London, Oct 4 : Within weeks of Google’s Map Maker launch, tens of thousands of Indians have marked details of their cities, towns and villages, many of them previously blank spaces in even the most up-to-date atlases.
Map Maker, created by an Indian, Lalitesh Katragadda, is a tool that would allow users annotate and amend satellite images to produce useful maps.
Nokia’s Comes With Music, which the company had been creating hype for since last year, has finally been set to be launched along with the first compatible handsets. From 16th October onwards, this service, which allows the users to download unlimited music will come into action on a small handful of models, both old and new, in the UK. The service will arrive in US and other countries by the early 2009.
If the harassment at the airport with a series of checks was not enough the European Commission Regulation has asked all European Union airports to use virtual digital scanners by 2010. This scanner is a virtual strip search machines, which creates a 3D image of a naked body. Such a scanner has been opposed as it is next to a strip search.
Washington, Oct 3 : Researchers at Queen’s University, Canada, are developing a new robotic tracking system that will be used to enable repairs of orbiting satellites.
This system will service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations.
Currently, when the high-flying celestial objects malfunction – or simply run out of fuel – they become “space junk” cluttering the cosmos.
Washington, October 3 : Researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, have identified a measurable sound quality that distinguishes the superior quality violins made by eighteenth-century Italian instrument-makers Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu from cheap, factory-made instruments.
Research leader George Bissinger spent ten years painstakingly measuring the acoustics of violins rated from "bad" to "excellent" by professional musicians, and observed that the ''excellent'' old Italian violins in his sample showed a significantly stronger acoustic response in the lower octaves than did the ''bad'' violins.
The instruments rated merely “good” had intermediate values, the researcher said.
Beijing - Skype, the online text message and voice service, acknowledged Friday that its Chinese partner had been archiving politically sensitive text messages.
Skype president Josh Silverman said the company was unaware that the internet chat of users in China, especially political discussions, was being stored on computer servers by Chinese mobile firm TOM Online, a unit of Hong Kong-based TOM Group Ltd.
In a statement, Silverman said the US company owned by auction giant eBay was "very concerned" about the monitoring and storage as well as a security breach that was discovered by Canadian researchers.
London, Oct 4 : Within weeks of Google’s Map Maker launch, tens of thousands of Indians have marked details of their cities, towns and villages, many of them previously blank spaces in even the most up-to-date atlases.
last year, has finally been set to be launched along with the first compatible handsets. From 16th October onwards, this service, which allows the users to download unlimited music will come into action on a small handful of models, both old and new, in the UK. The service will arrive in US and other countries by the early 2009.
European Commission Regulation has asked all European Union airports to use virtual digital scanners by 2010. This scanner is a virtual strip search machines, which creates a 3D image of a naked body. Such a scanner has been opposed as it is next to a strip search. 
Washington, Oct 3 : Researchers at Queen’s University, Canada, are developing a new robotic tracking system that will be used to enable repairs of orbiting satellites.
