Links for 2008-10-09

According to ZDNet RIM presents a new Blackberry as competitor to the iPhone. On the other hand looks the Nokia N96 very interesting.

On TheServerSide is a nice article series about new features in EJB 3.1: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.

How to control the desktop

Magnus has a nice German article about a new scenario: you can control your computer by one or more (up to eight) fingers … Mmh … I think I have read something like that from Microsoft Surface or Apple iPod Touch or iPhone or Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC . But the difference is that this solution from Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin works “just” with two infrared cameras (and “normal” equipment?).

Crazy America – a product becomes cheaper and they arent happy …

I read a German note  …
Apple sold his iPhone at the beginning for 599 USD. A few weeks later they reduced the price to 399 USD. And now there is an action: a person wants to have 1,000,000 USD because she cant sell her iPhone for the “high” price any more …