Facebook will destroy your children's brains

Facebook users face a future of rolling around on the floor, dribbling incoherently as they demand approval from passers-by.Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have left a generation of young adults vulnerable to degeneration of the brain, we can exclusively reveal for about the fifth time. Symptoms include self-obsession, short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback, according to a 'top scientist' with no record of published research on the issue.Repeated exposure to the internet leaves people with an 'identity crisis', wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying, 'Look at me, Mummy,' or a scientist touting their latest brain-fart in the national press.The scientist believes that use of the internet –...

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HP ready to launch Pre 3, seeks apps from developers

HP spills beans regarding the launch of Pre 3, asks developers to submit apps for the new smartphoneIt all started with a official email in which HP asked its developers to submit exciting webOS apps for its smartphone. The smartphone in question is HP's latest offering - Pre 3. The official email indicated that the developers with webOS apps should check the compatibility with the Pre 3 using the emulator which will be released this week. The developers targeted here belong to HP’s Early Access Program. However the forum is open to newbie's as well. To join the program all developers have to do is send an email to  PDC@palm.com to register. Pre 3 is touted as one of the powerful smartphone coming out of the HP stable. A...

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Acer ICONIA A100 Coming to US this Month

Now that the new Android 3.2 Gingerbread is out, Acer is all set to launch its ICONIA A100 Honeycomb tablet which supposed to launch back in July. Engadget, reports that Acer has sent out mails to their retail partners, saying that the device will start shipping in the early weeks of August.The ICONIA A100 is a 7-inch Android tablet which is powered by the same processor as the 10-inch ICONIA A500. While this launch seems specific to the US market, the device may soon arrive in UK and India, probably by the end of the next month.Sporting the 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor along with 512MB of RAM this would run Android Honeycomb version 3.2.  The same update with make it to the ICONIA A500 sometime in the month of September....

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Microsoft's IE9 OS Gamble Paying Off?

Microsoft's Internet Explorer retained its browser dominance in July, followed by Mozilla's Firefox, but both saw a slight decline in the last month while Google's Chrome enjoyed a slight, incremental boost, according to data from Net Applications.Nonetheless, Microsoft touted the gains the latest version of its browser, IE9, has made in the business sector and on its latest OS, Windows 7.Overall, Internet Explorer had 52.81 percent of the global browser market last month (down 0.87 percent), followed by Firefox with 21.48 percent (down 0.19 percent), and Chrome at 13.45 percent, up from 13.11 percent last month. Safari also dropped slightly to 7.48 percent, while Opera bit off about 1.73 percent of the browser share.Broken down by browser...

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Indian Origin Scientist Designs Nanosized Batteries

Pulickel M. Ajayan, an Indian origin scientist  who had been researching from years in the field of nanowire devices has finally emerged successful as he has packaged lithium ion batteries, which power mobiles and smartphones, into a single nanowire. To say possibly, the world at large runs on lithium ion batteries and such a great advancement in this field is a matter of deep appreciation.The schematic shows nanoscale battery/supercapacitor devices in an array, as constructed at Rice University. The devices show promise for powering nanoscale electronics and as a research tool for understanding electrochemical phenomenon at the nanoscale. (Credit: Ajayan Lab)Giving technical details of the device the researchers said that the two versions...

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Google Chrome becomes UK's second most popular web browser

Internet browser passes Firefox, with speed and a nationwide advertising campaign credited for the rise in popularityGoogle Chrome has overtaken Firefox to become the UK's second most popular web browser. Photograph: Walter Bieri/APGoogle's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market.Three years after launch, Chrome last month captured 22% of UK users and marginally overtook Mozilla's Firefox browser, according to the web metrics firm Statcounter. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is losing market share to Chrome but remains the most popular browser for UK users with 45% – although it has a head start by being pre-installed on almost all computers sold in Britain. Apple's...

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Apple Halts Samsung Galaxy Tab Launch in Australia

As part of the ongoing lawsuit between Samsung and Apple, the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been delayed in Australia. A court injunction has been won by Apple which will prevent Samsung from selling the tablet “until [Samsung] wins court approval or the lawsuit is resolved,” according to a report by Bloomberg.The lawsuit started in the US in April, and has Apple accusing Samsung of ripping of the iPhone and the iPad in look and feel. The evidence is hard to contradict. Show one of Samsung’s recent touch-screen handsets to a layperson and they’ll probably mistake it for an iPhone.Not only has Apple successfully halted the launch of the Tab 10.1, but Samsung has agreed to supply Apple with three examples of the tablet at least...

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The Profits of Stock Market Trading Courses

The trading industry is a difficult field that involves numbers, charts and requires analysis in order to make good and wise trading judgments. High quality and reliable stock market trading courses is the key of being successful in trading. There are a number of benefits that can be resulting from engaging in stock market trading classes. Here are some of the benefits of the program:    It allows you to know what kind of trader you wanted to be. You will be involved in a initial trader assessment to determine your potential, strengths and weaknesses in order to fully understand what type of trader you will be good at such as a day trader or a swing trader. It is important to determine what type of trader you are to help you...

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Technical Analysis Course in Delhi

I want to say this article is about the things that you want to see out for when you are looking at a technical analysis course online in Delhi NCR. Trading from a technical view is becoming more popular in trading and therefore so has the indeed for courses.First of all we will look at the website and then we will go on to looking at the detail of technical analysis course online. There are a lot of essentials that I think you should learn as part of the website. It is important that you will find out the courses detail online before you joining.You first need to understand the basics of technical analysis so you need to learn about the why this type of analysis works. You also want to learn how the famous Jaswant Aditya teaching used it to...

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Stock Market Courses Online in Delhi At WinTheMarkets

Stock market is considered a very difficult thing to understand. It is really tough for people to know what is happening in this market and it´s also difficult to learn it. But with the online stock market courses things has become more easy for people who wants to learn it. Everyone can register with no troubles to a stock exchange course and learn everything in order to know all the concepts of stock exchange. These kind of courses are taught in a way which would be the most useful for people who are beginners. With these online courses you will become an expert easily. The stock market trading education informs people about the easiest methods that are used to improve your skills and knowledge by providing them with total training classes....

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Amazon Unveils Newest Video Streaming Deal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com unveiled its latest video streaming deal on Thursday as the world's largest Internet retailer adds more digital content ahead of the expected launch of a new tablet computer later this year.Amazon said it agreed to license roughly 1,000 Universal Pictures movies from NBCUniversal, which is 51 percent owned by Comcast and 49 percent owned by General Electric.The films, which include "Elizabeth", "Being John Malkovich" and "Billy Elliott" will be available to Amazon Prime members, who get free shipping and video streaming for a $79 annual membership, the company added.Last week, Amazon signed a similar deal with CBS Corp that cost more than $100 million, according to Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente....

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U.S. Senate panel schedules Google antitrust hearing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate's antitrust panel has scheduled its hearing on Google Inc's use of its considerable market clout for mid-September, the Senate Judiciary Committee said in a brief statement on Thursday.The Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee will meet on Sept. 21 for a hearing titled: "The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?"The only known witness at this point is Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt had been Google's chief executive officer but vacated the post to company co-founder Larry Page in April. He now oversees government affairs.Google, a global leader in search engine advertising, is in the midst of an antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission following accusations...

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Skyfire unveils app for Flash videos on iPhone

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Private-equity backed video technology firm Skyfire, best known for its mobile browser, has unveiled an application for watching Flash videos on Apple's iPhones.Apple has been a strong opponent of Adobe's Flash technology, criticising its power management, among other things, and it has embraced a newer set of tools for building web applications known as HTML 5.Many Internet pages running applications using Flash technology have had to create special versions for Apple devices.Users of Skyfire's new VideoQ application can send links to videos from their browsers to watch them in the app, which Skyfire hopes to build into a video entertainment hub.VideoQ will at first be available in North America only, but Skyfire plans...

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Shopping for fake 'profit', 'loss' to get tough from Aug 1

Santosh NairMoneycontrol.comHigh networth individuals who 'buy' loss/profit from friendly brokers to either suppress taxable income or convert black money into white, will find it difficult to do so, from August 1. This follows the new rules on modification of client codes (the client’s trading account number), effective from Monday. Under the new SEBI rule, brokers will be penalized 2% of the turnover value of the non-institutional trades done in the wrong account, if the turnover value of such trades exceeds 5% of the total monthly turnover value. For errors up to 5% of the total turnover value, the penalty is 1%.Till now, if a broker had executed a trade in the wrong client’s account, he could rectify that error at the end of the day by...

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SEBI raises threshold for mandatory takeover offer

Mumbai: India raised the ownership trigger for a mandatory takeover offer in a company to 25 per cent from 15 per cent now, a move that could draw more private equity and other investors into listed companies.The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) also said the new rules will require such investors to offer to buy at least 26 per cent more of the company, from the 20 per cent minimum currently."Raising the open offer trigger to 25 per cent is a pragmatic step that will provide growth capital to companies to expand their businesses without forcing the investor to make an open offer for more stake," said Sourav Mallik, executive director of M&A at India's Kotak Mahindra Capital.Earlier, a panel had recommended...

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IITs' PhD jinx: BTechs command higher pay

MUMBAI: Foreign universities that would come scouting for young teachers to the Indian Institutes of Technology were conspicuously missing this recruitment season. But a range of private and deemed Indian universities from across the country did land up offering hardly attractive pay scales defined under the Sixth Pay Commission.When they were pitted against the big guns-the consulting and finance offers-the IITs realized that the PhD jinx continues to haunt them. Every tech school recorded a higher average salary figure for their BTechs as compared to their PhD fellows, most of who joined research labs or signed up for teaching positions."It's a trend that continues. The average salary on campus is Rs 7 lakh, but the average salary for PhD candidates is less than that of the BTechs," said...

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Facebook Staff On Google+: How They’re Using It

There has been a great deal of talk about whether Facebook should be scared of Google+, whether Google+ is the next Facebook, etc. etc. etc. Facebook has in fact shown some signs of concern, though Google+ is far from replacing Facebook for the majority of users, at least at this early point in the service’s existence.Still, it is interesting that hundreds of Facebook users have Google+ accounts. Are they simply checking out the competition? Just seeing what all the fuss is about? Do they really like it and use it frequently? It probably just depends on the user.It’s not exactly unheard of for staffers of one web service to use a competing web service. We’ve seen plenty of Facebookers on Twitter, plenty of Twitterers on Facebook, Googlers on...

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Google+ Can Drive Traffic To Your Site

Google+ is still very young, but it’s already becoming a significant traffic source for some sites.Are you seeing any traffic to your site from Google+? Let us know.“I was quite surprised to find how strong Google+ was as a social media traffic source driver,” Larry Kim, Founder and CTO of WordStream, told WebProNews. “Google+ beat-out LinkedIn, and was even closing in [on] Twitter and Facebook!”He put together a case study looking at this a little bit. “Like any case study, I can only speak for my company’s own experiences, but nevertheless, I found the results of my case study to be quite surprising.”For the case study, Kim compiled web analytics data for WordStream’s blog for the week of July 18 – July 24, which he says was an unusually...

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Google Search Gets a Tablet Makeover

A new Google design was spotted earlier this week. Now, Google has officially announced it. It’s not a complete Google redesign, however. It’s a redesign of Google for the tablet experience.“As part of our effort to evolve the Google design and experience, we’ve improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets,” says software engineer Xiaorui Gan. “We’ve simplified the layout of search results pages and increased the size of page contents like text, buttons and other touch targets to make it faster and easier to browse and interact with search results in portrait or landscape view.”“The search button located below the search box provides quick access to specific types of results like Images, Videos, Places, Shopping and more,” explains...

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How to Trade Derivatives in Stock Markets

Derivative is a product whose value is derived from the value of an underlying asset, in a contractual manner. The asset in question could be equity, forex, commodity, index or any other.In India trading of derivatives is governed by the framework under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. Derivative products initially emerged as hedging devices against wild fluctuations in commodity prices, and commodity related derivatives remained the only form of products for almost three centuries. Post 1970 financial derivatives came into the scene due to growing instability in financial markets. In Indian scenario popular derivatives products available include-Futures based on Indices, equity, currency and commodities. Eg. Nifty futures,...

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