Science & Technology
Five billion people to use mobile phones in 2010: UN
Published on: 16th February, 2010
BARCELONA: The ranks of cell phone subscribers will swell to five billion people this year thanks to the growth of smartphones in developed nations and mobile services in poor nations, a UN agency said.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) also said the number of mobile broadband subscriptions would exceed one billion this [...]
Google 1st daiting web site on its way – Google Crush
Published on: 13th February, 2010
By now, you’ve undoubtedly seen “Parisian Love,” the Google Search ad that was run during the Super Bowl. Love, it seems, is in the air at Google. And to capitalize on that, the startup GoodCrush has created a new feature: GoogleCrush.
Here’s how it works: if you work at Google and have a [...]
Google attacks ‘wake-up call’: US intel chief
Published on: 3rd February, 2010
WASHINGTON : Google’s recently reported cyberattacks are a ‘wake-up call’ about the vulnerabilities of computer networks to attacks that could cripple the US economy, the top US intelligence official warned Tuesday.
“We cannot be certain that our cyberspace infrastructure will remain available and reliable during a time of crisis,” US Director of [...]
People are quicker when reacting that when initiating
Published on: 3rd February, 2010
Inspired by Hollywood cowboy films, researchers have delved into the science of gun fights.
Scientists discovered that people move faster when reacting to something than when they perform “planned actions”.
In a gun-free experiment, described in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they studied the speed of these two types of movement.
The [...]
Facebook A valuable Internet commodity?
Published on: 1st February, 2010
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photosLOS ANGELES: College senior Alyssa Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost [...]
Imitation Google, YouTube sites emerge in China
Published on: 29th January, 2010
BEIJING : Imitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.
YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based Web giant not to leave [...]
Apple’s iPad to ‘kickstart’ tablet market
Published on: 29th January, 2010
Industry watchers say Apple’s long-awaited iPad tablet could reverse the fortunes of the tablet PC industry.
Microsoft introduced a tablet computer in 2001, but it failed to catch on.
However, advances in touchscreens and wireless technology mean that the market could now be right for products such as the iPad, analysts said.
“Tablets have been around for a [...]
Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes
Published on: 29th January, 2010
A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show.
The controlled fusion of atoms – creating conditions like those in our Sun – has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source.
However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for fusion energy [...]
Climate change to triple Australia fire danger: report
Published on: 28th January, 2010
SYDNEY : Climate change could more than triple the risk of catastrophic wildfires in parts of Australia, a top environmental group warned on Thursday, almost a year since savage firestorms that killed 173 people.
Greenpeace warned that, without a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the frequency of severe fire danger in drought-parched southeastern Australia [...]
Microsoft icon Bill Gates starts tweeting
Published on: 28th January, 2010
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates started tweeting on Tuesday.
Gates bid the Twitter community a “Hello World” around midday, and then followed that message with three more lauding efforts to raise aid funds for earthquake-devastated Haiti.
The recently-retired Microsoft legend’s Twitter page bore a blue check-mark icon used to verify identities of famous people using the wildly popular [...]
