Science

Ottawa, August 23: With many using popular online social networking sites to get fasting tips and exchange Ramadan diaries, modern technology is giving the holy fasting month of Ramadan a special taste.

“The spirit of Ramadan is the same,” Arij Elmi, a 21-year-old Canadian Muslim, told.

“But what has changed is that instead of looking at a calendar, I can look at my friends’ Facebook status to see what is coming.”

Elmi often uses Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, to get helpful recipes and tips for getting the most out of the daily fast during Ramadan.

New Delhi, August 23: Nokia XpressMusic has more over heated most part of the market and now it has come up with lastest technology equipped gadgets. Now this XpressMusic has planned a new handset Nokia 5530 touch phone.

The Nokia Xpressmusic 5530 is designed with 2.9 inches screen which gives16M-color TFT LCD touchscreen displays offering a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels.

It runs with ARM 11 434 MHz processor along with 128MB RAM memory and is a Symbian S60 5th edition handset.

New York, August 22: Climate change directly impacts food prices and wages in some developing countries, driving the urban poor deeper into poverty, a new study supported by the World Bank has said.

The Development Research Group at the World Bank and climate researchers from Purdue University in Indiana have concluded that the urban poor will be “hardest hit and they enter more rapidly into poverty as the climate changes throughout the century”.

Kourou, August 22: An Ariane-5 rocket put into orbit satellites for Japan and Australia after being launched from French Guiana on Friday, space officials said.

The rocket blasted off from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) launch center in Kourou, French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America.

One of the satellites, a JCSAT-12, will provide telecommunications services covering Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and Hawaii for Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. It was built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems.

Toronto, August 22: Swedish telecom major Ericsson, whose acquisition of Nortel’s wireless business here last month has been challenged by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Canadian opposition parties, says it is still in the dark about the fate of the deal.
Ericsson was the highest bidder at $1.13 billion at last month’s court supervised auction of Nortel’s wireless division.

The 124-year-old Toronto-based Nortel, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection since January, is selling its businesses one by one to pay off debtors.

New Delhi, August 21: Sony India company manufacturing different products like digital cameras, Cameras, LCD, Mobile phones, music players, MP4 etc.

But this time Sony gets nearer to the consumers with a new Compact, a Flash memory-based HDR-CX100E camcorder.

Sony HDR-CX100E camcorder has been carely designed with the stylish and the new looks which can use an 8 GB Flash memory along with a Memory Card slot.

London, August 21: Ever found yourself walking in circles? Well, scientists have revealed why people struggle to walk in a straight line.

Researchers in Europe have discovered that when people are lost they return to the place they started when they lost their bearings — in fact, when deprived of a compass or some reference points they find it impossible to walk in a straight line, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported.

Lead researcher Dr Jan Souman of Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany said: “The stories about people who end up walking in circles when lost are true.

New Delhi, August 20: world class laptops and desktop manufacturer HP has launched a new pavillion series laptop and is been named as HP Pavilion DV3-2150US.

This 13.3-inch HP entertainment laptop is designed with the latest confuguration for the users along with the latest features available in the market.

If we go in detail about this laptop than HP Pavilion DV3-2150US is confurured with an Intel core 2 Duo Processor T6500 which is a higher end processor in the family of latops.

Mumbai, August 20: Every internet user comes in contact with google search and have noticed the different logos according to the season, festivals, Events etc and this change which is noticed is reffered to be as Google doodles.

But today, the google has opened a event tagged as ‘Doodle 4 Google’ at school level starting from class 1-10.

Head of consumer marketing Google Arvind Desikan; In this event the participant just have to design a logo at the given theme ‘My India’. As this make the people to understand what does the India represent to there life and what does it means.

Washington, August 20: Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the United States achieved a historic feat when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” were Neil Armstrong’s prophetic words that opened the pathway for new medical procedures and ‘holistic reinvention’ of vehicles.

America’s race to the moon also launched a generation of scientists. They were inspired by a sense of patriotism and the wonders of space.

Melbourne, August 20: Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with malware.

Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner”s consent.

Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the named websites could expose a computer to infection and put the personal information into the hands of unwanted people.

New Delhi, August 20: To ensure better delivery of services to the people, the civic authorities in the city will now use a GIS-enabled land map to gather information on public utilities on the click of a mouse.

The 3-D Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping of areas under the jurisdiction of New Delhi Municipal Council has been completed recently. The 3-D database was developed under Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure (DSSDI) project of the Delhi government while the NDMC is focusing on its municipal components.

Washington, August 19: Until now, DNA was considered the “gold standard” of criminal investigations: Hundreds of wrongly convicted individuals have been freed around the world after DNA analysis proved them innocent of their crimes; and many of the guilty have been brought to justice through DNA evidence as well.

But the days of DNA’s supremacy in the courtroom could soon come to an end, as researchers in Israel say it can be faked and planted at crime scenes, using basic DNA analysis techniques.

London, August 19: South Korea is preparing for its first space launch, which if successful will make it the latest nation to join the region’s space race and the 10th in the world to send its own communications satellite into orbit from its own soil.

The partly Russian-made Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), or Naro-1, will blast off from the Naro Space Centre at Goheung on the nation’s southern coast on Wednesday, officials said.

The lift-off, which has been delayed several times since last year due to technical problems, is planned for 07:40 GMT.

New York, August 19: Microsoft Tuesday sought stay on a court injunction which bars it from selling its popular Word document creation software in the US for violating a patent belonging to a Canadian company.

Toronto-based i4i had dragged Microsoft to court in 2007 for using its patented technology in the software without its permission.

In its ruling last week, the US District Court in Tyler, Texas, banned Microsoft from selling Word 2003, Word 2007 and future versions of the software that use i4i’s technology without a licence.

Mumbai, August 18: Samsung i7500 Galaxy have made their from Almost a month later, we now see the white version of the phone.

Apart from the cosmetic changes, there will be no difference between the white version and the “original” black one.

The Samsung i7500 is one of the first Android based phones shaped by Samsung and is featured with a 3.2-inch HVGA AMOLED touchscreen, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack.

Samsung i7500 Galaxy is based on 528 MHz Qualcomm processor and is about 11.9 mm thick the phone is compact and light weighted.

Washington, August 18: Tech Gadgets Lenovo netbooks equipped with Dolby Headphone technology Lenovo Dolby Headphone.

Lenovo has launched its netbooks which is outfitted with the Dolby Headphone technology as to proffer music buff with best hi-fi sound.

The Lenovo ultra portable netbooks are marked as Lenovo IdeaPad S12 and S10-2 which is an ultra portable device which put forward an attention-grabbing surround sound experience.

Dolby Headphone technology allows the users to enjoy surround sound music with the use of any pair of headsets.

Srinagar, August 18: Jammu and Kashmir government has identified over hundred sites to develop small hydro power projects to meet the power demand in the state.

“As many as 110 project sites for development of hydro power have been identified by the Power Development Department,” an official spokesman said after a meeting.

The joint meeting of the officers of Science and Technology and Power Development departments, which was chaired by Minister for Science and Technology Aga Syed Ruhullah, discussed in detail 2MW and above capacity power projects.

Mumbai, August 18: Pakistani conspirators were in constant touch with the 10 terrorists involved in the 26/11 attacks through telephone calls using VOIP service of an American company and also made several test calls prior to that, a US-based witness told a special court today.

“Before the 26/11 attacks, people from Pakistan had made several test calls to Mumbai to ensure the quality of sound,” the witness, the fourth US citizen to hint at Pakistani link in the case, said in a video conference from Canada.

New Delhi, August 18: Sony India mobile is mostly recognized for its music phones world wide and as to carry on the same image the Sony Ericsson has launched two new walkman handsets.

The two latest music phones are tagged as Sony Ericsson W205 and W395 walkman.

Adelaide, August 18: Climate change is the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef, officials said on the heels of a report that also found some of Australia’s other unique flora and fauna are being negatively affected by the changing environment.

Washington, August 18:A Miami resident was charged with stealing 130 million credit and debit card numbers in what the Justice Department described Monday as the largest data breach ever in the United States.

Albert Gonzales, 28, and two unnamed computer hackers were indicted for using a sophisticated hacking technique called an “SQL injection attack” for stealing card information, through exploiting computer networks by finding a way around their firewall.

Bangalore, August 17: India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon this time in collaboration with Russia — that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data.

“Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here,” chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, said.

New Delhi, August 17: A celestial show greeted skygazers at the break of dawn on Monday with Venus and Moon coming together in the eastern sky for a conjunction.

The phenomenon was seen in the early morning sky during which the thin waning crescent Moon poised directly above Venus, popularly known as Goddess of Love, Director of Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) C B Devgun said.

New Delhi, August 16: Desktop and computers accessories manufacturer Logitech has launched a Wireless Desktop MK700 in the market.

The company has plan-out the Wireless Desktop MK700 that assures user for the comfort and efficiency device.

The keyboard designed for this wireless desktop comes along with desktop provides concave Logitech incurve keys that allow the user to position their fingers appropriately.

The softly rounded edges of the keys allow the fingertips of users to soar easily from one key to another.