Via The Register,

"Latest version of PayPal's iPhone application allows users to transfer money by bumping their handsets together. PayPal's application allows those with an account to reimburse each other for a split bill, collect money for a leaving present or donate money to charity on a whim. But it's the incorporation of Bump Technologies' client that permits the transfer of funds to a complete stranger by tapping phones together."

But, as first comment to the article asks

"If you are close enough to someone to "bump" your phones, then why on earth would you choose to trust/use PayPal to transfer money between the two of you, unless of course you were insane?"

On the other hand you may not have any cash on you or you may be a bit rich so that you don't mind paying a transaction fee to PayPal

Apparently jellyfish in below picture may be the only immortal animal! It is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again in a process called trans-differentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell.

Via http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html

Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit made public today and revealed something very interesting.

According to youtube official blog

"For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.

Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself."

Lets see if youtube can prove this and what judge will think about it.

If you are a fan of Opera you were probably following Opera's Desktop Team. I don't think whole team slept this weekend  in order to relese a Opera RC 10.5 before 1st of March.

1st of March is important because Microsoft will start rolling out browser ballot screen in the EU starting from first week of March. EU users will have option to download browser of their choice instead of Windows' default browsers IE.

Most of the "standard" computer users don't even know what browser is! They call it "internet" and it usually means Windows default browser IE. Although browser ballot screen will include all popular browsers I don’t believe this will make huge difference and won’t introduce new browsers to masses.

 People mostly

• Ignore ballot screen and click X every time they see it
• Download one randomly selected browser and forget about it.
• Just click IE icon on ballot screen because they are familiar wit it.

What do you think?

Update:

Opera released download stats after ballot screen and it seems download numbers increased (source).

Growth of Opera browser downloads by country
***************************************************************************
Country---------Choice Screen increase--------Choice Screen as % of total DL
Poland ---------328.00%-----------------------77.00%
Spain-----------215.00%-----------------------68.00%
Italy-----------202.00%-----------------------67.00%
Denmark---------198.00%-----------------------66.00%
Netherlands-----157.00%-----------------------61.00%
Portugal--------157.00%-----------------------59.00%
Belgium---------123.00%-----------------------55.00%
France----------117.00%-----------------------54.00%
Sweden----------111.00%-----------------------53.00%
Switzerland-----109.00%-----------------------52.00%
Greece----------93.00%-----------------------48.00%
Austria---------85.00%-----------------------46.00%
United Kingdom--85.00%-----------------------46.00%
Czech Republic--64.00%-----------------------39.00%
Germany---------64.00%-----------------------39.00%
Norway----------57.00%-----------------------37.00%
Hungary---------53.00%-----------------------35.00%
European av.----130.00%----------------------53.00%

open x terminal gain root and type

apt-get moo

and you'll get below

More info @ http://www.eeggs.com/items/37085.html