SMS in USA grows 106% in a year

Net4now.com posted an article talking about SMS is growing in USA.
"Mobile messaging revenue in the USA increased by 106% in 2004 and is expected to continue to grow strongly over the next five years from its current low base, according to a new report, The US Mobile Market: trends and forecasts 2005-­2010, published by Analysy..."

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Apple sold a million of videos under 20 days from online service

Hey, finally got an iPod Nano from my wife as my birthday gift. I love it from the first second I got it. It just looks awesome! Refresh my memory, it is my second Apple product so far; the first product will be back to 20 years ago... yea, you're rite, my first personal computer - the Apple IIe :)

Recently, come across an article from Slashdot.org mentioned that "Apple Computer on Monday said its iTunes online service has sold a million videos in under 20 days, sending shares up almost 5 percent..."

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80% of Microsoft Employees Own an iPod

To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers.

"About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod," said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. "It's pretty staggering."

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Everyone's talking iPod Video today

Oh well, iPod Video is the hottest topic recently. I heard about it from my wife coworkers and friends. I come across an article today, it may help to know something new about it.

"...The video iPod will play music videos, video podcasts and movie trailers downloaded form the updated iTunes Music Store, but will not play movies ripped from DVD, which are typically copy-protected..."

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My Latest Flash Art Work

I made two new Flash slide shows for a client's wedding, because it is too big to be uploaded on Internet, so I recorded it as 2 videos, they are in low quality, so forgive me if you find it not looking clear. You also can visit my personal Flash wedding MTV at http://www3.telus.net/henrylo.

Slide Show 1


Slide Show 2 (karaoke version)

Las Vegas Vacation Videos

Fremont Street Experience

With its $70 million light canopy, $17 million in upgrades and 550,000-watt sound system, the Fremont Street Experience is sure to mesmerize.
This show beginning and repeating after dark everyday.


Night View of Caesars Palace



Bellagio Hotel Water Show

Beginning at 3:00pm - midnight, repeating ever 15-30 minutes


Atlantis and Festival Fountains in Caesars Forum




Night View Of Mirage and Venetian Hotel



Circus Circus - Live Circus Show

Beginning at every couple hours

Spring on WebLogic

While JBoss added Hibernate as part of release in version 4.x, BEA announced that Spring will be integrated with WebLogic Server 9.x

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Google Office?!

"...Google and Sun Microsystems will hold a press conference on Tuesday at which they're expected to announce a collaboration to bring StarOffice productivity applications to Google users.

StarOffice is Sun's suite of integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database software based on the OpenOffice open source project..."

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JBoss Enter into Alliance with Microsoft

JBoss and Microsoft announced on September 27, 2005 that the two companies would work together to enhance interoperability between JEMS and Microsoft Windows Server products.

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