New Delhi, May 05: For those obsessed with the size-zero, here’s a phone as thin as paper. Called PaperPhone, the smartphone is presently in prototype stage.
It uses latest printing technologies to print copper circuits and wiring on to a 9.5-centimetre surface. A layer of E Ink, used in Amazon Inc’s Kindle eReader, is applied to act as a display. As for OS, it is powered by Google Android.
Washington, May 04: With the internet abuzz with stories related to Osama bin Laden’s death, the FBI is warning people not to open unsolicited links that “purport” to show photos or videos of the al-Qaeda leader’s killing, saying these could be computer virus.
London, April 30: With the explosion of social networking and mobile games, technology addiction is taking a huge toll in Asia
A baby girl starves to death as her parents raise a virtual child online; a boy scolded for excessive gaming kills his mother then commits suicide — technology addiction is taking a toll in Asia.
With more 100 million “smartphones” now sold annually in the Asia-Pacific region — expected to double in five years’ time — it is the world’s largest market for advanced mobile devices.
Beijing, April 30: China will launch two unmanned space modules in the second half of this year, a media report said.
The modules, named Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8, will take part in the first space docking maneuver ever conducted by Chinese astronauts, said Yang Liwei, deputy head of China’s Manned Space Engineering Office.
The 8.5-tonne Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace 1”, is expected to dock with the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, according to China Daily Friday.
New Delhi, April 29: They watched several videos of ATM robbery in ‘Youtube’ to plan their heists but two engineering aspirants landed in police net here early this morning soon after they attempted one.
The duo Hardik Shrivastava and Chanchal Gupta belongs to lower middle class families and wanted to secure admission in a “good” engineering college which allegedly prompted them to commit robbery to fund their aspirations.
“We arrested them this morning after a patrolling party found them in suspicious conditions in a park near Ghanta Ghar in Hari Nagar,” DCP (West) V Renganathan said.
London, April 28: A group of Facebook shareholders is seeking to offload $1 billion worth of shares on the secondary market, a sale that would value the company at more than $70 billion, according to five sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
It would represent one of the largest transactions of Facebook shares to date and points to a growing wariness among early-stage investors and employees who fear Facebook’s growth cannot keep pace with its market valuation.
Kochi, April 28: Deccan Chargers` Ishant sharma, whose five-wicket haul paved the way for his team`s comprehensive win over Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League, says he still has a long way to go.
Asked if his superb burst of pace bowling last night would would help him make a comeback to the Indian team, the speedster said, “Well, there is still a long way to for me. I don`t think about the selection at all. Today, it was about defending the 129 put up by our batsmen.”
Tokyo, April 26: Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp. Tuesday announced plans for two tablet computers, codenamed S1 and S2, in a direct challenge to Apple’s iPad.
The S1 has a single screen and is for home use while the portable S2 has two screens, Sony said at a news conference to unveil the devices.
The S1 has a 10 inch (25 centimetre) screen and two cameras while the clamshell S2 has dual 5.5 inch screens.
The new tablet computers are compatible with existing PlayStation games, Sony official Kunimasa Suzuki told reporters.
Toranto, April 26: Neurosurgeons have successfully regenerated lost brain tissue through brain bypass surgery in patients whose blood flow to the organ was impaired by strokes.
This loss of tissue, which comprises brain’s grey matter, leads to decreased neurocognitive functions — perception, memory, awareness, capacity for judgement — and may hasten the onset of dementia.
Approximately 11 months after patients underwent bypass, aimed at restoring blood flow to the brain, researchers observed a 5.1 percent increase in brain tissue thickness on MRI scans, reports the journal Stroke.
Toronto, April 25 : Neurosurgeons have successfully regenerated lost brain tissue through brain bypass surgery in patients whose blood flow to the organ was impaired by strokes.
This loss of tissue, which comprises brain’s grey matter, leads to decreased neurocognitive functions — perception, memory, awareness, capacity for judgement — and may hasten the onset of dementia.
Approximately 11 months after patients underwent bypass, aimed at restoring blood flow to the brain, researchers observed a 5.1 percent increase in brain tissue thickness on MRI scans, reports the journal Stroke.
Chennai, April 25: India’s latest advanced remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2, launched last week, is all set to beam back pictures Thursday onwards, the Indian space agency said.
A statement issued by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Monday said the three cameras of Resourcesat-2 have been oriented towards Earth and all checks prior to their switching on have been completed.
ISRO said the first imaging is expected to cover about 3,000 km stretch of Indian landmass from Joshimath in Uttarakhand to Kannur in Kerala.
London, April 25: A new online tracking system will allow websites to pinpoint your location to within a few hundred metres, without your permission.
Internet sites will be able to work out where users are within an average of 690 metres, using information about their internet connection.
At the moment they can only track users’ locations to within a radius of about 200 km, but the new technique will narrow this down to as little as 100 metres, the Daily Mail reports.
Abu Dhabi, April 23: The United Arab Emirates Saturday successfully launched its communications satellite from the European Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the satellite lifted off at 1.37 a.m.
“I would like to express my pride and gratitude during this moment of achievement,” said Jassem Mohamed Al Zaabi, CEO of Yahsat, a satellite communications company.
Mumbai, April 22: Strengthening its commitment towards fostering Innovation and nurturing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India, Microsoft today announced a grant of USD 100,000 to launch the Microsoft Bizspark India Start-Up challenge.
Launching The ‘Challenge’, Mr Kevin Turner, its Chief operating officer, said “Microsoft is a unique contest for start-ups in the field of product software to showcase their creativity and receive constructive feedback, inputs into the technology roadmap, mentorship and top investors.
San Francisco, April 21: A patent trial between tech giants Oracle and Google should be held before November, a US judge said at a hearing.
Oracle sued Google last year, claiming the Web search company’s Android mobile operating technology infringes on Oracle’s Java patents. Oracle bought the Java programming language through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010.
Some see the lawsuit as a sign of a growing business rivalry between the two companies.
New Delhi, April 21: India Wednesday successfully launched the advanced earth observation satellite Resourcesat-2, a move aimed at beefing up its remote sensing capability, and two smaller satellites on the PSLV rocket from its spaceport here.
On a bright morning around 10.15 a.m., the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Rs.90 crore rocket – the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) – soared towards the heavens to place in orbit Resourcesat-2.
Washington, April 21: NASA says it has funded a number of companies to build commercial spaceships for carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration distributed more than USD 269 million among several vying companies such as Boeing, and Sierra Nevada Corp., Reuters reported.
Boeing received USD 92.3 million, Sierra Nevada Corp. got USD 80 million, Space Exploration Technology was awarded USD 75 million and Blue Origin won a contract worth USD 22 million.
Chennai, April 20: After the recent trouble with GSLV, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday tasted sweet success when its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully placed into orbit three satellites, including the indigenous Resourcesat-2.
The Rs 90-crore PSLV-C16, 44 metres tall and weighing 295 tonnes and carrying a total payload of 1,404 kg, was launched from Sriharikota at 10.12 am.
Toronto, April 20:BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet, launched in Canada and the US Tuesday, received a lukewarm response.
Unlike frenzied crowds which lined up before Apple stores last year before the launch of the iPad, there was no rush to buy the BlackBerry tablet at major outlets here such as Best Buy and Future Shop just after its launch Tuesday morning.
Some stores opened early in downtown Toronto to sell RIM’s first non-smart phone product.
Though they claimed to have received substantial numbers of pre-orders for the PlayBook, the frenzy was missing.
Tokyo, April 19: A robot has been put into service to collect radiation data from a crippled Japanese nuclear plant hit by a tsunami last month, a media report said.
Radiation readings were collected from unit 1 and unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Workers had abandoned the reactor buildings after the plant’s cooling systems were wrecked by a quake and a tsunami March 11.
A US-made robot entered the two buildings Sunday and took readings for temperature, pressure and radioactivity, China Daily reported Monday.
Thiruvananthapuram, April 18:Techno Park based Rain Concert Technologies here has signed up to be the technology solution provider and implementation partner for one of the largest public health projects in Tanzania.
The project will look into Neglected Tropical Diseases, a group of parasitic diseases occurring in large sections of the population, which is a major health challenge in Tanzania.
Thiruvananthapuram, April 18: IT blue chip Oracle Monday signed an agreement to open its first office in Kerala at the Technopark campus here, officials said.
Its office will be housed at the Leela Infopark building.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan by Oracle official R. Jayaraman and Venu Krishnan of Leela Infotech.
Jayaraman told Achuthanandan that the company was looking forward to the commencement of its Kerala operations.
Achuthanandan said he was happy that one of the world’s leading IT firms was setting up a unit in the state.
New Delhi, April 17: Indian Space Research Organisation has said that “no competitive bidding” was adopted for leasing S-band spectrum to Devas Multimedia at a throw away price during a controversial satellite deal by the organisation’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation.
The space agency denied to disclose details of the deal signed between Antrix Corporation Limited and Devas Multimedia in January 2005 citing “commercial confidence”.
Chennai, April 17: Two Class seven students of a school here have jointly won the second prize with a Romanian team in a competition conducted by NASA this year.
M Srivatsan and Vasundhara Gautham of Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidyashram are the only participants from Tamil Nadu to win the competition.
Under ‘Project IRIS’ (International Research and Integration Station), they developed and designed an alternate habitat for human space settlement. The design won recognition for its detailed and in-depth representation of life and its necessities integrated in a space city.
Beijing, April 15 China will soon create dairy products from milk produced by genetically modified cattle and containing most of the nutrients as in human breast milk.
The ministry of agriculture has given the go-ahead to test the “human-like” milk, which will be available in the Chinese market in two years, said Li Ning, a researcher at the State Key Laboratories for Agro-biotechnology at China Agricultural University.