Sometimes, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

Forget about iPhone 5, for the time being at least. What was expected to be the iPhone 5 unveiling became just an iPhone 4S announcement.

Despite the speculations and the hopes, there would be only few minor changes an the next iPhone that is rightly though called iPhone 4S.

To majority of technology and apple admirers, this is probably the disappointment of the year.  Which by the way, we have a recommendation of new spelling to the word disappointment: Di(4s)sappointment.

Our major question, despite the obvious is: how Apple being aware of the high expectations, has let that happen.

While people politely cheered in the audience, Apple’s share price plunged 3 per cent.

That official iPhone 4s release probably looked great when they did it, but now, facing the disappointment, it looks much less appealing. However, here it is anyway.

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Today I am giving a presentation on Time Management for executives.

Further contend and remarks would be added here soon.

As iphone 5 is about to be announced, many people are trying to make guesses concerning its design and features.

The following youtube video that present a new iphone 5 concept gained more than 20 million views in less than three weeks.

Iphone 5 features

The iphone 5 features presented in this video are a bit too early for their time, but maybe something to aspire to in the next version. Iphone 5 features, whatever they may come up may not be that surprising, I am afraid. It may be slimmer than its predecessors and have one or two new gadgets or features, but no breakthrough is expected.

The new iPhone 5 is speculated  to be loaded with new features like video chat on 3g and 4g face recognition and extreme downloading

This iPhone 5 may be equipped with a speedy dual core A5 chip processor and a faster graphic chips that can deliver higher video resolutions (5-9 times better) and amazing “still” images when taking pictures, it will make multi-tasking a lot faster.

We, however, have some minor basic requests, although clearly aware this is too late for iphone5:

A much stronger battery, a bigger screen and solve the damn Flash problem… is that too much to ask?

This is a guest review from the perspective of a guest who was extensively involved in hotel and tourism management, staying as HHonors VIP gold status.

Visiting ITB in March, one of the largest travel fairs in the EU, was a Greta excuse to get back to hotel Hilton Berlin and have a taste of its new design as it was recently renovated.

Check in & out

Hilton Berlin room

Upon request, I was sent to the new executive lounge located at the ground floor at the place the Thai restaurant used to be before.

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Endeavour, the space shuttle named after the same Endeavour as our company, is naturally, of great interest for us. Endeavour’s last space voyage started today. The next voyage of the last of the shuttles will be Atlantis’ after which the shuttle space program would be terminated.

Endeavour blasted off on the next-to-last shuttle flight Monday morning under the command of Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The wounded congresswoman watched the launch in private from Kennedy Space Center. As many as 45,000 guests jammed NASA’s launch site. The crowd outside the gates was estimated to be in the tens of thousands, if not more. It was the second launch attempt. Late last month, an electrical problem halted the countdown. Endeavour and its six astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station on Wednesday. They are delivering a $2 billion particle physics experiment. The mission will last 16 days. Only one other shuttle trip remains.

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As the tabs war gearing to a new generation, Samsung had recently  embarrassing accidents that are the hot issue on few tech blogs.

Samsung has launched few promo movies concerning its new tabs. Unfortunately for the company, two major events clouded the celebration and posed genuine concern.

The first was the company’s claim that the new tab is thinner than its rival, the iPad-2. A second check revealed that the new tab is wider than the ipad-2 two and the statement was wrong.

If this is not enough, a second event, this time on the web, YouTube movie to be exact appears with people commenting on the new Samsung tab. A closer look reveals these enthusiastic reviewers are actually actors.

Take a look at this YouTube sample:

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Every morning the astronauts onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery wakes up to a selected music. Mostly by their friends and families.

Today, Monday, they had a little surprise: NASA broadcasted the music from the unforgettable since fiction movie Star Trek with William Shatner’s voice recorded especially for the last mission of the Discovery.

The discovery is up there making final preparation for its final landing back on Earth. Two more flights are left for the shuttle program: Endeavour in April and Atlantis in May.

This will end a time period of forty years of The Space Shuttle Program.

Six orbiters were built: Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

Challenger was lost during takeoff on January 28 1986 and Columbia was lost during reentry on February 1^st 2003.

This is not the first time Star Trek and the Shuttle Space Program are crossing each other’s way. The first Shuttle, back in the eighties, was originally named Constitution. A massive post campaign aimed at President Ronald Reagan by the fans of the Star Trek series, changed his mind and the name was changed to Enterprise.

Another chilling reminder to September 11 events. This time a classified movie taken from police helicopter documenting the fall of the two WTC towers. This movie was released last night.

I believe most of us clearly remember the moments depicted in the movie and clearly remember where they were and what they did at the time. Most of us were covering their mouth in shock, looking at the horrific site of the collapsing towers, refusing to believe it.

Apple iPad 2 announced today by Steve Jobs at Apple event.

Jobs appearance was a surprise, but he did in fact make the event. He shared some stats about the iBookstore, which has 2,500 publishers. He also announced that Random House is bringing over 17,000 books to the store.  

Then came the announcement. The iPad 2 is faster with the A5 chip and a dual core processor. Apple says it’s up to 2 times faster,a nd up to 9 times faster on graphics. It’s 33% thinner (thinner than the iPhone 4) and only 1.3 pounds compared to 1.5 on the old one. This should make it a little better for reading publications like The Daily – as far as general comfort.

It comes in both black and white. There is a rear and front-facing camera. Battery life is the same as old iPad – 10 hours, over a month of standby.

 ”We have the same legendary 10 hour battery life… with all this extra stuff in it and dramatically thinner.” And the pricing remains unchanged, starting at $499 for a 16 gigabyte model.

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I have met all of you at SES London 2011 and this time decided to document the event with my camera.

I have tried to capture the special moments we have all experience and take pics of all of you. I apologize for those of you I have missed.

I have placed most of the pics on the following directory:  SES London Pics & Images 

I have also taken a short video from the Keynote speaker on the first day. 

Keynote Speaker Jeffrey Hayzlett few minutes of his speech at:

http://www.endeavour-eu.com/2011/02/ses-london-jeffrey-hayzlett/

few Pics have been placed on my Facebook account: 

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002020061300  you are welcome as a new FB friend, if you like.

Copyright: all SES London participants are allowed to download and use their own photos from the mentioned site. If you happen to use the pics online, be so kind to mention credit to www.Dekel.nl

Links back: since the chocolate idea was already exploited, I can only suggest a link back to our management blog, if you find that appropriate.  Such a link would be highly appreciated.

Depending on your site theme, you can choose to link back with the following information:

Title: Management blog

Url: http://www.endeavour-eu.com/management-blog/

Description: Endeavour Management blog: management, leadership and business.

If you have sites about SEO or Travel, please contact us for other linking info.

Enjoy the pics and see you again next year.

Kind regards,

David Dekel, CEO

Endeavour Enterprises N.V.  

Twitter: @DDekel  or directly to the profile: http://twitter.com/#!/DDekel

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