South Korea gets the fastest Internet in the world

The fastest broadband city in the world is Masan in South Korea, according to an analysis.

The data, from network giant Akamai reveals the average global net speed is only 1.7Mbps (megabits per second) although some countries have made strides towards faster services.

And Masan in South Korea stands at the top with Internet speed of 12Mbps.

At the second spot is Hong Kong with 9Mbps, followed by Japan with 7.8Mbps.

Rounding up the top 5 are Romania and Latvia with 6.3Mbps speed each.

South Korea gets the fastest Internet in the world

World's first 3D camcorder for home movies unveiled

The 3D revolution has so far been all about Hollywood blockbusters and major sporting events. But now, the cutting-edge technology is coming closer to home.

Treasured moments such as a child's first steps or a university graduation can be captured in 3D with the arrival of the first camcorder - capable of filming in more than two dimensions, says the Daily Mail.

Unveiled by Panasonic Wednesday, the 1,300 pound HDC-SDT750 3D model works using a sophisticated double lens.

Company spokesman Barnaby Sykes said: "Just as we have two eyes, so the 3D camcorder has two lenses side by side. The camcorder acts like the human brain in converging the two images together to create one picture in 3D."

World's first 3D camcorder for home movies unveiled

Most iPad owners are "over-achieving selfish elites"

Dubbing iPad owners as “over-achieving selfish elites,” a new survey has revealed that those who have Apple's "magical device", are six times more likely to be wealthy, highly educated and sophisticated 30-50 year olds who value power and achievement.

The survey of 20,000 people conducted by US consumer research firm MyType also claimed that they are selfish and unkind.

MyType spokesman Tim Koelkebeck gave his unflattering appraisal of iPad owners on the company's blog after the firm released the results of the survey online.

And Koelkebeck said that 96 per cent of iPad's critics don't own an iPad, but are generally independent-minded young people who "shun conformity".

Most iPad owners are "over-achieving selfish elites"

New design unveiled for Terrafugia flying car

Terrafugia, a developer of flying cars, released a scale model and computer-generated mockups of its redesigned "Transition" vehicle on Monday that the company says bring it a step closer, engineering-wise, to a deliverable product late next year.

The design tweaks, Terrafugia explained, were based on the results of a successful test flight last year at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York. Some of the improvements include a touch-screen cockpit interface and better-optimized wings with a new folding mechanism that helps them retract for road driving. It'll still run on gas station fuel and be able to be driven at highway speed and hit 115 miles per hour in the air.

Founded by MIT-bred engineers in 2006, the company also got a big boost earlier this year when the Federal Aviation Administration granted Terrafugia, which means "escape from land" in Latin, a weight exemption that allows it to be 110 pounds heavier than the normal maximum for light sport aircraft, meaning that it'll be able to have road essentials installed on board like airbags and a structural cage.

New design unveiled for Terrafugia flying car

India's ballistic missile interceptor successfully tested

(IANS) India Monday successfully tested for the fourth consecutive time a ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Orissa as part of its endeavour to create an impregnable shield against incoming enemy missiles, defence sources said.

The indigenous interceptor was fired from Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, about 170 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.

It successfully destroyed an incoming ballistic missile - a variant of the Prithvi II that lifted off from Launch Complex-III of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district, about 70 km from Wheeler Island across the sea.

India's ballistic missile interceptor successfully tested

iPhone voted ‘Coolest Thing on the Planet’

Apple’s iPhone has been voted the coolest thing on the planet.

A poll of 3,000 Brits saw the iPhone just ahead of its maker Apple, which was at the second place.

The Internet was the third coolest thing according to the Costa Coffee study.

At the fourth place was the iPod, while Aston Martin's DB9 rounded up the top 5.

Cadbury's chocolate and auction site eBay also made it to the top 10.

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp was the coolest celebrity in 21st while Cheryl Tweedy (48th) and Ant and Dec (52nd) topped John Lennon (59th) and Beyonce Knowles (68th).

iPhone voted ‘Coolest Thing on the Planet’

Less than 1 year until the Internet runs out of addresses

www.example.com may not be available after a year later. The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year's time, we were told today by John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) which was also said by Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist.

But here is the Good News :)

John Curran told NYTimes that large carriers like Verizon and Comcast have announced trial IPv6 activity. Curran also noted that new Internet of Things initiatives that use sensor networks, power grids, RFID and similar technologies, are being directed to use IPv6 and not IPv4.

Less than 1 year until the Internet runs out of addresses

Computer Disk worth 100GB Capacity created by the Sharp

One of the Japanese electronics maker Sharp said that it is going to release a recordable Blu-ray disc this month that can store as much as four seasons of a television drama series or approx eight games of size like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

The world’s first triple-layer disc has a capacity of 100 gigabytes, twice as much as the dual-layer discs now on the market, Sharp said.

The write-once disc will be available in Japan from July 30, with the price expected to be about 5,000 yen (60 dollars) each. Sharp will also sell recording machines compatible with the format.

Computer Disk worth 100GB Capacity created by the Sharp

An App that show you the history of that place when the you point your camera.

MIT-Adobe Duo had created an app that lets you know the history of that significant place just by posing the camera lens at the place. This tech is demonstrated by the website historypin.com .

Frédo Durand and Soonmin Bae at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, with Aseem Agarwala of Adobe Systems in San Jose, California, turned to a technique called visual homing to come up with an answer (ACM Transactions On Graphics, DOI: 10.1145/1805964.1805968). Visual homing is used in robotics to send a machine to a precise location, such as a charging station.

An App that show you the history of that place when the you point your camera.

AT&T still loved by iPhone users : Poll

According to the recent poll by Yankee Group, the vast majority of iPhone users love AT&T.

Survey finds that the 73% of iPhone users are very satisfied with AT&T's service. This reports compares how non-iPhone users feet about the AT&T, and even to how non-iPhone users feel about other wireless providers.

The satisfaction rate of AT&T subscribers as a whole is 68%, and only 69% of smartphone users say they are satisfied with their mobile provider, Yankee Group found.

The results of this poll might made AT&T to celebrate upon since it was under fire in the media and on the internet about its service-related issues with the iPhone.

AT&T still loved by iPhone users : Poll

'Batteries' that deliver power after vigorous shake

A Japanese electronics firm has unveiled a vibration-harvesting generator, which could soon replace standard batteries.

The Vibration Energy Cell batteries deliver power after a vigorous shake.

According to Brother Industries, the device could replace AA or AAA batteries in some applications.

In an event in Tokyo, the firm demonstrated the device powering a TV remote control, a remote switch for a lamp and an LED torch.

Its mechanism is similar to that of a bicycle light dynamo, only in this instance movement from a few shakes provides the energy to power.

'Batteries' that deliver power after vigorous shake

Brain scans may help find your ideal job

Neuroscientists will soon be able to pinpoint your talents by just looking at the landscape of your mind.

They are slowly mapping the brain so they can match particular areas to particular skills and knowledge, reports The Telegraph.

The so-called "psychometric assessments" could also show how good you are with your hands and whether you have any "super talents".

The latest research by the University of California scanned the brains of more than 6,000 volunteers and compared the brain map with the results of battery of eight cognitive tests to see if there was a correlation between brain and aptitude.

Brain scans may help find your ideal job

India unveils Rs 1,500 (~ $ 34) tablet PC

India unveiled a Rs 1,500 (around $ 30) tablet PC designed specifically for students.

"If more companies decide to manufacture a similar device, prices will come down automatically," Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said after unveiling the low cost-access-cum computing device here.

The device would be made available to students in 2011.

When the ministry floated the concept of a low cost laptop some years ago, officials said it would cost Rs 500 ($ 10). It will now cost about three times the initial projections.

The ministry expects the prices to drop to Rs 1,000 ($ 20) and reach Rs 500 ($ 10) as innovations are introduced.

India unveils Rs 1,500 (~ $ 34) tablet PC

Lenovo planning Android tablet PC

Lenovo Group, the world's No 4 PC brand, said it will come out with its own tablet PC, will try to compete with line of companies who will soon come out with there own version of android based tablet rivaling Apple Inc's popular iPad.

Lenovo was developing a tablet PC, known internally as LePad, that would run on Google Inc's Android operating system, Lenovo spokeswoman Wu Hwa said on Wednesday, adding that no launch date had been set and the name of the product may change.

"We want the tablet PC to be compatible with our LePhone smartphone, which is why we're using Android," Wu said.

Lenovo planning Android tablet PC

Computer programme decodes language used in Biblical times.

A new computer programme has successfully decoded a written language last used in Biblical times.

The success could lead to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood.

Created by an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) team led by Regina Barzilay, the programme translates written Ugaritic, which consists of dots and wedge-shaped stylus marks on clay tablets, and was last used around 1200 B.C. in western Syria.

Through repeated analysis, the programme linked letters and words to map nearly all the Ugaritic symbols to their Hebrew equivalents in a matter of hours.

Computer programme decodes language used in Biblical times.

Blackberry launches it new Messenger, targets Youth.

The Waterloo-based Canadian wireless giant has just launched TV, Internet and poster ads to woo young people in North America by playing up its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) which is extremely popular among its professional and corporate clients.

More than 25 million of the total 46 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide use BlackBerry Messenger. According to RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, BlackBerry Messenger is so popular that its use has shot up nearly 500 percent during the fiscal.

In fact, at the RIM's annual shareholder meeting last week, BlackBerry Messenger was the toast of the evening, with television commercials highlighting the software for its better network efficiency against competition.

Blackberry launches it new Messenger, targets Youth.

Russia to start construction of new spaceport

Russia will be investing US $800m (£527m) into a new spaceport in the country's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced.

It is said to aim to ease the dependence on the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, built during the Soviet-era.

The future cosmodrome will be built near the town of Uglegorsk in the Far Eastern Amur region, close to the border with China.

It is planned to be mostly used for civilian launches and should be operational by 2015.

Russia to start construction of new spaceport

Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow

Artists representation of what the CIWS laser beam looks like which, in reality, is invisible.

Raytheon US based Defense firm  has unveiled its anti-aircraft laser at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire.

The Laser Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) can either be used on its own or alongside a gunnery system.

In May, the laser was used to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a series of tests.

Raytheon said the solid state fibre laser produces a 50 kilowatt beam and can be used against UAV, mortar, rockets and small surface ships.

Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow

How to download the Rupee symbol [VIDEO]

Government of India says may have to wait for at least one year before you get keyboards for your computers with the new Rupee Symbol.

Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Mangalore-based firm, has created a new font called the Rupee_Foradian, which can be downloaded from the company's site - Download the symbol here .

The firm has also put in a slide show on the site to help users download the symbol, and the move has generated amazing results with the tiral version being loaded about 1,100 times with the first hour of its launch. The company made available the full version, free, as soon as the hits crossed 5,000.

How to download the Rupee symbol [VIDEO]

iPhone 4 in India by October by Airtel

India's leading mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, is looking to launch Apple's iPhone 4 in September or October, Chief Executive Officer for India and South Asia Sanjay Kapoor said on Monday.

India's curbs on import of telecoms equipment are easing, Kapoor added. Carriers in the world's fastest-growing mobile market must obtain government clearance before they place any equipment purchase order, and earlier this year India had barred some operators from placing orders with China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp on security concerns.

Last week, the telecoms minister said the government expected to resolve the issue in a couple of weeks.

iPhone 4 in India by October by Airtel