Kolkata, (IANS) The West Bengal Human Rights Commission has asked the State Pollution Control Board to probe allegations by residents of a building in the city hub’s posh Park Street that they faced health hazards from mobile phone towers. Residents of Karnani Mansion complained about antennae and towers installed close to the roof of the [...]
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Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia’s prisons administration has launched a smartphone application to send mail to inmates, a prison official said. The mobile application, called “fsin-pismo”, operates on the iOS and Android platforms and can be used to send messages to an inmate at a particular prison or correction facility. The prison will check and censor [...]
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UFO sightings are becoming a commonplace. The year 2013 has seen heightened UFO activity in South Africa and nearby other nations Someone following you to keep a check on you often, Scary, isn’t it? The people of Cape Town actually have a reason to get scared and that too from aliens. Even more chilling. The [...]
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London, (IANS) The magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big that its effects were even felt in space, the BBC reported Sunday. Scientists say the March 11, 2011 tremor sent a ripple of sound through the atmosphere that was picked up by the Goce satellite. The super-sensitive instrument was able to detect [...]
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Frankfurt, (IANS/EFE) The CeBIT technology fair, which this year is dedicated to “Shareconomy”, has shown that IT is one of today’s biggest job-growth engines. CeBIT 2013, which has Poland as its partner country, has focused attention on “this sweeping trend that emphasizes sharing knowledge, resources and experience to create new forms of collaboration”. This year, [...]
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Washington, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Social networking giant Facebook has announced a major overhaul of its homepage known as News Feed, unveiling a more visually stimulating stream of photos, videos and comments posted by friends that will also let users see more of the topics they are most interested in. “We want to give everyone in the [...]
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Daylight saving time 2013 is here. A stupid idea continues even now in USA that should have been scrapped decades ago Daylight savings time 2013 is here once again and we all are being forced to move the clocks forward. I am sure an overwhelmingly large number of people don’t actually want to do this [...]
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Once again it is here. Daylight savings time 2013 begins today at 2 AM. But many suggest that this practice is date and useless Daylight savings time is all set to begin today and many people are again going to get very confused about their timings. Though for many of us it has become a [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) To foil any terror strike, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is planning to install 900 more CCTV cameras across the Delhi Metro network this year, its chief said Friday. “In at attempt to develop immediate attention to suspicious object or activities, the force is planning for the installation of 900 more [...]
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Galactic Neighbor is about 163,000 light-years away and it is indeed closer than we initially thought.And we thought that our closest galactic neighbor was far far far way. Yes it is indeed but now we know exactly how far it is. Scientists with the use of high-powered telescopes and measurements systems that are more accurate [...]
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Google Nexus 4 set to be launched in Japan, wireless charger also available
March 8, 2013 No Comment
This is certainly a welcome development. Google Nexus 4 is set to be launched in Japan and wireless charger will also be available immediately If you live in Japan and wanted to use Google’s latest flagship handset Nexus 4, this is the time you must be waiting for. The handset was not available in Japan [...]
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Asus Transformer AiO is a different product altogether. Asus is trying to keep its identity of innovating products in different form factors, sizes and extreme variations. Other tech companies don’t think the way Asus has the habit of thinking out of box. Though so far not many of its products have been accepted by consumers [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The government will conduct the third phase of auction for FM radio licences by the end of this year, paving the way for setting up of 839 new radio stations in nearly 300 towns and cities across the country, a top official said Thursday. The government hopes to mop up around Rs.1,500 [...]
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For many people it may be worrying, but solar flares today has forced NASA to shuts down Mars Rover Curiosity temporarily NASA has been forced to put its Mars rover the Curiosity into sleep mode due to an upcoming solar burst to the Mars. In a few days after stopping its operations for solving some [...]
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