It is well known that a woman’s chances of giving birth to a child with Down Syndrome increase with age. However, a new study has suggested that men should also consider their biological clocks when planning a family.
Children of older fathers are more likely to be diagnosed with autism, schizophrenia and a number of other neuropsychiatric or developmental disorders, and a new study reveals why this may be.
The Glorious People’s Republic of China is about to be overthrown by tittle tattle, according to its ruling party. China’s state-run news agency demanded ISPs regulators and police do more to cleanse websites of “toxic rumours.”
The Chinese definition of “rumour” is anything which has not been submitted to a Chinese censorship committee, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The Xinhua news agency’s denunciation of Internet “rumor mongering” comes after a senior party official, Liu Qi, last week urged Sina Corp and other Chinese companies do more to staunch harmful hearsay among the 200 million or more Chinese who use Twitter.
Google+ has catapulted onto the social media scene, with over 25-million users registered at the start of August 2011. Much is being documented about its innovative use of circles, sparks and huddles (which, I might add, sound more like nursery school playgroup names than social media tabs). But what does it mean for business owners?
While it may be a little early to speculate, let’s go ahead and look at some of the potential draw cards.
According to Quirk social media manager, Catherine Scott, social media promises integration of internet technology and your social world. It is about merging online and real life experiences. In today’s world we tend to spend a lot of time online and it’s important that we feel like that time is used effectively.
The search giant Google, that this blogger remembers as popular new device with Berkeley and Stanford students back in 1999, had one major legal victory and another major legal loss: one regarding thumbnails and the other on an allegedly illegal set of Canadian ads involving Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page.
In the first case, a website firm called “Perfect 10,” which features photos and webcams of scantily-clad women, sued Google for a wronghead reason. Perfect 10 claims that Google AdSense users who obtained photos of women from Google Image Searches that were originally on Perfect 10 were illegally benefiting from that ability, as were Blogger account holders, and so because Google gains revenue from the Google AdWords side of Google AdSense (where AdWord hosts the ads, and Google AdSense places the ads hosted by AdWords).
The 74-year-old Anna Hazare had demanded sweeping legislation to create a government watchdog, but said Parliament’s move was enough to persuade him to begin eating.
Hazare thanked people for their support on the Lokpal agitation but cautioned that only half the battle had been won.
“We have won only half the battle,” said Hazare standing before wildly cheering crowds and flanked by his key aides and Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, former Maharashtra chief minister who has been an interlocutor.
CAN a man and a woman ever be best friends? This is one pertinent question that keeps popping up over and over again. It was first put out perhaps for public scrutiny in When Harry Met Sally. The hugely popular hit was then followed by My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) and Hum Tum in India (a desi remake of When Harry Met Sally) in 2004.
India’s GenNow got introduced to the question with the Imran Khan-Genelia D’Souza starrer Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Naa (2009). This year we have Friends With Benefits claiming friendship is a four- letter word. In short, they say a man and a woman can never be friends — as for being best friends, that’s a distant dream.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the world’s most advanced and fuel-efficient passenger jet whose delivery has been delayed six times since the 2008 deadline, is finally set to fly.
The next-generation plane rolled out of Boeing’s paint hangar at the weekend and is getting the finishing touches before joining the Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) next month. Each Dreamliner costs more than $200 million. ANA has the largest order for these planes.“Our teams are making outstanding progress in completing the first airplane to be delivered and achieving certification of the 787,” according to Scott Fancher, Vice-president and General Manager of the 787 programme at Boeing.
It’s great being single, isn’t it? You get to sleep on either side of the bed; you never have to wait for the bathroom; you’ve got all that “me time.” Except, well, you may be one of the unlucky singles who keel over about one decade earlier than your married friends, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
MIDDLE-AGED men who reject family life and choose to live alone are more likely to die earlier than their married counterparts, Government figures published yesterday reveal.
They are also significantly more prone than married men to a variety of debilitating illnesses such as diabetes and rheumatism, said the study released by the Office for National Statistics.
Imphal, Manipur: On the world's longest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue.
Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), something she opposes.
Irom Sharmila Chanu is a poet, a writer and an activist. She was brought to the jail ward of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital at the age of 27. Now ten years have passed in solitary confinement.
Google is providing current weather information and cloud data from around the world on its Google Maps application, by an arrangement with The Weather Channel’s weather.com and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The new “weather layer” can be activated through a widget in the upper right corner of Google Maps. Clicking on the weather icon for a particular city opens a window with data like current humidity and wind conditions, as well as a forecast for the next four days, said Jonah Jones, a Google user experience designer.
Users can also change on the left-hand panel the units of wind speed and temperature, and enable or disable the viewing of clouds when zoomed out from the map.
The system is capable of “rewiring” its connections as it encounters new information, similar to the way biological synapses work.
The technology, known as cognitive computing, mimics the brain’s neural and synaptic responses through complex algorithms and silicon circuitry.
The chips – not programmed the same way as traditional computers – are expected to learn from experiences, recognize patterns, remember and learn from mistakes. It is a sharp departure from traditional concepts and computer design, IBM said.
One of the main failings of Google’s new music service, Music Beta, was that it didn’t feature a store — it’s basically a music locker in which to store music that you already own. Well, it seems like Google is starting to take steps toward making the service more discovery-based with the launch of Magnifier, a music blog for users of Google Music Beta.
Google announced the existence of Magnifier via its blog, describing it as “a new music discovery site.” It features interviews with artists and bands, as well as free music you can add to your Music Beta account daily (you need to be a user in order to score the tracks).
Barely a week after the launch of the FinePix F500EXR, Fujifilm has launched a higher version of the camera – FinePix F600EXR, sporting advanced photography features such as RAW format, high speed continuous shooting mode at 8 fps, and GPS.
Fujifilm touts this model as “the ultimate travel companion”, thanks to the in-built GPS, which allows geotagging, in addition to the Landmark Navigator to pinpoint locations. The inclusion of RAW format support promises to finally bring DSLR-like image quality within your reach without having to break the bank. Being a tweaked-up version and successor to the F550EXR, it not only retains the form factor and choice of body colours of its predecessor, but also most of its other features such as a 16 MP EXR CMOS sensor
After a few months of testing bigger sitelinks, Google launched the new feature. Sitelinks are displayed below some of the results and they’re usually related pages from the same site. “The links (…) are meant to help users navigate your site. Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they’re looking for,” explains Google.
Until now, Google displayed up to 8 sitelinks and only included page titles. The updated sitelinks look like regular results, since Google also shows small snippets and their URLs. Google now shows up to 12 expanded sitelinks, but you’ll still see the.....................
Not too long ago, most Americans associated tattoos with sailors, bikers and sideshow artists. But tattoos have become more popular in recent years, and the people who get them are as diverse as the styles and designs they choose. And some people who would never think of tattooing pictures or symbols onto their bodies use permanent makeup — a type of tattoo — to emphasize their eyes and lips.
An “electronic tattoo” could herald a revolution in the way patients are monitored and provide a breakthrough in computer gaming, say US scientists.
They used the device, which is thinner than a human hair, to monitor the heart and................
People living in rural areas should hang up their smartphones if they want to actually make phone calls, new research from communications regulator Ofcom suggests.
A new research has suggested that people living in rural areas should stop using 3G smartphones and instead switch to older 2G versions which are better in making calls from rural areas. Communication regulator Ofcom’s study has found that feature phones fared better in making, starting and completing calls from rural areas as they allowed more internal space for aerials. ”
Excessive or unwanted hair in women
The normal amount of body hair varies widely among women. Usually, a woman will only grow fine hair (peach fuzz) on her lips, chin, chest, abdomen, or back. When women grow coarse, dark hairs in these areas, the condition is called hirsutism. This pattern of hair growth is more typical of men.
Body hair are mostly unwanted on male chests, shoulders and backs. Men also remove their abdominal hair, pubic hair and leg hair by means of various hair removal methods............
Vodafone for 20 percent carbon footprint cut by 2015
By 2020, we aim to cut our 2006/7 carbon dioxide emissions by 50% in mature markets and so far we have already achieved a reduction of nearly 10%. In India, Turkey and other fast-growing emerging markets, we are setting targets to limit emissions per customer as a first step.
The network is responsible for a large portion of our emissions so improving energy efficiency of our base stations is our ongoing priority.
Vodafone has launched 3G services in Bangalore through an intra-circle roaming agreement with Airtel as it does not have 3G spectrum in the circle.
SB P Singh, chief executive officer, Vodafone Karnataka said, “We expect a strong uptake and high demand for these 3G services and we welcome all our customers to faster, smarter, better world of 3G. There are numerous avenues for the consumers to have faster access to entertainment, better fulfilment of their information needs and a smarter way to communicate, while on the go.”
You may think that it may not be impossible, but British researchers say they can predict who one could befriend on Facebook – based on places one visits.
A team at the University of Cambridge says that its new approach that not only looks at friends of friends, but also the places people visit – with weightings given to different places such as airports and gymnasiums.
“Essentially this is a way in which we can predict how people will make new friends. We know that we are likely to become friends with ‘friends of friends’ but what we find..........Google executive that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) and other IT industry giants are using patents “as a weapon” to slow the growth of Google’s Android mobile operating system has set off a tit-for-tat row between Google and Microsoft that shows no signs of subsiding.
The squabble has put a spotlight on the increasing use of technology patents by IT vendors to gain and maintain a competitive advantage.
The dispute began Wednesday when David Drummond, Google vice president and chief legal officer, posted a blog entitled “When Patents Attack Android” in which he argued that competitors, led by Microsoft and Apple, have banded together in “a hostile, organized campaign against Android” that’s being “waged through bogus patents.”
Beetel Teletech, a Bharti Enterprises group company and one of India’s leading manufacturer and distributor of telecom and allied products, today announced the launch of a wireless hotspot-Beetel 3G Max for the Indian market. The 3G Max can be connected to a mobile phone (cellular) carrier and provide internet access for up to five devices. The device will cater to multiple users at home, small businesses and even enterprises to use internet service at a very low cost.
The device is believed to be suitable for the small-scale business enterprises, home-based users, that too at a lower price. The device 3G Max has the power to access internet within the range of 10-30 ft and make any Wi-Fi featuring devic
Are you fed up of a hectic dial-in process, driver installation or configuration while using a new data card? Say thanks to Huawei, now you will soon have a data card that connects to the Internet just 15 seconds after inserting it into the port. The new data card from the China-based Huawei is called “HiLink E353”, which the company says is the world’s first plug and link data card.
Huawei has announced the commercial launch of the world’s first plug and link data card, the HiLink E353. This datacard connects to the USB port of the computer and claims to connect the user to the internet in less than 15 seconds without havi............
All laptop computers are a compromise between power and size: the smaller the laptop, the less power it will have. So we wouldn’t expect a netbook to outperform larger, bulkier laptops, or desktop computers.
That said, the ASUS Eee PC 1015PEM is one of the best performing netbooks we tested. Equipped with Intel’s dual-core Atom N550 processor, it achieved an overall performance score of 0.21 in our tests, coming joint first with all the other models that have this processor installed. Its responsiveness was also high, with a score of 0.38, taking it very close to the top.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Telecommunications and the Heinrich Heinz Institute in Germany claim they have developed a practical implementation of Visual Light Communication (VLC), achieving an 800Mbps Optical WLAN connection, using flickering LED lights for line-of-sight networking.
While the idea of using LED lights that flicker faster than the human eye can perceive for data transmission purposes it not very new, and has been tried several times before, this particular implementation is practical in that it is fast enough, and reliable enough to be actually used in real world applications, where rooms bear large arrays of white, green, blue and red LED light sources which transmit discrete data over
Email marketing is surely an affordable and efficient way to achieve potential clients around the globe. The advantage of e-mail marketing has managed to get well-liked through business proprietors, and it has produced a flow of selling messages into the consumers’ in-boxes. By using a handful of specialized marketing tips as well as methods you are able to help your email marketing campaign stick out and noticed.
With the growth of the Internet, email marketing has become an increasingly popular medium for building awareness and referrals for businesses.
