Tuesday, November 1st, 2005. Day 1.

Today has seen a flurry of new developments online. The most notables are:

• Microsoft's launching of Live ; their answer to yahoo and google.
• Research In Motion (RIM) and Cingular Wireless released today the Blackberry 8700c.
• Motorola and Nextel released today the Motorola i870.
• Nokia awarded 5,000 Euros for this innovative design, the Nokia 888.
• AOpen's new MiniPC which runs either Linux on a Celeron M processor or Windows XP on a Pentium M Processor. Their obvious direct competitor is Apple's Mac mini.
• Belgium's web extension ".be" got a push from E3Internet by giving away free domain regisration. I registered for around 30. It seems that although the offer was supposed to be from November 1st until January 1st, the site is already down. Sorry to those who missed out. Ill post when I find out which sites were actually registered.
• Zap, the environmnetally conscious auto distributor, bought 20% of Obvio!, a Brazilian car company. Zap ordered 50,000 sporty and economical minicars to be brought to America. There are 2 models, the lower end one starting at $14,000. Supposedly, orders are already too high to be takingany new orders.