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9:56 PM
LONDON: Gamers beware: Keeping too tight a grip on the console and furiously
pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder
marked by painful lumps
on the palms, Swiss scientists have said.
Called "PlayStation palmar hidradentitis" by the scientists, the skin disorder can cause painful lesions on the palms similar to patches found on the soles of children's feet after taking part in heavy physical activity, they said.
"The tight and continuous grasping of the hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produce minor but continuous trauma to the (palm) surfaces," Vincent Piguet and colleagues at University Hospitals and Medical School of Geneva reported in the British Journal of Dermatology.
A spokesman for Sony Corp, which makes the PlayStation, noted the study involved one person and said the company had sold hundreds of millions of the consoles since the product was introduced in 1995.
"As with any leisure pursuit there are possible consequences of not following common sense, health advice and guidelines, as can be found within our instruction manuals," Sony spokesman David Wilson said.
"We would not wish to belittle this research and we will study the findings with interest, but this is the first time we have ever heard of a complaint of this nature."
Excessive gaming is already seen as a public health issue, sparking addictive behavior that can lead to a range of psychological problems, the researchers said.
Other researchers have identified acute tendonitis from playing too much of Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii, and now a disorder related to the PlayStation can be added to the list, the team said.
Their study described the case of a 12-year-old girl who attended the Geneva hospital with intensely painful lesions on her hands, which she had developed four weeks earlier. She had no other lesions anywhere else on her body.
After questioning, the doctors discovered that several days prior to the appearance of the lesions the girl had started to play a game on her PlayStation for several hours each day.
The researchers suspected that grasping the console's hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produced minor but prolonged injury to the palm of the girl's hands, which can be made worse by sweating during a tense game.
The doctors recommended the girl stop playing and she recovered fully after 10 days, the researchers said.
6:48 AM
Microsoft's Internet Explorer still holds the lion's share of the Web browser market with 72.2 per cent marketshare, followed by a distant second Firefox browser which has 17.2 per cent marketshare. Latest entrant in the market, Google Inc's Chrome browser, holds 2.8 per cent marketshare, while Apple Inc's Safari has less than 1 per cent.
The application, an integral part of Microsoft's next OS Windows 7, can be downloaded from Microsoft's website from 9:30 p.m. Indian time, for free by users of licensed Microsoft operating systems.
Here's looking into all that's new in the latest version.
Speed
Microsoft claims that the new browser is faster in almost every respect. It loads faster, switches pages faster, and renders complex graphics and videos faster than in previous versions.
Seems Microsoft is responding, as it did in Windows 7, to users' insistence that performance is consideration number one when it comes to software.
Also, IE faces tough competition from Google's which only recently upgraded its Chrome browser. And according to a post on Google's blog, the new Chrome beta loads certain types of Web pages 25 per cent to 35 per cent faster than the current version of the browser.
acceleretor
featureIE8 has a new feature called Accelerators which allows users to highlight text on a website and choose from a variety of functions, including search engines, language translation or map displays.
For instance, how many times have you found an address on the Web and then proceeded to Google Maps, MapQuest, or Microsoft's own Live Maps to find directions? If the answer is "plenty", then IE 8 will be a boon to your productivity. Thanks to the browser's Accelerator feature users can now highlight an address, right-click, and select Map to get almost instantaneous directions from your location, assuming you've registered your existing address with whatever mapping site you use regularly.
The same principle applies to email addresses, words you would like to define, words you would like to translate, or email addresses to which you like to send a message.
private browsing mode
The Redmond, Washington-based software maker added some new privacy features, including a mode for Web browsing that doesn't remember what sites were visited nor stores small data files called cookies.
Google's Chrome calls this Incognito mode. In Firefox, you can achieve something close to Incognito mode by choosing to clear private date from the Edit - Preferences - Privacy dialog box.
IE 8 also lets people block ads from companies that track their Web surfing habits across a number of sites, a practice known as behavioral targeting.
enhanced security
IE8 beefs up protection against malware and known phishing scam sites. It comes with built-in technology to protect against another kind of threat, "cross-site scripting," in which hackers insert code into legitimate Web pages that compromise peoples' computers without them knowing it. IE 8 disables the bad scripts but in most cases allows others needed for a Web page to run as usual.
Firefox already does something similar with an add-on programme, but Microsoft argues that only the most sophisticated users know to seek it out and install it. IE 8 also helps people who create websites prevent another kind of attack called "clickjacking," where a Web surfer might think they're clicking on a legitimate button when in fact they're activating an invisible, malicious action.
compability
IE8 may not be compatible with all existing Web technologies. Microsoft is aware of that and has incorporated a "compatibility mode" into IE 8, accessible by clicking a toolbar button.
On clicking the Compatibility mode website will appear as viewed in Internet Explorer 7, which will correct the display problems like misaligned text, images, or text boxes.
To go back to browsing with Internet Explorer 8 functionality on that site, click the Compatibility View button again.
Web Slices
Another time-saving feature of IE 8 is called Web Slices, which is designed to allow you to subscribe to frequently-updated portions, or "slices," of certain websites. Instead of spending your time visiting three or four websites to get updated information from a portion of each of those sites, you would simply use Web Slices to pull that information into a single location in IE 8.
IE 8 users can add a number of "Web slices" to keep track of eBay auctions, stock quotes, blog posts, weather forecasts and other information that is frequently updated.
With Web Slices, you can instead simply subscribe to a section of the auction page by clicking a Web Slice icon that appears when you allow your mouse cursor to hover over a portion of a site that is frequently updated.
Clicking the Web Slice icon adds a new button to a Favourites bar that appears above your browser tabs. Clicking the newly-created Web Slice button on the IE 8 Favourites bar will pull the latest data from your subscribed page and show it to you in a preview window.
6:14 AM
NEW DELHI: Samsung has launched its portable touchscreen multimedia player, P3 in the Indian market.
Featuring a wide 3-inch WQVGA TFT-LCD touchscreen, the player has a 16:9 aspect ratio. P3 packs Samsung's upgraded EmoTure touch interface with haptic feedback.
The Music Hot Touch Key, located just below the touchscreen, allows users to instantly access favourite music features.
The player also incorporates Samsung's updated DNSe 3.0 sound enhancement technology.
Announcing the launch, R Zutshi, Dy Managing Director, Samsung India said, "Whether it's the P3's sharp and bright 3-inch touchscreen for video and photos or the advanced user interface, consumers will be guaranteed a more personal entertainment experience."
The player is 0.39 inches thin and includes a 16:9 widescreen video player, audio player, photo album viewer, voice recorder and FM radio.
The P3 can also be paired with a Bluetooth enabled phone, allowing users to use the built-in microphone to answer calls directly through the player.
Available in matte black and matte silver finishes, P3 is available with 8GB and 16GB storage capacities, priced at Rs 11,900 and Rs 14,900 respectively.
5:02 AM
After the roaring success of iPhone 2.0 last year, Apple is back in action to widen its presence in the smartphone market.
In a hotly-awaited event last night, Apple Inc unveiled the new operating system software, called iPhone OS 3.0. Other than adding new features, Apple has also made up for some of the big misses in the existing model.
So, here's over to the pluses and minuses of Apple iPhone 3.0 software.
iPhone users get the new software for free, while iPod Touch users will have to pay $9.95. The operating system runs on the latest version of the iPhone, released last year, as well as the original model.
Apple currently has 25,000 applications in its online iPhone App Store. More than 800 million programmes have been downloaded since July, the company said.
The company has distributed 800,000 iPhone software kits to developers, who write programmes for delivery though the App Store
Yes, cut-copy-paste is there now! The new software adds this one of the most sorely missed feature in the existing iPhone 2.0.
Apple said the third generation of iPhone software will let users copy information from notes and Web pages, and let people move text between different applications. Users who erroneously paste text can shake the iPhone to get an option to cut it.
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