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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Revellers Round The World Welcome In 2011
Spectacular celebrations have been held across the globe to mark the start of 2011.
Hundreds of thousands of revellers jammed into Times Square in New York to see the famous Times Square Ball drop at midnight (0500GMT).But as usual it was Sydney who bigged itself up as home of the world's grandest New Year's Eve fireworks display.
The city didn't disappoint, with the Sydney Harbour Bridge lit up by a dazzling display watched by around 1.5 million people.
New Zealand was the first major country to usher in 2011, followed by Hong Kong and Taipei in Taiwan.
Thousands of people watched as fireworks were set off from the top of the Sky Tower, the tallest man-made structure in New Zealand.
Fireworks explode above Taiwan's tallest building
Communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year in the capital Hanoi.While in Japan revellers released balloons carrying notes with people's hopes and dreams.
Fireworks explode over the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
In Dubai, the world's tallest building was awash in fireworks from the base to its needle-like spire nearly a half-mile (828-meters) above. Sparkling silver rays shot out from the Burj Khalifa in a 10-minute display.In Europe, Greeks, Irish and Spaniards put their economic woes behind them and partied their problems away.
Crowds gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square to take part in "Las Uvas" (The Grapes), a tradition in which people eat a grape for each of the 12 chimes of midnight.
All fireworks were banned in Burma with heavy penalties threatened against those who ignored the stipulation.
World welcomes New Year with parties, fireworks
TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK
An estimated one million revellers gathered at New York's Time Square to witness the traditional dazzling crystal ball drop as colourful fireworks lit up skies in Australia and people partied on the streets across Britain to usher in the New Year.
At the Time Square, the crystal ball began its 70-foot drop at 11:59pm last night, with the help of mayor Michael Bloomberg and Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt Salvatore A Giunta, amid harmonious chants of New Year's eve revellers counting down the final seconds of 2010.
Weighing in at 11,875 pounds with a diameter of 12 feet, the sparkling sphere was covered with 2,668 triangular crystals and powered by 32,256 LED lights.
By mixing red, blue, green and white light elements, the ball's lighting system was capable of producing a kaleidoscopic array of 16 million hues and colours, and billions of patterns, the event's website reported.
This New Year's eve celebration, like years in the past, was a product of a lot of hard work and planning by many people, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly was quoted as saying by CNN.
"We don't ever take it for granted," Kelly said. "The situation changes somewhat, we have sort of a core plan but we always add to it or change it - we don't want to get stuck ina rut where we simply take a plan off the shelf."
In UK, hundreds of thousands of revellers welcomed the New Year at open-air parties.
About 80,000 people attended the annual Hogmanay party in Edinburgh, where the crowd erupted in cheers as the clock struck midnight, BBC reported.
It said an estimated 250,000 people watched the eight-minute firework display at the London Eye, which was set to music for the first time.
Events were held in various other cities, including Glasgow and Cardiff.
Some 3,000 police officers were on duty, and the metropolitan police said 77 arrests had been made during the celebrations, mostly for public order offences.
In Australia, tens of thousands of revellers danced their way into 2011, with a spectacular fireworks lighting the sky around the iconic Opera House in Sydney to welcome the New Year.
Australia, New Zealand and countries in the Pacific became the first to usher in the New Year, with thousands of people gathering in different cities to celebrate the occasion.
Celebrations in Sydney began with aerial displays by vintage aircraft and a parade of boats around the harbour. About 1.5 million people watched the spectacular firework display. The Sydney Harbour Bridge exploded into a fiery cascade of red and white.
Over seven tonnes of celebratory explosives were detonated, roughly USD 675,000 of crackle and pop. The party went off at the cost of USD 5 million, 'The Australian' said.
The threat of storms did not dampen revellers' spirits as crowds jammed the city for a night of celebration.
A group of local students said they were hanging around on the Opera House forecourt since 10 am yesterday for the occasion.
With a pack of cards, laptops, iPods, sun-umbrellas and endless supplies of food, the teenagers said the long wait was all part of the fun.
"No one can beat New Year in Australia - nothing can compare," said Anne Marie Glenn, a tourist from England.
In New Zealand, thousands of people sang and danced to celebrate the occasion, with firework displays entertaining them.
In the city of Auckland, tens of thousands danced and sang on the streets with fireworks on display in the sky.
In Dubai, thousands thronged the world's tallest tower to welcome the New Year with an unprecedented spectacle at the world's highest fireworks at 'Burj Khalifa'. The 828-metres high tower was the centre of attention as spectacular environment-friendly and satellite-guided laser-lights-fireworks show lit the sky.
The show was telecast live to over 2 billion people, a statement from its developer Emaar Properties claimed.
Close to half a million people witnessed the New Year's Eve Gala from Burj Park, an island set on The Burj Lake opposite Burj Khalifa, and from other vantage points across downtown Dubai, it said.
The celebration also marked the first anniversary of the grand inauguration of Burj Khalifa, and enveloped downtown Dubai, the 500-acre mega development anchored by the tower.
A sea of humanity witnessed the four-act show, which was synchronised through satellite signals to and from a control station.
The Dubai Fountain, the world's tallest performing fountain overlooking Burj Khalifa, hosted a special fire-water-music show.
Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties, said: "The New Year's eve vala at Burj Khalifa has positioned Dubai as the must-visit destination to celebrate new beginnings.
"The show was one of the finest spectacles anywhere in the world, and that in the coming years, Dubai will be the place visitors from across the world will choose to celebrate the New Year."
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Google Will Throw A Tablet With Chrome Before End Of Year
The signature of Mountain View is proving the platform in two teams with name in code " Mario " and " Andretti ".
Google might introduce his operating system Chrome OS before 2010 finishes. The company planned December as its date to throw the Tablet, although much is speculated about if this version will be a beta and not a definitive edition.
The arrival of the SO to the market might happen in a netbook with mark Google that the house would be creating for the occasion, would being provided with a partner manufacturer as it was already doing in other developments of hardware as that of Nexus One.
At present, the company of the big one G is doing numerous tests with Chrome with two teams with name in key "Mario" and " Andretti " that would be the base of new miniportable this one, who would stand out for speeds of load.
These denominations related to driver of software were started allowing to see in the records of Google in the middle of October and since then its use has been increasing in the testing of bugs.
For the users who before these information ask themselves how Android and Chrome will coexist OS, Eric Schmidt - CEO of Google - has a re-watching response:
" We do not want to say that it does one a thing and other one. But yes it is true that till now Android has turned out to be ideal for a tactile interaction and Chrome OS suitably to give solutions based on the keyboard ".
The analysts, for his part, believe that the fall of selling and penetration of the netbooks will do that the operating system of Google fails noisy.
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