One stop online TV guide

Ever wonder how to check TV guide from one place.? Gone are the days where we search TV guide from newspaper or the channel's own website or we watch TV presenter tannouce what is the TV listing for today.

Some of you might already heard about TVguide.com before. As what it names suggested, it is online TV guide which listing all Tv listing depend on your location. Unfortunately Malaysia(and any Asian country) is not yet listed there. For US residents, they will be able to get the listing with 2 simple steps. Enter your zip code and choose your channel and you are there. For international, as at now, there are 26 countries listed there

Looking at their TV listing i have a feeling that how interesting are there with a lot of movies, tv series, documentaries as well as news.

I manage to view what this site Google Video, Yahoo Video, AOL Video, Blinkx, Dabble, Channels.com. has offered, but it seems like they are mostly to video searching (which TVguide is about to launch). The do provide it, but it is more toward to play list rather that TV listing.

resource Business 2.0

PayScale - Real Time Salary Calculator

PayScale, a Web-based pay comparison service, is out to bring transparency to one of the deepest secrets in the labor market: who earns what. The site collects real-time pay data directly from workers and spits out an analysis showing what an occupation is worth - organized by a given city, industry or company - with the speed of an online stock quote.

Now you can do salary calculation and comparison online. Its provide you steps by steps beginning with your country, job title/function, your certificate and skills, current employer information ,compensation information and so on. I had given it a try, the result is not bad, quite there.

No more headache in determining expected salary :)

Resource - Business 2.0

$119 billion in fraudulent goods??

Though official numbers are scarce, online protection company MarkMonitor says a record $119 billion in fraudulent goods will be sold on the Web in 2007, up from $84 billion last year. But just as fake goods are enjoying a heyday online, so are virtual sleuths. New tech firms are arming brand holders with a smart solution: Web-crawling software that detects fraud and sends warnings to apparent violators, often with minimal human action. – Business 2.0

The 10 Worst PCs of All Time

After polling PC World editors, past and present, debating the demerits of all the systems that gave the magazines readers and reviewers problems and settling on the criteria for making the list – only desktops; systems that were actually shipped to customers; and no systems that had already been repeatedly bashed over the years – PC World has released its list of the 10 Worst PCs of All Time.

The list include some of the big names in industry such as IBM, Apple and Dell with the compiled PC manufactured as early as 1979. Don't be surprised to found unfamiliar brand names such as Mattel Barbie in the lists

The good thing is that no more PC made after 2003 listed. The manufacturers nowadays are more concern on the quality of the product as well as the demanding users which can cause the company on the downside of PC industry.

Resource– PC World

Dell Multifunction Color Laser Printer 3115cn

In the past week, the Dell 3115cn printer secured two “Group Test” winning reviews from German publications Tecchannel and FACTS. Tecchannel did a comparative test of 6 multifunction color laser printers and described the 3115cn as “featuring a very good configuration as well as an outstanding print engine.” The publication also praised the printer for its competitive printing costs, fast printing and scanning performance. FACTS Magazine awarded the printer as the Overall Test Winner, as well as Best Configuration and Best Price, beating out printers from 9 other manufacturers. The review describes the 3115cn as showing '”he best results in almost every aspect and is therefore the well deserved test winner.” The printer was praised for its very good configuration, photo quality, price and good printing and copying quality. – Tecchannel (German)

Notes: As at today, I haven't seen this printer available from dell.com.my yet. With all features it being touted, it could give other 'big boys' run for their money

Details available at. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/print_3115cn?c=us&cs=esg&l=en&s=esg

Buzzlogic- Buzz stop machine

BuzzLogic, the newest of a generation of companies with Web software designed to spot and neutralize an incendiary blogger before a marketing conflagration ensues, wants to help companies control “online buzz.” How does it work? Input a series of search terms, and BuzzLogic whips up a "conversation map" with circles and lines tracking not just who's talking about the product but also which opinions matter most. – Fortune

BlackBerry 8100 Pearl myFaves Phone

Research In Motion has long wanted to get out into the consumer phone market where there are much greater volumes: 75 million phones are sold each quarter in EMEA, compared with around 700,000 email devices. The company's market research has told it the only way to do that is to make a device which includes a camera, a media player and removable storage - and to make it small and light.

The result is a device that manages to combine traditional BlackBerry strengths with the joys of a small phone, and seems likely to combine the best of both worlds. It has been widely predicted that RIM - perhaps still stinging from lawsuit-induced woes earlier this year - will fade before other devices, but this device is strong argument against that.

source : techworld.com