Archive for March, 2009

iPhone software showcased by Apple

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Apple is updating its software for iphone so that users can cut, copy and paste text - a basic computing feature that many people had lamented was missing from the gadget seems to do everything.

At a function held at its US headquarters, Apple previewed the third generation of iPhone software, due to be released this later this year, which it said will encompass over 100 other new features.

This could possibly be the best phone ever!

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$200,000USD for Swedens Ice Hotel Space Trip

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Sweden’s Ice Hotel Charging $200,000 for a Space Trip in 2012.

Virgin Galantic apparently linked up with 5 travel agencies to start selling these trips, which will take off from Kiruna, Sweeden in 3 years when they expect the first one to have lift off!

300 tickets have been sold so far for the 110 kilometers flight above the Earth’s surface, and the Ice Hotel plans to book trips where passengers can travel through Aurora Borealis.

Sounds like a flight and a half to me!

Would quite possibly hold be the most amazing views. How amazing does this look:icehotel.png

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‘YouTube’ Blocked in China

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

For reasons still unknown China has implemented a site-wide block of YouTube today.

There are a couple rumors going around as to why China may have done this and these are, footage of Chinese soldiers beating Tibetans or videos released by the U.S Navy of Chinese ships attempting to interfere with a sonar array cable being dragged behind the USNS Impeccable.

The interesting Part: A Chinese Foreign Ministry official tells Reuters his nation is not scared of the Internet, in fact, he says, it embraces the exchange of electronic information.

“Many people have a false impression that the Chinese government fears the Internet. In fact it is just the opposite,” the official, Qin Gang, explains. “China’s Internet is open enough, but also needs to be regulated by law in order to prevent the spread of harmful information and for national security.”

China Blocks Access to YouTube… But Why? …

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