| Pipes dream of Christmas No1
THEY have previously fought in Basra but now, with Britney Spears's ex-tour manager and Amy Winehouse's concert agent on their side, an army pipe band has a new target: the UK pop charts Christmas No 1. The Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who recently signed a £1 million deal with record company Universal, yesterday unveiled their new album. .
Samsung YP-P2 Touchscreen MP3 Player Hits the States
The iPod Touch isn't the only MP3 player on the market with a full touchscreen display. Samsung is jumping all over this market too with the Samsung YP-P2 portable media player. Unlike other players that mostly rely on physical buttons or perhaps touch-sensitive controls, the Samsung YP-P2 boasts a huge touchscreen display for menu navigation. The 3-inch widescreen display features a 16:9 aspect ratio, making it great for video watching on the go. Naturally, the YP-P2 handles music files as well, so you can be sure to be entertained anywhere you go. Other vitals include a 9.9mm profile, Bluetooth 2.0, and the EmoTure UI all-touch user interface. Look for it at a retailer near you. I spotted a 4GB model in a recent flyer for about $200. .
Full House of Fun
A night of poker chips, prizes and the possibility of victory drew in nearly 150 students to the semi-annual "Ram Hold 'em" Poker Tournament.
The event, held at the UC C.J. Davidson Conference Center, included free giveaways, free food and prizes for those who came with game faces normally reserved for the blackjack tables of Sin City.
Tuesday night, Oct. 23, the program that the UCPC had been organizing since last fall, saw its third successful showing.
"I was a part of the committee, but Nathan Lopez actually started it," sophomore UCPC Recreation Chairperson Lainee Fagafa said. "We usually have a lot of people come out or people will walk by and see what's going on and sign up."
The tournament was free for students to play and featured plenty of prizes and free giveaways.
Empowering clean cuts
ICL Performance Products is poised to pour its products into the most high-tech of industrial work, now that the company's plant at the edge of North Lawrence is equipped to deliver a new level of highly purified phosphoric acid. ICL is spending more than $4 million to upgrade its plant so that it can produce and package the super-clean acid, a necessary cleaning component in the etching process for integrated circuits, computer chips, flat-panel monitors and other electronics necessities. “The electronics market is growing," said Jennifer Phillips, acid business manager for the plant at 440 N. Ninth St., at the edge of North Lawrence. “Every year, whether it's flat-screen TVs, flash drives or cell phones, there's just a real growing need for electronics, and it's growing every year.
Google casts its net over mobile phone market
Google opened a new front in its global media empire last night after finally confirming plans to enter the mobile phone industry. The company is introducing a new mobile system called Android, which it hopes will bring internet access to the masses - and help it put more advertising directly on to customers' phones. Google chief executive, Eric Schmidt, described Android as a toolkit which will encourage people to use the internet on their phones. At present, specialised engineering is required to get Google software on to handsets. Increasing the amount of time people spend surfing the internet on their phones would also let Google harvest information and display advertisements direct to mobile phone users just as it does to people on their home computers, said Andy Rubin, the company's director of mobile.
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