Europe is finally resuming its flights. Reports are coming in from many European airports.

A continental airspace closure took precedent in September 11, 2001 when the US had to close its airspace in order to neutralize potential further attacks.

The eruption of Icelandic Mount Eyjafjallajokull and the resulting volcanic ash cloud over Europe have caused severe flight disruptions since last week, grounded millions of people, tones of cargo and disrupted international air traffic over Europe and the Atlantic.

The above had enormous affect on trade, business and insurance. Not to mention convenience. The ecological effect is too soon to evaluate, however has a destructive potential on climate in case of severe eruption.

Europe is operating several airports and KLM has started today a gradual procedure in order to restore its flight schedule.

The continental boycotting due to the volcanic ash over Europe is gradually removed today in order to allow the millions of passengers and tones of cargo to start flying again.

It is amazing how such a simple incident could have grounded Europe traffic for few days and cause such damage.

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Long ago, we named our company after Captain Cook’s historic ship the Endeavour. The space shuttle Endeavour is named after the same old famous ship and for us down here, it is a major event every time the space shuttle caries our name and spirit to space.

Final frontier, as James T. Kirk used to call it.

Today, Endeavour space scuttle took off again in one of its last missions as the whole shuttles project will be terminated by the end of this year. The space shuttle Endeavour has set off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a repair mission and the video can be seen below.

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The famous Heineken brewery museum in Amsterdam just gained a new item. So far, the museum was dedicated to beer brewing related issues and the process of making it. About a year ago, the whole building went under constructions and today presenting enhanced audiovisual beer experience.

However, as from last night, there is an unusual additive to the building: the Dutch brewery started brewing browsers… Google Chrome to be exact. Slides of the browsers logo are projected on the outside wall of the Heineken building to be seen by nearly frozen by passers.

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Finally, after lots of rumors and guessing, Google announced today its new Smartphone Nexus One, otherwise known as the Google phone.

The new phone, categorized as a Super phone, is produced by HTC and runs on the Android 2.1 mobile operating system.

 As it seems right after the Google announcement, most speculations as for the technical specifications of e the new phone were accurate.

Nexus One Google new SuperPhone. Screenshot

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Retail bankers are letting consumers down,” said Meglena Kuneva, the European commissioner for consumer policy. This statement is published after a survey done by EU commission exposing that EU banks’ transparency and business conduct is much below expected level and is bordering violation of EU laws.

EU banking basic fees were reported to fluctuate from 27 Euros annual fees in Bulgaria, via 46 Euros in the Netherlands and up to 154 in France and 253 in Italy.

The EU report covers prices of various banking fees of 224 banks, accounting for 81% of the EU market.

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