In case you missed it, the 2008 Oscars were on last night. The show lasted 3.37 hours, “No Country for Old Men” won Best Picture, Marion Cotillard (the lady with the nice smile) won Best Actress and Jon Stewart hosted.
In case you’re looking for a bit more info, Mahalo has the 60 second summary…
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So some people with a couple of iPhones got together & formed iBand. They’re using iAno, PocketGuitar, iPhoneSynth and BeatPhone apps for the iPhone, plus Nintendo DS Electroplankton. cool
YouTube has their 1st jam session.
iBand - home page

If you were to pack your bags tonight, and move to either of Okinawa in Japan, or Ovodda in Sardinia, or even the town of Loma Linda in California, you might well live to a significantly older age as compared to remaining where you are now.
A report in the BBC states that some Loma Lindans [...]

Some Silicon valley leading lights are down substantially year-to date. The AAPL of many investor’s eye, for example, is down almost 40% from Jan 2 2008, as at Feb 22.
Apple significantly underperformed the S&P 500 (-7.85%), NASDAQ:NDAQ (-18.37%), and ATT (+3.89%) as well as the other big tech names shown on the chart.
Can We Get [...]

The Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad went out to their local Apple Store in Ginza, Japan, and purchased an Apple MacBook Air notebook, with the intention of seeing how it works.
True to their name, the NETS did indeed disembowel the MacBook Air, and were kind enough to share their findings and observations.
In brief, they weren’t impressed. [...]

Technology journalist Walt Mossberg reviews the soon-to-be-available Lenovo ThinkPad X300 notebook computer. In sum, Walt likes the thin (0.73-0.92 inch) ThinkPad calling it impressive, solid and innovative and perfect for many mobile PC users.
WM dings the X300 for its small (64GB) solid-state-drive, relatively low battery life and the big price ($2476-$3000). But he does go [...]

A new survey by In-Stat shows that users of mobile business gadgets are not in as big a hurry to move to converged devices as previously thought.
The $3495 report from In-Stat entitled “Converged Devices: US Road Warriors Start Cord Cutting” shows that only about 8% of business travellers have given up their land lines [...]

Red Ferret compares the original Apple iPhone to 5 clones from China, and finds that one of them isn’t all that bad.
All 5 comparables were made in China (as is the iPhone itself), are listed below and were assigned ‘credibility scores’ re how close they came to matching the real iPhone:
Desay A8+ …score: 3/10
CECT P168+ [...]

Provided you`re willing & able to lift a 50 pound (22.6796185 kilograms) weight a height of 4 feet (1.2192 meters) every 4 hours (4 hours), you too can have about 40 watts of light for up to 200 years.
Clay Moulton a student at Virginia Tech won 2nd prize at the recent Greener Gadgets competition [...]

Design student Toby McInnes at the University of New South Wales has designed a clever emergency survival kit, to be called the Bedu emergency rapid response, aka Bedu ERRP. Bedu is packaged in an oil-drum sized container to be air-dropped to disaster sites and is fitted out to support 8 people for up to 5 [...]