May 14, 2008
Picky Traveler? TripKick rates individual hotel rooms
TechCrunch
Jason Kincaid details TripKick, a new travel review Web site that launched Tuesday that rates individual hotel rooms.
“The site’s founders have spent the last year analyzing the individual rooms of over 250 hotels, mainly located in major metropolitan areas. This impressive feat was made possible by a trend in hotel architecture: hotel rooms typically vary within a floor, but are consistent moving vertically up a building (for example, room 105 and 205 would be the same, but 102 would differ). Many rooms have been documented with an extreme level of detail, listing the size of the room, any possible noise concerns, and even the view a guest can expect from the balcony.”
Windows Server 2008 bundles get first ‘public’ airing
Channel Register
Kelly Fiveash writes of Microsoft’s new “public preview” program for its Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 solutions.
“The software giant is targeting one package at the small business market, where Microsoft has been heavily foraging, while the other will be aimed at mid-sized firms…(they) will both be made available over the coming weeks to customers and partners who fancy dabbling with candidate release versions of the operating systems.”
Apple trademarks the rectangular box
Wired
Charlie Sorrel looks at Apple’s recently granted trademark over the iPod shape and design.
“Apple has been granted a trademark for the shape of the iPod, essentially giving it exclusive rights to make a box with a screen and a wheel: [T]he design of the portable and handheld digital electronic media device comprised of a rectangular casing displaying circular and rectangular shapes therein arranged in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Who decides that last point, we have no idea, but this will mean that Apple is likely to become much more aggressive in going after the knock-off iPod designs out there.”