Ten Simple Tricks To Remembering Names

Helen Coster, Forbes.com

Few situations will make you cringe more than standing next to someone you've met several times and drawing a blank on his or her name.

Plenty of business deals and romantic rendezvous have been foiled because someone failed to recall the right name at the right time. In the Web age e-mail and social networks offer safe harbor; being able to use someone's name (and pronounce it correctly) in a face-to-face situation can set you apart.

Ten Simple Tricks To Remembering Names

You're on camera! - Watch out ladies

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We were shocked beyond words when we read this: A male employee of a call centre in Delhi allegedly put a 'camera pen' in a packet of air-freshener just so he could record women while they were in the lavatory.

You're on camera! - Watch out ladies

Chimps' emotional response to death caught on film

Chimpanzee Pansy the morning after she died. Photograph: Nicola McCleery/Blair Drummond Safari Park

A video of the reaction of chimps to the death of an elderly group mate challenges procedures for dealing with terminally ill animals in captivity.

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In the final hour, they huddled around, studied her face and shook her gently as if to revive her. And when the others had drifted away, one stayed behind to hold her hand.

Chimps' emotional response to death caught on film

Facebook privacy hole 'lets you see where strangers plan to go'

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Developer says new API lets you query social network's databases – and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.

Facebook's new system for connecting together the web seems to have a serious privacy hole, a web developer has discovered.

Facebook privacy hole 'lets you see where strangers plan to go'

Police search home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen over lost iPhone 4G

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Six computers and other items seized by task force from San Mateo police - in a case that could turn into a test of whether bloggers can claim journalistic exemptions.

California police have taken six computers and other items from the house of Jason Chen, the editor of the gadget blog Gizmodo who appeared on a video on the site showing off a lost Apple iPhone prototype which, it transpired, had been bought from a middleman for about $5,000.

Police search home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen over lost iPhone 4G

Top 10 gaffes on Facebook, Twitter and Google

A new poll says that three in every four Facebook users avoid adding their boss as a 'friend' out of fear that their actions on the site could cost them their job. We round up the best social media gaffes from Facebook, Twitter and Google.

According to a new survey 73 per cent of Facebook users are not 'friends' with their bosses on the site for fear of losing their job because of their actions on the site.

Top 10 gaffes on Facebook, Twitter and Google

Millionaire mom leaves just $ 4.50 for girls

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Sydney: A former mayor in Australia has left her three daughters $ 1.50 each out of her $ 3.5 million estate because she believed they were involved in the death of her mother.

Valmai Roche, who died in 2009 aged 81, left "30 pieces of silver of the lowest denomination of currency" - or 30 five cent pieces - to each of her daughters saying it was "blood money due to Judas", the Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.

Millionaire mom leaves just $ 4.50 for girls

Shoaib summoned for 'selling' invite

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Lahore: A Pakistani court on Monday summoned cricketer Shoaib Malik to appear before it on May 3 in connection with a petition that alleged he had "sold" invitation cards for a reception to celebrate his wedding to Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.

The additional sessions judge Malik Rafiq of the court in Lahore admitted the petition filed by a man named Safdar Ali, who alleged the cricketer was selling invitation cards for his 'walima' (reception) on April 27 for Rs 15,000 (about $200) each.

Shoaib summoned for 'selling' invite

If you smoke too much 'blame your genes', say experts

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Smokers who find it hard to cut down or quit may be able to blame their genes, new research suggests.

Scientists identified three genetic mutations that increase the number of cigarettes people smoke a day.

If you smoke too much 'blame your genes', say experts

Sony to stop selling floppy disks from 2011

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The first floppy disk was introduced in 1971 by IBM.

Sony has signalled what could be the final end of the venerable floppy disk.

The electronics giant has said it will stop selling the 30-year-old storage media in Japan from March 2011.

Sony to stop selling floppy disks from 2011

Avatar breaks US DVD sales record

No Surprise Avatar is going to break all the records as it becomes the becomes fastest selling Blu-ray on record.

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Avatar has become the fastest-selling home entertainment release of all time in North America, shifting 6.7 million DVDs and Blu-rays in four days.

James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic, released in the US on 22 April, sold 4 million DVDs and 2.7 million Blu-rays. The sales brought in $130m (£84.1m).

Avatar breaks US DVD sales record

Cost of buying the 'secret' iPhone

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We all know that advertisers need to pay for clicks to keep the web spinning. But what does it mean when publishers start paying for them as well?

I'm not talking about some seedy click-mills in the Far East where drudges press buttons to gin traffic, but a far more transparent and audacious strategy in which a publisher pays for content that he knows will be irresistible.

Cost of buying the 'secret' iPhone

Prince Harry locks himself in loo to escape girls: Report

PTI: Prince Harry, the third-in-line to the British throne, reportedly locked himself in a toilet after he was chased by a group of frantic girl fans at a club during a night out with his friends.

But, the squealing fans followed him into the gents' toilet, and then climbed up the side of the cubicle he was hiding in to take snaps of him on their mobile phones, the 'News of the World' reported.

Prince Harry locks himself in loo to escape girls: Report

Pirated versions of Apple iPad out in China

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Shenzhen/Shanghai: Just three weeks after the global launch, bootleg versions of Apple Inc's hot-selling iPad tablet PCs have begun showing up on the shelves of online and real-world shops in piracy-prone China.

Apple recently delayed the iPad's international launch after huge demand in the United States caught the maker of trendy iPhones and MacBooks off guard. But Chinese consumers looking for knock-offs of the company's latest must-have product need look no further than this teeming electronics mall in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boomtown near the border with Hong Kong.

Pirated versions of Apple iPad out in China

Al-Qaeda's al-Zawahiri appears on Facebook

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London: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri had appeared on Facebook, but the social networking site later removed those pages.

Less than a fortnight after bin Laden came on Facebook, The Sun revealed Monday that al-Zawahiri, who has a 16.5 million-pound price on his head, also appeared on the site.

Al-Qaeda's al-Zawahiri appears on Facebook

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US preparing most advanced conventional weapon?

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(PTI): The US is devising an advanced conventional weapon of new strength called 'Prompt Global Strike' which can reduce dependence on atomic weapons, as it aims to accomplish great tasks without crossing nuke threshold, a media report said today.

President Barack Obama, in the coming years, will have to decide whether to deploy such weapons cutting the US reliance on nuclear weapons, the New York Times said in its report.

US preparing most advanced conventional weapon?

Undersea cable faults may hit Internet in India

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Press Trust of India, (New Delhi):The disruption in the SEA-ME-WE 4 undersea submarine cable system, which links South East Asia and Europe, is likely to affect the high-speed Internet services in the country.

The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) project links the two regions via the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East. The project is run by a consortium of 16 international telecom companies, including Indian majors Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications.

Undersea cable faults may hit Internet in India

India to have fifth-generation jets in 2018 with Russia: IAF

New Delhi: India will introduce an advanced fighter jet it is building with Russia in 2018, a move that will bring sophistication to its air power but could also spark unease among neighbours China and Pakistan.

New Delhi has watched warily as China has made rapid strides in defence, worried that Beijing's long-term strategy for the region could involve encircling India.

India to have fifth-generation jets in 2018 with Russia: IAF

Shoaib seeking 35 million rupees(3.5 crores) for media rights of 'walima' reception

Shoaib malik wants to make most of his much drama wedding with sania mirza.

Lahore, Apr.25 (ANI): Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik wants to cash on his extensively reported wedding with Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza, as he has reportedly demanded 35 million rupees for media rights of his 'walima' reception, which would be held today (April 25) in his hometown, Sialkot.

Shoaib seeking 35 million rupees(3.5 crores) for media rights of 'walima' reception