HandHeld CEO 'Welcomes' Apple Ipod Video

We welcome Apple and Mr. Jobs to a market that we pioneered,' said Jeff Oscodar, president and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment. 'Years ago, we knew that people wanted to watch video on handheld devices and we have been satisfying that demand. Apple's announcement earlier today about its plans to begin shipping an iPod video player validates our vision.

'Apple's iPod product line is certainly in flux -- or should I say it's in a 'Shuffle?' I wonder how Nano purchasers feel now. We at HandHeld Entertainment don't treat our customers with such disregard. That's why we are introducing a complete ZVUE(TM) family of portable video devices at CES this coming January. That way, consumers can be free to choose the product that's best for them.

'And one more thing, our products are affordable. All of the products in the ZVUE product family will cost less than the cheapest iPod that supports video.'

HandHeld Entertainment Statement

iPod-nography

I want a little video iPod for christmas. Some sex maniac has just sent me a guide on HOW TO Put Porn On Your iPod.

Paper view technology

Siemens unveils paper-thin TV screens that could see magazines and newspapers alive with moving images.

Caucasian dominoes

Gunmen have attacked government posts in a town in southern Russia. As havoc spreads from Chechnya to another part of the north Caucasus President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to bring the troubled region under control look less successful than ever.

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New "Hobbit" Human Bones

The reported discovery of remains of nine more 'hobbits' boosts the case that they represent a separate human species.

4,000-Year-Old Noodles Found in China

Leftovers for the record books were found in China recently?a bowl of noodles dating back 4,000 years, the earliest known example of the staple food.

HOWTO Put Porn On Your iPod

This guide illustrates how to put porn on your iPod.

Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings

'Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning 'humanity to others'. Ubuntu also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

Lots of Unused Data

As you prove your identity ('I'm sorry sir, but it's a legal requirement') to your bank for the umpteenth time, no doubt you wonder whether the mountain of data that money laundering rules produce is of the slightest use to the people with access to it. Well, wonder no more - the second critical study on the use of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in two years concludes that SARs are under-utilised by most Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), and also reveals that pending the implementation of (uh oh...) a new database system, many of them aren't being used at all.

The study was commissioned by The Association of Chief Police Officers and funded by the Home Office, and although author Matthew Fleming, Research Fellow at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, appears to have completed it in June, for some strange reason it seems not to have been published until the other week.

I am 16, going on 60

Yahoo! has agreed to ban the creation of new chatrooms with names that promote sex between adults and minors.

Really, what took them so long?

British Playwright Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Harold Pinter has written enigmatic plays such as "The Birthday Party" and "The Homecoming" and is also a well-known peace activist.