Foursquare Raises $20 Million, now its worth $95 Million.

According to AllThingsD, the funding totals $20 million and values the company at $95 million.

This news has been anticipated for some time, especially following a tweet from Co-founder Dennis Crowley late last week that included a link to Flickr photos of Foursquare’s soon-to-be upgraded New York office space.

This news puts to rest rumors that Foursquare would be acquired by Facebook or Yahoo.

Foursquare Raises $20 Million, now its worth $95 Million.

Creative manager mock at twitter failure, come with his creativity.

Nadav Yaron created this rather rad animation (rendered in Flash) depicting the twitter birds able to lift the huge wale.

Creative manager mock at twitter failure, come with his creativity.

First Look: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]

The first full-length trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, one of the most hotly anticipated movies of both 2010 and 2011, has finally made its debut on YouTube and the web.

The Harry Potter series has already proven itself a social media phenomenon. Last year’s release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince scored more Facebook, Twitter and YouTube than almost any other film of 2009.

First Look: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]

Atlast, Verizon gets its hand on iPhone.

Verizon Wireless will start selling the iPhone in January of next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. While this is hardly the first Verizon iPhone rumor.

Bloomberg is citing two people familiar with the matter

Atlast, Verizon gets its hand on iPhone.

How to Use Apple’s iPad (Wacky a.k.a Unusual ways) [VIDEOS]

How to Use Apple’s iPad (Wacky a.k.a Unusual ways) [VIDEOS]

Samsung Vibrant to come with copy of 'Avatar' and 'SIMS 3'

Samsung Android Vibrant (a variant of the Galaxy S) launches on T-Mobile July 21. Each handset will come pre-loaded with a copy of Avatar and the mobile game The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition.

This is good news as you might be able to able to see Avatar on AMOLED Screen.

Samsung Vibrant to come with copy of 'Avatar' and 'SIMS 3'

Apple May Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone 4.

The iPhone 4’s much-discussed reception and antenna issues just might spawn a class-action lawsuit.

Law firm Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff is issuing a call for disgruntled users as part of their investigations of “potential problems with the release of iPhone 4.”

The lawyers write, “If you recently purchased the new iPhone and have experienced poor reception quality, dropped calls and weak signals, we would like to hear from you.”

Last fall, the same firm Facebook, Zynga, MySpace, RockYou and others for advertising scams and allegedly unauthorized charges to users’ Mafia Wars and FarmVille accounts.

Src: [mashable]

Apple May Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone 4.

All Nexus One Devices now to come with Andriod 2.2 code named FroYo

The Android 2.2 is finally out, starting with Google’s flagship phone, the Nexus One.

Android (Android) 2.2, codename “FroYo,” was revealed last month at the Google (Google) I/O conference in San Francisco. Featuring major speed upgrades, Wi-Fi hotspot and tethering functionality, cloud-to-device integrations and Adobe Flash 10.1.

While the newest version of the Google-build OS has been available for a short while now, today marks the official rollout of Android 2.2 to the masses. Most Nexus One owners can expect an over-the-air update sometime later today.

All Nexus One Devices now to come with Andriod 2.2 code named FroYo

iMovie Hacked to Work on iPhone 3GS[VIDEO]

Popular Video Editing app and apple's official meant to support Apple 4 can now be hacked to work on iPhone 3GS.

The hack requires a jailbroken iPhone 3GS and a couple of simple edits to Apple’s .ipa file for iMovie. The instructions for the hack were originally published (but then retracted, as it breaks Apple’s TOS) by Redmond Pie.

iMovie Hacked to Work on iPhone 3GS[VIDEO]

iPhone 4 parts are very costly.

The iPhone 4 went on sale June 24. After taking this latest Apple gadget apart and identifying the components, iSuppli estimated the cost of the parts totals $187.51. That's more than the $170.80 iSuppli estimates for the cost of the materials inside the iPhone 3GS, Apple's last-generation smart phone.

The estimates don't include manufacturing, software, marketing and other costs.

The priciest part of the iPhone 4 is the new, higher-resolution LCD screen, which iSuppli estimates carries a cost of $28.50. Flash memory, which has been in short supply, costs $27. Apple's processor, which was manufactured by Samsung, according to iSuppli, costs $10.75, and the capacitive touch screen costs $10.

iPhone 4 parts are very costly.

Master Blaster Sachin at Wimbledon 2010[PICS]

Sachin wavin to Crowd.

Master Blaster Sachin at Wimbledon 2010[PICS]

Twitter to gives updates of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's visit to the US.

Saudi Arabia's Washington Embassy will use popular social networking site 'Twitter', to give updates during King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's visit to the US.

Tweets from '@SaudiEmbassyUSA' will highlight Saudi Arabia's involvement in the G-20 Summit, as well as items of interest about the long-standing Saudi-US relationship, the embassy has said in a statement.

In addition to Twitter, the embassy has expanded its social media content to YouTube, www.youtube.com/saudiembassyusa.

Press conferences and video related to Saudi Arabia, as well as third-party speeches and interviews will be posted on the website.

Twitter to gives updates of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's visit to the US.

Sepp Blatter apologises to England, Mexico for Referee Mistakes.

(AP) With pressure for video replay mounting after two blatant missed calls at the World Cup, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said soccer's governing body will reopen the issue after the tournament.

Blatter said Tuesday that FIFA deplores ``when you see the evidence of refereeing mistakes.'' It would be ``a nonsense'' not to consider changes, he said.

The referee at England's second-round match with Germany on Sunday missed a clear English goal that would have tied the score 2-2. Germany went on to win 4-1. Hours later, a referee awarded a goal to Argentina on a play in which goal-scorer Carlos Tevez was obviously offside. Argentina went on to beat Mexico 3-1.

Sepp Blatter apologises to England, Mexico for Referee Mistakes.

Man kills girl for crying during WC match on TV

A man beat his two-year-old stepdaughter then suffocated her to death in an American town for crying during a World Cup football match between the US and Ghana which the latter won. To make the killing look accidental, he jammed a screw down her throat.

Hector Castro, 28, has been arrested for murdering in McAllen city in Texas Saturday. Ghana beat the US 2-1.

The Monitor quoted McAllen police chief Victor Rodriguez as saying: "There are no words for this. It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else."

Man kills girl for crying during WC match on TV

Symbol of Good Fortune and Power-'White Elephant' Captured in Burma.

A rare "white elephant", a traditional symbol of good fortune and power in south-east Asia, has been captured in Burma, state media reports.

Reports say the 2m (6.5ft) female elephant was tracked down in Maungdaw in the west of the country.

White elephants are only nominally white - they often look reddish-brown in the sun, and light pink when wet.

Analysts say the animal is likely to be brought to the capital, Naypyidaw, for the military ruler, General Than Shwe.

Symbol of Good Fortune and Power-'White Elephant' Captured in Burma.

Earth's gravity in high definition

This colourful new map traces the subtle but all pervasive influence the pull of gravity has across the globe.

Known as a geoid, it essentially defines where the level surface is on our planet; it tells us which way is "up" and which way is "down".

It is drawn from delicate measurements made by Europe's Goce satellite, which flies so low it comes perilously close to falling out of the sky.

Scientists say the data gathered by the spacecraft will have numerous applications.

Earth's gravity in high definition

Founders of File Sharing Site Piratebay Splits

Marcin de Kaminski, a founder of Piratbyran, which means "piracy bureau" in English, told BBC News "we don't feel we are needed" any more.

But the group also decided to close following the death of a co-founder.

A spokesperson for the Swedish computer games industry said the decision showed "the discussion has moved on".

Piratbyran first emerged in 2003, as a response to the Swedish body Antipiratbyran (anti-piracy bureau), which works to counter the sharing of copyrighted materials on-line.

Founders of File Sharing Site Piratebay Splits

Google to Rival Facebook with a New Social Networking Site?[RUMOUR]

Citing a "very credible source," Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted that Google is readying "Google Me," a social service intended to compete with Facebook.

Although Google tried to foray in Social Networking with its Buzz but it was a complete failure. 

Google to Rival Facebook with a New Social Networking Site?[RUMOUR]

Microsoft say I am the Boss.

Apple Inc might be giving a hard time to Microsoft, but it wanna shows that it is still the Boss.

So Microsoft revealed some numbers to serve as a reminder:

• 150 million Windows 7 licenses sold

• 7.1 million projected iPad sales in 2010

• 58 million projected netbook sales in 2010

• 355 million projected PC sales in 2010

• less than 10% of US netbooks ran Windows in 2008

• 96% of US netbooks ran Windows in 2009

• 16 million subscribers to the largest 25 US daily newspapers

• 14 million Netflix subscribers

• 23 million Xbox live subscribers

• 173 million Gmail users

• 284 million Yahoo Mail users

• 360 million Windows Live Hotmail users

• $5.7 billion Apple net income for fiscal year ending in Sept 2009

• $6.5 billion Google net income for fiscal year ending in Dec 2009

• $14.5 billion Microsoft net income for fiscal year ending in June 2009

Src: [microsoft_blog]

Microsoft say I am the Boss.

Fake Steve Jobs says, iPhone may be recalled.

After the launch of iPhone 4, due to some i mean annoying technical glitches, many were expecting that the iPhone 4 soon will be recalled. And the Rumors are doing the round as well.

The Daily Mail reported this morning than an iPhone 4 recall is underway, but don’t believe it; the UK publication’s source was a tweet from a fake Steve Jobs Twitter account.

Apple hasn’t announced any plans to recall its new phone.

The Twitter account @ceoSteveJobs is a fake account and its Bio says, "I don't care what you think of me. You care what I think of you. Of course this is a parody account."

We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect.Sat Jun 26 23:17:35 via Twitter for iPhoneSteve Jobs
ceoSteveJobs

But if the complains grown and customers express their dissatisfaction then the apple will have no other choice but to recall it but its gonna be giant headache to steve :(

Fake Steve Jobs says, iPhone may be recalled.

Gas bubbles to treat Cancer.

Researchers have found a novel technique of destroying cancer cells in the body by injecting exploding gas bubbles into the blood stream.

The research team from Leeds University developed the technique that uses microscopic gas bubbles to carry chemotherapy drugs to tumours, where the drugs can target the cancer cells.

Each of the tiny bubbles, which are less than a tenth of the width of a human hair, can be specifically targeted towards cancer cells so that they clump around the tumour.

Gas bubbles to treat Cancer.

Anil Ambani to create World's Largest Telecom Infrastructure.

Anil Ambani-backed Reliance Communications and GTL Infrastructure have agreed on a Rs 50,000 crore deal to create the world’s largest independent telecom infrastructure company, which would not be controlled by any telecom operator.

Under the deal, the telecom towers of Reliance Infratel, in which Reliance Communications holds a 95 per cent stake, would be merged with GTL Infrastructure, which offers infrastructure services to wireless telecom operators.

The deal is expected to close within six months. The combined entity would have 80,000 towers and over 1.25 lakh tenancies.

Anil Ambani to create World's Largest Telecom Infrastructure.

Resul Pookutty gets Invitation to be Oscar Academy Member.

Oscar-winning sound technician Resul Pookutty is among 135 artistes and executives who have been invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to join as a voting member.

"The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world. The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them," said Academy president Tom Sherak in a statement.

Elated over the news, Pookutty said that this is another recognition of the work by Indian artistes. "It's a great honour to be nominated as a voting member by the board of governors," Pookutty said.

Pookutty is the first Asian sound technician to be a member of the Academy.

Resul Pookutty gets Invitation to be Oscar Academy Member.

Wine for Better Eye Vision.

(IANS) Resveratrol, an ingredient found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and some plants, stops uncontrolled blood vessel growth in the eye, says a study led by an Indian-American.

'Resveratrol has been identified as an anti-aging compound. Given our interest in age-related eye diseases, we wanted to find out whether there was any link,' said retina specialist Rajendra S. Apte, senior study investigator.

Apte, formerly from Mumbai University and now with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, added: 'There were reports on resveratrol's effects on blood vessels in other parts of the body, but there was no evidence that it had any effect within the eye.'

Wine for Better Eye Vision.

6 Years Old on 'No Fly List' due to Terror Link Suspect.

(ANI): The US Homeland Security Department has put a six-year-old Indian origin American girl on the "no fly" list on the grounds of having suspected ties to terrorists.

Alyssa Thomas, 6, is under the spotlight of the US Government, and her family recently came to know that she is on the "no fly" list maintained by the US Homeland Security.

"We were, like, puzzled. I'm like, well, she's kinda six-years-old and this is not something that should be typical," said Dr. Santhosh Thomas.

During a recent trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis, Dr. Thomas and his wife were made aware of the listing. The ticket agent at the Continental counter at Hopkins Airport notified the family, FOX News reports.

6 Years Old on 'No Fly List' due to Terror Link Suspect.

Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) television.

Californian company Prysm has unveiled a high definition television with a "laser phosphor display" based on their patented method of using lasers reflected off a bank of mirrors to excite pixels on the television screen in a similar way to cathode ray tubes.

Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) television.

Google deletes two Android applications remotely.

Google removed two free applications from Android phones this week, using a feature that allows them to delete the applications from phones remotely.

Google has not revealed the names of the applications but said they were applications built for research purposes by a security researcher. The researcher voluntarily removed the applications from Android Market.

The applications were removed because they violated the Android Market terms and intentionally misrepresented their purpose to encourage user downloads. The applications posed no threat, there was no malicious intent in their design, and they had no permission to access private information.

Google deletes two Android applications remotely.

New record in time measurement accuracy.

German physicists have discovered a time delay when using light pulses to emit electrons from atoms. Until now, it has been assumed that the electrons start moving out of the atom immediately after the impact of the photons. This delay is the shortest time interval measured to date.

Provided by Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Have time ? Read the Details

New record in time measurement accuracy.

FIFA World Cup Bringing Down Twitter?

CNN.com’s Twitter buzz counted more than 300,000 World Cup-related tweets during the first game, and some data we just received from Trendrr also shows a huge spike, with up to 150,000 tweets per hour during the game (note: the time line on the graph below is MST).

Mark Ghuneim from Wiredset, the agency behind Trendrr, told me a few days ago that he expects the World Cup to be record-breaking. “It will be the largest conversation in social media,” he said.

Twitter already had some availability issues earlier this week, leading to a complete outage of about 90 minutes on Wednesday,

FIFA World Cup Bringing Down Twitter?

iPhone 4 antenna problems were predicted on June 10 by Danish professor

iPhone 4-antenna system is far from new. And possibly it is even so problematic that it will reduce the phone's performance,says leading experts when it comes to cellphone antennas, a professor Gert Frølund Pedersen from Aalborg University's Institute for Electronic Systems.

He is leading an international research team that recently got one million support from the Technology Foundation to develop a more effective mobile antenna, and has for many years studereret antenna technology on the mobile front.

Asked about Apple's iPhone presentation of four, he answered that the construction of the antenna as a part of the phone's frame is an old news that is seen many times before. Virtually all cell phone antennas on the market uses phone's metal parts such as antenna.

iPhone 4 antenna problems were predicted on June 10 by Danish professor

Germany says Apple must improve data transparency.

"Users of iPhones and other GPS devices must be aware of what kind of information about them is being collected," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the German weekly.

According to Der Spiegel, the minister's criticism was aimed at changes Apple has made in its privacy policy whereby the company can collect data on the geographic location of the users of its products -- albeit anonymously.

Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said she expected Apple to "open its databases to German data protection authorities" and clarify what data it was collecting and how long it was saving the data.

Germany says Apple must improve data transparency.

White iPhone 4 Spotted in UK Apple Store[VIDEO]

This Sky News video report shows two people using the new white iPhone in a central London Apple store nearly a month before it’s expected to be available.

The White iPhone looks cooler than the Black one. It wasn't expected this early as it is stated to available later in July.

White iPhone 4 Spotted in UK Apple Store[VIDEO]

Google’s Bots can understand some Javascript Code.

Google told Forbes that Google now has deeper interaction with JavaScript, and its bots can even “understand some JavaScript.” This could make indexing rich content a great deal easier on the world’s largest search engine.

As Forbes points out, having a program understand JavaScript isn’t a simple affair. No algorithm “can be applied to any program, at any point, and tell whether or not that program continues ad infinitum.” However, if Google’s bots could execute JavaScript themselves, it would solve some of those difficult issues.

The Googlebot is getting smarter and faster, thanks to Google Caffeine.

Google’s Bots can understand some Javascript Code.

Texting While Walking Lands Teen in Trouble

When a Staten Island, N.Y., teen who was texting fell into a manhole while strolling with a friend last week.

Alexa Longueira was about to send a text message when she suddenly slipped under the sidewalk.

"She literally just handed me the phone and I opened it [and] I felt this big drop," the 15-year-old told the Staten Island Advance.

"It was four or five feet, it was very painful. I kind of crawled out and the DEP guys came running and helped me," she said. "They were just, like, 'I'm sorry! I'm sorry!'"

Texting While Walking Lands Teen in Trouble

Cell Phone Towers Not a Cancer Risk for Kids

Mobile phone base station towers boost cell reception, not childhood cancer risk, a British study has shown.

Children whose mothers lived near a high-output cell phone antenna mast while pregnant were no more likely to develop childhood cancer than those who lived farther away, found Paul Elliott of Imperial College London and colleagues. The researchers reported their findings online in the British Medical Journal.

"The risks are dwarfed by the well known dangers of distraction while using mobile phones, especially when driving-even when using hands-free equipment," he wrote in the editorial.

But because of the high levels of public concern, Elliott's group conducted a study looking at all 1,397 cases of central nervous system cancer, leukemia, and non- Hodgkin's lymphomas in children up to age 4 years in the U.K. national cancer registry from 1999 to 2001.

Cell Phone Towers Not a Cancer Risk for Kids

Alcohol, drugs can stimulate artistic creativity

The idea that alcohol and drugs can stimulate writers, musicians and others to create great works of art is a "dangerous myth" because they can actually stifle creativity, says a psychiatrist.

Iain Smith, consultant in addiction psychiatry at Gartnavel Royal Hospital in Glasgow, said that while many artists and writers were known for their use of intoxicating substances, most produced their greatest work when they were sober."

Smith said: "The reason that this myth is so powerful is the allure of the substances and the fact that many artists need drugs to cope with their emotions. Artists are, in general, emotional people, and the use of these substances to deal with their emotions is more likely to happen."

Alcohol, drugs can stimulate artistic creativity

Thulani Ngcobo is the FIFA World Cup Fan No. 1[OFFICIAL].

Thulani Ngcobo, a resident of the Soshanguve Township outside Pretoria can now officially claim the title of South Africa's No. 1 football fan after he set a new world record for attending the most matches at a World Cup tournament.

He has so far attended 38 matches.

Thulani Ngcobo is the FIFA World Cup Fan No. 1[OFFICIAL].

German TanDEM-X satellite returns first 3D images

Choppy Indian Ocean waters (yellow) contrast with the calm Baie de Diego (blue)

Germany's new radar satellite, TanDEM-X, has returned its first images.

The spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan on Monday on a mission to make the most precise 3D map of the Earth's surface.

The pictures demonstrate the platform is in excellent health and ready to team up with the TerraSAR-X satellite launched in 2007.

Together, the pair will trace the variation in height across the globe to a precision of better than two metres.

1.Moscow-Sheremetyevo airport 2.Fields and forests in Ukraine

The new images depict a landscape in Ukraine, the north of Madagascar, and Moscow.

The pictures illustrate neatly the particular specialism of using radar to sense the planet's surface.

German TanDEM-X satellite returns first 3D images

World's largest gold coin fetches $4m at auction.

The largest gold coin in the world has been sold for $4m (£2.6m) at an auction in Vienna.

The Maple Leaf coin measures 53cm (21in) in diameter, weighs 100kg (200lb) and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

The coin was bought by a Spanish precious metal company on Friday, the auction house Dorotheum said.

The auction had been ordered by the administrator of an Austrian investment group that had gone bankrupt.

World's largest gold coin fetches $4m at auction.

China bans its soldiers from blogging.

A new regulation prohibits the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from creating websites or blogs, citing confidentiality concerns, the official Xinhua news agency says.

China operates vast internet censorship, dubbed the "great firewall of China".

Websites deemed sensitive by the government are routinely blocked.

"Soldiers cannot open blogs on the internet no matter (whether) he or she does it in the capacity of a soldier or not," Xinhua quoted Wan Long, a political commissar of the PLA, as saying.

China bans its soldiers from blogging.

Steve Jobs shows iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [PIC]

Dmitry Medvedev is on tour in USA and seems to enjoying it. Though Americans also seems to woo him.

Recent news shows that Dmitry Medvedev having a burger Obama.

During the visit to Apple inc, Steve Jobs shows off his latest company offering iPhone 4.

Steve Jobs shows iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [PIC]

iPhone 4: 1.5 Million Sold on First Day

According to Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner in a note to clients issued Friday, Apple sold 1.5 million phones on launch day.

We know that 600,000 units have been pre-ordered. Reiner estimates that 100,000 additional, non-reserved units were sold at Apple stores and that 50,000 were sold at Best Buy. He multiplied the final number by two to include international sales.

Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has a more conservative calculation: He thinks that Apple will sell between 1 million and 1.5 million iPhones in the first three days, including pre-orders.

iPhone 4: 1.5 Million Sold on First Day

Coca-Cola Promoted Trend Garners 86 Million Impressions on Twitter

In just 24 hours, Coca-Cola’s first Promoted Trend garnered 86 million impressions and an engagement rate of 6%, according to the company’s Global Interactive Marketing Vice President Carol Kruse in an interview with The Financial Times.

Coca-Cola is the second company to reach Twitter audiences by advertising as a Trending Topic on Twitter.Coca-Cola is the second company to reach Twitter audiences by advertising as a Trending Topic on Twitter. First was Disney Pixar Toy Story 3

Coca-Cola Promoted Trend Garners 86 Million Impressions on Twitter

The History of the iPhone [INFOGRAPHIC]

Photo by masable.com

The History of the iPhone [INFOGRAPHIC]

Twitter Sets New Record: 3,283 Tweets Per Second.

Twitter’s biggest tweets per second record to date was during last week’s NBA finals. That record was shattered yesterday as Twitter users published 3,283 tweets per second at the close of Japan’s victory over Denwark in the World Cup.

Previous record of 3,085 tweets per second was for NBA.

Both of these recent records are staggering given that Twitter — during normal daily activity — averages roughly 750 tweets per second. The Japan-Demark World Cup figure means that activity swelled 438% above average.

Twitter Sets New Record: 3,283 Tweets Per Second.

First Look: “The Social Network” [VIDEO cum PIC]

Columbia Pictures has just released the very first teaser trailer for its upcoming film.

The Social Network, otherwise known as “the Facebook movie,” is based in part on the book The Accidental Billionaires. It chronicles the formative days of Facebook, from its founding in Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room through its early rise to success.

Written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, the film stars Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. It hits theaters this October.

First Look: “The Social Network” [VIDEO cum PIC]

ATM security flaws could be a jackpot for hackers.

Barnaby Jack, head of research at Seattle-based, security firm IOActive Labs, will demonstrate methods for "jackpotting" ATMs at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that starts on July 28.

"ATMs are not as secure as we would like them to be," Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat conference and a member of President Obama's Homeland Security Advisory Council said. "Barnaby has a number of different attacks that make all the money come out."

Jack declined to discuss his techniques before the conference. The world's biggest ATM manufacturers include Diebold Inc and NCR Corp. Officials with those companies could not be reached for comment.

Banks may cringe when he speaks, fearing would-be crooks will adopt his methods. But Moss said that going public will raise awareness of the problem among ATM operators and prompt them to tighten security.

ATM security flaws could be a jackpot for hackers.

Apple admits iPhone 4 antenna issues

Since the iPhone 4 went on sale Thursday, numerous reports have begun to appear online about consumers having strange issues with the antenna. Namely, that if they put their hand over the new steel band that encases the iPhone, they lose reception.

Apple has responded with a statement:

"Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases."

Apple admits iPhone 4 antenna issues

Women Love Beetles, Men Prefer Bugattis

Stylish yet affordable, Volkswagen's Beetle is the auto most likely to be purchased by women, according to a study of 13 million U.S. vehicle registrations over the past two years.

Men are most likely to go for a brawny, gas-chugging GM truck or even a powerful Bugatti with a $2 million pricetag, according to the findings of Truecar.com, the California-based auto pricing information company.

The nation's population is more than 50 percent female, yet women account for just 36 percent of new car registrations, the study found. Among all new car owners registering Beetles, more than 56 percent were women.

Women Love Beetles, Men Prefer Bugattis

Former 'Biggest Loser' Says Show Gave Her Eating Disorder.

A former contestant on the hit weight loss show "The Biggest Loser" is claiming that the show's unhealthy practices led her to develop a life-threatening eating disorder.

Kai Hibbard, 31, was one of the final four contestants on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" in 2006, when the show was in its third season. While Hibbard appeared to be a poster child for the show, losing 118 pounds in just 12 weeks, she now says that she nearly died.

"I had no idea I had a problem," Hibbard told ABCNews.com. "When you spend four months surrounded by people who are all doing this to themselves, even if intellectually it seems wrong, you don't realize. You just think if they're doing it, I'm doing it."

Former 'Biggest Loser' Says Show Gave Her Eating Disorder.

Obama, Lady Gaga compete for Facebook fan record.

Facebook publicists told CNN on Thursday that the pop star and the president are neck-and-neck in the race to become the first living person with more than 10 million fans on the social networking site.

As of early Friday, Obama was in the lead, with 9,058,881 fans. Lady Gaga trailed behind with 9,023,966.

Both of them were more than 4 million fans behind the No. 1 individual, Michael Jackson, who had 13,285,811. The singer died a year ago.

Obama's page, which is run by the group Organizing for America, includes photographs of his recent Gulf Coast visit and links to speeches from news conferences.

Obama, Lady Gaga compete for Facebook fan record.

Flexible touch screen with printed graphene.

Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has spectacular strength, flexibility, transparency and electrical conductivity.

Spurred on by its potential for application in new devices like touch screens and solar cells, researchers have been toying with ways to make large sheets of pure graphene, for example by shaving off atom-thin flakes and chemically dissolving chunks of graphite oxide. Yet in the thirty-some years since graphene's discovery, laboratory experiments have mainly yielded mere flecks of the stuff, and mass manufacture has seemed a long way away.

"The future of the field certainly isn't flaking off pencil shavings," says Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. "The large-area production of monolayer graphene was a serious technological hurdle to advancing graphene technology."

Flexible touch screen with printed graphene.

Salesforce sues Microsoft.

The world's biggest maker of Web-based software charged that Microsoft is infringing five Salesforce patents in programs, including in the Windows Server operating system and the widely used .Net platform.

"Microsoft's continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com," the complaint said.

Salesforce is seeking unspecified damages in the suit, which was filed in US District Court for the District of Delaware on Thursday.

The battle began on May 18 when Microsoft sued Salesforce in federal court in Seattle, alleging its rival uses its technology in software menus, toolbars and graphical interface features.

Salesforce sues Microsoft.

Picasso masterpiece auctioned in Britain .

A masterpiece from Picasso's "blue period" sold for 34.7 million pounds (.8 million) at a major auction of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's in London Wednesday.

The 1903 painting, Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, had been expected to fetch between 30 and 40 million pounds at the evening sale, which Christie's said could yield a total of 230 million pounds.

However, the price for the Picasso, formerly owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Britain's foremost musical composer, remained well below expectations.

Christie's had billed the sale as the "most valuable art auction ever to take place in London."

Picasso masterpiece auctioned in Britain .

Thieves sweep all the things including kitchen Sink in South Africa.

South Africa's police are investigating after thieves stripped a police station of all its contents, down to the kitchen sink.

The office was under renovations and ready for re-occupation when the thieves hit, reports South Africa's Times Newspaper.

The robbers helped themselves to everything of value - including doors, cupboards, basins, cutlery, tiles, furniture, electrical equipment and mortuary fridges.

Thieves sweep all the things including kitchen Sink in South Africa.

Now Pakistan follows the Chinese way, Censor the Internet.

Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, for content it deems offensive to Muslims.

YouTube, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail and Bing will also come under scrutiny, while 17 less well-known sites will be blocked.

Officials will monitor the sites and block links deemed inappropriate

Now Pakistan follows the Chinese way, Censor the Internet.

3,500 year-old city, which gave us Horse Cart Found.

Hyksos, who ruled ancient Egypt for a little over 100 years and their civilized city was found by a team of Austrian archaeologists at Nile Delta.

The ancient Egyptians so reviled the Hyksos- the people who introduced horsedrawn carriages into the world-that they obliterated all traces of their rich civilisation.

Archaeological discovery of the Hyksos capital, Avaris, led by Irena Mueller, deputy director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Cairo, will cast muchneeded light on an empire that flourished from 1664 to 1569 BC.

3,500 year-old city, which gave us Horse Cart Found.

RIM sells 100 millionth BlackBerry and going Smooth.

Its from RIM's PRESS RELEASE.

RIM sells 100 millionth BlackBerry and going Smooth.

What Problem does the iPhone 4 have?[PIC]

There have been numerous reports of issues with the latest Apple iPhone 4 device, like screen discoloration, poor reception, indestructible glass gets scratches easily .See more pics by clicking "Read More about it"

What Problem does the iPhone 4 have?[PIC]

Mysterious “Horse Boy” on Google Stree Maps creates buzz on internet.

According to the BBC, Horse Boy  who was captured on film standing by a wall in Aberdeen, Scotland — has become a phenomenon among denizens in the country.

BBC news claims Horse boy website story has had more than 800,000 hits.

Mysterious “Horse Boy” on Google Stree Maps creates buzz on internet.

How much did Apple Gain this Year ?

Surely apple's Steve Jobs know how to sell the products and use to the World Media for his advantage.

Wasted claims that people wasted $28 billion and still counting.

Here’s a breakdown of our annual Apple waste in U.S. dollars as of today:

• $1.3 billion wasted on iPads
• $7.4 billion wasted on iPhones
• $7.8 billion wasted on Macs
• $9.5 billion wasted on iPods

How much did Apple Gain this Year ?

How and What US People watch on Internet.

According to data released today by the comScore Video Metrix service. Having for the first time achieved the milestone of 100 videos/user, the video-sharing site reached an all-time high of 14.6 billion videos viewed in May.

Here is the complete content from comScore Video Metrix service

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Videos Viewed
U.S. Internet users watched nearly 34 billion videos in May, with Google Sites ranking as the top video property with 14.6 billion videos, representing 43.1 percent of all videos viewed online. YouTube accounted for the vast majority of videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with 1.2 billion videos, or 3.5 percent of all online videos viewed. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 642 million (1.9 percent), followed by Vevo with 430 million (1.3 percent) and Viacom Digital with 347 million (1.0 percent).

How and What US People watch on Internet.

Vuvuzela Button now on Youtube.

Vuvuzela the Music instrument in FIFA World Cup 2010 to cheer up their respective teams finally made it to the Popular video sharing site Youtube.

Though many are criticizing for the decibel it makes let see what reaction emerges.

Vuvuzela Button now on Youtube.

Only 1 in 18 Americams Consume Salt in Healthy Amounts

Most U.S. adults should eat less than a teaspoon of salt each day, but a new government report says just 1 in 18 meet that goal.

"This is not good news," said Janelle Peralez Gunn of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lead author of a new study released Thursday.

Health officials currently say no adult should eat more than a teaspoon of salt each day. They go on to advise that 70 percent of adults - including people with high blood pressure, all African-Americans and everyone over 40 - should actually limit their salt intake to a more restrictive two-thirds of a teaspoon.

Sodium increases the risk of high blood pressure, which is major cause of heart disease and stroke. Salt - or sodium chloride - is the main source of sodium for most people.

Only 1 in 18 Americams Consume Salt in Healthy Amounts

iPhone 4 now in Apple stores available.

After lining up for hours, or some people for sometimes days, on Thursday morning started to get their hands on the iPhone 4 in the direct buy out at the Apple stores.

At a flagship Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York, more than 600 people had lined up to get a device that some were calling the "Jesus Phone," according to CNNMoney. Vuvuzelas trumpeted. Fans cheered.

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new phone this month, he said the iPhone 4 is "the biggest leap we've taken since the original iPhone," which debuted in 2007.

iPhone 4 now in Apple stores available.

Russian Dmitry Medvedev president joins Twitter as well as first Russian to recive iPhone 4.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev got more than 15,000 followers in less than 12 hours after officially opening up his Twitter account during his visit to the US.

Twitter Inc. has confirmed that Medvedev has a verified account with the social networking and microblogging service.

Medvedev's account is both in English and Russian, and he has so far added only two microblogs: US President Barack Obama and the US White House.

Russian Dmitry Medvedev president joins Twitter as well as first Russian to recive iPhone 4.

US fight backs against Anthrax.

Dimitrios Bouzianas, molecular endocrinologist, AHEPA University Hospital in Macedonia, Greece, notes that several existing antibiotics are available to combat an anthrax infection.

However, the emergence of artificially engineered B. anthracis strains, resistant to multiple antibiotics (including the front-line agents ciprofloxacin, doxycycline, and ß-lactam antibiotics) has prompted researchers to pursue additional therapeutic options.

Such alternatives include small molecules and antibodies against toxins that the lethal bacteria secrete.

Today's drug arsenal has another weakness: no medications available to fight the dangerous toxin that can circulate in a person's blood when antibiotic treatment begins after the disease has taken hold.

US fight backs against Anthrax.

Longest match ever Recorded for Wimbledon.

John Isner won the longest tennis match on ever recorded on Thursday by beating Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the final set of their first-round encounter at Wimbledon.

Picking up at 59-59 in the fifth set, the match continued on serve with no break points until the American hit a backhand passing shot past the Frenchman in the 138th game of the set to finish the contest in front of a packed crowd on Court 18.

The  final score read: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3) 70-68.

Isner finished with a total of 112 aces and Mahut 103.

The first-round match lasted 11 hours, 5 minutes, over three days. The fifth set alone lasted 8 hours, 11 minutes.

Longest match ever Recorded for Wimbledon.

Oooo its Scary !!! Lady Gaga going to perform with Dead Bodies ?

Pop artist Lady Gaga plans to perform along with dead bodies in her upcoming concerts.

German anatomist and creator of Body Worlds, Gunther Von Hagens, who is well known for depicting preserved human corpses in various poses, has fascinated Gaga this time, The Sun online reported.

Gaga's new vision for her upcoming concert is inspired from the life-story and works of Hagens."She is fascinated by Gunther's work and life and he has the kind of past she is drawn to. Gaga sees a kindred spirit and is hoping to meet him in New York," a source told newspaper.

Oooo its Scary !!! Lady Gaga going to perform with Dead Bodies ?

Ace Indian Shuttler Saina Nehwal is now World No 3.

Saina Nehwal does what she says. Thats why Hyderbadi loves Saina rather then the Glam seeking Tennis girls Sania I mean to say Sania Mirza whos is now not an indian any more.

This latest rankings comes after the Saina winning the India Open Grand Prix and the Singapore Open Super Series respectively.

It is now her career best ranking, i will be like her dream come true. According to me, saina believes in aim small small goals and achieves it and then targets her next. Firstly she expressed her desire to be reach World's Top 25 Ranking, then 10 then 5, then top 3, reaching her goal :).

I hope are Indian are keen to Saina Nehwal in First Position.

Saina, with 64791.2637 points, made a significant upward movement in the chart and is just behind Chinese duo of Yihan Wang and Xin Wang.

Ace Indian Shuttler Saina Nehwal is now World No 3.

Hear India, India Rupee to get its own version of Currency Symbol.

Today(24/06/2010) India Cabinet is set to approve the symbol which is going to represent Indian Currency. This announcement was made by, the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in his budget speech.

"In the ensuing year, we intend to formalise a symbol for the Indian rupee, which reflects and captures the Indian ethos and culture," Mukherjee had said then.

The shortlisted design apparently plays on the Hindi letter 'R' with a double-slash. The FE designers have conceptualised the design here.

The government has already shortlisted five entries after a pan-India open contest which was advertised by the finance ministry in February 2009. According to the terms of this contest, the winning design will become the property of the government of India and the winner will have to surrender the design copyright to in lieu of Rs 2.5 lakh.

Hear India, India Rupee to get its own version of Currency Symbol.

Google 'activating 160,000 Android phones a day'.

Google is now activating 160,000 mobile phones using its Android software a day, equivalent to 4.8m a month, according to the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt.

The number is also accelerating, having been put at 100,000 a day in the third week of May during Google's annual I/O conference, Schmidt said – indicating sales growth of 60% per month.

"We have seen a tremendous increase in adoption," Schmidt said in an interview exclusive to the Guardian in the UK. "We've also seen a growth in the number of apps available for Android – there are now approximately 65,000 compared to only 50,000 a month ago." He believes that that means Android could have reached the volume necessary to become an essential mobile operating system – and perhaps the equivalent of Windows on PCs.

Google 'activating 160,000 Android phones a day'.

No link to child cancer from phone masts, finds study

Pregnant women who live close to mobile phone masts do not need to move house, scientists said today, following the publication of a study which found no link to early childhood cancers.

There has been public concern over the possibility that living near phone masts could raise the cancer risk of small children and clusters of cases around masts have been reported. But a study published in the British Medical Journal – the first to examine possible links between phone masts and childhood cancer across Britain – found no cause for concern.

Researchers from Imperial College London identified 1,397 children under five who were diagnosed with leukaemia or a tumour of the brain or central nervous system between 1999 and 2001. They compared each child with four children of the same gender who were born on the same day but had not developed cancer.

No link to child cancer from phone masts, finds study

Bing Entertainment goes online.

Microsoft's Search Engine, Bing has forayed into Entertainment Search Business with the launch of bing.com/entertainment .

It's a new vertical centering on music, movies, TV and games.

Bing Entertainment goes online.

Rent a Tent if you want to be the first to get an iPhone 4.

A clever guy making money for himself by cashing the hype of iPhone 4.

Chris Bank had secured the first spot in the iPhone 4 line, but he already has eight iPhones. So he decided to rent out his tent. For “just” $300, you can be the first person to get your hands on an iPhone from the San Francisco store.

While nobody has rented the tent yet, you’ve got to believe that some busy businessperson would be willing to pay a few hundred bucks to cut to the front of the line.

It might be no problem for him though if his tent is not rented, atleast he some publicity :D.

Rent a Tent if you want to be the first to get an iPhone 4.

Viacom loses its $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Video sharing site Youtube [UPDATED].

The billion-dollar YouTube-Viacom case has finally been resolved, and the winner is … YouTube. In a statement published to its company blog this afternoon, YouTube writes, “The court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube.

This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement.”

Viacom in its lawsuit originally filed in 2007 had claimed that YouTube deliberately infringed on its copyrights and knowingly allowed offending content to remain on its site.

Viacom loses its $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Video sharing site Youtube [UPDATED].

Complaints against new iPhone 4 are building up.

Several early iPhone 4 customers have discovered critical issues with the phone’s display and reception that could pose major problems for Apple’s newest mobile device.

Multiple Apple- and gadget-focused websites are receiving reports that the iPhone’s much-discussed “Retina Display” is susceptible to a yellow discoloration, either as a thin line of yellow or as a circular tint.

Message board threads on Macrumors are buzzing with negative reviews of the discolored iPhone 4 screens. Here’s an excerpt from a community member:

Complaints against new iPhone 4 are building up.

Better Vision May Be In Your Own Eyes

More than 1.2 million Americans suffer cornea damage from injuries and more than 40,000 people a year undergo cornea transplants to repair otherwise irreversible eyesight damage, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

A New study suggests that many who suffer corneal damage by chemical burn may successfully restore their sight with transplants from their own eye stem cells.

Better Vision May Be In Your Own Eyes

'Find My iPhone' Service Helped Man Track Gadgets on Google Maps.

A guy named Eric Boehs who almost lost his iPhone and iPad in the trash got it back with the help of app named "Find my iPhone".

Find my iPhone uses Google maps to find the pinpoint location of the gadgers.

Here is the whole story if u like to hear

'Find My iPhone' Service Helped Man Track Gadgets on Google Maps.

Now Asians are wealthy then Europeans.

The wealth of rich Asians has surpassed Europe's millionaires for the first time as the region's stock and property prices rebounded from the global recession, a report showed on Wednesday.

The wealth of Asia's high net worth individuals — those with liquid assets of at least $1 million — jumped 31 per cent last year to $9.7 trillion, surpassing Europe's $9.5 trillion, according to a report by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Capgemini. For the first time, the size of Asia's rich population equaled that of Europe at 3 million.

"The star performer was Asia-Pacific, the only region in which both macroeconomic and market drivers of wealth expanded significantly in 2009," the report said.

Now Asians are wealthy then Europeans.

Pak court bans Google, Yahoo, Hotmail.

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials today said they had not received any instruction to block the sites.

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.

Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material.

Pak court bans Google, Yahoo, Hotmail.

iPhone 4 Ripped (Disassembled)[PICS]

He is what inside the world most hyped smart phone. ifixit had ripped :) apart the iPhone 4 to show us what inside it.

The front panel is removed from the iPhone 4 during iFixit's teardown of the phone in San Luis Obispo, California June 22, 2010.

iPhone 4 Ripped (Disassembled)[PICS]

US Football match might set new Net Record.

The match between the U.S. and Algeria on Wednesday could set a new record for internet traffic.

Akamai's Net Usage Index, which tracks visitors per minute on the company's vast network of websites. In the minutes following Landon Donovan's game winning goal in the 91st minute of action (which sent the US to the round of 16), traffic spiked to 11.2 million visitors per minute, which move the event past the 2008 presidential election as the second highest traffic day of all-time.

The overall traffic record was set earlier this month during the first day of World Cup action, where traffic exceeded 12 million visitors per minute. We'll wait and see what the final numbers are from Akamai, but for the moment, it looks like Donovan's goal will go down in Internet history at least as a solid No. 2.

US Football match might set new Net Record.

Uk rakes $225.6 Millions in Auctions.

An auction that included works by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet raked in 152.6 million pounds (US$226.5 million) Wednesday night, setting a record for highest total ever realized in an British art auction, according to Christie's.

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, a 1903 Blue Period masterpiece, took the top price at nearly 35 million pounds ($51.6 million) -- nearly double what the previous owners, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, paid for it in 1995. An anonymous telephone bidder won the painting.

"Global bidders competed at this evening's auction and demonstrated that the art market continues to attract significant levels of spending, particularly for the rarest and most exceptional works of art," said Giovanna Bertazzoni, director of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art division.

Uk rakes $225.6 Millions in Auctions.

Australia gets it first Women PM.

Australia's Julia Gillard has become the country's first female prime minister after former PM Kevin Rudd stood aside from a party ballot.

The change in the leadership of the ruling Labor Party comes just months ahead of a general election.

Ms Gillard's swearing in as prime minister will be a formality.

"I feel very honoured, I will be making a full statement very shortly," she told reporters after emerging from a party meeting at Parliament House in Canberra.

A party spokesman said Ms Gillard had stood unopposed at a vote of the Labor Party's 112 members of parliament at a meeting on Thursday morning.

Australia gets it first Women PM.

Atlast iPhone 4 come to the common man hand[VIDEO].

The much talked about and hyped Smartphone iPhone 4 comes to the common man.

It has been received to customers two days earlier, thank to the courier guy :)

Screen Difference

According to various tech sites, excited people who got their iPhone 4 share their view on the website. They even some of the pics and video of iPhone 4.

Atlast iPhone 4 come to the common man hand[VIDEO].

97 percent of scientists say Global Warming is real:Report

This data comes from a new survey out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study found that 97 percent of scientific experts agree that climate change is "very likely" caused mainly by human activity.

The report is based on questions posed to 1,372 scientists. Nearly all the experts agreed that it is "very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for most of the unequivocal warming of the Earth's average global temperature in the second half of the twentieth century."

As for the 3 percent of scientists who remain unconvinced, the study found their average expertise is far below that of their colleagues, as measured by publication and citation rates.

97 percent of scientists say Global Warming is real:Report

Human on Asteroids by 2025?

Almost 50 years after President Kennedy proposed sending a man to the moon "before this decade is out," Obama has set an equally improbable goal. He has proposed a 2025 date for NASA to land humans on an asteroid, a ball of rock hurtling around the sun.

The moon is 240,000 miles away. A trip to an asteroid would be 5 million miles — at a minimum.

An asteroid trip "would really be our first step as a species outside the Earth-moon system," says planetary scientist Andy Rivkin of the Applied Physics Laboratory. "This would be taking off the training wheels."

Src: [ABCNews]

Human on Asteroids by 2025?

Pakistan release Bin Laden hunter.

An American man detained last week in Pakistan while on a hunt for Osama bin Laden was on his way back to the United States Tuesday with no charges filed, a source close to Gary Faulkner's family told CNN.

Faulkner, 50, had been held by Pakistani authorities since June 13.

Faulkner, who suffers from kidney disease, was given dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital in Islamabad and is in good condition, the source said.

Pakistani police said that Faulkner was carrying a pistol, a sword, night-vision equipment and Christian books when he was stopped near the border with Afghanistan's Nuristan province. They said he told them that he had been looking for bin Laden since al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Pakistan release Bin Laden hunter.

LinknedIn gets overhauled, likes,follows and comment section appears[VIDEO].

Over the next few weeks, LinkedIn will be rolling out a complete overhaul to its Groups feature to make creating and following conversations easier and more engaging.

Previously have to click either “Start a Discussion” or “Submit News” to add a conversation to a group. Now both of those functions have been combined via a publisher box that is prominently displayed at the top of the page.

LinkedIn’s follow system has also been expanded. You may not know this, but the business social network actually gives you the option to “follow” individuals if you want to see what they’re saying in different groups, but aren’t his or her connection. That feature is now prominent, not only for people but for conversations as well. If you stumble across a great debate in a group and want to keep tabs on it, all you have to do is click “follow discussion” and it’ll appear in your news feed and in your inbox.

LinknedIn gets overhauled, likes,follows and comment section appears[VIDEO].

Google plans to build up Music Serive with Serchable.

According to Wall Street Journal, google is planing to formally enter into the Music Business and is said to be in talk with Music Industry Giants.

Google Music store might be made for Android driven phone and for the Web and later be expanded to other medium. But it might take few months to come out.

The discussions come as the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company has been ramping up on entertainment content. Google is also moving to add professional content on its YouTube video site, and is planning to roll out a digital bookstore this year.

Google plans to build up Music Serive with Serchable.

Flash 10.1 For Mobile launched by Adobe.

Two weeks after releasing the desktop version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe has now launched Flash 10.1 for mobile.

At present Flash 10.1 will be available only for phones using Android 2.2 (or Froyo), but that version of Android hasn’t been deployed to devices yet.

Adobe has shipped Flash to its other device partners, too, which means it’ll soon be available on Symbian, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, Palm webOS, and other platforms. Adobe says it’s hoping to bring Flash 10.1 to more than half of all smartphones by 2012.

Flash 10.1 For Mobile launched by Adobe.

Michael Jackson has 'made $1bn' since his death

Michael Jackson's estate has made more than $1bn (£677m) since his death a year ago, according to estimates by trade paper Billboard.

The magazine says Jackson's album sales have generated about $383m (£259m), while revenue from the film This Is It has hit nearly $400m (£271m).

Profits from publishing rights, licensing and touring are also included in the total.

A new recording contract is estimated to have made $31m (£21m) so far.

Michael Jackson has 'made $1bn' since his death

Apple, Google more trusted than Facebook, Twitter.

Americans trust technology heavyweights such as Apple, Google and Microsoft more than social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll.

Nearly half of 2,100 adults questioned in a Zogby Interactive survey said they trusted the big three technology firms "completely" or "a lot," compared to eight percent for Twitter and 13 percent for Facebook.

But all of the companies rated higher than traditional media.

John Zogby, the president and CEO of Zogby International, said big companies have had the time to build brand equity, while Facebook and Twitter do not have the corporate identity.

Apple, Google more trusted than Facebook, Twitter.

No pay raise for the British queen: report

London: A financial crisis is a great leveller. Proposed spending cuts by the British government are to affect the queen's annual bursary too, according to a media report.

The government may announce a one-year freeze in the Civil List, a settlement under which the queen receives money from parliament every year to perform her public duties.

Currently, the annual payment stands at 7.9 million pounds. The settlement is increased every decade, but this amount has remained frozen since 1990.

No pay raise for the British queen: report

iPods, MP3 players 'can damage hearing'

Scientists in Europe have shown that listening to music on headphones for an hour can have a temporary impact on people's hearing because of the damage caused to the hair cells in the outer ear.

Participants in the study had their hearing tested and were then asked to listen to pop or rock music for six one hour long sessions using two different types of headphones and at varying, preset volumes, The Daily Telegraph reported. After each session, the scientists measured the responses of the 21 men and women aged between 19 and 28 to a very short sound and then two sounds of different frequencies to see how clearly participants could hear the tones.

iPods, MP3 players 'can damage hearing'

Britain Suffers 300 Afghan War Deaths

The coffin of Andrew Breeze, a British lance corporal killed in Afghanistan, arrived June 17 at Royal Air Force base Lyneham. | Rob Leyland/Ministry of Defense, via Reuters

Britain marked its 300th military death in the Afghanistan war on Monday, a milestone that Prime Minister David Cameron described as “desperately bad news” and a reminder that Britain was “paying a high price for keeping our country safe.”

The milestone, gloomily awaited in Britain in recent weeks, was reached with the death on Sunday of a Royal Marine in a hospital in Birmingham. He was flown there after being wounded by a roadside bomb in the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand on June 12. He has not yet been identified.

Among the foreign powers involved in the war, Britain has suffered casualties second only to the 1,126 of the United States. But the British losses are higher proportionally when set against the two nations’ populations, overall military manpower and Afghanistan deployments. Britain, with about 60 million people, has nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan. The United States, with five times the population and its commitment still building from the 30,000-troop surge ordered by President Obama last year, has about 94,000 troops there.

Britain Suffers 300 Afghan War Deaths

Paid-content system for publishers by Google may be coming by year-end

Google which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for publishers, is reportedly set to launch such a system by year-end. According to a report in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google is now reaching out to publishers to get them to sign up for the system, which it is calling Newspass.

Google wouldn't confirm the La Repubblica report, saying "we don't pre-announce products and don't have anything to announce at this time." But the Newspass system - at least from the translation of the La Repubblica article - appears to have many elements of a paid content proposal Google made to the Newspaper Association of America last fall. Back then, Google said it was "uniquely positioned to help publishers create a scalable e-commerce system via our Checkout product and also enable users to find this content via search - even if it's behind a paywall."

Paid-content system for publishers by Google may be coming by year-end

This Man Will Do Anything You Tweet Him.

David Perez must be one trusting guy. Because for the next six days, he's agreed to do anything you want him to do, as long as you tell him to do it over Twitter.

Breaking the law is out, he said. And maybe nothing that will make his mom wince too hard. But everything else sent to his Twitter account, @DavidOnDemand, the 29-year-old Chicagoan said, is fair game.

"There will definitely be antics involved in this," Perez said.

And as he embarks on his bold and potentially bizarre adventure, his Internet-enabled masters will be able to follow along with a stealth cam attached to his glasses that will stream live video over the Web.

"You'll be able to see and hear everything I do," he said.

This Man Will Do Anything You Tweet Him.

Kids Think Food Tastes Better From Cartooned Packages.

Researchers from Yale University announced the results of a small study which confirmed that, to children at least, food that's marketed with cartoons tastes better.

Forty children from the New Haven, Conn., area were asked to do a taste test of gummy fruit snacks, graham crackers and baby carrots. One bite came from food in a plain package with a simple label, and one bite came from a similar package that also had a Dora the Explorer, Shrek or a Scooby Doo sticker on the front.

Both packages had the same brand of snack, but the children consistently said that the food from packages with cartoons tasted better, according to a study published today in the journal Pediatrics.

Kids Think Food Tastes Better From Cartooned Packages.

Researchers Find Language Helps People Solve Spatial Problems

Pyers tested two groups of deaf people who use the sign language.

"Nicaraguan Sign Language is only about 35 years old, and as a young language it is undergoing rapid change," Pyers explained. "The language is becoming more complex in the hands of the children of the community, and most older members of the community do not learn the new complexities introduced by the following generation. As a result, the language of the younger adults in the community is more complex than the language of the older adults."

The sign language allowed Pyers to compare younger and older adult signers who share a cultural environment (Managua, Nicaragua), but who have different levels of language ability, to see how they compared in their knowledge about spatial environments.

Researchers Find Language Helps People Solve Spatial Problems

Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers.

Virgin America has partnered with Klout, an analytics service that tracks users’ influence on Twitter (based on variables such as the quality and number of followers and retweets), to extend free flights (plus tax) to influencers in Toronto.

The offer includes free round-trip airfare (Wi-Fi included) between Toronto and San Francisco (SFO) or Los Angeles (LAX) between June 23 and August 23. Those who received invitations for the offer — whether or not they decide to accept the flight that comes with it — were also invited to Virgin America’s Toronto Launch Event on June 29.

Klout measures data through user-created content, indicating influence through interaction and size of networks. It then tabulates a score as its influence metric through 25 variables broken into three categories: True Reach, Amplification and Network Scores.

Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers.

Facebook Location Features similar to Twitter Confirmed and will be out Soon.

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed to press in London today that Facebook will indeed be launching location-based features in the near future.

According to reports, the young CEO told attendees at a local Facebook Developer Garage event, “We are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon.”

In March, The New York Times reported that location features would be launching in April. In May, Advertising Age said location would come to Facebook in June.

Facebook Location Features similar to Twitter Confirmed and will be out Soon.

Blue-green bacteria may help generate ‘green’ electricity.

As Humans are in search of Alternative Energy, micro organism might be help our way to produce electricity in the coming future.

The study illustrates that the electrogenic workings of cyanobacteria is an important conduit of solar energy into the biosphere, said associate professor, Ms Ilia Baskakov, PhD. Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore(UMB). Ms Baskakov, who led the study, said that such findings could lead to ways to generate energy in a self-sustainable manner using renewable resources.

“Climate change related to global warming and the demand for energy are two of society’s most pressing problems and both can be solved if new technologies are developed,” said Ms Baskakov.

Blue-green bacteria may help generate ‘green’ electricity.

List of Most Failed States of the World.

Just three places below Afghanistan, Pakistan has been ranked the 10th most failed state in the 2010 Failed State Index released by the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine on Monday.

The list is topped by Somalia, followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Chad.

India is ranked 87 in a list of 177 countries.

In India's immediate neighbourhood, Burma has been placed at 13, Sri Lanka (22) and Nepal 25. China is ranked at 57th place. Norway is ranked at the bottom of the list.

List of Most Failed States of the World.

Lets know the History of FIFA World Cup Balls.

Fifa World Cup was held in the following years 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010. One thing is sure Adidas still holds the monopoly for making Official FIFA World Cup Ball. Upto now all the balls were manufactured by Adidas.

Telstar

Telstar was a design of association football made by Adidas. It was the official match ball of the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

It was painted with black and white panels so it was more visible on black-and-white television. The name Telstar one of the first communications satellites, which was roughly spherical and dotted with solar panels, somewhat similar in appearance to the football.

Lets know the History of FIFA World Cup Balls.

Drink beer, stay healthy!

According to the study, commissioned by The Beer Academy, the drink is a rich source of vitamins, fibre, minerals and antioxidants and has relatively low calorific value as compared to other alcoholic beverages.

"Beer contains vitamins which can help you to maintain a well-balanced healthy diet, fibre to keep you regular, readily absorbed antioxidants and minerals such as silicon which may help to lower your risk of osteoporosis," a spokeswoman was quoted by the 'Daily Mail' as saying.

A survey found that while 68 per cent of people consider beer to be Britain's national drink, some 10 per cent wrongly believe that it contains fat, and 13 per cent believe the beverage is made from chemicals and not barley and hops.

Drink beer, stay healthy!

Mapping of Earth in 3D, but not by Google but German TanDEM-X Satellite.

The TanDEM-X satellite has blasted into orbit on a mission to acquire the most precise 3D map of the Earth's surface.

The German radar spacecraft will fly in formation with an identical platform called TerraSAR-X launched in 2007.

Together, the pair will measure the variation in height across the globe to an accuracy of better than two metres.

Mapping of Earth in 3D, but not by Google but German TanDEM-X Satellite.

Boys are boys and Girls are girls :)

London (IANS) Teenaged boys often prefer the anti-social route to popularity while teenaged girls are more keen on their education and academics, says a new study on teen behaviour and goals conducted in Spain.

The objective was to study how teenagers' goals were structured and the relationship between these goals and antisocial behaviour.

'Girls placed more importance on goals related to education and family aspects, while boys set targets that were more anti-social,' explains Laura Lopez Romero, who co-authored the study with Estrella Romero.

'Anti-social goals are to deceive, steal or bypass rules and laws. It allows them to achieve social recognition, establish an identity and antisocial reputation, which gives them a certain level of popularity,' says Romero, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).

Boys are boys and Girls are girls :)

Girls Gangsta on rise worldwide.

Girls are getting more into the crime with the number of woman gangsters worldwide swelling up to between 132,000 to 660,000.

The girls in crime made up almost 25 to 50 per cent of organised crime groups in UK and US, according to a latest international study.

Though they may have chosen to go into the frontline of crime, girl gangsters, unlike their male counterparts, still are less trigger happy.

Instead of going for the guns, when confronted, the girl gangsters still opt for knives, stones and other tools as their weapon of choice, says an independent study carried out by the Geneva-based Institute of International Studies.

Girls Gangsta on rise worldwide.

Now Charge your batteries while doing Exercise Via Jumping [VIDEO].

The Scientist are creating many ways for producing alternate source of energy. Here is one the Blizzard concept of recharging your batteries.

This new jump rope concept called the E-rope has turned up at Yanko Design.

Now Charge your batteries while doing Exercise Via Jumping [VIDEO].

Potatoes powering our Energy Needs.

Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has just introduced what they're calling "solid organic electric battery based upon treated potatoes." In short, it's a potato powered battery, and it's as real as you're hoping it is.

The simple, sustainable, robust device can potentially provide an immediate inexpensive solution to electricity needs in parts of the world lacking electrical infrastructure, but we're hoping that it can work a similar amount of magic for developed nations as well.

Researchers at the Hebrew University discovered that the enhanced salt bridge capability of treated potato tubers can generate electricity through means readily available in the developing world. This cheap, easy to use green power source could substantially improve the quality of life of 1.6 billion people, comprising 32% of the developing non-OECD populations, currently lacking access to electrical infrastructure. Such a source can provide important needs, such as lighting, telecommunication, and information transfer.

Potatoes powering our Energy Needs.