Never trust a Hollywood movie trailer. But this one could be amazing, based on a book bearing the same title...

A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/

Meet them on the Internets...

http://www.switched.com/2009/09/08/14-annoying-tech-types/

PS: Update. Number 15 Bonus. Corporate Identity theft on a retail level. Creepy. Can't MSFT be a little more creative in countering Apple's retail stores...

MSFT prototypes...

Let's not forget the Apple "Knowledge Navigator" concepts about two decades ago...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=100196171226719096&hl=en#

PS: MSFT Courier source. http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet

Den Fehler in der Bildlegende erkennt man sogar mit Fensterplatz im Geographie-Unterricht...

PS: WIN , dass der Rennstall von Peter Sauber gerettet wurde. Die genaue Identität der Investoren bleibt noch ähnlich schleierhaft wie Blicks Länderwahl...

BMW has announced that "Qadbak Investments Ltd" has agreed to purchase the BMW Sauber F1 team. The company will be represented in the team by a Swiss person called Lionel Fischer. This tells us very little except that whoever is buying the team does not want us to know who they are. The fact that the name of the company includes "Ltd" suggests that it is probably registered in one of the Caribbean tax havens, such as the British Virgin Islands, Bahamas or perhaps even the Channel Islands. Swiss trusts can be covered by the laws of any jurisdiction but are simply managed by a Swiss trustee.
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However, while one can speculate that Qadbak is a Qatari-dominated company, it is worth noting that the name is probably an acronym for the entire region: one can speculate that QADBAK stands for Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Kuwait.

There is no doubt, however, that as an independent automobile company, answering to its shareholders, BMW needs to be quite sure that any deal is done with the right kind of people who have the kind of money that is needed. The Middle East has big ambitions in the automotive world as has been seen in the recent Daimler/Aabar and Porsche/Qatar deals.

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21829.html

Update: Das gibt hoffentlich keine "Broker 2.0"-Geschichte für Sauber...?!

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sport/motorsport/Rennstallkaeufer-sind-nicht-sauber/story/15791877

Great news for a "new" alternative open-source operating system. Finally...

http://www.osnews.com/story/22159/Haiku_Project_Announces_Availability_of_Haiku_R1_Alpha_1

PS: Old BeOS demo, very impressive multimedia capabilities...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1659841654840942756#

Hmm, not quite good enough, Nano...

http://newteevee.com/2009/09/12/hands-on-ipod-nano-vs-flip-sd/#comments

Von Bill Gates zahlt für das "Testen" von E-Mails bis zu Steorn. Internet-Hoaxes der letzten Jahre...

http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/internet-hoaxes/

Eine Auswahl ist immer schwierig, aber für eine Grobübersicht interessant.

Nice work...

http://hellgateguru.com/images/MarioFamilyLinePic.jpg

True, true...

Microsoft makes most of its money from two products, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Nearly everything else it makes loses money, sometimes deliberately. Google makes most of its money from selling Internet ads next to search results. Nearly everything else it does loses money, too.

Neither company really cares because both make so much from their core products that it simply doesn’t matter. But companies, like people, strive and dream and in this case both dream, at least sometimes, of destroying the other. Only they can’t — or won’t — do it in the end, because it is against the interests of either company to do so.

The vast majority of Google searches are, of course, done on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. It is not in Google’s real interest to displace these products, which have facilitated so much of its success. Chrome products are given away, so they bring in no revenue for Google, and they don’t even provide a better search or advertising experience for their users, the company admits. So why does Google even bother?

To keep Microsoft on its toes.
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This makes even more sense given the recent advent of Microsoft’s Bing search technology, which performs precisely the same competitive control function against Google. Bing hasn’t a hope of toppling Google as the premier search engine and Microsoft knows it. To date, Bing’s success has actually been at the expense of Google’s competitors, not Google itself.

Quelle: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/opinion/13cringely.html?_r=1

Gundam 1:1 in Odaiba (( during summer 2009, at least ))...

((earlier construction pictures: http://www.engadget.com/photos/life-sized-gundam/2079968/ ))

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/video-life-sized-gundams-back-looking-deadlier-than-ever/