PNY to offer USB Stick with Movie Preinstalled…?

PNY the memory maker will attempt to sell a 2GB USB flash drive with the movie Ghostbusters pre-installed.Out of all the company out there its PNY to Offer a 20 year old movie? I wonder why Sony or even Microsoft not all over this ?

Chicken manure to power 90,000 Dutch homes

Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg opened a biomass power station which will convert one-third of all chicken manure residue in the Netherlands into green energy. The power produced by the plant in Moerdijk near Rotterdam should supply about 90,000 Dutch homes with electricity.

However, the plant will only deal with a small amount of the total manure produced in the Netherlands, most of which comes from cows and pigs. Manure from chickens is drier and this makes it easier to process into energy than other types.

 

Wilders pays damages to Danish cartoonist

Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration PVV party, is to pay the Danish cartoonist Koert Westergaard €7,500 damages for using his drawing in his controversial short film Fitna without the author’s permission.

 

“Princess Margarita” “Its a Baby Girl!”

Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme, queen Beatrix’s niece, has given birth to a baby girl, Julia Carolina Catharina.

Massive guns haul in Amsterdam

Police have discovered what they describe as the biggest haul of illegal weapons in recent years, the public prosecution department said on Thursday.

Some 165 guns including new Glock pistols, 7,000 rounds of ammunition, silencers and laser-sights were seized in a commercial property in the district of Amsterdam Oud-West. Computers, mobile phones and €20,000 in cash was also taken.

The Belfast Telegraph reports that the weapons were en route for Ireland.

The raid follows a tip-off from Irish police who are investigating a criminal organisation involved with illegal trading in weapons and drugs, and cigarette smuggling, the department said.

The Dutch police raided three addresses in Amsterdam and one in Zaandam. Three men and a woman, aged between 27 and 53, have been arrested in connection with the discovery. No further details have been released about their identities.

The four people arrested are due to appear in court in Rotterdam on Friday.

Xbox 360 Gets Price Cut

Microsoft has made it official: the Xbox 360 is officially going to drop to as low as $199 starting Friday, September 5 in the U.S. The three currently offered SKUs will get a price drop in North America, following multiple retail leaks and a similar pricing adjustment for the Japanese market. The new MSRP for the current line up is as follows.

– Xbox 360 Arcade (No Hard Drive): $199, down from $279
– Xbox 360 Pro (60GB HDD): $299, down from $350

– Xbox 360 Elite (120GB HDD): $399, down from $449