Apple Buys Intrinsity, a Maker of Fast Chips

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Apple wants the fastest chip for its mobile devices and has bought another chip maker to gain an edge over its competitors.

Apple has acquired a small Austin, Tex., company called Intrinsity, known for making zippy versions of a computer chip often found in mobile devices. The deal, which closed late last month and was confirmed by Apple on Tuesday, shows the company continuing to try to gain an edge in the mobile device market by purchasing technology and chip experts.

Apple Buys Intrinsity, a Maker of Fast Chips

I am bored, says Oz millionaire

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An Australian, who became a millionaire at the age of 25 by setting up an internet firm, says he has "never been so bored" in his life.

Leon Hill, a Brisbane resident who founded uSocial.net, angered social networking sites when he developed a service that sells Twitter followers and Facebook fans.

I am bored, says Oz millionaire

Will Tiger's divorce cost him 600 million dollars?

Press Trust of India: Golfer Tiger Woods' estranged wife Elin is holding "round the clock" discussions with lawyers regarding her divorce, which could cost Woods anywhere between USD 500 million to USD 600 million.

Elin Nordegren Woods has been in "round-the-clock" conversations with a battery of lawyers both in her native Stockholm and in the United States, where she actually would file for divorce, the Chicago SunTimes quoted a source close to Elin as saying.

Will Tiger's divorce cost him 600 million dollars?

First woman to climb world's 14 highest peaks

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Kathmandu: South Korean climber Oh Eun-sun claimed the record as the first woman to summit all 14 of the world's peaks over 8,000 metres when she scaled Mount Annapurna in Nepal on Tuesday.

Oh, 44, reached the Annapurna summit, the world's 10th highest at 8,091 metre (26,545 feet), at 0918 GMT with three Sherpa climbers and two members of Korea's KBS Television, said Song Hea-kyoung, an official of the Korean Trek and Expedition, which provided the logistics for her record attempt.

First woman to climb world's 14 highest peaks

Nudists ban clothes on British island

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London: Nudists banned clothes over the weekend on a British island that is famous as the site from where Marconi sent the first ever radio message across water over 100 years back.

Nudists ban clothes on British island

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