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Undersea cable faults may hit Internet in India

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Article appeared on profit.ndtv.com

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.

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

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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.

Charging your iPod by running

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Article appeared on in.news.yahoo.com

Washington, April 24 (ANI): If you've forgotten to charge your iPod and a power plug is nowhere in sight, a simple run could help you get out of the trouble - if new technology being developed is successful.

Every step you take can generate electricity. By packing 20,000 nanowires into three square centimeters, Georgia Tech scientists have developed the world's first gadget powered solely by piezoelectric materials.

A piezoelectric material when pushed or pulled creates a mild electrical charge.

Android running on iPhone

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Here is the shocker for you. Android running on iPhone. Yes you heard it right Android running on iPhone. Check out the video.

U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction: study

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I think its not only US students but many of the world wide students are suffering from internet addiction.

Article appeared on washingtonpost.com

By Walden Siew
Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crackberry is no joke.

American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full day found that after 24 hours many showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety along with an inability to function well without their media and social links.

Osama bin Laden on Facebook

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Article appeared on deccanchronicle.com

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is on facebook, which shows his address as "mountains of the world". He is using the social networking site to show videos and speeches to militants, a media report said on Friday.

With a multi-million dollar reward for his capture, the elusive Al Qaeda chief is believed to be hiding in the mountains lying on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Digital eye to help drivers avoid mishaps

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Article appeared on deccanchronicle.com

With just half a second's notice, a driver can swerve to avoid a fatal accident or slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a child running after a ball. But first, the driver must perceive the danger.

Research shows that a rapid alert system can help mitigate the risks, fatalities and severe injuries from road accidents, says Shai Avidan, professor at Tel Aviv University's (TAU) faculty of engineering and an expert in image processing.

IBM Research creates world's smallest 3D map

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(Credit: Image courtesy of Advanced Materials)


WASHINGTON: Scientists claim to have created the world's smallest three dimensional map -- a map of the Earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.

A team at computer giant IBM accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique which uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex -- 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil -- to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity.

Researchers show how to use mobiles to spy on people

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Article appeared in physorg.com

Independent researcher Nick DePetrillo and security consultant Don Bailey demonstrated their system at the SOURCE Boston security conference earlier this week. Using information from the GSM network they could identify a mobile phone user’s location, and they showed how they could easily create dossiers on people’s lives and their behavior and business dealings. They also demonstrated how they were able to identify a government contractor for the US Department of Homeland Security through analyzing phone numbers and caller IDs.

iPad helps 99-year-old read and write

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Thats make iPad helpfull. Here is the video covering the whole story

Video appeared on edition.cnn.com/TECH

World's smallest telemedicine microscope developed

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Article appeared on deccanchronicle.com

World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg, has been developed, which may help improve healthcare in developing countries.

"This is a very capable and yet cost-effective microscope, shrunk into a very small package and weighing only 46 grams," said the inventor of the Aydogan Ozcan from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mind-reading machine soon

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Article appeared on deccanchronicle.com

Scientists in Japan claim to be developing a new generation machine which could read a user's mind and respond to their wishes automatically.

The device would use advanced versions of existing brain-machine interface technology and would allow a person to change a television channel by thinking or send a text message composed through thought, say the scientists.

The iPhone May Have Made Gizmodo Richer by $150,000

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Article appeared on labnol.org

Gizmodo, the popular gadget blog that everyone is now talking about for their iPhone 4G scoop, may have paid a hefty price to buy a non-working prototype of a phone but the site owners may still be having their biggest paydays ever.

Adobe abandons iPhone code tools

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Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple's iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology.

Article appeared on news.bbc.co.uk

The decision reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on the gadgets.

Flash is very widely used on the web and many sites use it to power animations, media players and other multimedia elements.

Despite this, Apple's products do not support Flash and it has made public statements criticising the technology.

Dell’s Thunder and Lightning phones revealed

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Now its the Laptop leader in the race of mobile phone bussiness.

Article appeared on telegraph.co.uk

New top of the range handsets from computer giant Dell have been leaked online to blog Engadget. The Lightning, a phone running the forthcoming Windows 7 mobile operating system, and the Google Android-based Thunder are both due out in America later this year, although no UK dates have yet been announced.

Can’t Stand to Sit Too Long? There’s a Desk for That

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Wow!!!!!!!!! That's great news :)


Article appeared on nytimes.com

It takes courage to stand up at work. I’m not talking about sticking your neck out, speaking truth to power or anything else so dramatic. I mean it literally; it is hard to find a way to work standing up at your desk instead of sitting down.

Desperate iPad thieves rip off man's finger

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Reporting from ndtv.com

A pair of thieves in Denver, Colorado wanted a man's iPad so badly that they ripped off his little finger to get it, according to local media reports Tuesday.

The victim, Bill Jordan told FOX31 News that he bought the device to give as a business gift last week and that he was attacked by two thugs shortly after purchasing the device at a Denver shopping mall.

Apple orders Gizmodo return iPhone 4G-Hyped

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Now the apple wants the iPhone 4G prototype back from the gizmodo.com.gizmodo paid $5,000 for the prototype which was found in the bar dropped by apple engineer Gray Powell. Here is the full story.

Reporting from telegraph.co.uk

The technology website paid $5,000 for the device, which was dropped by Gray Powell, an Apple software engineer, in a bar in Redwood, California, near Apple's Cupertino headquarters.

For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal-Hyped

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iPhone the most awaited cell phone of the year which suppose to be launch in the month of the june some how made into the bar. Some analyst say it is say it the way the apple promoting the iPhone since what it does it does different. The iPhone 4G was exposed to the world by Gizmodo.com