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Immensely useful tips to know your iPhone 5 better

Wed, 10/10/2012 - 13:09 by Minnie Mahendru

Lets tell you about a few tricks and ways to use the iPhone 5 that is splashed with countless supportive features for the user. Most of its millions of users are unaware of the myriad features that are incorporated in the latest version of this iconic phone.

Harvard geniuses shove 700 terabytes of data in one single gram of DNA

Sun, 19/08/2012 - 16:21 by Minnie Mahendru

A geneticist and a bioengineer at Harvards slogged together to store nearly 700 terabytes or 5.5 petabits of data in one single gram of DNA. Their combined effort has smashed the density record of DNA data that has been previously recorded, by shoving a whopping 700 terabytes in one gram, by nearly a thousand times.

Is the dwindling retail business of US looking up again?

Thu, 16/08/2012 - 15:45 by Minnie Mahendru

Is the American “money spending ability” bouncing back? Data put forth by the Commerce Department showed a profitable upswing in retail sales this July!!

Japanese economy shrinks post earthquake and nuclear crisis

Thu, 19/05/2011 - 13:33 by Anter Prakash Singh

The Japanese economy has plunged into a recession following the worst ever earthquake which was followed by a tsunami and a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, data for the first quarter of this year reveals.

Google’s Gmail Fiasco: Backing Up Data

Wed, 02/03/2011 - 23:03 by Anter Prakash Singh

The Sunday episode, in which tens of thousands of Gmail users lost their e-mails and other data, will soon be forgotten, and Google is hopeful of restoring all the accounts soon.

Google hopes to restore all accounts 'soon'

Wed, 02/03/2011 - 21:00 by Anter Prakash Singh

Some of the thousands of Gmail users, who found their accounts reset and all their e-mails, chat records, and other data gone on Sunday, are still wondering if they will get their data back. Though Google says all the data will be restored, the company is not coming out with a fixed time frame.

Global data equivalent to US covered in 13 layers of books

Mon, 14/02/2011 - 13:51 by Yasser Ali

Can you guess the amount of information stored in the world? Scientists have measured the data available and found it to be 295 exabytes by 2007. An exabyte is equal to ten to the power of 18 bytes. Scientists say that information is equivalent to 1.2 billion hard drives.

US labour market data for January disappointing

Sat, 05/02/2011 - 16:02 by Yasser Ali

It seems that the United States is still struggling to recover from the economic slowdown. Jobs data for the month of January released this month has come out with disappointing figures. Only 36000 people got a job last month, which experts say is far less than what had been expected.

Trapster hack possibly exposes 10mn usernames, passwords

Fri, 21/01/2011 - 13:11 by Anter Prakash Singh

Trapster.com, a site that allows users to share the location of police speed traps, and enforcement cameras using mobile phones and other devices, has come under attack from hackers.

Milwaukee is America's drunkest city

Sat, 01/01/2011 - 15:59 by Neka Sehgal

Wondering which city is the most sloshed in the United States?

Jobless rate rises to 9.8% in November

Sun, 05/12/2010 - 13:41 by Anter Prakash Singh

The unemployment problem has divided the country’s lawmakers, thus triggering a national debate. Democrats are favoring the unemployment insurance extension but the Republicans are demanding cuts to offset the cost involved in extension.

FTC backs consumer choices on data

Thu, 02/12/2010 - 10:09 by Prince damin

Washington -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that Internet users should be given clearer choices about personal information that businesses collect.

In an 80-page report spelling out guidelines applicable to businesses and lawmakers, the FTC said "Industry must do better" in protection of privacy, which should be "a basic consideration."

The commission said commercial interests should build "privacy by design" into their business practices. The widely anticipated report, "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change," also proposed consumers be given "a simpler, more streamlined way" to give consumers choices about what information is collected.