2009 Frankfurt Motor Show pictures and wallpapers

Beautiful Glass Shard Spire Set to Dominate London Skyline

Feast your eyes on these latest visualizations of The Shard (aka London Bridge Tower), a 1017ft skyscraper actually under construction. When finished in 2012, it will be the tallest building in the U.K, and one of the tallest in Europe.

Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the 72-story tower has several twisting glass facets on its exterior, and inside, will have offices, apartments, restaurants and a 15-story observation gallery.

It looks amazingly sci-fi, but every time I hear the word "shard", I can't help but think of Dark Crystal.

Limited Edition Bumblebee Camaro by Chevrolet

Transformer fans have a reason to drool over because Chevrolet is planning to release the limited edition of the 'Bumblebee Camaro'. Now this is one good news, as it just enhances the anticipation of the sequel of the Transformers coming up. The car will be available with an option of V6 or V8 power engines.
The company will be taking from the 1st of June and the assembly would start on the 24th of the very month, its the same date on which the movie is going to release in the U.S.
The color of the car is a rally yellow with two black stripes on the hood, which gives the car a really nice sporty look. GM will equip the car with Transformer badges on the wheel centers and sill plates along with an embroidered emblem on the console inside.

Slimmest TV on planet, had to be Sony

The long awaited Sony’s XWL-1 TV (slimmest TV on the planet) is scheduled for a showcase in the Japanese market this December. The new TV is just 3mm thin and an 11 inch QHD screen which boasts of contrast ratio of 1000K: 1 with vivid colors.

The TV comes with a HDMI input port and QHD resolution display and can also support High Definition Video using its latest Organic EL display technology.


It is certainly a cool thing to possess but remains aloof from every man’s reach and that’s coz the price is a bit on the higher side. The cost of the TV is around 1220€ ($1734).

Microsoft Brands Office 2010, Releases Exchange Beta

Microsoft will release a beta of Exchange Server 2010 on Wednesday, the first product that enterprise customers will see from the next version of Office.
Microsoft is also going public with the official branding of its -- Office 2010. Until now Microsoft had been referring to it as Office 14, but the new name had been widely expected.
Exchange Server should be in full release by the end of the year, but the rest of the products in the suite won't be out until early 2010, said Julia White, director of the Exchange product management team.
Microsoft will release technical previews of other products in the suite, including Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010, in the third calendar quarter. A technical preview is tested by hundreds of thousands of users, while millions of people will have access to the Exchange 2010 beta, White said.
Another of the Office System products, Office Communications Server (OCS),is on a different schedule. The latest version, OCS R2, was released only in February, and Microsoft has not discussed plans yet for the next big upgrade.
Microsoft will begin the process of upgrading its hosted version of Exchange, Exchange Online, at the same time it ships the Exchange 2010 on-premise product. Exchange Online customers will have the ability to determine when their users are upgraded to the new Exchange 2010 capabilities in Exchange Online, starting in the first half of 2010.
Now that Microsoft offers Exchange as both a service and an on-premise product, it is beginning to align the features of the two offerings more closely, White said. When the company makes architectural decisions about the server product, it thinks about the service as well, she said. "We're thinking about them in a unified way."
It made it easy in Exchange 2010 to automatically configure access for certain employee roles, such as a compliance officer or human-resources manager, White said. "You can set it up [for people] to just have access to the mail boxes they need to search, and can turn that access on and off very quickly," she said.
In Exchange 2007, IT pros needed "an 80-page white paper" to do something similar, she said.