A video i put together showing some conspiracy theories, the collapse of the World Trade Center which some believed to of had explosives in, and the strange faces in the smoke that people have pointed out. This IS NOT a video showing what I believe happened, but to show what OTHER people believe really happened on that day. There’s probably many other theories/conspiracies out there.. such as Bush knowing what was going to happen, and Islamic terrorists not being involved.. AGAIN THOUGH …
Verizon and Apple are discussing the possible development of an iPhone for Verizon, with the goal of introducing it next year, people familiar with the situation say.
It would mark the first time Apple has produced a version of the iPhone for a CDMA wireless network, which is different from AT&T’s GSM technology. Vodafone, co-owner of Verizon Wireless, already sells the iPhone in Europe.
The New York-based telecom entered into “high-level” discussions with Apple management a few months ago, when CEO Steve Jobs was overseeing day-to-day business, these sources say. They declined to be named because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly.
Jobs is on medical leave until June, but the conversations are continuing, they say. Apple declined to comment.
AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights to the iPhone into 2010, though specifics aren’t known. The deal was struck in 2006, when the iPhone was still on the drawing board. Many telecom analysts expect AT&T to try to persuade Apple to extend the contract for another year, at least.
Should Verizon succeed, it would be a big loss for AT&T, says Roger Entner, head of telecom research for Nielsen. “Breaking the (iPhone) exclusivity with AT&T is a huge thing,” he says. “That would send shivers into AT&T’s stock and senior leadership.”
The power of the iPhone was on full display last week, when AT&T reported stellar wireless results. AT&T signed up 1.6 million iPhone customers during the quarter — 40 percent of them new to AT&T. Revenue from mobile data was up almost 40 percent. Verizon reports results today.
By linking arms with Verizon, Entner says, Apple would gain access to its 80 million customers. While a few may already have an iPhone (some people have more than one carrier), the bulk don’t.
Regardless, Entner says, Apple would likely maintain ties with AT&T. The biggest winners, by…
The gadget world is getting ‘golden’ day by day with a large number of gadgets being manufactured with gold bars and diamonds. Its all seem to be glittering all around.
Gold Plated AK-47
A gold-plated Kalashnikov AK47 and Gold plated SVD (Al Kadisha) reportedly given to Saddam’s son, Uday, found at the palace in Baghdad. Also some are reported to have been given to one of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen. Many pictures are posted on the web of soldiers posing with the Gold AK47 and Gold SVD (Al Kadisha).
Gold Plated Vibrator
We’re not sure what purpose there is in this $1500 gold plated Elo Vya vibrator other than to give you heavy metal poisoning, but here it is. The 18k gold plated vibrator will satisfy women (and men), but also passes its AU into your porous areas. Which can’t be good at all. But hey, it’s on sale for $1350. Score!
Gold plated Porsche
The town of Pforzheim in south-west Germany is famous for its jewellery and watch-making industry and accordingly is known as “the City of Gold.” The city is also the home of the first Gold-plated Porsche.
All the major components, from the control elements such as the steering wheel and door knobs to the car body and alloy rims, are all gold plated, making the two-seater exceptionally luxurious.
Visualis, which is situated in Pforzheim, gilded a Porsche Boxster in 22 carat beaten gold.
Nine Porsche Models will undergo the same, unique refinement process to continue the creative project. Although the price is not yet disclosed, Visualis’ Petra Koehler reports that “curious people are already anxious to know who are going to be the owners of these magnificent automobiles.”
Nikon FA Gold
Nikon was justifiably very proud of their FA, the first camera to use computerized multi-segment metering.
It was the first Gold Nikon offered for sale to the public, commemorating winning the European camera of the Year award for 1984.
Production estimated at 2000. The 20 gold plated parts are 24K gold plated. The body covering is red lizard skin. The easily scratched gold finish was protected with a specially provided cleaning cloth, complete with special Nikon gold cleaners.
LG gold plated plasma TV
This is one home theater system your guests are never gonna stop talking about. LG’s LH-C643, the stuff of water cooler gossip, simply calls out to the Mercedes-owning uncles and aunties with its 24-carat gold-plated exterior, which LG claims is the world’s first luxury home theater setup.
24 Karat Gold with Diamonds MacBook Pro
The 24-carat gold MacBook Pro. The MacBook is completely golden with a diamond studded apple logo. Yet another product for a filthy rich businessman, seeking the attention of his wife can definitely contemplate over this gadget.
The blingified Golden Macbook has been designed by Alex Wiley and unquestionably not for mass customisation. There are two versions available which are 24kt Gold & Diamonds 15? Macbook Pro and the 24kt Gold 15? Macbook Pro.
The social-networking site Facebook has a lot going for it: A staggering 200 million users, an enormous media profile, and a steadily increasing advertising base. But the company is clearly worried about the new social-networking sites on the block — most notably Twitter, which lags far behind in subscribers but has been basking in a sudden wave of celebrity buzz, thanks to high-profile tweeters like Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher.
It’s not terribly surprising, then, that Facebook announced Monday the launch of the Open Stream API, a set of tools to allow third-party developers to create applications that read the content of a user’s Facebook newsfeed and publish to it. The company hopes to spark a wave of software innovation that will keep the service fresh and dynamic.
One Fountain, Many Streams
According to Facebook engineer Justin Bishop, the goal of the new API is to give users the ability to see their Facebook stream — including updates, photos, comments, etc. — in a wide variety of new locations.
“Now, you’ll be able to view your stream and publish information into it from places you never could before — like your desktop computer or your mobile phone,” Bishop said. “We believe that the ability to see more and more of what is happening around you will lead to greater openness and transparency.”
Bishop said Facebook has worked with some developers to create desktop stream readers, and is planning to release its own desktop application. Two pieces of software are currently available that use the Open Stream API: Facebook for Adobe Air, and the Seesmic Desktop application. Bishop predicted dozens or hundreds of others will appear shortly.
Open Privacy?
Given some of Facebook’s stumbles in the past, it’s not surprising that questions about privacy rose immediately. Unlike a service such as Twitter, which is designed almost entirely for…
Cambridge, MA — April 27, 2009 — IT security, operations, and public agency electronic crime responders, investigators and counter-electronic crime technologists from across the globe will gather in Barcelona, May 12-14, for the 3rd annual Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS III). CeCOS is dedicated to uniting the industry and public sector response to the global electronic crime scourge.
For more detail on the program’s content, visit the CeCOS III agenda:
http://www.antiphishing.org/events/2009_opSummit.html
“The criminal artisans that have organized on the Internet are growing in technical sophistication and command — and in their capacity to cloak themselves from detection,” explained APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy. “CeCOS III will consider critical next steps in the formation of a unified response to electronic crime that is just as organized as the crimes themselves. In short, imagine a response to electronic crime without frontiers.”
CeCOS III will unite IT security, operations, security, and law enforcement thought-leaders from Europe, America, Australia, East Asia and South Asia for to voice operational priorities in the global confrontation against phishing and electronic crime.
CeCOS III will engage questions of operational challenges and the development of common resources for first responders, law enforcement officials, and forensic professionals that protect consumers and enterprises from electronic crime threats every day.
CeCOS III is an open conference for members of the electronic-crime fighting community, hosted by the APWG and underwritten by its sponsors, including La Caixa, Telefonica, S21Sec, GMV, MarkMonitor, EMC’s RSA Security division, Ecija, Deloitte, Symantec and TB Security, a mix of industry principals that reflect CeCOS III’s truly international character and constituency.
Although sponsorship is principally from industry, the CeCOS programs are considered the most vital events to investigators and managers of electronic crime from across private and public sectors. In Tokyo, last year at CeCOS II, over 250 delegates attended from law enforcement agencies,…
Chicago
From modern skyscrapers like the John Hancock Center and the Sears Tower—the world’s tallest high-rise building for more than 23 years ending in 1997—to earlier icons such as the 1895 Reliance Tower and 463-foot-tall Chicago Tribune Tower, completed in 1925, Chicago boasts a skyline of monumental proportions. Says Andres Lepik, “As far as great American skylines go, for me it’s mostly New York and Chicago.”
Sydney
More people recognize the glorious Sydney Opera House than have probably ever been to an opera. A protected park behind the iconic structure serves to frame the modern skyline behind it, and there’s the expansive blue of Sydney Harbor in the foreground. “Sydney has one of world’s most fascinating skylines,” according to Andres Lepik, author of Skyscrapers. Star architect Renzo Piano added the 44-story Aurora Place to Sydney’s downtown mix in 1996.
Dubai
It was clear with the erection of the 1,053-foot-tall Burj al Arab Hotel in 1999 that the sheikdom of Dubai was bent on stealing the global skyline spotlight. Lest there be any doubt, consider that this year Dubai will be home to the tallest skyscraper in the world: the 1,900-foot Burj Dubai tower. It already soars above the rather dismally named Business Bay district. Though Andres Lepik, author of Skycrapers and architecture curator at MoMA, says he wouldn’t call Dubai’s skyline beautiful because “it’s grown too fast, without a general idea of what they’re trying to achieve,” Dubai makes it on this list by dint of sheer boldness. In the pipeline: Zaha Hadid’s “Dancing Towers,” the Da Vinci Rotating Tower and 0-14 Tower.
Seattle
Seattle’s location between Puget Sound and Lake Washington lends an impressive backdrop to its central skyline, of which the Space Needle has been the most recognizable feature since its completion in 1962. Though it isn’t the city’s tallest structure—that distinction goes to the 76-story Columbia Center—it often appears so because of its position on a hill some four-fifths of a mile northwest of most of the skyscrapers downtown. With Mount Rainier in the distance, Seattle’s skyline comes with a romantic frontier feel.
Paris
It’s an absence of skyscrapers that defines the French capital’s skyline (with no usable surfaces, the Eiffel Tower doesn’t count). Thanks to its concentration of historic slate gray-roofed six and seven-story buildings, many of which date from the mid-19th century and before, Paris has a remarkably uniform skyline for a city of its size. Lending romance to the cityscape are the familiar historic monuments such as Notre-Dame, the domes of Sacre-Coeur and the Sorbonne and the grandiose roof of the Palais Garnier opera house.
London
London’s Parliament and Big Ben “were skyscrapers in their time,” say architects Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat. “And today London has some amazing modern buildings, such as The London Eye and the Norman Foster-designed ‘Gherkin’ building, which looks like a giant pickle. So you have these contemporary pieces punctuated against the fabric of an old city that make it recognizable and also very romantic.”
Houston
“Houston has the Transco Tower and also Pennzoil Place, two towers that kiss,” say New York architects Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat, “and all three are Philip Johnson buildings.” They add, “the bizarre thing about Houston is that you can have a 50-story building next to a one-story building, for an entire city block, so you have these sort of large holes that exist between the towers.”
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh has one of America’s great unsung skylines. The reason? According to architects Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat, it’s because Pittsburgh is “right at the intersection of three fairly large rivers, and you approach it through a mountain, so you arrive completely deprived of a view, through a tunnel. And then you’re on a bridge looking at the city. It’s very beautifully proportioned the way it starts fairly low at the river and then climbs to the U.S. Steel building, which is the tallest there.”
Hong Kong
Whether you’re gazing at Hong Kong’s brash skyline from Victoria Peak or across the harbor from the Kowloon side, you’ll be taking in one of the most spectacular urban landscapes in the world. Says Andres Lepik, author of Skyscrapers, “Hong Kong decided in the ‘80s to redesign the image of the city. In the run-up to Hong Kong’s reversion to China, it was decided to give the city a strong image to command world attention and make it an attraction. It started with Norman Foster’s Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters, then I.M. Pei’s Bank of China building, which was a reaction to that one.”
Toronto
The Canadian metropolis on the shore of Lake Ontario is recognizable around the world thanks to the presence of the CN Tower, which soars 1,815 feet above the city. (As a freestanding structure, the only thing taller in the world today is the Burj Dubai). It has neither office nor living space, but there is a restaurant with a killer view near the top. With more than 2,000 towers that exceed 300 feet, verticality is a distinguishing feature of the varied Toronto skyline. Canada’s largest aggregate of skyscrapers is located in downtown’s Financial District.
San Francisco
“San Francisco can be easily recognized by the the mountainous topography and the Transamerica Pyramid,” say Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat, partners in Stamberg Aferiat Architecture in New York. Its skycrapers are nowhere near as numerous or tall as Manhattan’s, but in light of the waterfront setting, famous bridges and interplay of old and new, the City by the Bay is easily one of the world’s most photogenic.
Frankfurt
They call it “Mainhattan,” a reference to the River Main and the high-rises of Frankfurt’s city center. “You can hardly talk about skylines in Europe except maybe for Frankfurt, which started in the ‘80s and ‘90s to develop a skyline,” says Andres Lepik, author of Skycrapers and architecture curator at MoMA in New York. “It was a political act to allow high-rise buildings in the center, for the economic and business image of the city,” he adds. Landmark towers in the German financial powerhouse include the pyramid-capped Messeturm and the Norman Foster-designed Commerzbank building.
New York City
Take iconic skyscrapers from the 1920s and ‘30s such as the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and American Radiator Building, add plenty of sleek new ones, and splay them all out on a long narrow island, and you’ve got the world’s most famous skyline. Says Paul Aferiat of Stamberg Aferiat Architecture, “the agglomeration of New York skyscrapers has as its centerpiece the Empire State Building, which is such an iconic romantic building, and through the accidents of economics and zoning, it stands alone.” Manhattan’s skyscrapers are clustered around lower Manhattan, Midtown and Midtown South.
