Washington, Nov 13 : When it comes to making rational decisions, feedback plays a key role, says a new study.

According to the researchers, majority of our choices fall into two categories: descriptive choice (based on what we are told) and experiential choice (based on our own personal experience).

Previous studies have shown that people will choose differently, depending on whether they are choosing based on experience or description.

In the new study sought to determine what causes people to choose differently in the two situations.

The research team from Indiana University were interested in testing if feedback in experiential choice is the cause of the different behaviour between the two choice situations.

Washington, November 13: A multi-university research team, including an Indian-origin expert, is testing the live broadcast of surgeries using the advanced networking consortium ‘Internet2’.

The technology, which allows for the transmission of high quality video to multiple locations in real time, may enable doctors from different hospitals across the world to collaborate on a surgery, without having to actually be in the operation theatre.

A study conducted by a mobile-phone warranty firm revealed that Apple’s iPhone has substantially less failures as compared to the failure rate of handsets from BlackBerry and Palm.

The SquareTrade study covered cell phone failure rates from over 15,000 new phones within a period of 12 months.

The team found that iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent, as against 11.9 percent for BlackBerry smartphones.

Palm’s Treos range suffered the worst, with a failure rate of 16.2 percent during the same period.

Asus has made announcement about the launching of its latest Asus Eee PC 904HA in order to strengthen its ‘Eee PC’ range in the Indian market.

Targeted at globe totters, the Asus Eee PC 904HA weighs just 1.4 kg and measures 266 x 191.2 x 28.5mm~ 38mm (W x D x H).

It comes equipped with a 8.9” LED backlight display offering resolution of 1024×600 pixels and 160GB SATA hard disk drive for faster data transfer capability.

Additionally, the new variant of the Eee PC features 10 GB Eee storage and 1 GB (DDR2) memory and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity.