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  • Facebook Hires Sony,AT& T Hacker-Video.

    Image representing Sony as depicted in CrunchBase
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    The hacker who succeeded in hacking AT&T’s iphones and Sony Play station3 has been hired by Facebook.

    Hire a Thief to catch a Thief?

    ‘ A 17-year-old New Jersey student has unlocked Apple’s previously AT&T-exclusive iPhone, the AP reports, potentially opening the floodgates for users who want to use the vaunted handset with other carriers. Teen hacker George Hotz used a complex combination of software alterations—and hardware soldering—to let his phone onto T-Mobile‘s network.’

    http://www.newser.com/story/6404/teen-hacker-switches-iphone-carriers.html

    ‘George Hotz, the infamous iPhone hacker, and the topic of a recent Sony lawsuit, now works at Facebook’

    http://techunwrapped.com/2011/06/25/geohot-now-working-at-facebook/

  • Improve Your iPhone battery Life.

    Image representing iPhone as depicted in Crunc...
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    1. Turn off push e-mail. No doubt about it, forcing your iPhone to check for new mail every 15 minutes–especially if you have multiple accounts–will kill your battery in a hurry. It can kill your productivity, too. Tell friends and co-workers that if they need to reach you urgently, send a text.
    2. Turn off location services. A lot of apps tap the phone’s GPS when they don’t really need to. Head to Settings, Location Services, and disable the feature for the apps that can live without a location check. (I’m looking at you, Angry Birds!)
    3. Turn off notifications. While you’re in the Settings app, tap Notifications and turn off all unnecessary sounds, alerts, and Home Screen badges. As Pogue points out, the apps that use these features have to monitor your iPhone–and that uses up juice.
    4. Manually terminate background apps. Apple says background apps aren’t technically “running” unless they’re front and center, meaning they shouldn’t be drawing any power. Pogue’s Genius says otherwise, and that you should manually shut down all background apps. I disagree, as I think the hassle of constantly monitoring and terminating apps isn’t worth the battery boost you might get. (Pogue cites a friend’s dramatic improvement in battery life after following all four of these tips, but I think turning off push e-mail made all the difference.)
    5. Lower the screen brightness. Nothing sucks up juice like the screen. If your brightness setting is cranked to maximum, knock it down to 50 percent. You won’t like this at first, but I guarantee after an hour you won’t even notice the difference. You will, however, get longer battery life.
    6. Keep it out of your pocket. The hotter your iPhone gets, the faster the battery will die. And you know what’s in your pocket? Body heat. If you can, let the phone ride shotgun in your purse or briefcase, or keep it clipped to your belt.

      http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20066213-285/six-ways-to-improve-iphone-battery-life/

      This applies to mobile phone batteries as well.

  • How to Block Calls, SMS Ads in Mobile.

     

    Here is how you can register your preferences for receiving commercial or advertisements communications by: Dialing toll free number 1909; or Sending SMS to 1909

    When you dial the toll free number 1909, you will be prompted to register either through the customer care executive or through the Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS).

    You can register for the Fully Blocked category in which NO COMMERCIAL CALL OR SMS will be allowed or for the Partially Blocked category. If you opt for the Partially Blocked category, you WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY COMMERCIAL CALL BUT WILL RECEIVE SMS ON SUBJECT(S) THAT YOU OPT FOR.

    Procedure For Registration through by Customer Care Executive.

    1. Dial 1909, listen to the instructions and choose one of the following for registration of preference: a) Through customer care executive b) Through IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System).

    1. Ask the customer care executive for registration of your preference i.e. whether you would like to register in the fully blocked category or the partially blocked category.

    a. Fully Blocked Category (No Call & No SMS) or b. Partially Blocked Category (No Calls; SMS on selected subjects)

    2. If you opt for the fully blocked category, the customer care executive will record your preference in the Providers Customer Preference Register (PCPR) and will inform you of the same through SMS indicating your unique registration number.

    3. If you opt for the partially blocked category, the executive will inform you of the various subjects available as per the list given below:

    1. Banking/Insurance/Financial products/credit cards,

    2. Real Estate,

    3. Education,

    4. Health,

    5. Consumer goods and automobiles,

    6. Communication/Broadcasting/Entertainment/IT,

    7. Tourism and Leisure.

    4. The customer care executive will ask you to exercise your preference(s).You can opt for one, or a combination of some, or all the subjects.

    5. The customer care executive will confirm your preference(s) and register the same in the Provider Customer Preference Register.

    6. You will get an SMS confirming the preferences exercised by you along with your unique registration number.

    Through IVRS.

    1. After calling the toll free number 1909 and selecting the option to register through IVRS, follow the instructions prompted by the IVRS.

    2. The IVRS will prompt you about the categories available for registration of customers’ preference i.e. the fully blocked category or the partially blocked category.

    a. Fully Blocked Category (No Call & No SMS) or b. Partially Blocked Category (No calls; SMS on selected subjects).

    3. If you opt for the fully blocked category, your preference will be recorded in the Providers Customer Preference Register (PCPR) and you will be informed of the same through SMS, indicating your unique registration number.

    4. If you opt for the partially blocked category, the IVRS will prompt you to opt for one or more of the following subjects on which you wish to receive SMS:

    1. Banking/Insurance/Financial products/credit cards,

    2. Real Estate,

    3. Education,

    4. Health,

    5. Consumer goods and automobiles,

    6. Communication/Broadcasting/Entertainment/IT,

    7. Tourism and Leisure.

    You can opt for one, or a combination of some, or all the subjects.

    5. Your selected preference(s) will be confirmed by the IVRS.

    6. You will get an SMS confirming the preferences exercised by you along with your unique registration number.

    Through SMS.

    1. You can register your preference(s) for commercial communications by sending an SMS to 1909.

    2. The procedure for opting for various categories/subjects is given below:

    I. To opt for the fully blocked category, send SMS “START 0” to 1909.

    II. To opt for the partially blocked category, send SMS “Start <option>” to 1909 as given below:

    1)  “START 1” for receiving SMS relating to Banking/ Insurance / Financial products/Credit cards

    2) “START 2” for receiving SMS relating to Real Estate

    3)  “START 3” for receiving SMS relating to Education

    4) “START 4” for receiving SMS relating to Health

    5)  “START 5” for receiving SMS relating to Consumer goods and automobiles

    6)“START 6” for receiving SMS relating to Communication / Broadcasting / Entertainment /IT,

    7) “START 7” for receiving SMS relating to Tourism and Leisure

    Note 1: To opt for multiple preferences from categories send SMS “Start

    <option1, option2, option3,…>” to 1909. For example for receiving commercial SMSs from Banking/Insurance/Financial products/Credit cards and Real Estate, send SMS in the format

    “START 1, 2”.

    Note 2: Preference ‘0’ will always suppress other preferences. If ‘0’ is sent with along any other customer preferences, it will be treated as a fully blocked preference. For example, “START “0,2,3”, will be considered a fully blocked option.

    3. On receipt of an option exercised through SMS, the access provider will send an SMS to confirm the options exercised.

    4. You have to send a confirmation SMS so that options exercised are implemented.

    5. On getting the confirmation SMS, the Access Provider will register your preference and send you an SMS indicating your preferences along with your unique registration number.

    Websites of mobile phone operators through which you can also register your preference to block all calls and SMS.

    1 Aircel

    2 Bharti Airtel

    3 BSNL

    4 HFCL

    5 IDEA

    6 Loop Mobile

    7 MTNL Delhi

    8 MTNL Mumbai

    9 Reliance Communication

    10 Reliance Telecom

    11 Shyam

    12 Spice Punjab

    13 Spice Karnatka

    14 TATA

    15 Uninor

    16 Videocon

    17 Vodafone

    Related:

    TRAI will impose Rs 5000 fine on telecom service providers for first unsolicited communication, and it would go upto to Rs 20,000 for each subsequent communication. While the telemarketer would have to pay a penalty of Rs 500 for the first unsolicited communication, and Rs 1,000 for every subsequent communication.Hope these measures will curtail the telemarketing menace.

    If you have not registered with the Do Not Call Registry, you can register by sending an sms or calling 1909. Registrations can be done either by calling or sending SMS with keywords “START DND” to “1909″. Telephone calls/SMSs to this number are FREE of cost. You can register your phone number to 1909, if you are using any of the following telecom service providers like Aircel, Airtel, BPL,BSNL,Idea, Reliance Communcications, Reliance Telecom, HFCL,MTNL Delhi, MTNL Mumbai, Tata, Spice Karnataka, Spice Karnataka and Vodafone. Within 10 days, your telecom service provider will acknowledge it. It will be activated after 45 days. After 45 days, if you still get unsolicited marketing calls then you cancomplain it to your telecom service provider.

    http://infobytes.in/rs-5000-20000-fine-for-unsolicited-telemarketing/

  • Application Translates Baby’s Cries.

    Babies cry to communicate. A new iPhone app claims it can translate those cries, letting parents know whether baby is tired, hungry, bored, sleepy, stressed or uncomfortable. CREDIT: Stockxpert.

    Mothers know instinctively when and why a Baby cries.

    Too much dependence on Technology and gadgets will create children with out attachments and human emotions.

    Parents and Society shall regret.

    Next time your baby cries, you might want to hold the little one up to your iPhone. A new app could translate those yells into adult-speak, telling you whether it’s a cry for food or perhaps a nap.

    After 10 seconds of crying, the Cry Translator (patented by Biloop Technologic, S.L.) will light up one of five icons to indicate, the company claims, whether your baby is hungry, tired, bored, sleepy, stressed, or in some kind of discomfort.

    While you might think the cry decoder is as valid as having a conversation with your dogor cat, some research suggests there is meaning behind those wails.

    http://current.com/15c0c4c

  • Modified Apple Triggers Virulent New Virus diseases .

    Playing with Nature ,especially with Plants,Food shall have disastrous consequences.

    Monsanto seems to be doing this with impunity.

    Government looks on.

    Best way to stop Corporates in their tracks is to ignore the Product .

    Apples, once the darling of nutrition, have become genetically modified (GMO) to increase production, sales and profits. The once formidable addition to our diets has become a shadow of its former self because apples no longer have the nutritional value of their chemical-free predecessors.

    Some scientists opine that GMO apples have 76% less nutritional value than the chemical-free, organic version of the same food. A chemical-free, natural organic apple has significantly higher levels of all 21 nutrients analyzed compared with genetically modified fruits including vitamin C (27% more), magnesium (29% more), iron (21% more) and phosphorous (14% more).

    How did a treasured American fruit become not only tasteless but harmful to children and adults alike? It is because the food industry uses the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) as a “gene promoter” to create these new apples.

    The apple seed is split with the virus so that a pesticide gene can be inserted to kill insects. The pesticide causes the stomachs of insects to explode.

    The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus is used because it is a powerful virus that cannot be destroyed during gene splitting. It is a retro-virus that alters the RNA, that causes changes in the DNA, resulting in similar viruses that ultimately become HIV, Leukemia Virus and hepatitis B. This is a very dangerous virus. Industry scientists ignore the axiom, “If you play with fire, you get burned.”

    The virus is found in every cell of the DNA and RNA of the GMO apple and the residue in the apples stays in your gut and leads to Crohn’s disease, IBD and IBS.

    Dr. Daniel C. Dantini, a noted expert on the topic of food allergies and intolerance, opines that, “Any virus, bacteria, parasite, or yeast can inflame the intestine.” This will lead to immune problems within the body, inflammation and even include delayed food allergies.

    It also produces “more virulent new virus diseases . . . CaMV viruses may also incorporate genes from the host plant creating virulent new diseases”. Professor Joe Cummins made it clear that there is still a statistical risk involved for the creation of a dangerous virus. Much like a sci-fi film, it is another “mad scientist” playing with fire. From Frankenstein to Swamp Thing, films and literature are filled with these types of experiments gone bad.

    According to author and expert, Jeffrey M. Smith, “This means that long after we stop eating GMOs [apples], we may still have potentially harmful GM proteins produced continuously inside of us.”

    Sadly, genetically modified apples are further contaminated by the need for the farmer to use multiple applications of pesticides. More than 400 chemical pesticides are regularly used in genetic farming to kill weeds, insects and other pests. If that number frightens you, consider this: non-organic apples are routinely sprayed up to 16 times with 36 different pesticides before being picked. Then the apples are sprayed with ethylene and covered with wax to make them look prettier.

    In addition, Big Food scientists even field tested chicken genes in apples. Chicken genes? What were they trying to do? Get the apples to sprout wings and fly to the market to save shipping costs? Make no mistake about it, these are not the apples your grandparents ate every day. Nor the “one a day keeps the doctor away” apples that doctors recommend.

    As a result, Americans are eating an abnormal, adulterated copies of natural organic apples (modified by a “mad scientist” in a lab) soaked in pesticides and sprayed with chemicals. Do you really want to feed an adulterated apple to your child?

    If you feed your child an apple a day, it will not keep the doctor away. On the contrary, a child will be exposed to more viruses, the possibility of childhood illness and disease, weight gain and obesity. Adults fare no better eating a genetically modified chemically soaked apple a day.

    For expectant mothers, these are the types of foods that lead to chemically altering the DNA of a fetus and/or starting that fetus down the road to childhood diseases. Just look at the growing statistics on childhood illnesses to validate the problem. Is this what we want in our society – chemical garbage instead of the “real thing”? Do we really want to make our children chemical dump sites for Big Food?

    Johnny Appleseed lived by the Golden Rule as he planted the seeds of apples in the United States. He remained connected to nature and mankind through his deeply religious values. He was known to have no fear of man or beast.

    One can only wonder how sad he would be to realize that the beast within man could destroy those beautiful seeds and have no conscious about harming others. What ever happened to that Golden Rule? Johnny Appleseed must be turning over in his grave.

    This is why the nutritional value of GMO apples are negligible. Anything that increases the number of harmful chemicals in your body should be avoided.  Any fruit that can alter your DNA and RNA and leave bacterias and viruses in your intestines should be banned from public consumption.

    The food industry scientists are rolling the dice with peoples’ lives. If they roll the dice long enough, society will lose. That loss is already measured by the increase in diabetes, cancer, kidney and liver failure and the long line of Americans waiting for kidney and liver transplants.

    None of this happened before scientists created genetically modified foods and more than 9,000 addictive chemicals now used in our food supply.

    Mannie Barling and Ashley F. Brooks, R.N., are the authors of award winning books – Arthritis, Inflammation, Gout, Crohn’s, IBD and IBS – How to Eliminate Pain and Extend your Life (Books and Authors 2010 Best Books in the Health, Diet & Reference Categories) and Mannie’s Diet and Enzyme Formula – A Change of Lifestyle Diet Designed for Everyone (Blogger News Net 2010 Best Health And Nutrition Book Award winner) available at HowToEliminatePain.com, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and other booksellers around the world.

    http://www.bloggernews.net/125881

    The industry marketing pitch to the public is that bioengineered seeds and plants will help the environment by reducing toxic herbicide/pesticide use. Isolated examples are given, but the overall reality is exactly opposite. The majority of GM agricultural products are developed specifically for toxin-resistance ~ namely for higher doses of herbicides/ pesticides sold by the largest producer companies ~ Monsanto, Dupont Novaris, Dow, Bayer, Ciba-Geigy, Hoescht, AgroEvo, and Rhone-Poulenc.

    http://musicians4freedom.com/2010/12/30/harmful-effects-of-genetically-modified-foods/