Imagine, using fingerprint to safeguard your cellphone, well, its not too hard now with Altrua Technologie’s Intelligent Touch Controls. This new technology targets the handheld market segments and not only provide security but also acts as an user interface to the device. Users could control menus, scroll pages and even control games, all with one finger.

The technology is a combination of sensor technology and software enabling. The sensor will ense the ridges of the finger, including valleys and bumps and through two major sets of algorithm, either authenticate the user or provide the user with control over the device. The technology was annouced on May 15 and ATW200 model is now avialable.

This technology could provide handheld users an interface that rivals the Ipod touchpad. It would be interesting to see who uses this technology in their products first.

Wow, from a ringtone to a chart hit. So, you do not need to sing your hearts out at the Idol shows, just create a ringtone and Bam!, you can knock superstars like Oasis off and beat Coldplay to the no.1 spot. How cool is that…

The new era of online retail has begun. Consumers now can customize their own products online and with a little premium prize, they can stand out from the crowd. Nike now allows their customers to customize the shoe to their liking interms of color, design and logo. This new range can be accessed at Nikeid.com. This has been Dell retail model for quite some time, where consumers can customize the type of PC component that best fit their needs. This has been adopted by Nike to provide consumers the power or ability to have something of brand in this case Nike that they can call their own. If this model is successful, before long, every successful brands will start to adopt and a new future of retail is born.

On another hand, having so many knock offs at this part of the world, the custom Nike that you proudly call your own might be mistaken to be a knock off as the colors and design defers from the ones sitting in the retail shops.

Again, on another hand, you no more have any color matching problems with your attire where you can customize the shoe to match them. Nevertheless, this retail model is definately refreshing and hope to see other brand names start to adopt them.

Hymm… just got a thought.. will this reduce the number of default design shoes in the market and eventually kill the Factory Outlet Business in US?

Apple – Intel talks just a herring? by ZDNet‘s David Berlind

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was in talks with Intel regarding usage of the latter’s microprocessors. Today, Apple relies strictly on PowerPC chips from IBM but has had difficulty keeping pace with Intel-based competitors, particularly on the notebook front where the company has complained that IBM can’t deliver a decent [...]

I for one would like to see this happen, especially the opening of the cloning doors….. a more affordable apple will rival microsoft.

Current Mac OS – Tiger = $129 for single user (free shipping)
Current Win XP SP2 = $199 (Home Edition)