Again, China owes a high speed train record.

Previously on June 24, 2008, China had also set a world record with the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train reaching a max speed of 394.3 km per hour.

Now, again a high-speed train in China has set a new world speed record during a trial run.

The train touched a maximum speed of 416.6 km per hour on its journey on Tuesday between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, Xinhua reported.

The train is designed to run at a speed of 350 km per hour on the 202-km-long track between the two cities. A one-way journey previously took two hours. But the new train would lessen that to around 40 minutes, officials said.

Again, China owes a high speed train record.

Sikhs with Turban now joins US Army

(AFP) Growing up near the air force base in Dayton, Ohio, Mr Tejdeep Singh Rattan, knew he wanted to serve in uniform. When he was turned away the third time from serving in the military, Mr Rattan became suspicious.

“I was, like, I don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “I was very introverted at the time. But I said I really want to do this, and you guys are sending me out again and again.”

The 31-year-old is now US Army Captain Rattan and since July the head dentist at the Fort Drum base in New York. In what appears to be a quiet shift, the US military has allowed Mr Rattan and two other Sikhs to serve while retaining their turbans and beards, which are required by their faith.

Sikhs with Turban now joins US Army

Google chief sees Bing as its main threat.

Finally Google founder Eric Schmidt see Microsoft as potential threat to its Google search engine, never considered Facebook or Apple as competitors to Google

"While it's true Web search is not the only game in town, searching information is what it is all about," Schmidt said in Wall Street Journal interview video posted online yesterday.

He described Apple as a well-respected competitor and Facebook as a "company of consequence doing an excellent job in social networking," but said that Microsoft's latest-generation search engine was Google's main competition.

"We consider neither to be a competitive threat," Schmidt said, referring to Facebook and Apple. "Absolutely, our competitor is Bing. Bing is a well-run, highly competitive search engine."

Google chief sees Bing as its main threat.

City life may help you boost your immunity.

(IANS) Researchers discovered that such people are more likely to have a genetic variant that protects them from tuberculosis and leprosy.

They analysed DNA samples from populations across Europe, Asia and Africa and compared rates of genetic disease resistance with urban history.

Poor sanitation and heavy population densities provided an ideal breeding ground for infections in built-up areas in previous generations, reports the journal Evolution.

Past exposure to pathogens led to disease resistance spreading through populations because ancestors passed it on to their descendants, a Daily Mail report quoting scientists, said.

City life may help you boost your immunity.

Three meals per day will be help to shed weight.

(IANS) Researchers from the Purdue University in Indiana, US, found overweight and obese men on low-calorie, high-protein diets felt more satisfied and less hungry when they ate three times daily compared to eating six times a day.

In popular perception it is better to eat little meals more often.

However, lead researcher Heather Leidy, now at the University of Missouri in Columbia, US, said: "These mini-meals everyone is talking about don't seem to be as beneficial as far as appetite control."

Studies on whether eating frequency affects appetite control have had "conflicting" results, according to the journal Obesity.

Three meals per day will be help to shed weight.

Japan's vending machines sells umbrellas, flowers,cooked meals and try to read minds.

(AFP) Tokyo: They sell umbrellas, flowers and cooked meals, cough up cool drinks after earthquakes and even try to read your mind. They are Japan's five million vending machines.

Scattered across the country, the automated stores are about as ubiquitous as traffic lights and offer an ever-widening, dizzying palette of goods.

Thanks to Japan's low crime rate, companies have placed them everywhere, from neon-lit city centres to the icy summit of Mount Fuji, with little risk of them being burgled and relieved of their rich coin vaults.

“They are so convenient, I wish I had one in my room,” said 18-year-old Tokyo resident Hibiki Miura, who like many Japanese finds it hard to imagine modern civilisation without the handy helpers.

Japan's vending machines sells umbrellas, flowers,cooked meals and try to read minds.

YouTube wins Spain intellectual property case.

(IANS) YouTube, the Internet portal for videos, won a legal battle in Spain as a judge dismissed a suit brought by Telecinco television contending that the publication of its content on the web violated intellectual property protections.

Search engine giant Google, which owns YouTube, announced the verdict handed down by a commercial court in Madrid.

The court decision accepted YouTube's position that it is a mere intermediary offering services of content accommodation and cannot therefore be obliged to previously check on videos to be uploaded by users.

YouTube wins Spain intellectual property case.

Prithvi-II India's short range nuclear missile fails to take off.

(NDTV) A user trial of the nuclear weapons capable, surface-to-surface Prithvi-II ballistic missile in Orissa ended in an embarrassing failure as the missile failed to take off.

The nine metre-long, single stage liquid propelled missile with a maximum range of 350 kilometres was fired from a mobile launcher at 10.03 am from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea. Sources in the Defence Research and Development Organisation confirmed the failure and said the missile just did not launch while the launchpad was enveloped in smoke.

There was no clear word on what caused the failure. The test was being conducted by the Strategic Forces Command.

The missile was last tested on June 18 this year, but for a shorter range of 150 kms.

Prithvi-II India's short range nuclear missile fails to take off.

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg facebook architect but not so flashy lifestyle.....

(IANS) Multi-billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg likes to wear worn jeans, cheap T-shirts and lives in a rented house. To relax, he likes drinking beer and eating fast food with workmates, it was reported in London Friday.

The man responsible for connecting over 500 million people across the world through social networking site Facebook could easily pass off as an ordinary 26-year-old.

The Sun Friday reported that Zuckerberg, who is said to be worth 4.3 million pounds, he wears jeans, cheap T-shirt and flip-flops.

In fact, he does not own the four-bedroom house where he lives in Palo Alto, California. He pays a relatively modest 3,500 pounds a month as rent. He doesn't even have a posh sports car, instead driving a Japanese saloon.

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg facebook architect but not so flashy lifestyle.....

By 2015, e-books expected to generate 50% of revenue.

With rise in PC Tablet Era, publishers say by 2015 e-books could represent 50 per cent of their revenue.

And as novelist Stephen King says he's been ahead of the pack publishing a book online years before the Kindle took off.

Novelist Stephen King author of 'The Shining’, ‘Carrie’ and ‘Misery' was first to publish his work online. It shocked the industry and got him a lot of attention.

“I got on the cover of Time Magazine. For once in my life, I got noticed at airports by the guys who wear suits and ties. They would come up to me and say, ‘How did that work? How did that sell?’ They were fascinated by the business aspect. That was a decade ago. Today, the e-book industry is on fire,” he says.

By 2015, e-books expected to generate 50% of revenue.

Internet Explorer 9 had crossed 2 Million Downloads in just two days.

On 15th of September 2010 Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 9 Beta and now a hot seller as it has received 2 million downloads in just 48 hrs as compared to the 1.3 million downloads received by Internet Explorer 8 Beta over a period of 5 days in August 2008.

IE9 is a combo of HTML 5 and a hardware accelerated browser making a tough contender to the competitors. Only Windows 7 user can use IE9.

Internet Explorer 9 had crossed 2 Million Downloads in just two days.

World Media criticizing Common Wealth Games Preparations

Here's what some of them say:

The Guardian talks about the foot overbridge collapse and its headline reads 'Bridge collapse threatens Games.'

The Daily Telegraph says 'Commonwealth Games 2010 in chaos as 23 injured in stadium footbridge collapse'.

The Australian says 'Crisis hits Delhi Games preparations'

World Media criticizing Common Wealth Games Preparations

Google worries about decline in Internet Freedom and rise in information censorship.

(CNN) Google had come with new tool which tell the user that which country had suppressed or requested for the censorship. The tool called Google Transparency, the online report shows that internet censorship around the world is increasing over time, and not always in the countries you'd expect, said Dorothy Chou, a Google policy analyst who worked on the project.

"The threat to internet freedom has actually been growing over the past few years," she said, noting that the United States generally bucks that trend by supporting open online communication.

Google Transparency includes an interactive map where users can see how many requests countries have made for Google to block or remove content.

This online tool also lets users explore internet up-time in specific countries for specific Google-owned websites.

Google worries about decline in Internet Freedom and rise in information censorship.

Worst recession in past eight decades is officially over

(CNN) Stocks surged on Monday to a 4-month high on news that the great recession is officially over! The Dow jumped 145 points to close at 10,753, the Nasdaq closed 40 points higher and the S and P 500 gained 17 points.

The National Bureau of Economic Research said the recession that started in December 2007 officially ended in June 2009. The 18-month slump was the longest and most severe downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The committee said the economy hit bottom last summer and has been growing slowly but steadily since then.

And if you're one of those people looking for a job, here's some good news. Retailers plan to hire more seasonal workers this holiday season.

Worst recession in past eight decades is officially over

India is the third most powerful nation according to latest US Reports

(IANS) India is listed as the third most powerful country in the world after the US and China and the fourth most powerful bloc after the US, China and the European Union in a new official US report.

The new global power lineup for 2010 also predicted that New Delhi's clout in the world will further rise by 2025, according to "Global Governance 2025" jointly issued by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) of the US and the European Union's Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).

Using the insights of a host of experts from Brazil, Russia, India and China, among others, and fictionalised scenarios, the report illustrates what could happen over the next 25 years in terms of global governance.

In 2010, the US tops the list of powerful countries/regions, accounting for nearly 22 percent of the global power.

India is the third most powerful nation according to latest US Reports

British pop star Lily Allen to sue Apple.

(PTI) One of the British pop star Lily Allen is on the headlines. Not for any concert, but she gonna sue the Technology giant Apple after her laptop, produced by the company, was hacked.

The 25-year-old who is expecting her first child with boyfriend Sam Cooper, filed a lawsuit against Apple in the London High Court last week, reported Sun online.

Lily Allen recently found out that her laptops have been accessed without her permission and tried without success to determine the identity of the hacker.

After the company failed to help her, Allen decided to take them to court.

British pop star Lily Allen to sue Apple.

Now it will be difficult for the hackers to hack a Google Account.

(AP) After some of the email account of Chinese activist being hacked, google is taking extra measures to maintain the privacy of the users.

An additional security measure introduced Monday will require typing a six-digit code after an account holder's Google password is entered. The codes will be sent to people's mobile phones.

The two-step login means it will take more than a password to get into an account.

Now it will be difficult for the hackers to hack a Google Account.

China with its huge space plans, plans to go beyond Venus.

(IANS) China has now set its sight on planet Venus, where it hopes to land a space probe by 2015. A probe to Mars and the country's first moon landing has also been chalked out.

The first unmanned space laboratory, Tiangong-1, will be launched in 2011, after which there would be the first unmanned docking with the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut to visit space in 2003, was quoted as saying by the People's Daily.

Manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 and unmanned Shenzhou-10 will be launched in 2012, and by 2020, China will launch its first orbital space station, he said.

Ye Peijian, commander-in-chief of the lunar-probe programme, said an orbit of the moon can be expected by 2020. China may launch its first manned moon landing in 2025, a probe to Mars by 2013 and to Venus by 2015.

China with its huge space plans, plans to go beyond Venus.

Facebook denies building a Smartphone.

After a Tech site Techcrunch reported that facebook may be developing a mobile phone secretly, heart beats of gizmo lovers were raised.

But the company says it s not true. In an e-mail, Jamie Schopflin, a Facebook spokeswoman, said the company is, and has for some time, been developing various features and services to integrate its social functions into various mobile phones and applications. But, she wrote, Facebook is not building a phone.

Here is more of her e-mail:

Our approach has always been to make phones and apps more social. Current projects include everything from an HTML5 version of the site to apps on major platforms to full Connect support with SDKs to deeper integrations with some manufacturers. Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this. For an example, check out Connect for iPhone and the integration we have with contact syncing through our iPhone app. Another example is the INQ1 phone with Facebook integration (the first so-called Facebook Phone ). The people mentioned in the story are working on these projects. The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a Facebook Phone because that s such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do.

Facebook denies building a Smartphone.

48 years old Maryellen Mara-Christian bags 465 kg alligator in US.

(AP) Maryellen Mara-Christian 48-year-old former bank marketing officer from Fitchburg, Massachusetts has bagged a 13-and-a-quarter foot (four metres), 1,025-pound (465 kilograms) alligator in a swampy area in between Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion on Wednesday during the state's alligator hunting season.

In this hunting competition she participated with her husband, who is a firefighter and a part-time hunting guide.

Mara-Christian says she hooked the alligator with her fishing pole and battled for two hours to get him near the boat.

The hunting season rules state that you have to secure the gator and get it to the boat before you're allowed to shoot it.

48 years old Maryellen Mara-Christian bags 465 kg alligator in US.