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The Tablet Battle Begins: iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Android Tablets?

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:01:13 +0000

The iPad is about to get some company.
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android slate, is set to debut this Thursday. While we’ve been hearing about the rush of Android tablets for some time now, the Galaxy Tab is arguably the first high-end Android tablet to hit the market and thus the first real contender to Apple’s “magical” device.

Welcome to the (Tablet) Jungle
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is just the beginning of Android’s entry into the tablet battle. Motorola is expected to have a high-end Android tablet on the market sometime in the coming months; the latest rumors point to it being a 10-inch device with Google’s as-of-yet unreleased Android 3.0 operating system. Samsung itself is believed to have additional Android tablets in the works, too, including 8- and 10-inch versions of the Galaxy Tab described above. Even Google may be unveiling its own tablet before long, though it could very well end up running Chrome OS instead of Android.
Ultimately, it’s all good news for us: Just like we’re seeing with smartphones right now, the more competition there is, the more each manufacturer is forced to fight for our buying dollar. As our options expand, innovation improves and products get increasingly better. Android will no doubt be a fierce contender in the tablet war, but Apple isn’t about to lie down and disappear.
No matter how you look at it, this battle will benefit us all.
From: http://www.pcworld.com/article/204581/

Marry with a virtual girlfriend?

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:44:30 +0000

In One Japan Beach Town, Virtual Girlfriends Take Place of Real Ones
If you visited the Japanese hot springs resort of Atami recently and spotted a disproportionate number of men gazing longingly at their smartphones, it probably wasn’t because they were playing Angry Birds. This summer, the beach town became a vacation hub for guys who like to treat their girlfriends to sun-and-fun holidays. Girlfriends, that is, who only exist on-screen.

All I have to say is…What has this world, specifically Japan, come to?
i think that hes stupid and immature. i mean marrying a video game character. wat the f*ck? wat the hell is wrong with him. he needs to go to a mental institution or something like that.

Men In Japan Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends

Men In Japan Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:31:34 +0000

Apparently getting a real world female is falling out of fashion these days
When it comes to girlfriends, perhaps people will soon need to add the clarification “in real life” (IRL). Japan is blazing bravely into undiscovered territory, pioneering the world of digital relationships.

While the nation still hasn’t perfected an android “lovebot”, its video game companies have launched a deluge of romance simulators aimed at young men. The most popular of these games is “Love Plus” which is produced by Konami.
ATAMI, Japan—This resort town, once popular with honeymooners, is turning to a new breed of romance seekers—virtual sweethearts.

Gamers’ vacations come with virtual girlfriends By Athima Chansanchai

Real-life dating and relationships have plenty of stress, but plenty of perks, too — especially traveling. You see new things together, experience it and share the memory forever.
Konami Digital Entertainment took this premise and gave it a twist. They crafted a summer vacation campaign using the hot springs vacation town of Atami, about 60 miles southwest of Tokyo, and tagged 13 locations at which gamers dedicated to its best-selling Nintendo DS dating simulation game, “Love Plus” and its sequel, “Love Plus Plus,” could photograph themselves. Not by themselves, mind you, but with virtual high school-aged girlfriends Manaka, Rinko or Nene, using augmented reality software (if they had iPhones). The campaign launched July 10 and ends today.

Comments:Need their asses kicked. How hard is it to find a woman in real life? Not hard at all!
Besides, these virtual women, are they really _true_ simulations of women? I think not.
Do they:
Make you do the dishes.
Nag you about taking out the trash and other chores?
All of a sudden want your attention after ignoring you all day when you decide you want to play a videogame?
Constantly keep tabs on you?
Have self-esteem issues?
Bleed once a month and get crazy-emotional?
Are they completely illogical?
… and more.

I doubt it.
This is fantasy bullcrap and well, I suppose, if it keeps them happy, then, whatever. The problem is, like the real thing, these devices demand tedious amounts of attention. The difference is, at least with the real thing you get some loving on the side occasionally. It might not be all the time, but, at least it will happen sometimes so it makes up for everything else (kind of). With these stupid programs–they don’t really give you that, now, do they?

I dunno, I’m just bitter and rambling here. Maybe it is that time of the month for me… in a guy way?

The latest news about iPad

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:20:01 +0000

The iPad as Trojan horse
Is Steve Jobs’ tablet the device that finally gets Apple past the IT-department gates?
In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Think Equities’ Rajesh Ghai largely avoids speculating about what Apple (AAPL) might announce at Wednesday’s special event.

More info: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/31/the-ipad-as-trojan-horse/?section=magazines_fortune

Acer`s iPad Challenge: 10 Ways Acer Can Beat Apple`s Tablet
In a recent interview, Acer chairman JT Wang said that he expects Apple’s iPad market share to fall to around 20 percent within the next few years. He told the Chinese magazine UDN that, like Macs, which have a very small percentage of the computer market, Apple’s iPad will be the fashionable, but trailing player in the space. Wang’s comments are awfully strong, and they speak to his company’s desire to break into and dominate the tablet market, just as it is looking to reach the number one slot in marketshare for the PC space. In fact, Wang hopes to bring several tablets to the market over the coming years to combat Apple’s iPad. Whether or not he’ll be successful is up for debate. But as Acer continues its trek to become the world’s largest PC maker, it’s hard to bet against it. Still, in order to achieve its goals, Acer first needs to overcome Apple in the tablet market. Here’s how Acer can beat the iPad.

Apple now shipping iPad within 24 hours
Apple is now shipping the iPad within 24 hours after an order is placed.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20015018-37.html

Apple Reduces iPad Shipping Delay From Weeks to 24 Hours
To tell the story of Apple’s iPad is to tell a tale of heartache and delays. It’s no question that Apple has certainly sold a lion’s share of its new tablet since the device’s April 3 launch—more than 3.27 million as of late July, to be exact.
More info: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368448,00.asp

emmy awards 2010 winners

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:53:41 +0000

The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards (for film), Grammy Awards (for music) and Tony Awards (for stage).

They are presented in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment programming, news and documentary shows, and sports programming. As such, the awards are presented in various area-specific ceremonies held annually throughout the year. The best known of these ceremonies are the Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in American primetime television programming (excluding sports), and the Daytime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in American daytime television programming.

Three related but separate organizations present the Emmy Awards:

the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) honors national prime time entertainment excluding sports;
the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) recognizes daytime, sports, news and documentary programming, technology, business, regional, global media awards and;
the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honors all programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.

The Emmy Awards telecast airs live on Sunday, August 29 on NBC at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT and is hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

The Emmy Awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, honor the best in television programming. Check out OnTheRedCarpet.com for the full list of winners, updated in real time!

Smoking may cause more stress in teens

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:29:06 +0000

Here are some common experiences from teens who smoke.
♣ They tried their first cigarette in sixth or seventh grade
♣ They often do not perform well in school
♣ They feel like they are not a part of the school
♣ They become isolated from other students
♣ They can’t perform as well at sports events
♣ They feel like they have little hope of going to college
♣ They feel like they need a job to support their smoking habit
♣ They are reported to school officials for skipping classes
♣ They start using other illegal substances
♣ They begin experimenting with alcohol and other drugs
♣ They experience pressure from home and school and use tobacco as a form of relief
♣ Teen smokers enjoy trying to hide their smoking
Despite stress being a major factor leading to many teens smoking, new research shows that smoking may actually cause a spike in depression in adolescents.

The study from the University of Toronto and University of Montreal, which was published in the journal Addictive Behaviours, says adolescent smokers who choose to “self-medicate” with cigarettes to relieve stress may create an opposite effect.

“There’s a theory to suggest what’s happening is that you do feel better after a cigarette, but that’s because you’re in a state of nicotine withdrawal (before you smoked it),” said Michael Chaiton, the study’s lead author, who is also a research associate at the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit.

Windows Phone 7 to launch in soon

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:20:35 +0000

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Windows Phone 7 is the next version of the Windows Phone operating system developed by Microsoft, planned for release by October 2010.Microsoft’s goal is to create a compelling and predictable user experience by redesigning the user interface, disallowing partners to modify or replace it, integrating the operating system with other services, and strictly controlling the hardware it runs on.Microsoft officially unveiled Windows Phone 7 during Mobile World Congress 2010 (February 15) in Barcelona and revealed additional details at MIX 2010. Microsoft released a technical preview version of Windows Phone 7 on 18 July 2010.

BARCELONA, Spain — Feb. 15, 2010 — Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers will be able to purchase the first phones in stores by holiday 2010.

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Windows Phone 7 nears the finish line with SDK release date

Even as Windows Phone 7′s launch rapidly approaches—currently expected to be October for the EU, November for the US—developers are still using incomplete beta tools for creating applications for Microsoft’s new phone platform. Though the company has still not announced exact launch dates for the phones, it has revealed a few more key developer details. The final, complete developer tools will ship on September 16, and Marketplace will start accepting application submissions from early October.

The updated SDK will give developers long-awaited built-in support for two of the new OS’s key user interface concepts: “panoramas,” the sideways-panning mechanism for building the OS’s hubs; and “pivots,” the building block for showing filtered views of data, seen in the e-mail client. These two concepts are found throughout the built-in applications in Windows Phone 7, and are a key part of its striking appearance—a look many third parties want to replicate. Their inclusion in the SDK is sure to be welcomed by the platform’s developers.

And it seems that there will be quite a few to do the welcoming. Microsoft says that the betas have been downloaded some 300,000 times. This figure spans three betas and is sure to include a substantial number of people downloading more than once and people downloading to take a look but not actually create any applications. Still, the number implies that there has been substantial interest, in spite of the fact that no one can buy Windows Phone 7 hardware yet.

Consumers Want Tablets, Not iPad

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:55:26 +0000

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Surveys reveal that a substantial chunk of U.S. customers plan to buy a tablet in the next year, and it’s not necessarily going to be an iPad.

Fourteen percent, or 27 million U.S. online consumers, intend to buy some kind of tablet in the next 12 months, says a Forrester research report (.pdf) published Thursday (chart below). Customers interested in purchasing a tablet aren’t primarily Apple customers, and they’re well aware of the crop of upcoming tablets from competitors such as Google and Hewlett-Packard.

Additionally, a similar study by the Magazine Publishers of America found that nearly 60 percent of U.S. consumers expect to purchase an e-reader or tablet within the next three years.

HP to launch webOS tablet computer in 2011
HP has confirmed it will release a tablet computer running the webOS platform early next year

Now that Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to release a webOS tablet early next year, its next big goal–in addition to building the device–is to persuade software developers to write apps for the mobile gadget. Given the early popularity of Apple’s iPad, as well as the imminent arrival of numerous tablets running Google’s Android OS, that task could prove challenging.

HP hopes that by offering a variety of tablet computers to suit different needs, it will be in a good position to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iPad.

The computer company has also said that it will use webOS to power a range of smartphones, netbooks, and internet-enabled printers.

Skin neoplasm(cancer of skin): symptoms and pictures

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:43:07 +0000

Symptoms of Skin CancerThe list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Skin Cancer includes the 6 symptoms listed below:
Increased risk of skin cancer
Symptoms of skin cancer:
Non-healing skin lesion
Crusted bleeding skin lesion that doesn’t heal
Unusual mole
Changes in mole

Skin neoplasms (cancer of skin) are growths on the skin which can have many causes. The three most common skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises. Skin cancer generally develops in the epidermis (the outermost layer of skin), so a tumor is usually clearly visible. This makes most skin cancers detectable in the early stages. Unlike many other cancers, including those originating in the lung, pancreas, and stomach, only a small minority of those afflicted will actually die of the disease.[1]. In fact, though it can be disfiguring, except for melanoma, skin cancer is rarely fatal. Skin cancer represents the most commonly diagnosed cancer, surpassing lung, breasts, colorectal, and prostate cancer.[1] Melanoma is less common than basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, but it is the most serious—for example, in the UK there are 9,500 new cases of melanoma each year, and 2,300 deaths.[2] It is the most common cancer in the young population (20 – 39 age group).[3] Most cases are caused by long periods of exposure to the sun[3]. Non-melanoma skin cancers are the most common skin cancers. The majority of these are basal cell carcinomas. These are usually localized growths caused by excessive cumulative exposure to the sun and do not tend to spread.

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Some quetion about skin neoplasm:

Q: Melanocytic Neoplasm!?!? PLEASE HELP?
I have had this odd looking spot on my labia for about a year..I never thought anything of it because it never bothered me in any way.It is about 3-4mm in size,dark blue and very slightly raised. About a month ago I went for my yearly and asked about it. My doctor said that I need to get a biopsy done because there was a slight chance it could be melanoma,but he also said he didn’t think that it was anything to worry about?? He did a punch biopsy and my results came back melanocytic neoplasm??That is it..I don’t really know what this is,and I cant get into the doctor for a few more days…so my questions are still not answered.I have called around and gotten a few second opinions but they are so confusing.One gyno says it does need to be removed but it really isnt something that needs to be worried about,another gyno says I need to go to a specialist and this is a really big worry for him.. All I ask is for advice,I am literally going crazy thinking of what this is,I just want to know anything about this!!!!! I am 22,I have one daughter and overall I feel like I am in good health other than this issue. Cancer does run in my family but never skin cancer.. Please help me on ANY advice or direction!

Answer: I work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. If you don’t feel that you are getting any questions answered on this diagnosis, perhaps go to our website and see what it says about this diagnosis (I am not too familiar with it honestly) or giving our Physician Referral line a call at 800-525-2225, from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

Now because the MD said its a Neoplasm, it may or may not be cancerous, but it’s important to get a 2nd or even a 3rd opinion, until you are satisfied with the MD and the feedback you are getting. I really hope this helps

Q: Which type of skin cancer spreads the fastest?
A. Melanoma
B. Osteosarcoma
C. Squamous Cell Carcinoma
D. Benign Neoplasm

A: Only A and C are primary cancers that affect the skin. melanoma tends to grow slowly and metastasis. Squames tend to be agressive locally.
The answer is C
Osteosarcoma is a primary bone tumor.

Lindsay Lohan: overview and photo

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:15:18 +0000

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11. Lohan gained further fame between 2003 and 2005 with leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded, subsequently appearing in independent films including Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion and Emilio Estevez’s Bobby.

Her career was interrupted in 2007 as two driving under the influence (DUI) incidents and three visits to drug rehabilitation facilities led to several lost movie deals. Resuming her career, she guest starred in the TV series Ugly Betty in 2008, starred in the 2009 comedy Labor Pains, and will appear in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete in 2010. Lohan launched a second career in pop music in 2004 with the album Speak and followed up with A Little More Personal (Raw) in 2005. She has attracted significant publicity, particularly surrounding her personal life.

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