Kogan, a company based in Australia, had launched the second mobile phone powered by Google Android, namely Kogan Agora after the T-Mobile G1. Instead of following the iPhone trend, the Kogan Agora feature a smaller touchscreen and have its QWERTY keyboard positioned like a BlueBerry.

The Kogan Agora comes in two versions—pro and non-pro. The Pro version is priced at AUD $399 (around USD $260) while the non-pro at AUD $299 (around USD195).

The non-pro version is not worth mentioning as it does not come with a camera, a GPS receiver and does not support Wi-Fi. It is pointless to have a QWERTY keyboard nicely fitted and have loads of internet activities support like emailing with attachment supported and access to Google services and products—but, no Wi-Fi!

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Dual core and quad core processors might be a joke to our grandchildren in future, with Dell claiming that it would soon be mass producing supercomputers with 960 cores for the general consumer market. Just like how those brick-like big and heavy mobile phones looks more like a joke to today’s generation.

Eric Greffier, a Dell senior executive, said: “Before mobile phones were reserved for the few, now we can’t live without them. It will be the same with these supercomputers. They are the building block for the computing of the future.”

The Tesla supercomputer is 250 times faster than an average PC. Priced between £4,000 and £8,000, it looks pretty much the same as a CPU of an average PC. If the supercomputer is retailed with a zero missing in its price tag, everything would just be oh-so-perfect.

World’s first personal supercomputer unveiled – Telegraph

Google is so into this look and feel thing lately. They first roll out themes for Gmail, making checking email more fun than ever with colorful backgrounds and cool graphics.

Now they have Google Reader redesigned. Nothing major, just tidying up and de-cluttering the interface, simplifying features and giving everything a bit more breathing room. Oh, and changing those rounded corners to squares.

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Who visited your website? Who is your blog’s loyal reader? With questions like these in mind, MyBlogLog and other variations services had launched, hoping to bring blog readers together, connect and social with each other. MyBlogLog had achieve this, especially with their ability to automatic add reader to a blog community which he frequent.

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After acquiring AdEngage for less than 2 months, Technorati had started an advertising network for bloggers called Technorati Engage and it is now live at beta.technoratimedia.com. Like most other advertising network, all blogs will be reviewed manually before it is approved to be listed in the marketplace.

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Pownce, a microblogging and social networking website founded by Digg founder Kevin Rose, had been acquired by Six Apart, the company behind blogging platform Movable Type, TypePad and Vox—and will be shutting down on December 15, 2008.

The announcement blog post mention very little about the shutting down, but just some notes about the Pownce team will be joining Six Apart.

The team also added the export function for Pownce users to export all existing messages, and right, that’s all. One blog post, one export link, and there goes Pownce. We’re expected to see a better Pownce in 2009. I have no idea need to be shut down for joining Six Apart.

Imagine Yahoo! shutting down if Microsoft acquired it, leaving a tiny note “we’ll come back with something much better in 2009.” Well.