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World's biggest observation wheel
We're actually ahead of time and on budget," said David Beevers, general manager of the Singapore Flyer. "It's all systems go." The wheel will start twirling just before dusk Monday evening. The attraction's first three nights were sold out, Mr Beevers said. Companies and individuals paid $7000, an auspicious number in Chinese culture, for the first rides. "Through the month of February... it's a whole series of private events each day that's going to allow us to ramp up to full opening March 1 for the public," said Mr Beevers. .
California Rep. Tom Lantos, 80, Dies, Had Cancer
Tall and dignified, Lantos never lost the accent of his native Hungary, but his courtly demeanor belied the cutting comments he would make in committee if the testimony he heard was not to his liking. "Morally, you are pygmies," he berated top executives of Yahoo Inc. at a hearing he called in November 2007 as they defended their company's involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist. "This is about as believable as Elvis being seen in a Kmart," was his retort to a witness testifying before a subcommittee he headed in 1989 that led a congressional investigation of Reagan-era scandals at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Lantos was elected to Congress after spending three decades teaching economics at San Francisco State University, working as a business consultant and serving as a foreign policy commentator on television.
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Bill Gates' keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 revealed a rather startling statistic with regards to the sales and acceptance performance of Windows Vista. Gates told the audience that Windows Vista has sold more than 100 million copies since the operating system's launch in January 2007. When comparing pure numbers against Windows XP, which sold only 89 million copies in its first year, Windows Vista appears to be a hit – but looking at the big picture sheds a different sort of light on the matter. With the PC market at nearly twice the size today as it was in 2001, InformationWeek surmises that Windows Vista captured around 39 percent of the new PC market in its first year, while Windows XP managed to grab 67 percent of the new PC market during its initial period.
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