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So speculates T-MoNews, who deduced this from T-Mobile’s Dark Project training schedule. 

According to this schedule training for 2 secret devices are set to happen on the 17 February and 9th March, and they already know one is the Motorola Zeppelin, leaving the other for the already announced HTC HD2.

Read more at TMoNews here.

Red Bull Racing have missed out on this week’s testing in Valencia, but its team principal Christian Horner was all eyes on the action at the Ricardo Tormo circuit. The British official looked closely at the teams and cars that are to rival his own organization in the 2010 F1 championship, with a special reference to Mercedes returnee Michael Schumacher.

Talking about the 7-time world champion’s comeback into the series, Horner made it very clear from the get go that he has no doubt in his mi… (read more)

areview.co.cc: President Barack Obama said that China would be constantly pressurized to get its markets open for trade with the US besides making it respect the trade accords. Obama told Democrat senators that he would put constant pressure on China and other countries to abide by the trade accords, however he ruled out taking of protectionist stance towards China, warning that to close ourselves off from that market would be a mistake. Tension between the US and China mounted over arms sales to Taiwan. Relations have also been strained by reports of Chinese cyber attacks on US-run websites and a planned visit to the US by the Dalai Lama. Earlier, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman warned Obama that meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader would further erode ties.

areview.co.cc: Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah has assured that PPP-MQM coalition would remain intact, adding that joint efforts have been launched to establish peace in Karachi. Addressing the Sindh Assembly session, Qaim vowed to tread Quaid-e-Azams footsteps and cooperate with each other to maintain peace in the metropolis. He condemned the recriminations MQM and PPP members hurled at each other the other day on the floor. The CM also thanked President Zardari, PM Gilani and MQM Chief Altaf Hussain for cooperation in this regard, and hailed the unprecedented alliance between MQM and PPP in the last two years.On the other hand, addressing the SA session, Senator Pir Mazharul Haq noted that Karachis prosperity was linked with Karachi uplift, adding that disputes should be shun for progress of the province.He said that the sole aim of everyone was to make the country successful and thereby egos be buried.

areview.co.cc: PLM-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has flayed President Zardari for reneging on all of his commitments regarding Charter of Democracy. Addressing workers convention in Bahawalpur, Nawaz noted that the country could not be run through breaching of constitution and non-implementation of Supreme Courts rulings. He observed that there were multiple issues facing the country, and urged the youth to help bring revolution in the country, adding that the lust for power should be done away with.He alleged Musharraff and PML-Q of conspiring against PML-N, called for dictators accountability.

areview.co.cc: The Election Commission has deferred the case challenging President Zardaris eligibility till February 18. Chief Election Commissioner said that he would review whether the petition was worth hearing.In the application, the petitioner argued that NRO was intact during the 2008 presidential polls ,adding that now Presidents eligibility could be challenged as NRO has been revoked.The CEC said that he would issue notices to concerned people only after figuring out whether the case is worth hearing or not.Petitioner Maulvi Iqbal Haider said that Article 248 was not imposed on Zardari when he contested the polls.

areview.co.cc: The only T20 of the series between Pakistan and Australia would be played tomorrow in Melbourne. Pakistan hasnt won a single match of the series yet. The regular skipper of Pakistan T20 Shahid Afridi would not be available for the team because of ball tampering allegation. Shoib Malik would be the captain instead. Imran Nazir and Kamran Akmal is back in the Team whereas six changes are made in Australian regular team. It is the first ever T20 match between both countries in Melbourne.

With China now the world’s largest car manufacturer, the most important engineers, scientists and managers from the battery, automotive, utility and lithium mining industries will come together in Shanghai between September 1-3, 2010, when the SAE International’s Vehicle Battery Summit takes place. The international summit will be held at the Sheraton Hongqiao Hotel in China’s largest city.

The Summit is organized in cooperation with Advanced Automotive Batteries USA and the China Automotive … (read more)

areview.co.cc: For the very first time, Indian Home Minister Chidambaram has admitted that an Indian could be behind the Mumbai attacks. During an interview to an Indian TV channel, Chidambaram has said that Indian citizen Abu Jandal could be behind the Mumbai attacks. He added that details in this regard could be known if Pakistan provides the required evidence regarding Abu Jandal.The Indian Minister gave vague replies to certain other questions; however, he clearly hinted at the involvement of an Indian in Mumbai carnage.

areview.co.cc: A labourer died while two others injured and another got missing when roof of an under construction building collapsed at Mohini Road, Lahore. The Civil Defence Authorities said that two labourers injured and two got trapped in the debris when the roof caved in.The authorities concerned said that the body of one Yaseen, 48, was retrieved from the rubble and search for another was underway while the injured have been shifted to Meo Hosiptal.

It all keeps coming back to this chart from Morgan Stanley:

Unless this time it’s different, we’re bound to have a period of sovereign debt crises, and indeed, that seems to be the only big macro story folks are intersted in (that, and China’s bubble).

Once again, the chatter overnight is about Greece, Portugal, California, and the rest of the fiscal bad boys.

A key member of the Bank of Japan even invoked Greece in warning about his own country.

Asian markets generally slide overnight, while the dollar strengthened, which is classic flight-to-safety behavior.

S&P futures are heading south, as well:

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There’s no really easy way to describe the state in which Toyota finds itself at this moment… Oh, wait, there is: unstoppable (literally). And, apparently, there’s no stopping media reports on the matter from poring in by the thousands each day (really, google "Toyota recall" – there will be around 21,000,000 hits on the matter).

So, with all this fuss going around about it, it was only a matter of time before The Today Show’s Jon Stewart paid attention to the subject. And they d… (read more)

GM vice president of global engineering Mark Reuss officially confirmed last year that the Super Sport nameplate will be brought back to life and everybody is now expecting the Chevrolet Cruze SS. Surprisingly, Chevrolet introduced in Singapore a so-called Cruze SS bodykit that consists of a sporty treatment for the typical Cruze.

The compact sedan can be thus customized with side skirts, a more aggressive rear fascia and spoiler, 17-inch wheels and illuminated scuff plates. We’re sorry to di… (read more)

Comic books have nurtured this idea in our heads that maybe — just maybe — we can one day be super powered. Maybe we can one day learn to fly, or stop a speeding bullet, or even become invincible to harm. While the first two are still in the realm of the impossible, the last one may not be as unattainable as you think.

In fact, history has shown that there are plenty of people out there that may have been on the verge of invincibility. Sure, they still died in the end, but they came oh so very close to surviving some of the harshest and most brutal treatments the world has ever seen. All of which would have killed any normal human. But, no. Not these guys…

Michael Mallory

Michael Mallory was a nothing more than a common Irish street drunk in 1930s New York. Mallory’s favorite bar was owned by a one Tony Marino, a murderous crook that specialized in insurance scams. Marino, having just come off a successful insurance scam that saw his friends murder his girlfriend so they could all collect the profits, felt that the drunken Mallory would be his next victim. So, Marino and his friends took out 3 insurance policies on Mallory and assumed that his need to be drunk all the time would soon do him in. To hurry this along, Marino granted Mallory unlimited access to his bar. All drinks were free to him for as long as he were alive, which, Marino hoped, wouldn’t be too long.
He was dead wrong.

After Mallory’s liver proved to be made of some unearthly material that could soak up inhuman levels of alcohol, Marino had his barkeep substitute a normal beverage with antifreeze. Six antifreeze shots later and Mallory was not dead, just passed out on the floor. He later woke up and asked for more. This went on for about a week, and Mallory ingested more antifreeze then probably any car you’ve ever owned.

So, they tried turpentine. Nothing, Mallory guzzled it down and asked for more.

Realizing that Mallory’s liver was too strong, Marino and his gang tried to go for the stomach; so they feed him rotten oysters. Mallory came back for seconds.
They tried rat poison. Nothing.

They even went to a crazy extreme: A sandwich of spoiled sardines and carpet tacks. Nothing. Mallory actually asked for more.

After this, Marino and his gang gave up on trying to be slick with the killing and instead decided to just kill him in as blatant a way as they could. On a night when the temperature was 14 below, Marino and the gang tossed Mallory in to a bank of snow and drenched him in cold water, thinking he would die from hypothermia. He didn’t.

They hired a professional killer to run him over with a car. This one seemed to work as Mallory didn’t make a single visit to the bar for a while. But then, three weeks after he was hit by a car, Mallory casually walked back in and asked for another drink.

Fed up with it all, Marino and his gang crammed a tube down Mallory’s throat and loaded him up with gasoline fumes. Finally, Mallory died.

While they may have collected the insurance money, Marion and the gang didn’t have time to spend it because they were soon arrested for Mallory’s murder and were all sentenced to the electric chair.

Samuel Dombey

   
Samuel was a grave digger in New Orleans (then called simply Orleans) just after the Civil War. Samuel angered some other guys in the grave digging field of work because of his incredibly low rates. Rather than lowering their own rates and creating some good old fashioned competition, the grave diggers banded together and plotted to kill Samuel.

The diggers called upon the services of Dr. Beauregard, a man that was said to have had magic powers. Beauregard put a curse on Dombey. Was Beauregard really a great witch doctor? Probably not. The day after he put the “curse” on Dombey, Dombey heard a loud explosion come from some nearby bushes. He rushed over to find a man stumbling out in pain. The man mad off before Dombey could help. Later, a heavily bandaged Beauregard threatened to curse anyone that questioned how he got the bandages.

After the witch doctor failed, the diggers took it upon themselves to kill Dombey. Knowing that Dombey took a mid-day nap every afternoon, they placed a powder keg under his bed. When Dombey went to sleep that afternoon, he was rudely awoken as he exploded. But, he didn’t actually explode. He landed 20 feet away was almost entirely unhurt.

After you blow up a man and it fails, you’d think you would give up on the whole trying to kill him thing. But the diggers didn’t. They then kidnapped Dombey late at night and paddled him out to the middle of a lake. There, that night, they tossed Dombey over as he was ganged and bound; knowing for sure they had just sunk the pesky, low rate gravedigger. Luckily for Sam, the diggers were idiots and the lake wasn’t so much a lake as it was a really big puddle. Sam sank a whole 2 feet below the water before he hit the bottom. Sam shook loose the bonds and walked to shore.

Of course, it didn’t end there, either. A short time later, the digger tried to set Sam’s house on fire. When Sam came running out of the house he was greeted with a shotgun of buckshot to the chest. The firefighters put out the blaze and rushed him to the hospital. He was eventually nursed back to health.

In the end, Sam continued to dig graves and his competitors stopped trying to kill him. Sam later died…at the age of 98. Everyone that tried to kill him died before Sam did.

Blackbeard

We’ve all heard of the legendary pirate Blackbeard and we all know that his life was one of insanity and debauchery. He regularly killed his first mates because…well…because he could. There was also word that he had many, many wives, none of which would be considered of legal age today. He even had his crew, uh, “enjoy” his wives one after another. Blackbeard’s life was far from kindly.

But his death was amazing. And manly. The kind of way everyman wants to die. By that I mean, being impossible to kill.

Blackbeard, for all his years of daring on the high seas and making everyone he encountered either hate him or dead, Blackbeard reached an age where even he felt it was time to pack it all up and retire. He moved to Virginia and decided to just rest. But the then Governor of Virginia hated Blackbeard. He decided to put out a hit on him, and sent two ships to take him out. They were commanded by a one Robert Maynard.

Blackbeard saw the two ships that were coming for him, so being Blackbeard, he ran at them screaming, essentially. Yes, he attacked them.  He started off by tossing aboard some homemade bombs, and then charged the decks, killing everything he saw. When Blackbeard reached Maynard, he nearly cut of his fingers. Maynard responded by trying to stab Blackbeard in the back. BUT HIS SWORD BROKE. The crew unloaded gunshot after gunshot and they stabbed and stabbed; Blackbeard never went down.

Finally, Blackbeard bled out and died as he was trying to reload his pistol. He died from 20 stabbings and 5 gun shots. Oh, and because his head was cut off by Maynard.

Alan Urwin

All of the stories thus far have been about people trying to kill other people that couldn’t be killed. This next one is about a man realizing that he couldn’t die, even if he wanted to. And he really, really wanted to.

Alan Urwin’s wife left him in 1995. He dearly loved his wife. So much so that when the split he couldn’t stand living if he wasn’t with her. So, knowing he would never be able to win her back, Alan figured that now was just about the right to release himself of his mortal coils. He was going to kill himself.

Too bad for Alan, though. He’s apparently a deity of some sort because his suicide attempts all failed. And yes, we said “attempts.” Plural. Within a three-month time span, Alan attempted suicide 7 times. At first, he started small: Drug overdoses. He survived 3 of them. So, he moved on to electrocution. He wrapped himself head-to-toe in electrical wires, then sat in a bathtub filled with water. He plugged himself in and…he got a minor shock and the power outlet blew out. He immediately got up and tried to hang himself with the same wires he had wrapped around his body. Of course, the wires snapped and Alan hit the ground, relatively unharmed.

A short time later, Alan broke a gas pipe stationed in his bed room. He lied on his bed waiting for the embrace of sweet, sweet death. It never came. He probably just ended up being bored, or falling asleep.  This was the last straw. It was this day that he was going to die. He was going to make it happen. He lit a match. An explosion. Out blew the windows. The roof flew clean off. Everything was decimated. Except for Alan, who was pulled out of the wreckage by firefighters.

Alan was convicted of Arson and was placed on two years probation. Not long after, he speaking to his ex-wife again and he was a bit happier.

Grigori Rasputin

For some reason, people tend to believe that Rasputin was an evil, wicked man that murdered and maimed thousands. He wasn’t he was just a man. Not a nice man, but far from the ruthless, blood thirsty manic that people believe him to be. Really, he was just a man that was caught up in the world of polices that most felt had no business in politics. He was an extremely powerful man as Empress Alexandra had everyone she meet first go through Grigori. This infuriated 5 noblemen who felt that this peasant shouldn’t have had that much power. So, they deiced to kill him.

First, it started with wine an cake. The five noblemen probably surprised Grigori with these lovely food stamps one evening shooting “Happy Birthday!!” To which Grigori responded, “But it’s not even my birthday! Thanks, bros! You’re awesome!” So he ate the cake and the wine as the noblemen probably stood by and watched, occasionally refusing sips and slices offered by Grigori. “No, no. We couldn’t. It’s all yours.” And, “Nah, I just ate. I’m sooooooo full! Phew!” So he downed the cake and wine, thanked them and left. They were all shocked. They were both poisoned. Now, the poison could have been backed out of the bake during the heating process, so that’s understandable. But the wine? Grigori probably processed every drop of it.

But all that cake eating, wine drinking and not dyeing got really boring for one of the noblemen, so he just shot Grigori in the back. The men cleaned off their hands and felt content as the completed a full’s day of murder. They left. But one left his coat in the room, so he went back. Big mistake. Grigori sprang up and choked him. The other noblemen rushed back in and shot Grigori in the back three more times. This didn’t kill him, it just made him struggle to the ground as he continued to choke the first guy. Refusing to go down, the men started to club him to the ground. This knocked him out, but didn’t kill him.

They wrapped his body in cloth and dumped him in a nearby freezing river. When his body was found examiners discovered a body loaded with bullets, poison, bruises and bumps.  None of them killed him. It was hypothermia.

But the biggest and most startling discovery of them all was the fact that the cloth he was wrapped with was nearly undone when they found his body. He had almost escaped.

If you’re Clearwire or Sprint right now, the last thing you want to hear is one of the world’s major suppliers of wireless infrastructure badmouthing the very technology that underpins your next-gen network — so we imagine there’s some groaning in the hallways and boardrooms of the world’s WiMAX carriers today. Why? Alcatel-Lucent’s COO of its wireless business, Patrick Plas, has pulled no punches in a statement this week that the firm is “not putting a lot of effort into [WiMAX] any longer” after noticing that there’s “a clear direction taken by the industry towards LTE.” Of course, it doesn’t take an analyst to notice that Europe, Asia, and virtually every carrier in the Americas have all taken on a decidedly pro-LTE slant in the past couple years, and these guys are just following the money — which in turn makes it harder (and more expensive) for the handful of WiMAX proponents with deployed networks to build out and stay technologically current. In the race to actual 4G commercialization, LTE’s still got a ton of catching-up to do — but once it does, it’s looking poised to blow past WiMAX pretty quickly here. In the meantime, we’ll be loving our Overdrives.

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Hey everybody, new ThinkPads! Lenovo seems hellbent on crushing its reputation for pricey hardware — while presumably maintaining the related renown for rugged reliability — and today it’s snuck out a set of new i-appended variants of its flagship T series laptops. The T410i, T410si and T510i come equipped with the budget-friendly Core i3-330M CPU from Intel, which runs at 2.13GHz, alongside otherwise typical specs. Memory goes from 2GB to 8GB of DDR3, two megapixel webcams come as standard, and fingerprint sensors can be tacked on as well. Even more friendly to businesses on a shoestring is the option for Windows XP pre-installations on the T410i and T510i. Prices are not yet available, but the whole trio should be coming out by the end of this month, so not long to wait now.

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Switching teams in Formula One has become a habit not only for the drivers, but also for the technicians and race engineers nowadays. During the off-season break this winter, there were several moves on the engineering market of F1, the last of which was revealed during the latest testing session in Valencia.

It was long time McLaren race engineer Mark Slade who joined the club in recent days, as the former employee from Woking looks to continue his career in Formula One with rivals Renault. … (read more)

<a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-apps-adds-enterprise-The Google Enterprise blog has a post tonight about some new features being unveiled that should assuage some of the critics who discount the security of using Google Apps on a mobile device.

The new features permit corporate IT policies to be enforced from the customer’s Google Apps console across different mobile devices with the exception of Android smartphones, which will eventually have similar features.

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It seems ironic not to include the Nexus One and other Android devices. But we have our own speculation why the Nexus One and other Android devices are not a part of this feature upgrade. Google has made it clear that the next version of the Nexus One will be an enterprise smartphone. We expect these features and more to be a part of this upcoming Nexus One device.

We sought clarification on the matter this evening but have not yet heard back from a Google spokesperson.

According to the post, Google Apps Premier and Education Edition administrators may manage iPhones, Nokia E series and Windows Mobile devices from the Google Apps administrative control panel.

The service allows administrators to:

• Remotely wipe all data from lost or stolen mobile devices.
• Lock idle devices after a period of inactivity.
• Require a device password on each phone.
• Set minimum lengths for more secure passwords.
• Require passwords to include letters, numbers and punctuation.

These are all security features that are cited as necessary for acceptance in the enterprise.

The new features follow enhancements made last year, including the Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server. On Android devices, Google announced new Web versions of GMail and Google Calendar. Google Docs was also updated.

Last year, the company also released Google Sync for iPhone, Nokia E Series and Windows Mobile devices. enabling Google Apps users to access and sync mail, calendar, and contacts from their mobile device to the Google cloud.

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AOL just made its first financial report as an independent company in almost a decade. The company isn’t doing great and even the execs were careful not to sound too optimistic. However, despite the poor results and the hard path ahead, AOL seems rather confident that it’s heading in the right direction. For what it’s worth it was also profitable in Q4, but… (read more)