“The birth of the Homo Spaciens.” That’s how Spanish-based Galactic Suite Ltd. describes its vision of a hotel in space, one that enables guests to literally go around the world in just 80 minutes and see 15 sunrises and sunsets in a day, and of course marvel at a breathtaking view of our planet. Best of all, the optimistic crazy confident folks at Galactic Suite Ltd. claim that the Galactic Suite will be available to the public by 2012. By “the public” I mean “those rich andSource: technabob RSS Feed

MacHeist has just revealed a nanoBundle of 6 Mac apps. The apps have a value of $154. Five are available immediately, and the last will be unlocked at 500,000 “purchases”.

What are the apps and how much is the bundle? Read on…

The aps in this bundle are…

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1. MacHeist 3 Nearing End- Sweeter Deal Than Ever
2. New MacHeist Launched- Great Applications To Follow
3. Mac User? It Is Almost Time To Bundle Up

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Our HTC Tattoo review is now up! Available on Orange as the Tattoo Ink, on Vodafone and unlocked for £269.99 from devicewire.com it’s HTC pushing “Android to the masses”. We were bowled over by it’s bigger brother, so we couldn’t wait to see how well the cheaper HTC Tattoo fared.
Our full review is packed with snaps, video demos, screenshots and example shots from the camera. Dive in!
Link – HTC Tattoo review
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Superstar iPhone hacker George Hotz has just released Blacksn0w, an addition to his latest Blackra1n iPhone jailbreaking application. Why would you want it? Because it will take any iPhone or iPod Touch and jailbreak it with one click. It will also unlock any iPhone and allow it to be used on any cell carrier, anywhere in the world. It even restores internet connection tethering for iPhones running the latest 3.1.2 software.

Better still, it does all this in a few seconds flat.

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After BPO Agony Aunts and automobile companies, we have even shoe manufacturers looking to spread their wings online. One of the leading shoe brand Red Tape comes out for sale online with not just footwear and leather accessories, they also offer other apparel thereunder. Manufacturer Mirza International is the first shoe company to have their own online store which includes sales and delivery via courier. “In five years, we want to take it to 50 per cent of our sale,” says Director ofSource: WATblog RSS Feed

I know many of you have been waiting for Nokia N900 to finally hit the shops.

And were extremely disappointed, when Nokia delayed the release of N900 from October to November. Without even bothering to reveal more concrete release date, or even week.

Well, your wait is almost over. There are reports that Nokia N900 starts shipping in U.K. on Nov. 16th.

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As I gave a nod to statistical tricks and subtle shell games very recently, the material I review subsequently should be viewed with skepticism and caution. A few days ago I also pointed to a paper which describes and models intergenerational transfers of wealth across various societies. In other words, what parents transmit to children. From the perspective of someone who reads this blog, obviously parents transmit genes to their offspring.

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A carpool concept for a perfectly trusting world. That’s what this is. Our designers here, Gwang Hoon Lee, Chan Il Jung, have concocted a simple window-sticky device that displays statistics about the contents of the vehicle it inhabits. It shows availability, maximum number of passengers, destination, and ETD estimated time of departure. Sound just fine to you?

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Colombia volcano rumbles back to life. The volcano is about 1.2 degrees north of the Equator.

From AFP

Galeras Volcano in 2005

BOGOTA, Colombia — Officials in southern Colombia have issued a code orange alert for the newly-active Galeras volcano which they said could erupt in a matter of days or weeks, according to the state-run Geological and Mining Institute.

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There’s two new Xbox 360 bundles coming your way, UK. To mark the arrival of Transformers 2 and Star Trek to DVD (and Blu-ray), Gem and Paramount pictures have put together these blurry bundles.

The bundles are largely identical, and both include an Xbox 360 Elite, an extra controller, and the movie on a USB drive. No DVD for you, friends.

Paramount hasn’t said whether or not these bundles will be released outside of the UK.

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