If the threat of possible brain tumours and premature aging weren’t scary enough, a new study on the effects of mobile phone use on human health claims that overexposure to mobiles can cause red blood cells to leak haemoglobin which may lead to kidney stones and even heart disease.
The scientists that conducted the study exposed samples of blood to varying degrees of microwave radiation for ten to 60 hours.
The study, carried out...
Christmas Day was Facebook’s busiest day ever in the UK, according to Hitwise, up 69% on Christmas 2007, presumably a result of family and friends using the tool to contact each other on the big day.
Social network sites as a whole accounted for 1 in 10 of all UK internet visits during Christmas week, the first time the category has broken 10%, with YouTube overtaking Hotmail for the first time.
It’s not such good news for online retailers though –...
Like many computer security threats, a new weakness in Web commerce emerged today from the grass roots. Researchers said Dec. 30 they’d used 200 PlayStation 3 video game consoles to defeat a Web security mechanism in three days of computing time.
A team of security researchers from the United States, Switzerland, and the Netherlands demonstrated at a conference in Berlin Dec. 30 a way to create fake versions of some digital certificates that are used to batten...
Serco Group, a British-based international IT service firm, has completed its $524 million purchase of SI International, a provider of IT services, technology and network support solutions to the U.S. government. Serco plans to combine SI International’s operations with Serco’s existing North American business.
"In the U.S., Serco is a leading supplier to the substantial U.S. federal services market," Serco Group Chief Executive Christopher Hyman said in a statement. "We now have a...
U.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a regulator has warned.
Due to a last-minute rush of coupon requests, demand may exceed supply in the coming month, said the Department of Commerce official overseeing the subsidy program.
The government IT Services program doling out $40 coupons to subsidize the converter boxes is...
A host of private equity firms and global information technology majors are likely to vie for a stake in Satyam Computer Services, as angry investors look for an exit or a change in the Indian outsourcer’s management team.
The company has said it will hold a board meeting on January 10 to consider options to improve shareholder value and corporate governance, leading to speculation of a possible stake sale or takeover bid.
Analysts say any acquisition of Satyam,...
DataCore became the latest provider to announce new products along with pricing incentives on Dec. 30 when it launched a new line of full-featured SAN (storage area network) software starter packages aimed at the small-to-midsize business market.
The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based vendor joined a list of companies that include Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, 3PAR and Data Domain that have lowered pricing in the last 12 months.
The new DataCore...
In a move to reduce the costs of next-generation handsets, Samsung Electronics will be making its own WiMax and LTE baseband chips.
Samsung is one of the largest handset manufacturers in the world, and it currently uses chips from the likes of Broadcom, Infineon, and Qualcomm. But the company already has experience building its own application processors, and it wants to reduce the amount of patent royalties it has to pay.
The company used to rely primarily on Qualcomm chips because Qualcomm owns much...
Consumer electronics purchases will get a new push in the coming months from increased consumer demand for networking among imaging and mobile devices, according to a survey announced Tuesday by Parks Associates.
The new demand, which Parks described as the "next wave of consumer electronics purchasing," will center largely on the home use of digital cameras, photo frames, and mobile phones, the market research firm said, adding that the complete results of the study...
Symwave claims that next month it will become the first to demonstrate the use of the new SuperSpeedUSB 3.0 specification for transferring data to and from external storage devices.
Symwave plans to showcase the new spec at the Consumer Electronics Show, which runs Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas.
The semiconductor company said in a statement that the demonstration would highlight "streaming data to and from external storage devices at speeds previously unattainable." The demo is being done in collaboration with test,...
HP is offering a new pricing program aimed at cash-strapped business. The company has rolled out a new promotion which promises zero per cent financing on hardware purchases for small and medium-sized businesses. The promotion will run for two months in the US...
Google has brought its Tasks application to Android devices and the iPhone. Tasks is currently available from Google Labs, and allows users to add a to-do list to Google Mail. The company recently made Tasks available to mobile users with a version for small screens,...
According to researchers at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), RRAM or Phase-change memory could be the next main memory of computers, replacing DRAM and NAND. DRAM has been used in computers for several years and its widespread use is attributed to...
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