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While you’re dancing around the Bavarian mountains getting all Sound Of Music-y and with the sound of volksmusik humming in your ears, what you need to complete the ensemble is a pair of MP3 lederhosen pants!
So with your blonde Frau on one arm and with your beer in the other hand, you can wander the German countryside with your music MP3 controls in your pants!
The wonders of German technology.
One of the final hurdles preventing Europeans from talking on their cell phones while flying through European airspace has been cleared.
I can’t say that I am thrilled by the prospect of getting on a plane and having to listen to the other passengers talking loudly on their phones but the following questions immediately to mind (call them practical difficulties if you will) :
1) What telephone network will you be using if you’re up in the sky? Will you be bounced from network to network as the plane flies at top speed across Europe? If so, what does that do to the quality of the call? Will you be able to hear the other person over the noise of the plane engines?
2) More importantly, what does that do to the COST of the call? Would the call be considered a national call? An international call? If you suddenly get bounced to another mobile phone network, do you get surcharged? If the plane crosses a border, what then? Will you get a huge bill for calling your mum?
A restaurant in Nuremberg, Germany has replaced waiters with hi-tech tracks that whiz food down to the customers, and you order your food by computer. While you’re waiting for your food, you can browse the net or send a SMS.
The part I particularly like though is the fact you don’t have to leave a tip!
You’d think that with all their money and resources that CNN would be able to come up with the best video equipment that money can buy. But during a recent interview with CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin about the Eliot Spitzer scandal, they ended up using a mobile phone, a laptop, a webcam - and Skype video.
Toobin apparently went to law school with Spitzer and CNN wanted his insights. But the analyst was on holiday with his family and the only way they could connect with him on Maui was through his laptop, mobile and Skype. So began Skype’s big moment of triumph.
CNN Senior Vice President David Bohrman said he was “pleasantly surprised at the quality of the video”
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