Your Desk Job Is Destroying Your Body

Office workers now have the perfect excuse to give up their desk job – sitting down for long periods of time increases your risk of dying.

New Australian research shows that no matter how physically active you are, your chances of dying before your time are increased by sitting for long periods.

And the more you sit, the greater the risk.

Those reporting the highest amount of daily sitting had a 48 per cent increased risk of premature death compared with those who sat for less than four hours a day, the research found.

A study of more than 200,000 men and women in NSW has found the longer people.............

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According to scientists: Easily embarrassed people are generous and trustworthy

Do you get embarrassed easily? Fret not. A study says that people who are easily embarrassed are also more trustworthy and more generous.

“Embarrassment is one emotional signature of a person to whom you can entrust valuable resources. It’s part of the social glue that fosters trust and cooperation in everyday life,” said UC Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer, a coauthor of the study published in this month’s online issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Slide Phone For Businessmen: New BlackBerry Torch 9810

The Canadian phone manufacturer RIM has long been in the business of providing businessmen handsets that will allow them to get ahead with their careers and business. One of the unique handsets that catered to this demand is the 9800. This past model came with a 3.2 inch touch screen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. This phone was one of the career-oriented individual’s preferred smartphones. This 2011, the Canada-based firm has created a phone bearing a similar design with a number of upgrades. This is the Blackberry Torch 9810.

If you would like to use the phone’s touch interface, the phone sports a 3.2 inch TFT capacitive touch screen. This will give you enough real-estate for swiping, tapping, and.............

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HTC Corporation has added HTC Explorer

HTC Corporation has added HTC Explorer to its smartphone portfolio in the country. Android-powered HTC Explorer comes with a 3.2-inch HVGA (480 x 320) capacitive display, 600MHz processor, 3MP camera and 512MB of expandable memory.

The smartphone comes with the company’s HTC Sense technology. HTC Explorer also includes a customizable lock screen that functions as a real-time window to the customer’s most important information and content, such as social updates, photos, weather or stock updates that are viewed by simply waking up the display.

This little soldier carries the big responsibility of extending HTC’s dominance to the budget end of the Android spectrum, and it must achieve this mission with only a bare.........

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NASA: Sunspot 1302 It's big. It's bad. And it's coming our way

A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such as iPhones to sections of the power grid.

Nasa has detected two X-class solar eruptions from 1302 – the most extreme possible – in the past week. One that occurred on September 24 produced an amazing light show over England last night – but it’s far from over, as the sunspot isn’t yet directly aligned with Earth.

NASA experts have said ‘anything electrical’ can be affected by such activity.

Known as ‘Active Region 1302’, it is producing bursts of radiation so intense that...........

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Research finds: 'Hyper-mutated' prostate cancers

Some prostate cancers evolve at a super-fast rate to become “hypermutated” and resistant to treatment, a study has found.

Scientists made the discovery after mapping the genetic codes of 23 aggressive and drug-resistant cancers.

They identified three tumour types that had 10 times more mutations – altered “letters” in the genetic code – than other advanced prostate cancers.

“We don’t know the cause of these hypermutated tumours, but the frequency of the mutations suggests these tumours might evolve very rapidly to develop resistance to therapies,” said Dr Peter Nelson, one of the study leaders from the Fred Hutchinson...........

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Vodafone, Myriad to provide social networking services over SMS, USSD Telecom operator Vodafone Essar

Telecom operator Vodafone Essar has entered into a partnership with Switzerland-based mobile software company Myriad to provide social networking services to its subscribers in India via SMS and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD).

As part of the agreement, Vodafone will be using Myriad’s flagship mobile social networking platform Xumii and will deploy Myriad Updates, a one-of-its-kind text-based mobile social networking service, which is also accessible on low-end phones. Moreover, subscribers will not require any Internet connection to access to the social networking services via its text message and USSD menu interfaces.

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Pesky calls, SMS stop, Trai for levy on commercial SMSes

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has cleared confusion over its controversial move to restrict SMSes to 100 per day per SIM for all subscribers. The telecom regulator said that the 100 SMS per day cap does not apply on several service providers such as dealers of telecom operators, e-ticketing agencies and social networking sites. The SMS restriction comes into effect from today.

“… Hereby directs all access providers to exclude the following persons from the limit of one hundred SMS per day per SIM — dealers of the telecom service providers and DTH operators for sending request for electronic recharge on mobile numbers,” TRAI..........

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Facebook tracks your activities online, even when you’re logged out of Facebook.

An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.

According to Cubrilovic’s tests, Facebook merely alters its tracking cookies when you log out, rather than deleting them. Your account information and other unique identifiable tokens are still present in these cookies, which means that any time you visit a web page with a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending personally identifiable information back to Facebook.

“With my browser logged out of Facebook, whenever I visit any page with a Facebook like button, or share button, or any other widget, the information, including my account ID, is still being sent to

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Study: Presence of best friend can help you beat stress

Spending time with your closest buddy during difficult times can be quite helpful, as a study conducted on children has found being in such company can reduce stress levels, Daily Mail reported.

If you’re ever feeling under pressure, it might be an idea to see your best friend.

Being in their presence can reduce stress levels – at least according to a study of children.

‘One of the interesting things about these findings is that it’s not just any friend – it’s the best friend,’ said Ryan Adams, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor of paediatrics at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre.

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Why US cos want to restrict Facebook use

In the age of instant tweets and impulsive Facebook posts, some American companies are still trying to figure out how they can limit what their employees say about work online without running afoul of US law.

Confusion about what American workers can or can’t post has led to a surge of more than 100 complaints at the National Labor Relations Board most within the past year and created uncertainty for businesses about how far their social media policies can go. “Employers are struggling to figure out what the right policies are and what they should do when these cases arise,” said Michael Eastman, labor law policy director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Could Nokia's Sea Ray Be Delayed Until 2012?

Nokia is currently in the transition phase, as it is leaving its currently smartphone operating system Symbian and will start on the new Windows Phone platform with the Sea Ray phone.

The Sea Ray smartphone, which is expected to be the first Nokia handset with Windows Phone platform, will come in 2012. The Street revealed this quoting unnamed sources.

However, CNBC said that the phone is very much on schedule and will arrive in 2011 itself.

“As we stated previously, we have increased confidence we will ship our first Windows Phone product this year,” Nokia spokesman Doug Dawson was quoted as saying by CNBC.

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BBC NewsFacebook: New feature will allow users to know who doesn’t like

There are two things on the Internet that you can almost always count on: Facebook is going to make changes to its layout without really telling its users in advance, and its users are going to spend the next two days blasting the changes on their Facebook updates – and a side group of people are going to blast the blasters for being “overdramatic.”

But instead of just surrendering to the court of nebulous public Facebook opinion on this one, let’s look at the numbers. Specifically, the 1,049 users voting as part of a Sodahead poll that asked them to share their opinion about the changes. Are you sitting down?

No need; It should come as little surprise that 86 percent of those voting gave a big fat “dislike” to Facebook’s new redesign – that’s the design that sticks your “top” news to the top of your Facebook homepage and slaps a real-time “Facebook updates”

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World’s Top 10 rich people till March 2011

Business makes a man rich,sometimes business goes right and sometimes business goes wrong.People doing right business right way become richer and richer.Being rich is not only related to money,behind a rich man some unknown facts and things exist.Thing which we common people don’t know and can’t even understand,that is why we are not rich and not among world’s richest people like these following people...........

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Telecom regulator - TRAI seeks info on 3G roaming deals

Telecom regulator TRAI has sought information from leading service providers on their bilateral agreements for 3G roaming to ensure there is no violation of licence terms and conditions.

The watchdog is looking at as to how these companies are selling their 3G spectrum services under the agreement, sources in the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said. Earlier, the Department of Telecom had raised doubts over 3G roaming pacts of companies that do not have pan-India 3G licences.
The pacts help them reduce cost. In July this year, in an effort to reduce cost and offer pan-India 3G services, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular had started sharing...........

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Vast Difference in Effects of Regular Moderate Drinking and Alcohol

A study has found very dramatic differences between the effects of alcohol administered in moderation on a daily basis and the same total weekly amount of alcohol administered on only two days of the week.

In a lab experiment, mice that were given regular moderate amounts of alcohol showed no weight gain, improved lipid values, and much less development of atherosclerosis than did control animals.
However, those given alcohol in a binge-drinking pattern showed worse outcomes than control animals, and much worse outcomes than those given regular moderate doses of alcohol.

The authors examined the effect of daily-moderate (2 drinks/day, 7 days/week) and weekend-binge (7 drinks/day, 2 days/week) patterns of alcohol consumption on..........

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Mechanical computers – Boffins step closer to steam-powered Babbage computer

The Science Museum in London has agreed to help by digitising the mathematician’s original plans.

Eventually the images will be used to create a full working model of the Analytical Engine.

Conceived in the late 1830s, it foreshadowed the modern computer revolution by more than a century.

Babbage’s many notepads and sketch books are currently held in the Science Museum’s archives, but have never been converted into a form that is easily accessible.

It is hoped that the digital documents will allow researchers around the world to pick apart the many disparate ideas and settle on the definitive version of the machine.

“There are some complete plans, they are just not totally complete. There will be a degree of interpretation,” said John Graham-Cumming, the programm

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Electrical stimulation of brain boosts birth of new cells

With the possible exception of those affected by hyperthylmesia – a rare condition where a person has an extraordinary capability to recall events from their past – most of us wouldn’t mind having our memory enhanced. That’s just what appears to have happened to a group of mice when targeted areas of their brains were electrically stimulated. The treatment triggered an increase in the creation of new cells in the hippocampus, with experiment results suggesting the mice’s spatial learning improved. The researchers responsible say the results could have implications for the treatment of memory disorders in humans.

A clinical treatment known as deep brain stimulation (DBS), which delivers electrical pulses to targeted areas of the brain, has been used with some success in the...........

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Global Internet – Google wins Australian advertisement case

Global Internet giant Google won a court case against Australia’s competition regulator Thursday over claims that sponsored links at the top of its search results were misleading to consumers.

While noting that the word “advertisement” could have been less confusing for Internet users than “sponsored links”, Federal Court judge Antony Nicholas ruled that Google had not breached consumer law in its search presentation.

Google has been cleared of misleading web users in a court case brought by an Australian watchdog that accused the Chocolate Factory of mixing adverts into search results. However, Trading Post – the country’s top online classified ads site – was...............

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YouTube has installed Magisto’s online editing service

An all new web-based service is offering to take your un-edited videos and do it all for you, automatically by a computer and ready to share with the world in only a matter of minutes. Maybe next they’ll shoot it and everything for you too!

The service is called Magisto and it’s an Israeli start-up that launched yesterday. The idea is that you can upload up to 16 videos onto the site (add a title and some soundtrack of your own choosing), and then the proprietary software/technology will then edit your footage automatically and email you when it’s completed (normally about 20-30 minutes depending on how big your files are). Basically, they’ve.............

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Online / Offline – Which TERM PLAN will you go for?

There is some good news for all those who would either like to take up a term plan or who are looking to upgrade (increase) their life insurance cover! It is recently disclosed by LIC that Term Plans will be sold online and offline and the premiums will be cheaper than the current rates offered.

LIC would come up with online term plan because of its dependence on agents’ network for selling its products. But this is a good move from LIC as their share of term plan market is eaten away by private insurers from last few years. At the moment, a person has to pay a very high premium for term plan through LIC. For example, the premium for 25 lacs cover with LIC term plan at the moment is around 7,000 – 8,000, whereas it’s around 3,000-3,500 in companies like ICICI iProtect & Kotak e-preferred.

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Check out- Facebook enhances new features

Perhaps you’ve heard that Facebook has been tweaking the social network a bit? In the past few weeks Facebook has implemented a wide variety of changes–many of which mimic popular features from the rival Google+, and at least one of which leaves me with little reason to continue maintaining my Facebook Page.

As rival Google+ opened its membership to the world, the popular social network giant Facebook is busy enhancing its “News Feed” section by adopting a “newspaper” approach to make it more interesting.

Facebook’s “News Feed” that streams updates from friends will give priority to important posts, images shared at the website will be displayed larger, and a “Ticker” chat column is being added for real-time conversations.

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Google has opened its Google+ social network to the world

Google opened its Google+ social network to the world on Tuesday, dropping the need for an invitation to join the Internet giant’s rival to Facebook. “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal,” Google senior vice

president of engineering Vic Gundotra said in a blog post.

Internet search giant Google has thrown open its recently launched social networking service, ‘Google Plus’, to everyone.

The company said anyone can now sign up for Google Plus and connect with people they care about. Earlier, the service was available only through invitation as part of.........

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People are more likely to yawn in winters as opposed to the summer
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Men really do suffer more than women when they get a cold

Researchers have shown that the male immune system is less effective at fighting off infections than the female system and that means men feel worse when battling illness than women.

For the study, a team, led by Dr Ramona Scotland at Queen Mary University of London, analysed the immune systems of mice and rats given a host of different infections. They looked at the white blood cells in the lungs and stomach which act as the body’s first line of defence against infection.The male immune system is less effective at fighting off infections than the female system and that means men feel worse when battling illness than women, researchers have shown.

Dr Ramona Scotland, of Queen Mary University of London, led a team which studied the immune systems of mice and rats given a host of different infections.

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You will be able to send more than 100 SMS/day after 27th September

Resentment is growing against the government’s decision to limit the number of SMSes people can send in a day. The regulation announced by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) comes into effect on September 27 and sets the cap at 100 SMSes a day. A number many feel is too low and take away their freedom to decide their own limits.

“We have written to TRAI against this many times. We feel it infringes on the right of speech of consumers. It will give them a tough time, especially during festive occasions such as Diwali, when people send out several hundred wishes in a day,” says Rajan S Mathews, director general of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).

“No Access Provider shall permit sending of more than one hundred SMS per day per SIM:

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China- launch communications satellite

China on Monday announced the successful launch of a communications satellite, a move that brings it closer to launching a test module for its own space station.

The official Xinhua news agency said a Long March-3B rocket fired the satellite into space shortly after midnight from a launch site in Sichuan province. Xinhua said the satellite will provide high-quality voice communication, broadcast and data transmission services for users across China.

The Long March-3B rocket carrier put the satellite,Zhongxing-1A after its launch from Xichang Satellite LaunchCentre in southwestern Sichuan Province, official Xinhua newsagency reported.

Zhongxing-1A was designed and manufactured by the ChinaAcademy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Scienceand Technology Corporation, it said............

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Blue top navigation bar in Facebook

In a bid to make its interface more user-friendly, Facebook has been coming up with new features and design changes. Soon after launching the Subscriber button it has now ‘frozen’ its top navigation bar.

The top navigation bar is now fixed on top of the screen even when a user scrolls down the page, it remains accesible throughout. Earlier, the top navigation bar used to scroll up with the page and users had to scroll back to access a link on the top navigation.

This new behaviour will now let users have access to the important features including friend requests, messages, notifications and profile, more easily.

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Expert- Differences between the brains of men and women

Why do women spend 30 times more time and 25 times more money than men when asked to get a pair of trousers from a showroom in a mall? It’s the brain make-up, says C Edward Coffey, a US-based neuropsychiatrist.

When Coffey delivered the ninth MV Arunachalam endowment lecture in the city, presenting the Venus-Mars dichotomy in a scientific light, a 200-strong audience of doctors sat in rapt attention. Driving home the point of ‘different brains, different minds’ Coffey narrated the experiment involving male and female shoppers.

There is actually a science as to why men are from Mars and Women from Venus, says Edward Coffey, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Wayne State University................

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EU probing if Google dominates Internet search

Regulators in the European Union are evaluating whether Google is, in fact, a dominant force in search.

According to Reuters, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia spoke at a conference in Florence today about the regulatory body’s evaluation of Google. Almunia reportedly said that the EU is “trying to determine whether the company holds a dominant position in Internet search.” What’s more, Almunia said, according to Reuters, the commission still hasn’t decided if Google abuses its power in the marketplace.

In April 2011, it was announced the the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department would launch an antitrust investigation of Google’s Internet dominance if the search giant decided to purchase ITA Software Inc. Google ended up............

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Feeling pain? The computer tell when it hurts?

A team at Stanford University in California used computer learning software to sort through data generated by brain scans and detect when people were in pain.

“The question we were trying to answer was can we use neuroimaging to objectively detect whether a person is in a state of pain or not. The answer was yes,” Dr Sean Mackey of the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, whose study appears in the journal PLoS One.

Currently, doctors rely on patients to tell them whether or not they are in pain. And that is still the gold standard for assessing pain, Mackey said.

But some patients — the very young, the very old, dementia patients or those who are not conscious — cannot say if they are hurting, and that has led to a long search for.............

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Handset Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini

Sony Ericsson experimented with the Mini concept with Xperia X10 Mini which didn’t really set the cash registers on fire, reason? It was too small, too weak in terms of hardware. So this time around Sony put in much better hardware and made it slightly bigger. Does it make for great device now? Let’s find out.

Form Factor

This is bigger than X10 Mini – it comes with a 3.0 inch screen, which kind of in between the 2.8 entry level Android phones and little less than kind of industry average size of 3.2 inch. But in terms of usability, its corner based user interface makes it as usable as a bigger 3.5 inch smartphone.

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HP has unveiled a new suite of security services

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World’s oldest-living conjoined twins turn 50

Conjoined twins occur in roughly 1 in every 200 identical twin pregnancies and are always identical. Actual numbers for conjoined births vary from 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 100,000 pregnancies, and 40-60% are stillborn, with many others dying within the first few days after birth. About 70% of conjoined twins are female, the reason for which is unknown.

Separation has been attempted on almost all conjoined twins born since the 1950s with varying results, although the first successful separation was performed in Basle, Switzerland in 1689 on twin girls born joined by a ligament at the sternum (xiphopagus). The first conjoined twins to be successfully separated in “modern” times are generally believed to be Catherine and Caroline Mouton of Louisiana, born joined at the lower back (pygopagus)and separated in 1953 at 8 days of age. Both survived the operation, but Catherine committed suicide in 1985..........

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Intel unveils solar-powered processor computer
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Intel unveils solar-powered processor computer

Showcasing what the future holds in the computing arena, chip-maker Intel unveiled a computer with a processor running on a postage stamp-size cell powered by solar energy.

Underlining Intel’s efforts to push the boundaries for reduced power consumption in computing activities, its Chief Paul Otellini today demonstrated such a system during his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2011.

Asserting that power innovation would reach unimaginable levels, he said Intel’s researchers have created a chip that powers up a computer processor on a solar cell the size of a postage stamp.

The computer had its solar-powered CPU drawing sufficient power to run animation and other Windows-based computing processes from two small overhead reading..........

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Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows 8

Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows 8 are going to enter the market and pretty soon and people want to know their features and differences

Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Microsoft Windows 8 are going to make entry in the market pretty soon. Both are much more improved than what we have right now and both are going to make it tough for their competitors to remain in contention.

These two great operating systems are going to sway the market in their favor.

It is being said that Microsoft’s Windows 8 is not just a great operating system for PCs and tablet, it will also make the laptops and PCs very fast. To be true this will allow the computers to boot with just pressing of buttons.

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£4000 eye implant to replace reading glasses

In the procedure, a laser is used to make an incision in the cornea – the front lens of the eye – so that an inlay thinner than a red blood cell can be inserted by hand.

Millions of Britons who suffer from long-sightedness could now have their vision fully restored following groundbreaking treatment.

With an estimated 23 million experiencing partial difficulty with their ability to see, new procedures could now end the need for reading glasses.

Four million patients are now expected to have the operation over the next decade with the practice set to be made available to private patients as of tomorrow, which costs £2,800 for one eye and £4,600 for the pair.

Looking like a flattened black polo mint, and smaller than a contact lens, the implant sits around the iris and pupil.

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SuperPhone A85 to feature dual-core CPU and Gesture Control

Micromax earlier released Andro A60 and A70 mobile phones running Android 2.2 Froyo in India.

Micromax is secretly working on SuperPhone A85, a smartphone that will feature a gesture control-based user interface and will be targeted at the high-end smartphone category.

“Micromax A85 will most likely feature an 8 megapixel camera and will be launched by year end at a price ranging between Rs 15,000 to Rs 18,000 in India,” sources familiar with the development told The Mobile Indian.

Micromax earlier released Andro A60 and A70 mobile phones running Android 2.2 Froyo in India. These handsets created a lot of buzz and hence the company plans to make a mark in the Android space with a high end phone.

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Sleeping Sickness Drug Created

Sleeping sickness, also known as the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is not something that first world countries are overly familiar with, but for those who live in tropical climates, it is known as a damaging and potentially fatal disease if left untreated.

Definition of the disease

Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease. The parasites concerned are protozoa belonging to the Trypanosoma genus. They are transmitted to humans by tsetse fly (Glossinagenus) bites which have acquired their infection from human beings or from animals harbouring the human pathogenic parasites.

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Birth-control pills can affect women’s memory forever

Ladies, please note – birth control pills affect memory, a new study has warned. Researchers at the University of California have found that women who use contraceptives like birth control pills experience memory changes – in fact, their ability to remember the gist of an emotional event improves, while women not using the contraceptives better retain details.

“What’s most exciting about this study is that it shows use of hormonal contraception alters memory,” researcher Shawn Nielsen said. She stressed that the medications did not damage memory. “It’s a change in the type of information they remember, not a deficit,” she said. In the study, groups of women either on the contraceptive or experiencing natural hormonal cycles were shown photographs of a mother, her son, and a car accident . The audio narrative differed; some in each group were told the ca............

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Twitter to launch Hindi services in the coming weeks

There is a good news for Twitter fans in India as popular micro-blogging site is all set to launch services in Hindi in the coming weeks.

The micro-blogging site Twitter has revealed that its active users have passed the 100 million mark.

Active users, who log on at least once a month, rose 82 per cent this year, and half of these 100 million log on at least once a day.

The company’s chief executive Dick Costolo said that it was preparing to increase its business range by broadening the areas of its service where adverts appear.

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Google Music for iOS- as a Web app

Google’s streaming service, a rival to Apple’s forthcoming iCloud and Amazon’s existing Cloud Player, already offered limited but functional streaming to iOS devices, but only via a clunky, hard-to-navigate version of its full-size Web interface.

Google Music Beta can now run on iOS devices mainly with HTML5 Web interface which will facilitate the users in listening to their favorite songs. The application has not been quite popular among the masses and the Google has been trying to make it a part of everyone’s life.

The users will have to sign in the Music Beta account through iOS device and then they can access on the web application.

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Technology- ‘Emotional’ phones simulate hand holding, breathing and kissing

Ever imagined yourself sharing a kiss with your own phone? Well, now with the development of a series of phone prototypes, that could be a possibility.

The kissing phone is one of several new prototypes with a focus on tactile telecommunication. While conventional smartphones can transmit auditory and visual messages, they can’t yet transmit the touch or feel of another person. But what if you could actually hold hands with the person you’re on the phone with, or even feel the softness of their breath as they whisper sweet nothings in your ear?

Fabian Hemmert, a design researcher at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, came up with the phone prototypes that can transmit grasping, breathing and even kissing.

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ChronicleIndians share milk-digesting trait with Europeans

A new study has revealed that Indians, Europeans and people from West Asia share a common genetic mutation that allows them to digest milk.

The study was carried out by scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in collaboration with researchers from nine other institutions, including Cambridge University, University of Tartu, Harvard Medical School, Genome Foundation, Hyderabad and Chettinad Academy of Research & Education, Chennai. It was published online in the Oxford University Press journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Nikon to foray into mirrorless digital camera market

Nikon Corp will enter the market for lightweight, interchangeable-lens digital cameras and release its first product with a mirrorless design later this year, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Canon and Nikon have seen a decline in market share in their native Japan after strong sales in the mirrorless compact system camera market.

According to a research by BCN Inc, a research firm, the combined market share of Canon and Nikon has fallen by 35% while big rival Sony has increased its share twofold.

Other major camera brands, including Olympus, Sony, Pentax, Panasonic, Ricoh and Samsung already have compact system cameras in the market, but Nikon and Canon have so far neglected to join.

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What Is The Best Non-Prescription Eyelash Enhancer

Eyelash enhancers are the latest beauty trend these days, and cosmetic companies everywhere are launching products that promise to give women longer, fuller, and darker lashes without the fuss of mascara or false lashes. But, with all these options, it’s hard to know what really works and what doesn’t.

Luckily, there are reputable beauty sites out there that have put many of these eyelash enhancers to the test. The results for this year’s top-performing eyelash enhancers are in … with iQ Derma’s SmartLash coming in with a solid 5-star rating on Dermstore.com, the #1 online destination for skin care and beauty.

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First in Vivitek’s line of 2D to 3D Conversion Technology projectors

While 3D projectors have been around in the market for sometime now, they were just 3D ‘capable’ projectors, which meant you needed a PC or a Blu-ray player for the actual 3D processing. Vivitek however, have announced their new D5 series, which is capable of 2D to 3D conversion by itself. Three models are available on launch, the D512-3D which retails for Rs. 37,950, the D536-3D is for Rs. 53,130 and the D538W-3D that will retail for Rs. 57,684. The only difference between the models is the native resolution which ranges from 800×600 to 1280×800.

The D5 series is based on Texas Instruments DLP technology and supports a max brightness level of 3200 lumens. The contrast ratio is a good 3000:1 and the projector........

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People with lots of friends burn off more fat than using a treadmill

Keeping a busy social life amongst lots of friends may keep people slimmer than spending hours on a treadmill, according to scientists.

They say that socialising and meeting with friends helps boost levels of ‘brown fat’ in the body which burns calories to generate heat.

Living in a stimulating, social environment was found to reduce abdominal fat in mice by half over four weeks, even if they ate more.

Fun and friendship may be among the secrets of staying slim, new research has suggested.

Studies of mice showed that living in a dynamic social environment caused them to generate a healthy type of fat that burns up calories.

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Language Service on cell Phones

IMImobile, a known name in the mobile value added and business services segment with its DaVinci Evolved Service Platform, has launched the “My SMS” application in India. The SMS-based application will allow users to receive messages in their preferred Indian language, including English.

For now, the service is up for grabs for telecom operators, media companies, device manufacturers, and other enterprises. It apparently boasts of “easy backend integration”, making it an attractive proposition for such companies. As a consumer, you will have to wait till the service becomes adopted by one of these, relevant to you.

IMImobile has come up with a new application called the MY SMS, which will provide the Value Added Service (VAS) operators an access to the customers in their native.................

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