Britain From Above by BBC

Check out this cool website Britain From Above from BBC

An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective.

Join host Andrew Marr as he discovers how each and every one of us is interconnecting making Britain what it is today.

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.

The story of mapping information is really Cool, to see the data lines plottet on a real map. Mapping information

 

Microsoft: Expect Fewer Phones With Windows

Microsoft says it is responding to the fierce competition in the phone market by retooling and beefing up its mobile operating system–and by putting it on fewer devices.

The reason that Microsoft is limiting the number of phones with the operating system is because, Tood Peters said, the company does not want to have its efforts diluted over too many devices.

“I’d rather have fewer devices and be more focused,” he said. That way “we get better integration” between phone and operating system.

Read the full interview with Todd Peters (vice president of marketing in the Microsoft Windows Mobile Division) in The New York Times BITS