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Podium placing at Budapest, Hungary after 70 gruelling laps 1st : Kimi Raikkonen 2nd : Michael Schumacher 3rd : Ralf Schumacher

Current world champion Michael Schumacher put Ferrari back on top with a stunning first pole position on the 2005 Formula 1 season at Budapest, Hungary. This is Michael's 64th pole position of his career, one short of equaling Aryton Senna's record.

Have a look at this graph from The Star If the KLSE goes up like petrol price, everyone wouldn't even complain of the increase, right ?

No more rumors. Price of unleaded petrol (RON97) will be at RM1.62 from 31 July 2005 onwards. *cry* *cry* *cry* *cry* *cry* Good point : more Bonuslink and Real Rewards points Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA

Received a document containing very interesting ANAGRAMS. An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters of one word or phrase to form another word or phrase. DORMITORY = DIRTY ROOM ASTRONOMER = MOON STARER MOTHER-IN-LAW = WOMEN HITLER THE EYES = THEY SEE GEORGE BUSH = HE BUGS GORE THE MORSE CODE = HERE COMES DOTS ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE

Found this from an article in http://www.arcchart.com/blueprint/show.asp?id=374&qtabs=99999

Here's some of the specifications (from MS Mobiles ) built-in Wi-Fi processor: OMAP850 195 MHz ! Since Skype needs 400 MHz to run properly, such slow processor may be too slow to handle Skype voice calls and some other applications. Having Pocket PC phone with built-in Wi-Fi and no ability to run Skype client is pointless. powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC no UMTS(aka 3G) on board, but it supports GSM, GPRS and EDGE built-in 1.3 megapixel camera built-in Bluetooth slide-out Qwerty keyboard (side-wise) display resolution: 320x240 (with orientation switching horizontal vertical) - clearly if you need Pocket PC phone with VGA resolution, then the HTC Universal is the only answer! mini-USB socket - for charging and synchronization with computer - so no need to use proprietary cables - you can have one and only cable for your Pocket PC phone, digital camera, MP3 player, GPS receiver, etc. size: height and width are the same as in the case of HTC Magician (i.e. i-mate JAM, MDA...

Quoted from the Inquirer MEMORY FIRM Pretec said it has started selling 4GB SD cards which have an access speed up to 20MB/s and will set you back $699. It said the cards will be going into mass production in August as part of its range of SD 133X memory. The firm claimed the SD cars conforms to the SD 1.1 spec and uses 65 nanometre 16Gbit SLC NAND chips

With such direct competitors from Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, Tapwave Zodiac didn't really catch on with the Palm gaming market (is there such thing ?). Another Palm licensee says bye-bye Quoted from Tapwave Official Website : We are sorry to inform you that the Zodiac business was discontinued and service and support are no longer available as of July 25th 2005. Resources that may still be helpful to you can be found at http://www.tapwave.com/resources and http://www.tapwave.com/support. This includes links to websites where you can find a variety of useful tips and information as well as purchase e-books, Audible books and magazines, Palm OS applications, Zodiac skins, and third party Tapwave Certified games. Additional products, acessories, and game cards may still be available from COMPUSA, Fry's, and J&R while supplies last. We thank you for your past interest and support and apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused. If you have an outstanding claim with...

My Offer Brand NEW Unopened Dell 256MB USB Memory Key @ RM80 ( normal pricing is RM152 ) Update as of 12 August 2005, sold to KVPUG member (endura)

Quote from Head Monkey I'm going to make my decision clear so that people are not left hanging wondering what I'm going to do with KVPUG, note that I will NOT be closing KVPUG ... YET! Monkey Business!: The KVPUG story

This Moto Q makes Treo 650 like a dwarf indeed. Small screen is the drawback The above picture courtesy from Engagdet More photo comparison : http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000000051949/

Orange has announced that it will be the first to carry the Sony Ericsson W800i music phone in the UK. The release date is the 12th August 2005, and will be a very high profile launch at London’s Oxford Street, which will include Jamiroquai’s front man Jay Kay. But the omen’s don’t look to good. But a study of digital music devices by TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence has found that 140 million adult Americans have not heard of the Walkman phone. “Sony has still not got the word out about its Walkman phone,” said Constantine Kambanis, an analyst at TechnoMetrica. “Our findings suggest that the Walkman phone is poorly positioned for a head-to-head match against Apple’s iPod or Dell’s Digital Jukebox. It has a weak showing among the consumer groups that propelled the iPod to superstardom.” Orange Captures W800i For First Release News

I must drink lots of plain water today. Throat getting very itchy and pain. Weather nowadays is not very good it seem. No wonder GP doctors are earning big bucks and driving Mercedes/BMW/Volvo.

Let's see if this works

Hall Of Shame / Hall Of Merit :: Parking offenders! :: WEW7989_072605_1903 How on earth am I going to hail a taxi when a Mercedes Cx00 is parked there ?

Have a look at the latest RAZR family : http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/detailsPf/0,,113,00.html

Going to take CCF (that's chee cheong fun for those who doesn't understand) for lunch at Wisma E&C

It's a sad days for the Palm OS community in Malaysia. http://forum.kvpug.org is gonna be closed down *cry*