Manufacturers to send cat main salon

The car crisis in America is deep. The rain cancellations for the lounge car of Detroit, which is known as the main lounge of the U.S.. Even the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan, 10procent good for the market, has no money to participate
The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan is good for one million cars sold in the United States, almost 10 percent of the market. Yet the brand has no money to participate in America's major auto salon in January 2009. Nissan is the largest vehicle manufacturer, which put off for the North American International car show (Naias), the main salon in the U.S..

Nissan showed last week in Los Angeles two new models. The Japanese manufacturer saw its sales in the U.S. last year by 6.2 percent decline. Carlos Ghosn, big boss of Renault / Nissan, had earlier called for the cost savings. Joining a lounge cost is several million euros.

It threatens a fuss sad to be exhibited in the halls of engine town Detroit. Japan's Mitsubishi has also canceled. Suzuki would not unpack. Many European brands remain at home. Porsche said last year that it no longer would come to Detroit, because the brand is not enough customers. Three other major brands such as Rolls-Royce, Ferrari and Land Rover are also not plan their cars to show in Detroit. It is an open secret that the exclusive manufacturers prefer to exhibit at the salon in Los Angeles in California, the state where the U.S. troops span. But there is the palpable crisis. In the previous lounge of LA remained fifth of the expo space vacant in comparison with last year.

Most manufacturers are not saying publicly that they save to stay away from Detroit. "The salon is too early for our innovations. We choose the later lounge of New York ", says the Land Rover to. "We have no major new products," says Alan Budde Deck, spokesman for Nissan USA, to the Detroit News newspaper.

The absent in Detroit making room for some newcomers and those are the Chinese manufacturers. In the previous salon in 2007 they created their first appearance in the basement floor of the lounge. After Chang Feng BYD and Brilliance also now travels to the Naias.

Sjef deceased flutters around as robin

She still has her doubts, sober as she is. Stekelenburg of Mary can not believe that her father after his death has returned as a robin. On January 8 last year died of Sjef Stekelenburg on 67-year-old age. He administered together with his son and daughter-mary Genneper Mill in Eindhoven, a store for flour, seeds and feed for animals. When he was found to be seriously ill, he told everyone after his death that he would come back as a robin. "He felt that a very beautiful bird," says Mary. "We laughed about, but he was very convinced that it would happen. My father was a very positive man. He always managed what he wished during his life. That was, he said, because he was so positive. With that institution came from all his wishes. " The day after Sjef death appeared warempel a robin on the millstone, on the very spot where he often was. "The grief we have the first few days no attention. Later we found it strange." Of the tight birdie ten centimeters was freer in his doing. "He was soon the way inside. Morning he is already at the door of the shop to wait one to go. He is very tame. Every day he is back." During hours of the store rakelings sometimes he flies over the heads of customers. It is also a gourmet. "He seems to refer to my father, his mouth was never quiet. If I eat a sandwich, he comes in and sit down on the ground. Give me a piece of him quickly, then he starts to squeal." "We have him Sjef said. When I talk to him, then he listens. At the moment I stop, he begins to talk." He flute than plenty. " Smiling she says: "People think that I will be a blow to the mill've had. It is very striking, I am actually a very sober man."

Palm confirms saving operation

In handheld maker Palm disappear worldwide probably one in ten jobs. The company suffers from strong competition from Apple and Research in Motion on the market for smart phones. The reorganization is a spokesman for Palm against U.S. media confirmed. Exactly how many jobs are allowed to lapse, the spokesman would not say, says CNet. Nor is it known what jobs sites are deleted. According to rumors, 10 percent of the total of 1050 employees on streets. The reorganization the company does not hold back his plans for next year with a new operating system to own. Palm has worked on a mobile operating system that is based on Linux. This system should replace outdated Palm OS. Presumably, the new software in the first half of next year.

Dutch chemistry experiment into space

Dutch researchers go on the outside of the international space station (ISS) in search of the evolutionary history of the solar system.

Wednesday leaves an unmanned Russian spacecraft to the ISS aboard with a number of containers containing chemical compounds. They are a year exposed to cosmic radiation. Then they returned to Earth for analysis.

The Dutch containers contain different types of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which on Earth are notorious for their carcinogenic properties. Most carbon - a basic element trees, plants, animals and humans have in common - in the universe in form of PAHs.

Molecules essential for life, such as amino acids, proteins and DNA, consist of chains of carbon atoms strung. Once the carbon that must have reached earth from space.

But how and in what form, is still a mystery. The radiation levels in space are too high for this prebiotic molecules, precursors of life, so long may persist.

"We are curious how PAHs evolve in cosmic terms and conditions for products that develop. Since PAHs are also found in comets and meteorites, we hope it can reconstruct the events in the origin of our solar system, "says Pascale Ehren Freud, the Leiden astro biologist who has set up the experiment. According to her, the conditions in the area not to simulate on Earth.

An astronaut, the containers next month to the exterior of the ISS, where a special 'outdoor laboratory' is mounted.

Google wants Chrome pre-installed on PCs

Chrome google Google is planning to agreements with computer manufacturers to make to ensure that they Google the default browser Chrome flour feathers on PCs.

Google Chrome in September was launched in beta version for Windows and will finally become available from January. Sundar Pichai, Vice President Product Management at Google, said in an interview with the British newspaper The Times that his company will work to ensure Chrome to spread. After the launch in September, the browser a surprisingly good start, but soon found that many users after their initial curiosity went back to their old browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Currently, the market share of Google Chrome at 0.54 percent. In the Netherlands the figure is even slightly lower: 0.42 percent.

Google will probably close distribution deals with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), Pichai said. The idea is that this machine builders Google Chrome since the factory installed on PCs. Another plan is to Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux from them. Chrome will also add-ons will support the Google browser is more interesting for Firefox users who are attached to the Firefox extensions.

Hitler parody growing Internet phenomenon

A parody series on a clip from the movie Crash on the former German dictator Adolf Hitler is the latest internet phenomenon, reports the British newspaper Sunday Times Sunday.

The approximately 150 parody are all based on a scene in which the Führer ontsteekt in anger after having learned that Berlin is surrounded. Internet users of all nationalities and paste their own subtitles in the clip. For example, criticizes the besnorde dictator, for example, the former U.S. Vice President candidate Sarah Palin, he struggled with Windows Vista or he tries to order a pizza.

A movie on the site where Hitler YoutTube by running after having taken it for the popular computer game World Of Warcraft can no longer play accounts for almost one million hits. About as many Internet users view the reaction of Hitler on the news that footballer Cristiano Ronaldo moves to Real Madrid.

Nyko retro comes with wireless controller for the Wii

For those who prefer old-fashioned new-squatters plays Wii games, Nyko has a wireless controller ready: the Wing.

Old-fashioned 8 -, 16 - and 32-bit games are on the Wii to download, but the more sophisticated games require a special controller, instead of the standard remote control of Nintendo's game console. Now the Japanese console maker itself a so-called Traditional Controller for those games, but that should controller with a cable to the Wii remote to be linked.

The Wing is completely wireless. The controller comes with a wireless dongle, which in the remote, the Wii is stabbing. The joypad classical works on two AAA batteries and has exactly the same buttons as Nintendo's wired solution. In addition, Nyko with a USB cable for easy charging rechargeable batteries. The Wing comes on the market in December for about 35 euros.