If every country had it’s own type of cellphones, Russian ones could look like this. It could be made of wood - wood is cheap and is available everywhere in Russia, it has simple functions like call and bye, it would be made in Finland cause everyone in Russia knows good phones are made in Finland (like Nokia!) and one additional option is a must - a beer bottle opener from the backside of the phone - very handy!
Source: http://englishrussia.com/?p=979
In Belarus they use planes with ellipse wings. They say it has a few benefits comparing to the simple one or double winged planes, like the wing can be less in size, it’s more firm because the ellipse form is self sustaining, also there are now air vortexes by the sides of the wings which gives up to 30% increase in power compared to the traditional planes.
Some Russian users say this planes could suit well futurustic pictures of 60s.
Or could have a Mobius styled wings too.
Source: http://englishrussia.com/?p=2331
By Friday the 13th this past week, two of the goriest games to date arrived on store shelves: MadWorld and Resident Evil 5. An omen? No, it’s a bloody obvious sign that some video games are made for adults. There's a reason why the game industry has a self-regulated ratings system. Would you strap in your tween to watch Saw? Maybe traumatize a toddler by reading it to sleep with Stephen King’s “It?” Exactly. So don't go buying an "M-rated" game for the kids.
Well, that got us thinking back to the violent video games (and one that barely even spilled a drop) that have stirred up all sorts of controversy in the past. So, for your reading (dis)pleasure, we've assembled a murderer’s row of the 15 bloodiest games ever created. For the most part, this reads like a list of must-play games--if you have the stomach for them.
(To be honest, it was really difficult to narrow it down to the few titles here. Many games drip with…stuff…but we only had enough room and enough time to focus on some of the bigger ones. Hit the comment box below and share some other twisted gaming moments we may have missed.)
Our Gaming Grim Reapers: The GamePro gang helped narrow down the list. You can also find more gaming coverage in Darren's creepy Casual Friday column and "Monstrous" Matt Peckham's Game On blog
Motorola has today announced the very latest addition to its rugged team of enterprise digital assistants, the MC55. The Motorola MC55 smartphone is powered by Mobile 6.1. Additionally, it offers quad-band GSM/EDGE, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios on board. Other specs include a 2MP autofocus camera, 1D/2D scanners and 3.5” touchscreen display.
One version of the MC55, christened the MC5574, features a full QWERTY keyboard and the other version, named MC5590, has the standard 12-key dialpad. Both these rugged phones are VoIP and PTT enabled. Information on pricing is not here with us yet, but both these versions will be available in select markets only. The MC5574 will be available in the US somewhere in Q2 2009. Check out the phone pictures below.
Motorola MC5574
Motorola MC5590
Source: http://phonearea.net/motorola-announces-rugged-business-mobile-phones
The future does not look very bright for Skype, after Google announced it will launch a potential competitor and eBay's CEO said that the online auction company had basically failed in its efforts to integrate the voice-over-IP service.
Wednesday, eBay CEO John Donahoe told analysts that the company is "done apologizing for Skype" and will focus eBay "where we can win." He indicated that eBay will cease trying to integrate the service into its existing online auction offerings and focus on running Skype as an independent business. eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005.
Hot on the heels of Donahoe's statements, Google announced its forthcoming Google Voice service, a revamp of GrandCentral, which it acquired back in 2007. The product was originally a personal phone management service that allowed users to have one central number that rang multiple phone numbers for a user, as well as a centralized voicemail box. Google's updates include low-cost Internet telephony services, SMS sending and retrieving, free outgoing calls to any U.S. number, and full voicemail services including voicemail transcripts.
While Google Voice is rolling out first to existing GrandCentral users before opening up to the masses, it's clear that eBay needs to do more than simply focus on Skype as a standalone company. Google has a huge pool of existing users and a history of rolling out applications that are more stable and feature-rich than Skype. eBay will need to make some serious investments in developing Skype's functionality to compete with the Google juggernaut -- or face selling the service for pennies on the dollar.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161261/google_voice_ebay_put_pressure_on_skype.html
As smartphones are getting more and more like laptops, laptops are getting smaller and smaller, like phones. Where will they meet? Maybe somewhere near the new Lenovo Pocket Yoga netbook, one of the tiniest little laptops I've ever seen.
There's not much info on this sexy little devil yet, but it looks to have a nice wide screen that can be flipped around and act as a touchscreen tablet, and it's very close to being small enough to fit in a pocket comfortably, but not quite. It looks slick and is sure to be expensive, as is the way with things moving towards the space between two types of device.
