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Google Unveils its eBook store — Google Ebooks

Amazon won’t be happy as big G steps up its competition in Ebook Online Selling. Google has been very busy scanning a wide range of books — classic, university papers to historical books. Now, they are in the business of selling best sellers also!!! For the span of 7 years since they’ve launch Google Books since 2004, they have scanned more than 15 million books from more than 35,000 publishers. And now, these copies is also available through the Google Ebook Store. I am not a big fan of eBooks but with the trend, I’m having second thoughts, especially that Google has now jumped into the bandwagon.

Who is Lin Mun Poo?

Lin Mun Poo CartoonLin Mun Poo is a 32-year old hacker from Malaysia who is known for cracking the firewall of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank last June 2010 and stole with more than 400,000 credit card numbers. This is in contrary to the statement issued by Cleveland Fed that Poo only hacked into a network of at least 10 test computers and no Fed data was accessed.

Poo also confessed of breaking into computer networks of various international finance centers. Prosecutors added that on August 2010, he also hacked a major Department of Defense contractor which manage systems for highly sensitive military operations. Some of known systems he broke are FedComp, Firemen’s Association of the State of New York and the Mercer County New Jersey Teachers

Dell Latitude XT2 XFR Tablet PC – Built for Tough Enviroments

Launched on late October of 2010, it is the rugged version of Latitude XT2. It is said to be the industry’s smallest, thinnest, rugged, convertible tablet PC which is designed to withstand harsh environments and meet the needs of the tech-savvy outdoor market — military, police, field service organizations and first responders.

Below are its best features:

  • High performance against rain, blowing dust and dirt, vibration and pressure and extreme temperatures.
  • Rubber backlit keyboard for nighttime operation.
  • 12.1″ Sunlight Viewable Convertible Multi-touch screen
  • Quickly convert from traditional laptop to tablet PC while maintaining multi-touch features for both setups.