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O trailer do filme A-Team (Esquadrão Classe A) foi acidentalmente espalhado na Internet, podem ver aqui um pouco daquilo que o filme promete.

WebTuga – Trailer do filme “A-Team”

A Peugeot revelou recentemente o seu mais novo protótipo que de acordo com a empresa fará muito sucesso na Europa.

O novo modelo traz o sistema Hibrido até então desconhecido denominado “HYbrid4″ alem de um logotipo novo. Esse sistema consiste em um motor a gasolina que movimenta as rodas dianteira alimentando um motor de quatro cilindros elétrico ligado as rodas traseiras desenvolvendo assim 313 cavalos de potencia.

Esse sistema deixa o veiculo menos poluente gerando apenas 119 gramas de CO2 o que é pouco comparado a potencia do motor.

No interior do conceito Peugeot SR1 cabem 3 pessoas grandes afirma a fabricante isso graças ao sistema de deslizamento dos bancos dianteiros que podem deslizar em direção ao painel frontal dando assim acesso ao banco traseiro.

De acordo com informações da Peugeot esse protótipo dará os dados necessários para o desenvolvimento dos novos modelos Peugeot 408 e 208.

Há quem arrisque um palpite de que o conceito Peugeot SR1 será o próximo 408 Coupé porem isso não foi confirmado tendo em vista que o modelo apresentado exibe um design muito futurista.

Peugeot SR1

Fonte: MotorSpain

The front page is one of the best ways keep on top of the latest Palm related news and the forums are one of the best places to talk about such things with your fellow enthusiasts.  The PreCentral forums are a bustling place indeed, and you can find many topics being discussed there, from the latest rumors to the latest hacks and the greatest apps.  Here’s some of the what’s being discussed, in the forums:

• Sprint users: feeling sore that Verizon getting the Pre and Pixi plus only 7 short months after the initial launch of the Pre?  Join others in the conversation here.
• The forums are alight with CES talk, and folks are pouring over the coverage of Palm’s presentation yesterday.  There’s discussion of the upcoming features we’ll see in webOS 1.4, and since CES is far from being over, there’s talk of what else might come the way of webOS during the course of the trade show.
• People are getting creative with accessories, and enterprising individuals are talking about the best way to integrate their touchstone charges into the dashboard of their vehicles.
• For those GSM bound Pre users among you, don’t fret – there’s a forum for that.
• Leathal over in the webOS Development forum has posted a handy guide that’ll help you get your tether on.
• The developers of some of your favorite programs maintain a sub forum in our webOS Developer forums – hit ‘em up and give ‘em some love and feedback.  You can find the likes of Keen Studios (Checkers Pro), Canuck Software (webOS Quick Install) , webOS Internals (Preware), and many more who are eager to hear from you.

We’ll see you in the forums!

Hearst is showing the Skiff e-reader at CES this week, but the company also just announced a deal with Format Dynamics that focuses on a very different aspect of the online content business: printing hard copies of websites. Printing from most websites tends to result in wasting lots of paper on printing empty pages. Often, the layout of the site also doesn’t look quite right on the printed page. Format Dynamics works with publishers to create printed pages that are professionally formatted – and in the process, the company also adds advertising to those pages.

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Hearst is rolling out Format Dynamics CleanPrint technology on GoodHousekeeping.com now, and plans a larger roll-out later this year on its other sites like Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, Popular Mechanics and Seventeen. Some of the larger websites that already use Format Dynamic’s technology include the Denver Post, Politico, CNN Money, Slate and the Wall Street Journal.

Format Dynamics takes a publisher’s HTML code and reformats it into a multi-column layout. The service then adds advertising to these printouts based on criteria set by both the advertiser and the publisher. Advertisers are charged per printed ad.

Catering to Big Publishers for Now – Self-Serve Services Coming in the Future

For the time being, Format Dynamics is only working with larger publishers, but the company’s CEO Ethan Holien told us that a self-serve product for small publishers is also on the company’s roadmap.

Question: Do People Still Print?

We couldn’t help but wonder how many people actually still print anything from a website. According to Holien, this number is higher than most people expect. He couldn’t disclose the exact data – though the company does offer detailed statistics to its customers. The only statistic we were able to get was that for a typical news site, about 0.5% of all visitors print out news reports. According to Holien, for other types of content, this number can often be much higher and given the content on GoodHousekeeping.com, Hearst will likely see printout rates higher than 0.5%.
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We’re big fans of the idea of external keyboards for the iPhone around these parts, so I more than get where ION’s going with the nearly full-sized keyboard accessory they just launched. Unfortunately, decisions on Apple’s part keep the idea from really being worthwhile.

You see, limitations of the iPhone platform prevent accessories like this from being able to input keystrokes to any and all applications. As a result, ION’s new keyboard can only type into its own companion app, from which you can then take the text and push it into an email or copy it to your clipboard for use in any other app. It’s by no means the optimal execution, but it’s about as good as it gets until Apple gets around to supporting proper text-input.

No official word yet on pricing, but we’ve heard rumblings that they’re aiming for around $100 bucks.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

A number of smartbooks are floating around CES, and after spending much of the day looking at them, talking about them, and using them, several things are clear. Vendors are eager to exploit the power of ARM chips and Linux to deliver great devices with novel features and long battery life at low cost, and they’re succeeding. But their success will depend on raising the level of polish and the smoothness of the user experience, something that’s lacking in the models on display here at CES.

Lenovo Skylight

The most-awaited smartbook here is the Lenovo Skylight, which uses Qualcomm’s celebrated Snapdragon ARM chip and runs a custom version of Linux. It’s got a 9″ 720p screen, advertises ten hours of battery life with the 3G running, which is likely, even accounting for exaggeration, to exceed current Atom netbooks by a wide margin. It will sell for $500 before contract, and is virtually certain to be carrier-subsidized by AT&T, the launch carrier.

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Teva’s CEO said yesterday he expects his company’s revenues to double to $31 billion by 2015. The market apparently believed him: The company’s shares were up more than 3% in U.S. trading this afternoon, to a 52-week high.

Teva’s growth is the latest reminder of the way generic drugs and the companies that make them are changing the global pharma landscape. It’s no longer correct to think of generics manufacturers as scrappy little competitors nipping at the heels of big pharma.

Teva’s market cap is around $50 billion — bigger than Eli Lilly’s and comparable to Bristol-Myers Squibb’s. (Of course, Teva trades at a much higher multiple than either Bristol or Lilly.)

It’s not even right to think of Teva as a pure-play generics shop; a big chunk of its revenue comes from the patented multiple-sclerosis drug Copaxone, and the company plans to keep a sales mix of 70% generics and 30% branded drugs, Dow Jones Newswires reports. Other big generics companies are also working on branded drugs; Dr. Reddy’s of India said this week that an experimental diabetes drug it’s working on with a European partner reduced blood-sugar levels in a late-stage trial.

At the same time, branded drug makers are moving further into the generics business. Pfizer made a deal this week that adds to the list of off-patent drugs it’s selling in the U.S. GlaxoSmithKline has cut its own generics deals, Sanofi-Aventis has bought some generics makers outright and Merck recently set up a unit to sell generic copies of biotech drugs.

PPCGeeks member and LG eXpo owner junkyard12320 has managed to hack together a video out cable for the LG eXpo.  Unfortunately he did not include instructions on this feat, so Junkyard, if you are out there, why not pop over and give us the blow by blow.

Via Youtube.com

Do you have bags under your eyes? Do you have excess skin that hangs down from the upper eyelid, possibly even impairing your vision? Do you have Excess fatty deposits that make your upper eyelids look puffy? Do you have extra skin that causes wrinkles on your lower eyelids? If any of these questions apply to you then you could be a good candidate for Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery.

Blepharoplasty is a plastic surgery procedure that can be the solution to all of the questions above as well as improve the look of you eyelids and cause your facial expressions to look a lot more rested.

When deciding whether or not to get this procedure done, it is very important to learn as much as you can about it, so you can know if the procedure is right for you. For anyone looking to learn more about this procedure here is a page that I found very useful in making the decision to have Blepharoplasty.

Using a cloud computing service may sound enticing, but you better consider how that data can be moved around if you want to switch to a different provider.

It’s a big problem that now has the attention of Vint Cerf, who is calling for standards to define how customer data gets passed between different cloud service providers.

Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist, is one of those legends of the tech world, up there with people like Steve Wozniak. He is one of the co-designers of the TC/IP protocol. He is one of those few who had this idea way back when of hooking computers together to create a network. Today we call that network the Internet.

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So you listen when Cerf gets up to speak and says that it’s like 1973 out there when it comes to cloud computing data portability.

According to InfoWorld, Cerf said major cloud service providers like Amazon, Google and IBM have no real form of interoperability. Cerf spoke Thursday night at the Churchill Club in Menlo Park, Ca.

“We don’t have any inter-cloud standards,” Cerf said. “The current cloud situation is similar to the lack of communication and familiarity among computer networks in 1973.”

People will want to move data around. They may have multiple cloud service providers. They may want to use different cloud service providers as an interconnected network. Moreso, customers will simply want to move data from Cloud A to Cloud B.

Cerf went on to say that the industry needs to develop protocols and standards to make this all happen. It’s important to note that Google, Cerf’s employer, obviously has a stake in how this all pans out.

We went to Aardvark to ask about this issue.

What can you do right now to avoid getting locked into one cloud service provider?

Marc Limotte, director of engineering at Feeva Technology, writes:

“The obvious problem is that the difficulty in switching limits consumer choice and therefore competition. You can’t “vote with your feet”, if you can’t walk away.

This is common in IT, though. It’s never been easy to switch from one enterprise package to another, or from one hosting facility to another.

The data isn’t even the worst of the problem. In most cases, you can at least get an extract (even if it is terabytes of data), and perform a load in to some other system. The more complex issue is when you architect your solution to take advantage of a vendor’s proprietary services (e.g. the data store in Google App Engine, or the Amazon’s SQS). Not that you shouldn’t use these features… they’re useful, just be aware that they start to limit your options is you want to someday move away from that platform.

My suggestion… make sure you know how to export your data. And try and use your own interfaces in front of custom services. that way if you want to move, you just have to write an adapter, and not a complete re-architecture.”

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CES, gadgets like this are why I love you. CES, gadgets like this are why I hate you.

The Ion iType keyboard is pretty self-explanatory, which means you already know if you think it’s a stupid idea, or a brilliant idea. If your’e conflicted, here’s a hint: it can be both.

The keyboard is limited to typing in one app, not because of some kind of engineering shortfall, but because that’s all that Apple allows—third-party apps or accessories can’t serve as text input devices, which is why dictation apps are all self-contained. Basically, you can export to email, save, or copy text in apps like that, and that’s exactly what you can do with the iType’s bundled app. Typing is fine, shift and caps lock keys behave as you’d expect, and although the text input isn’t totally instant, it’s very close. A battery is built in, which keeps the keyboard running and recharges your phone for a few hours.

It works, and its heart is in the right place, but that was never really the question. So, does it make sense? The iType, but a netbook. essentialy turns your iPod or iPhone into a netbook. A tiny, gimpy, flat, slow netbook. It’ll only be $70, so if you don’t have an iPod Touch, want a tiny-top for sofa browsing and are strapped for cash, then I guess you could buy one. It’d make a good icebreaker, too, as long as you don’t mind your new friend’s first words being “HAHAHAHAHA, LOOK AT THAT GUY”

You probably have a laptop already, and you should probably just use that. The iType should be available in Fall of this year.

Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) will release its fourth quarter 2009 financial results on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, before the market opens.

The company will hold a conference call at 10 a.m. CST that same day, hosted by Dustan E. McCoy, chairman and chief executive officer, Peter B. Hamilton, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Bruce J. Byots, vice president – corporate and investor relations.

The call will be broadcast over the Internet at brunswick.com.

To listen to the call, go to the Web site at least 15 minutes before the call to register, download and install any needed audio software.

Security analysts and investors wishing to participate via telephone should call (866) 831-6224 (passcode: Brunswick Q4). Callers outside of North America should call (617) 213-8853 (passcode: Brunswick Q4) to be connected.

These numbers can be accessed 15 minutes before the call begins, as well as during the call. A replay of the conference call will be available through midnight CST Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, by calling (888) 286-8010 or (617) 801-6888 (passcode: 87644274).

The replay also will be available at brunswick.com.

About Brunswick

Headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill., Brunswick Corporation endeavors to instill “Genuine Ingenuity”(TM) in all its leading consumer brands, including Mercury and Mariner outboard engines; Mercury MerCruiser sterndrives and inboard engines; MotorGuide trolling motors; Attwood marine parts and accessories; Land ‘N’ Sea, Kellogg Marine, Diversified Marine and Benrock parts and accessories distributors; Arvor, Bayliner, Bermuda, Boston Whaler, Cabo Yachts, Crestliner, Cypress Cay, Harris, Hatteras, Kayot, Lowe, Lund, Maxum, Meridian, Ornvik, Princecraft, Quicksilver, Rayglass, Sea Ray, Sealine, Triton, Trophy, Uttern and Valiant boats; Life Fitness and Hammer Strength fitness equipment; Brunswick bowling centers, equipment and consumer products; Brunswick billiards tables and foosball tables.

For more information, visit brunswick.com.

The subtle but ongoing pressures of human evolution could explain the seeming rise of disorders such as autism, autoimmune diseases, and reproductive cancers, researchers said Friday (Jan. 8) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some adaptations that once benefited humans may now be helping such ailments persist in spite of — or even because of — advancements in modern culture and medicine.

“This work points out linkages within the plethora of new information in human genetics and the implications for human biology and public health, and also illustrates how one could teach these perspectives in medical and premedical curricula,” said author Peter Ellison, John Cowles Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.

Ellison’s co-authors are Stephen Stearns of Yale University, Randolph Nesse of the University of Michigan, and Diddahally Govindaraju of the Boston University School of Medicine. The research was first presented at the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, co-sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.

Colloquium presentations described in the current paper include research suggesting that:

● Autism and schizophrenia may be associated with the overexpression of paternally or maternally derived genes and influences, a hypothesis advanced by Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University.

● Maternal and paternal genes engage in a subtle tug-of-war well into childhood, with consequences for childhood development, according to David Haig, George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard.

● Humans may be susceptible to allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases because of increased hygiene, according to Kathleen Barnes of Johns Hopkins University. Without being exposed to intestinal worms and parasites, as our ancestors were, our immune systems are hypersensitive.

● Natural selection still influences our biology, despite advances in modern culture and medicine. Stearns found that natural selection favors heavier women and reduces the age at which a woman has her first child.

In the final presentation of the colloquium, researchers called for the integration of evolutionary perspectives into medical school curricula, to help future physicians consider health problems from an evolutionary perspective.

“We’re trying to design ways to educate physicians who will have a broader perspective and not think of the human body as a perfectly designed machine,” said Ellison. “Our biology is the result of many evolutionary tradeoffs, and understanding these histories and conflicts can really help the physician understand why we get sick and what we might do to stay healthy.”

Previous work in evolutionary medicine helped explain why disease is so prevalent and difficult to prevent. Because natural selection favors reproduction over health, biology evolves more slowly than culture, and pathogens evolve more quickly than humans.

“I think that the main take-home point is that evolution and medicine really do have things to say to each other, and some of these insights actually reduce suffering and save lives,” said Stearns.

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If Chrysler is looking to gain any one thing from its new parents at Fiat, it’s engine technology. Specifically, the Pentastar will be enlisting its Italian overlords to supply direct injection systems, turbocharging, and Fiat’s Multiair variable valve technology, along with new dual-clutch transmissions. Chrysler claims all of this technology is going to boost the overall fuel-efficiency of its vehicles by 25 percent between now and 2014, with over 80 percent of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles getting new mills in the process.

To that end, Chrysler has finally announced the details of its new powertrain lineup, including two small-displacement four-cylinders and a new V6.

On the four-pot front, Chrysler will begin fitting one of two new 1.4-liter four-cylinder engines on future models: a naturally aspirated version kicking out 100 horsepower (at 6,750 rpm) and 95 pound-feet of torque (at 4,250 rpm), as well as a turbocharged variant that churns out 170 hp (at 6,750 rpm) and 170 lb-ft of twist (at 3,000 rpm). In keeping with its Italian ancestry, Chrysler has dubbed these new mills “Fully Integrated Robotized Engines” and each features Fully Variable-valve Actuation (FVVA) – what we’ve come to know as Multiair across the Atlantic. Chrysler maintains that both engines offer a 10 percent reduction in emissions and fuel consumption while putting out between 10- to 15-percent more power than its outgoing mills.

A larger displacement, 2.4-liter inline four with Multiair will also come to market, putting out 190 hp (at 6,000 rpm) and 175 lb.-ft of torque (at 4,200 rpm), and along with the new trio of four-cylinders, Chrysler announced specs on the new Pentastar V6. Displacing 3.6 liters and putting out 280 hp (at 6,400 rpm) and 260 lb-ft of torque (at 4,400 rpm), the new six will see similar fuel consumption and emissions reductions and will be fitted to the all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee later this year.

In 2010, Chrysler says that it will begin to equip its mid-size vehicles (D-segment) with a new six-speed Dual Dry Clutch Transmission (DDCT), that improves fuel economy and can handle up to 260 lb-ft of torque. Expect to see the new tranny making its way into the next-generation Sebring and Chrysler’s new crossovers.

And if all that wasn’t enough, Chrysler announced its intentions to bring a hybrid Ram 1500 market this year, along with working with the Department of Energy to build a small test fleet of plug-in Rams and minivans, including an electric delivery van for fleet use in 2011 or 2012. All the details are available in the press release after the jump.

[Source: Chrysler]

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