80th Annual Academy Awards

80th Academy Awards continued trends of recent years. European actors and actresses took all four major acting awards. 13 different movies were nominated, and major honors acting going to a biographical film. Coen brothers were took award for best directing in movie “No Country for old Men”. Javier Bardem win for best actor in a supporting role in same movie. Daniel Day Lewis win for best actor in leading role in movie “There Will Be Blood”, and for the best actress in leading role award was took Marion Cotillard in movie “La Vi En Rose”. Best actress in supporting role went to Tilda Swinton for role in movie “Michael Clayton”.

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Finally, underwater car!!!

sQubaCEO of Swiss company “Rinspeed Inc.”, Frank Rinderknecht was dreamed to construct automobile - submarine from dream. He has been waiting 30 years to create car which he saw in movie about James Bond who plays Roger Moore from 1977. Finally he created vehicle “sQuba”. sQuba can to transform and so that move on arid soil, on water and under the water. On water sail like boat by using two propellers, and sQuba diving when are laterally doors opened. Under the water, driver have to breathe by using the oxygen bottle. Top sQuba’s speed on land is about 77 mph, but it slows down to 3 mph on the surface of the water, and 1.8 mph underwater. The sQuba vehicle is unique and isn’t constructed for selling, but it will be set on motor show in Geneva.

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Microsoft Launch 2008

Microsoft homepage with microsoft logoOn February 27th, Microsoft will launch three products: Visual studio 2008, SQL server 2008 and Windows server 2008. By making this products, Microsoft continues to build powerfull and easy to use products for developers and IT professionals. On Microsoft web page you can download free beta and release candidate (RC) version of these programs. There are some diferencies from 2003 versions of these products, so go to Microsoft web page to check them out.