Frank Bitterlich

Space balloon wipes out car

via Space balloon wipes out car - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Scientists are always finding new ways to burn money, and fast. Their newest method: Releasing a “weather ballon” type ballon too early, trashing the multi-million dollar equipment hanging beneath it in the course, wrecking a minivan, almost destroying another car and nearly kill the people in it.

Click the link to view a video of it… if you like Will it blend?, then you will just love this one.

According to a press statement by T-Mobile, the rumors for once had it right: T-Mobile has been chosen by Apple as the exclusive iPhone service provider in Germany.

They will start punting the device in Germany starting on November 9th. As is the case in the UK, there will be not special UMTS-enabled version of the iPhone for Germany, so you have to put up with roughly 220 kbps on the EDGE network (“Almost four times the speed of ISDN”, according to T-Mobile. Wow.) But unlike O2 in the UK, at least T-Mobile has almost full EDGE coverage in Germany. I wouldn’t want to fall back on GPRS.

There are no announcements yet on the tariff plans, as far as I know. Please let me know if I’m wrong on that.