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Mirror Thermometer “Thermo Mirror”

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The world’s first mirror thermometer called the Mirror Thermo.A Japanese NEC Avio Infrared Technologies firm Introduced a mirror-like thermometer that can identify a person and can detect flu-like symptoms, such as a fever.“Thermo Mirror,” which looks like a table mirror, measures the skin temperature of the person looking into it  from up to 30 centimeters (about 1 foot) away, without the need for physical contact, said the firm, NEC Avio Infrared Technologies.
The person’s temperature is displayed on the surface, and the device has an alarm that will beep when detecting a subject who is feverish.There will be two versions of Mirror Thermo priced in between $1,180-$1,440,the product costs less than 10 percent of thermography cameras used at airports to screen for people who might have communicable diseases, the company said.“We foresee uses at corporate receptions, schools, hospitals and public facilities,” NEC Avio said in a statement.The company said it aimed to sell 5,000 units in one year.



PlayStation Phone Found, That Time on a Video !

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We’ve obtained a lot of on the job and also escapes from the Ps3 Phone referred to as Zeus Z1 and also now a relevant video have been noticed displaying a lucky person enjoying Resident Evil 2 and also Rage Racer on the PlayStation. The hardware is actually evidently around the upward or more, even though proven fact that the game titles needed to be packed via ROM Buddy (a third-party Android application with regard to operating ROMs) points too the software is still being tinkered with.
Or even until this is just about all a dreadful hoax. That said, it appears to be this thing is really a done deal. Discover for yourself following the break.



Analysts predict top prices for Verizon iPhone

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Analysts say Verizon may sell its long-anticipated iPhone at a higher price than customers are used to paying for Apple’s iconic smartphone, but split on how much more one could cost.
Verizon is expected to announce Tuesday morning that it will soon start selling an iPhone that runs on its network.
On Monday, analysts couldn’t agree on whether the announcement will be accompanied by a price hike.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the iPhone [on Verizon] doesn’t cost $50 more,” said Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher & Co., referring to the $199 entry-level price that U.S. customers now pay for a subsidized iPhone 4.But Francis Sideco, a principal analyst in the wireless group at iSuppli, an El Segundo, Calif.-based research firm that specializes in calculating hardware “bill of materials” (BOM) costs, disagreed with Marshall.
“I don’t perceive any material differences in BOM, IP [intellectual property] costs, or the retail price of an iPhone on Verizon if it’s a CDMA-only device,” said Sideco, taking the side of the $199 argument.
Unlike other analysts, Marshall said that the iPhone for Verizon will support only CDMA (code division multiples access) — the wireless standard across the carrier’s network — rather than function in both CDMA and the faster next-generation LTE (long term evolution) network that Verizon launched in 38 markets last month.
He attributed the higher price of a CDMA-only iPhone to a bigger patent licensing bill. “There’s more patent expense with a CDMA iPhone,” said Marshall, “particularly with all the Qualcomm patents.”
Technology from San Diego, Calif.-based Qualcomm is the foundation of the CDMA standards that Verizon supports on its network.
Marshall said the customer price of a CDMA-only iPhone could be as high as $250. Additional patent licensing fees will raise Apple’s costs by a “low single digit” amount, he claimed, but the end user hike would be higher.
Sideco dismissed the idea of a price increase, saying that Apple’s already paying patent fees to Qualcomm. “There’s no way that with the volume that the iPhone has put up, that Qualcomm would not have asserted their IP rights, even though we haven’t heard of that publicly,” said Sideco.
The current iPhone operates on W-CDMA (wideband code division multiples access) networks, which are typically marketed as UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system). AT&T’s 3G network, for instance, relies on W-CDMA/UMTS.
Qualcomm also has a large patent W-CDMA portfolio, Sideco noted.
Sideco would not bet on either option — CDMA-only or dual mode — because credible arguments could be made for both. His take: a 50-50 chance for each.
“A CDMA-only iPhone would go against Apple’s mantra to be the premier producer of smartphones,” Sideco point out. “LTE is the thing that people are talking about this year.”



Verizon Will Give iPhone customers Unlimited Data Plans

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Verizon plans on offering iPhone customers unlimited data plans when it starts selling the handset in a several weeks.
AT&T only offers capped data plans for its users, though its monthly prices are lower than Verizon.
At Verizon, iPhone owners will be able to pay $30 per month for unlimited data. AT&T’s most generous plan is $25 per month for 2 gig of data.
While 2 gigs is plenty, Verizon could use the “unlimited” data as a marketing pitch to steal customers.
Though, obviously, the number one selling point will be that iPhone owners can finally make phones calls without worrying about dropped calls.



Major four cyber threats for 2011 exposed

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From Internet superweapons to Facebook crimes, safety experts have predicted some latest web attacks for 2011. Here are the top four safety concerns that cyber experts see coming over the digital horizon:
Cyber War’s newest superweapon: Stuxnet and Copycats Stuxnet was first discovered in July 2010 by a security firm in Belarus, but made headlines only when Iranian state media announced the Middle East nation had been the target of a coordinated attack.
“The idea that a piece of malicious code can target physical systems and create real-world impacts is something that’s been speculated in the industry for quite some time and certainly was largely understood to be possible,” ABC News quoted Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager for cyber security firm Symantec, as saying.
When Hacktivists attack Another recent online development that experts expect to see increase in 2011 was played out on an international scale at the end of 2010.
Shortly after the information sharing website WikiLeaks published a portion of over 250,000 classified US diplomatic documents, the website’s founder, Julian Assange, was arrested on sexual assault charges. While he was in custody in England, some major financial institutions including Mastercard, Paypal and Visa discontinued a service that was helping to raise money for Assange’s defense.
Wikileaks” supporters shot back in an unprecedented manner: nearly 50,000 people downloaded simple programs used to launch a massive denial of service attacks against the companies they deemed at odds with Wikileaks.
The loosely organized “hacktivists” managed to take down the web pages of several of their targets, and their spontaneous attempt may be the first major showing of a new way to express political beliefs at a grassroots level.
Cyber security firm McAfee predicts in a new paper that not only will politically motivated attacks be “far more numerous in 2011,” but also the company said brand new kinds of attacks would appear.
Mobile devices: Two ways for criminals to take advantage On a more personal level, experts warned that as more and more people own internet-capable mobile devices in 2011, they’re also increasing their exposure to cyber and real-life criminals.
First, McAfee showed that the GPS functions on many smart phones that allow users to tell their friends where they are via Facebook and Twitter also tell criminals exactly where they are-and where they are not.
“It then becomes child’s play to craft a targeted attack based upon what the bad guys have just learned from these services,” McAfee said.
While this is not a new phenomenon, McAfee reported mobile tracking will be a “huge focus for cybercriminals and scammers in 2011 and beyond.”
Second, both Security News Daily and Symantec list the technical vulnerabilities of mobile devices on their list of dangers for 2011.
Spammers Adapt to Social Media Finally, experts said 2011 is going to see a change in perhaps the most annoying security concern online: spammers.
A curious thing happened in Dec. 2010: Normally the amount of email spam would be at its highest levels during the holiday season, but instead it dropped dramatically, according to a study by web security provider Commtouch. Part of the reason, McAfee said, is that spammers are altering their strategy.
Rather than bombarding users with countless emails, they bombard users through social networking sites-with multiple links and requests from programs like Facebook and Twitter-attempting to trick users including clicking on links to malicious code.
“This shift will completely alter the threat landscape in 2011,” said McAfee.



Apple will sell at least 10 million iPhones in 2011

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Verizon is expected to declare the Verizon iPhone next week.So how numerous are people going to buy? As we said last month.At least 10 million iPhones in the first year, we estimate, generating $6 billion or more of incremental revenue for Apple.
That’s big growth — more than we think many people are expecting — and well worth the cost of making a second version of the iPhone that works on Verizon’s network. And it will probably reduce Google’s Android market share in the U.S., a win-win for Apple.
How did we figure that?
AT&T activated about 14 million new iPhones over the past four quarters on a subscriber base that’s now a little more than 90 million. (Of those activations, about 10 million were by existing AT&T subscribers.)
Verizon’s subscriber base is also about 90 million, and we don’t expect iPhone adoption to be wildly different on Verizon than it has been on AT&T. Maybe somewhat less, because Verizon folks already have high-end Android phones, but not much less.
Plus, Verizon could easily convince a bunch of AT&T iPhone subscribers to jump over.For perspective, if Apple were to have sold 10 million incremental iPhones over the past four quarters, that would have represented around 25% growth over its roughly 40 million shipments during that time.



Four solar and two lunar eclipses in 2011

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Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world. The first solar eclipse will take place Jan 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

At maximum eclipse in northern Europe, the moon will cover 86 percent of the Sun’s diameter.

The next solar eclipse will occur June 1. People on the Russian Kolguyev island in the Barents Sea will have a chance to observe the Moon covering 60 percent of the Sun’s diameter.

The eclipse will also be visible from the eastern Arctic, northern Canada, the Kamchatka peninsula and other regions of Russia’s Far East.

On June 15, a total moon eclipse will take place, which will be visible from India, the Middle East, Africa and southern Europe.

Soon after it, another solar eclipse will occur, but this time the moon will cast its shadow on less then 0.1 percent of the sun.

On Nov 25, the moon will cover a total of 90.4 percent of the sun’s diameter, but the eclipse will be visible only from Antarctica and its surrounding seas.

People of the entire Eurasia region, as well as of Australia and the northwestern part of North America will have a chance to observe the second and the last total moon eclipse Dec 10 this year.