Apple--iPhones-not-tracking-user-location Apple: iPhones not tracking user location   Apple denied its iPhones track and store user locations, arguing the file on the phone is a list of nearby towers and WiFi connections in a user’s general area – not their specific location. The recent discovery... [Read More]

nokia HELSINKI: Nokia, the world’s largest phone maker by volume, will lay off 4,000 people and outsource another 3,000 to Accenture as part of a plan to slash annual spending by 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion).   Nokia said it would outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture,... [Read More]

steve-jobs-3g-iphone The recent disclosure that Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones track users locations has attracted a lot of attention.   The issue has even reached US parliament with US Congress and FCC looking into the issue. To garner Apple CEO Steve Jobs take on the issue... [Read More]

sony lcd SEOUL: S-LCD, a flat screen joint venture between Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics, said it would reduce capital by $555 million, as Sony struggles with perennial losses from its TV business and Samsung seeks to shift to a new type of display.   The global liquid crystal display (LCD)... [Read More]

Ukraine, Chernobyl: Employees of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant walk in front of the destroyed 4th block of the plant on February 24, 2011 ahead of the 25th anniversary of the meltdown of reactor number four due to be marked on April 26, 2011. (AFP Photo / Sergey Supinsky) Twenty-five years on, the... [Read More]

iphone4-google SAN FRANCISCO: The revelation this past week that Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone and iPad devices keep files of users’ location data raises legal and ethical questions.   The company has not commented on the controversy, but has said that the only location data the company... [Read More]

harry-potter Newspaper pictures that came alive in the fictional world of ‘Harry Potter’ will soon be a reality, thanks to ground-breaking British technology. Software company Autonomy has developed a vision recognition system for smartphones and tablet computers that embeds pictures and videos on... [Read More]

French-revolution-revived-on-water- “The Death of Marat” as a setting for André Chénier opera (photo Felix Kaestle/Associated Press)   “The Death of Marat”, one of the greatest images of the French Revolution, created by Jean Louis David, has been creatively “jeopardized” from canvas... [Read More]

AMD dualcore-processor SAN FRANCISCO: Advanced Micro Devices beat earnings expectations, underscoring the PC market’s resilience as the chipmaker launches next-generation processors it hopes will close the gap with Intel Corp.   The perennial runner-up to Intel in the multibillion-dollar global... [Read More]

The Hydro Power Plant In Moldova The Dubassari plant is a hydroelectric power plant and an important strategical construction at the Dniester river near Dubassari, Moldova. And it is also a border between former parts of one and the same country. The plant is the first electrification enterprise in... [Read More]

Moldova’s own primary energy sources consist of small hydroelectric power plants on the Nistru River at Dubasari and Camenca. The Hydro Power Plant In Moldova The Hydro Power Plant In Moldova The Hydro Power Plant In Moldova The Hydro Power Plant In Moldova The Hydro Power Plant In Moldova The... [Read More]

steve-ballmer NEW DELHI: In an e-mail sent to all its employees Thursday morning, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has announced that the company will be increasing the pay packages of all its employees and make changes in its review system.   Here’s is a copy of the e-mail sent by... [Read More]

American gadget fads wreak longer-term pain on others As the latest gadgets hit the high streets in the US, outdated devices soon find themselves on the scrap heap. Piles of American computer junk are now creating problems for other countries, like India, which end up becoming a dumping ground. This... [Read More]

co2 emissions main Rising Co2 emissions linked to spike in hay fever in Europe – A continent-wide study has indicated that carbon dioxide emissions may be raising the pollen counts in European cities climate change, carbon emission, EU nations, pollen levels Rising Co2 emissions linked to spike... [Read More]

Twitter-turns-into-an-instrument-for-political-battle- Twitter (AFP Photo / Justin Sullivan)   Russian prosecutors have found no violations of the law by a deputy-governor of the Primorsky Region, member of the ruling United Russia party Aleskandr Shemelev, who made abusive comments about the... [Read More]

computer Imagine a computer that has emotions just like you. This could soon be a reality, as scientists are inching closer to new class of computers which they say can feel “sorry” for their mistakes.   Researchers at Tel Aviv University’s Blavatnik School of Computer Science... [Read More]

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Spacewallpapers.net offers the highest quality and largest selection of free space wallpapers and space backgrounds for your desktop and Playstation Portable. 25 Best Photographs From The Category Space For 2010 25 Best Photographs From The Category Space For 2010 25 Best Photographs From The Category... [Read More]

Bug-munches-plastic-trash-possibly-cleaning-oceans Image from state-of-affairs.org   Nature may have found a way to dispose of the huge amounts of plastic garbage, which has been increasingly accumulating in the oceans. A small bacteria feeding on it has been discovered. This may be a boon or... [Read More]

apple-iphone-keyboard Apple has been accused of putting customers’ privacy at risk after security researchers found that their iPhones were tracking users’ locations and saving every details to a secret file.   The researchers found the device saves the latitude and longitude of users’... [Read More]

Eric-Schmidt-Soon-To-Be-Former-Google-CEO SAN FRANCISCO: Billionaire Eric Schmidt feels more comfortable taking a million dollar paycheck as Google Inc’s former CEO than he did when he was running the Internet’s most powerful company.   After voluntarily limiting his annual salary to... [Read More]

This may be a dead alien (video from http://www.youtube.com/user/Allnewsweb) A video of what was claimed to be a mutilated alien corpse, which scored hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, has turned out to be fake. Dead alien found in Siberian snow The tiny “dead alien” is just skin from chicken... [Read More]

Four-billion-year-old-surprise-from-space A group of NASA scientists have discovered a new mineral of space origin in a meteorite found in Antarctica in 1969 (Image by Leonard Wikberg III / sciencedata.net)   A group of NASA scientists have discovered a new mineral of space origin in one of the... [Read More]

iPhone-tracks-your-every-movement iPhone program sparks privacy debate.   As rumors of a possible September release of the iPhone5 spread privacy activists are outraged with Apple following the discovery of a file on the iPhone which tracks and records the users’ location. Researchers have... [Read More]