Halo 3′, the long-awaited game from Microsoft, made US$170 million at its XBox 360 launch in the United States alone. This may mark the most successful release in the entertainment industry. Microsoft claims the sum is more than Spider-Man 3.
It is also, according to Microsoft, more than what the seventh Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” made in its first 24 hours. Analysts believe the sum includes presales, which came to 1.5 million games. Read more »
Control-Alt-Delete is a very popular keyboard shortcut for rebooting a Windows PC, NT logon or for invoking the Windows Task Manager in XP systems.
The time saving Ctrl+Alt+Del keyboard combination was designed by David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC.
Bradley originally designed Control-Alt-Escape to trigger a soft reboot, but he found it was too easy to bump the left side of the keyboard and reboot the computer accidentally.
He switched the key combination to Control-Alt-Delete, a combination impossible to press with just one hand.
Bradley did not intend Control-Alt-Delete to be used by end users - it was meant to be used by people writing programs or documentation, so that they could reboot their computers without powering them down. But the key combination went on to become a cultural icon especially for hiding the Windows 95 BSOD. Read more »
