New chip by Belgian health products distributor
Belgian health products distributor Omega Pharma will launch a chip that claims it can counter potentially damaging radiation from mobile phones. The company, which also sells non-prescription products such as wart treatments, pregnancy tests and sun tan lotions to pharmacists, unveiled the e-waves phone chip on Tuesday, a day before its launch in Belgium.
Testing the chip, which offsets the electromagnetic radiation from the phone, showed it lessened symptoms such as headaches and loss of concentration that might be associated with mobile phone use. It also said to neutralized the heating effect within the body produced by electromagnetic signals. Testing of consumers appetite for the product, costing 38.95 euros, will begin shortly. Meanwhile scientists across the world remain split between those that believe there is a risk and others who believe there is insufficient evidence to show mobile phones are unsafe.
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The IT industry lacks core skills
The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according reports by an application-management company. According to the survey, there is an acute shortage of IT skills across Europe and the US, even though such skills are core assets needed during a recession.
It is anticipated that this is because businesses are now focusing on newer areas such as web 2.0, without realizing that the skills to support core infrastructure are not present; and newer technologies cannot succeed unless they are supported by the core infrastructure. While some 60 per cent of the results prove that core systems and databases are business-critical, 56 per cent of the criteria confirms that newer, web-based technologies are the skills currently being recruited for the most.
Tech research gets boosted
Technology research has received a significant boost with £250m of funding for 44 new PhD research centres. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has allocated the money for the doctoral research centres at 22 universities across England and Scotland.
Among the subjects that will gain specialist PhD centres are digital media (University of Bath and Lancaster), financial computing (UCL) and web science (Southampton). Reports say that the plan is to build relationships between universities and industry by combining the various areas of expertise. It also stated that the centers will offer taught coursework to develop technical knowledge while broadening one’s skills as well as providing the facilities for PhD-level research for up to 10 students per year.
The centres will focus on tackling challenges for the UK such as climate change, energy production and high-tech crime.
Turnaround at least a year away for IT firms
The last couple of months have dealt a severe blow to IT firms, which has even prompted the top listed Indian IT services providers to inform investors that they need to scale down their growth expectations from the sector that, on an average, has been growing almost 30 per cent year-on-year.
The problem is that over 90 per cent of Fortune 500 players have already outsourced their application, development and maintenance (ADM) work to Indian players, say reports and new business is hard to come by. The larger players though have deep pockets that is expected to see them wade through the crisis. The top four IT firms, for instance, have enough cash to pay their employees for 4-10 months even in the unimaginable situation of not getting any additional revenue.
The vulnerable PC
According to official reports 98 percent of windows computers in India have been found to run at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, according to Copenhagen-based security company Secunia. It further stated that 98.1 percent of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed over the last week have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading. Only 1.9 percent of windows systems that ran the PSI utility for the first time had no out-of-date programs.
The study done on 20,000 users also revealed that about a third of the systems ran a vulnerable version of five or fewer programs, while nearly half of the machines ran 11 or more insecure applications.
Motorola carries a junk status
Motorola’s credit ratings have been lowered to junk status by Standard and Poor, a financial services company, as a result of its decline in the handsets business. Moody’s Investors Service, another financial service company had announced that it may degrade Motorola’s debt, two levels above non-investment grade. The company according to reports had announced in October that it won’t meet a goal of splitting off the mobile-phone unit by the third quarter of 2009.
It has since lost its top ranking in the U.S. mobile phone market to Samsung last quarter. With 21.1 per cent share that Motorola had it lost to Korea based Samsung that holds 22.4 per cent share, giving it the top spot for the first time, according to Newton, Massachusetts-based research firm Strategy Analytics.
Intel saves the environment
Computer chipmaker Intel is developing tiny devices that can tap the energy from the surrounding environment, according to reports. The report also says that devices will include chip-size sensors that monitor air quality while riding piggyback on street-sweepers, and cell phones that recharge themselves with energy “scavenged” from the environment.
A transmitter connected to the sensor relays the data to whoever needs it. Distributed around the globe, these devices could give scientists up-to-the-minute details of air quality worldwide. And the amount of energy captured at any one time would be very small, so the devices would need to act as “scavengers,” storing up energy until they had enough to perform a specific task.
A robot for space exploration
A recent invention of a robot that can jump like a grasshopper and roll like a ball could play a key role in space exploration. The ‘Jollbot’, created by Rhodri Armour, PhD student from University of Bath, can jump over obstacles and roll over smoother terrain, could be used for space exploration or land survey work. One of the major challenges that face robots designed for space exploration is being able to move over rough terrain. Robots with legs are generally very complex, expensive to build and control, and encounter problems if they fall over.
Wheels are a simpler solution to this, but are limited by the size of obstacles they can overcome, said a Bath release. The ‘Jollbot’ is shaped like a spherical cage which can roll in any direction, giving it the maneuverability of wheels without the problem of overturning or getting stuck in potholes. It is also flexible and small, weighing less than a kg, which simply means that it’s not going to get damaged while landing or after jumping and would therefore be less expensive.
A technique to curb pirated CDs
The days of pirated CDs and DVDs are numbered, thanks to a novel optical technique developed by researchers in Spain that can differentiate pirated works from the original. Developed by researchers at the University of Grenada, the technique makes it easy to identify whether a CD has been recorded through legitimate channels, or has been copied.
The cheap, fast and effective method relies on light diffraction on a CD surface to differentiate between original record and illegal copies, states sources at the University. As optical CDs are the most visible means of distribution of digital information worldwide, their piracy amounts to huge economic losses to legitimate manufacturers. The technique developed by scientists in Spain has also been tested in DVDs. Researchers intend to develop it for the detection of pirated CDs for state-of-the-art devices like Blue-Ray or HD-DVD and is awaiting a patent.
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