Debt-laden Dubai opened its second airport yesterday, three weeks after its flagship carrier Emirates placed a major order for Airbus 380 superjumbos, enforcing its status as an air transport hub.
The first plane landed on the sole runway of the Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International Airport -- named after the emirate's ruling family, Dubai Airports said in a statement.
Three air freight companies have begun operations from the new airport with 12 others due to follow, it said.
The first phase be confined to freight traffic, with a capacity to handle 250,000 tonnes annually while passenger traffic was scheduled to begin in March 2011, with an annual capacity of five million passengers.
"We have achieved another important step towards completing" the airport, said Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, the head of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority.
Situated on the desert outskirts of Dubai and close to the Jebel Ali port and its large free zone, DWC-Al Maktoum International is touted to become the world's largest airport when completed at an undisclosed date.
But authorities said that when it is all up and running the new airport will be able to handle 160 million passengers and 12 million tonnes of cargo, and have five runways.
Dubai, a city of around two million people, already boasts the biggest airport in the Middle East, which handled 42 million passengers in 2009 -- a figure expected to surge to 100 million by 2020, said Jamal al-Hai, Dubai Airports Senior Vice President for Strategic Affairs.
"Our development follows a strategy aimed at turning Dubai into the centre of the new silk route," linking east to west, he said.
Thanks to the strategic location and developed infrastructure of Dubai, which has established itself as a popular tourist destination and a regional business hub, air transport accounts for over 25 per cent of the emirate's gross domestic product, Hai said.
He said that the capacity of the current Dubai airport stands at 65 million passengers, and should increase to 75 million in 2012 with the completion of the third concourse that will be exclusively used by the A380 superjumbos.
Emirates, the largest Middle East carrier, had earlier this month reinforced its status as the largest single customer of the Airbus A380, by placing a new order for 32 units worth $US11.5 billion ($A13.1. billion)
The order made in Berlin brought Emirates' total orders of the superjumbo jet to 90 units, 10 of which are already in service.
"Emirates will be announcing new aircraft orders at the Farnborough Airshow" in England, which opens on July 19, an Emirates spokesman said.
The company is also the largest single operator of the Boeing 777 with 85 units in service and 21 on order.
The once bustling city state of Dubai was badly hit by the global financial crisis that forced Dubai World, the biggest state-owned conglomerate, to seek restructuring of $US23.5 billion of debt.
But Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum justified this week Emirates' new order by the "growth" in Dubai's airport infrastructure, the number of passengers and tourists visiting the emirate.
"The worst is over and Dubai is looking for new opportunities for growth," he said in an interview with CNN.
Emirates announced in May a whopping 416-per cent surge in annual net profit which reached $US964 million in the past financial year, bucking the global trend in the airline industry.
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How do you hold your iPhone?
Depending on how you hold your iPhone 4 during calls you may or may not notice your reception drop. Some haven't seen it at all, but many have definitely experienced it while browsing, emailing or using apps. We think it has a bit to do with your initial reception and people in stronger coverage areas are affected less. But we're also pretty sure — and Apple confirms it — that touching the antenna does affect things — whether or not it has the final result of killing calls or speed of data connection.This is how Apple explained it:
"Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone.
With our past devices, the antenna performance when the phone was held in a certain way didn't seem to be an issue or stand out in particular. But with the iPhone 4 we're definitely seeing an effect, particularly when using data or tapping away on our on-screen keyboards."
Stop holding it wrong
Apple has explained that the iPhone 4 reception issues end when people just plain stop holding their devices the wrong way. DON'T LISTEN TO APPLE.
Hold your iPhone like any NOKIA Phone
Read more at How do you hold your Nokia? The key function on any Nokia device is its ability to make phone calls. After all, that’s why we know them universally as mobile phones (or smart phones, feature phones or mobile computers – though the same grip styles work for those, too). One of the main things we’ve found about the 1 billion plus Nokia devices that are in use today is that when making a phone call, people generally tend to hold their phone like a…. well, like a phone. Providing a wide range of methods and grips for people to hold their phones, without interfering with the antennae, has been an essential feature of every device Nokia has built.
Of course, feel free to ignore all of the above because realistically, you’re free to hold your Nokia device any way you like. And you won’t suffer any signal loss.
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HIGH 5 "Jom Rasa & Menang" Contest July 2010
Silver Bird Group Berhad just launched their HIGH 5 "Jom Rasa & Menang" Contest. The contest start from July 01, 2010 until August 31, 2010. Silver Bird Group is offering 10x Apple iPad 16G, 15x RM1,000 shopping vouchers and 35x RM200 shopping vouchers as prizes.To participate in this simple contest, you must down the contest form and complete the entry with proof of purchase (i.e. a barcode sticker from the bread products).
American pilot killed in helicopter crashes in Malaysia
Malaysian state of Sarawak holds the dubious record of having the most number of helicopter crashes in the country in the past seven years, which saw 23 people perished in the flames.The latest incident involved an Erickson Sky Crane, which was used for carrying logs, last Saturday.Its American pilot William Charles Scott died in the aerial logging mishap which took place about 50 miles south of Long Akah in Ulu Baram.
Fellow American co-worker, David William Bergin, survived the nightmare with spinal injuries, bruises and knocks.
Following this incident, The Borneo Post decided to take a look back at helicopter mishaps in the state over the years – starting with the crash of a Bell helicopter at Mt Murud on July 17, 2003.
That ill-fated Bell 206 helicopter crashed within minutes after taking off from a timber camp located some three and a half hours drive by road from Lawas town.
The pilot and the president of SIB Sarawak Kalib Besar were killed.
Then on July 12 the following year, seven individuals, including Dato Dr Judson Sakai Tagal, Marcos Raja and senior officers of Sesco, died when the Bell 206 L 4 helicopter they were in plunged into a mountain.
On August 16 the same year, a Nuri helicopter belonging to the RMAF went down 15km North West of Mt Murud while ferrying troops from 20 RAMD to Ba Kelalan.
Three people on board were killed while seven were injured.
Not long after that incident, another Bell 206 helicopter crashed in Kuching division, killing all four on board.
Among those killed were the bodyguard of Tan Sri Adenan Satem and the political secretary to Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu Numpang.
On June 18, 2005, an MHS Super Puma plunged into the sea after it crashed landed in the South China Sea while ferrying 11 SHELL and contractor’s staff to the B11 gas production platform in Bintulu.
Luckily, all on board survived the incident to tell the tale of their ordeal and how their aircraft sunk to the bottom within minutes.
A month later, a Bell L-4 helicopter crashed in the mountainous region near Long Singgut, Ulu Baleh, killing three while one survived.
The crash site was a day’s journey upriver from Kapit.
More grim news followed on Sept 3, 2005, when a logging helicopter crashed and burst into flames in Kapit Division during heavy rain, killing three Russian nationals on board.
The ill-fated helicopter, of the KAMOV KA-32 model, was believed to be involved in winching logs which would be transferred to waiting lorries.
Those who died were the pilot, an engineer and a mechanic.
In Jan 2007, a Super Puma L-2 helicopter belonging to the Malaysian Helicopter Services plunged into the rough South China Sea with eight offshore crews and two pilots. The helicopter went down at about 2.30 pm between the D-35 and Bayan platform.
One passenger was reported missing while the rest were rescued, about 80km from Bintulu.
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Malware worms tops list of PC threats
Malware (malicious software) continues to be the No 1 threat to personal computers, according to Security Intelligence Report version 8 (SIRv8), released by Microsoft Corp.
It showed that software worms accounted for 27.8% of all infected computer systems, followed by trojan software (16.6%), with miscellaneous other potentially dangerous software (including browser modifiers and remote-control programs) at 13.8%.
Jacqueline Peterson-Jarvis, Microsoft Asia-Pacific's regional security and privacy lead, said SIRv8 revealed that four out of every 1,000 computers scanned in Malaysia were infected by malware during the second half of last year.
"Although, this figure is significantly lower than the worldwide average of seven out of every 1,000 PCs, it is still cause for concern," she said.
Peterson-Jarvis said the infamous Win32/Conficker worm was the top threat in Malaysia between July and December last year.
"It infects other computers across a network (and) by spreading via removable drives, exploiting weak passwords or vulnerability in the Windows Server operating system," she said.
The report also showed that enterprise networks continue to be susceptible to worms while the computers of home users are more exposed to malware and social-engineering threats.
"419 scams (such as the Nigerian letter scam via e-mail) continue to increase significantly and rogue security software posing as a legitimate security application to deceive users, are issues for home users," said Peterson-Jarvis.
Application loopholes continue to account for a large majority of all vulnerabilities, compared to operating system and browser vulnerabilities, according to SIRv8.
"This is because third-party applications have not been updated regularly and therefore are exposed to online threats," she said.
She recommended users protect their computer systems by updating all software regularly, running antivirus software from a trusted vendor and keeping it updated, and using a secure web browser.
SIRv8 provides a comprehensive view of global online-threats in 26 countries from July to December 2009. It also contains guidelines on how to develop in-depth defence strategies to combat the online threats.
The data for the report was collected through Microsoft's various security products and services, including Windows' Malicious Software Removal Tool, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Live Hotmail and Bing.
SIRv8 can be downloaded at www.microsoft.com/sir.
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It showed that software worms accounted for 27.8% of all infected computer systems, followed by trojan software (16.6%), with miscellaneous other potentially dangerous software (including browser modifiers and remote-control programs) at 13.8%.
Jacqueline Peterson-Jarvis, Microsoft Asia-Pacific's regional security and privacy lead, said SIRv8 revealed that four out of every 1,000 computers scanned in Malaysia were infected by malware during the second half of last year.
"Although, this figure is significantly lower than the worldwide average of seven out of every 1,000 PCs, it is still cause for concern," she said.
Peterson-Jarvis said the infamous Win32/Conficker worm was the top threat in Malaysia between July and December last year.
"It infects other computers across a network (and) by spreading via removable drives, exploiting weak passwords or vulnerability in the Windows Server operating system," she said.
The report also showed that enterprise networks continue to be susceptible to worms while the computers of home users are more exposed to malware and social-engineering threats.
"419 scams (such as the Nigerian letter scam via e-mail) continue to increase significantly and rogue security software posing as a legitimate security application to deceive users, are issues for home users," said Peterson-Jarvis.
Application loopholes continue to account for a large majority of all vulnerabilities, compared to operating system and browser vulnerabilities, according to SIRv8.
"This is because third-party applications have not been updated regularly and therefore are exposed to online threats," she said.
She recommended users protect their computer systems by updating all software regularly, running antivirus software from a trusted vendor and keeping it updated, and using a secure web browser.
SIRv8 provides a comprehensive view of global online-threats in 26 countries from July to December 2009. It also contains guidelines on how to develop in-depth defence strategies to combat the online threats.
The data for the report was collected through Microsoft's various security products and services, including Windows' Malicious Software Removal Tool, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Live Hotmail and Bing.
SIRv8 can be downloaded at www.microsoft.com/sir.
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Your Android based devices are totally under Google's control
Did you know that Google developed technologies and processes to remotely remove an installed application from devices such as a mobile phone. Or any devices running Android. The remote application removal feature is one of many security controls Android possesses to help protect users from malicious applications.
In case of an emergency, a dangerous application could be removed from active circulation in a rapid and scalable manner to prevent further exposure to users. While Google hope to not have to use it, they know that they have the capability to take swift action on behalf of users’ safety when needed.
All these remote updating is called Over-The-Air update system and if Google can remove malicious applications from your devices they can also planted their own malicious applications. Now, that is a dangerous possibility. Your Android based devices are totally under Google's control.
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In case of an emergency, a dangerous application could be removed from active circulation in a rapid and scalable manner to prevent further exposure to users. While Google hope to not have to use it, they know that they have the capability to take swift action on behalf of users’ safety when needed.
All these remote updating is called Over-The-Air update system and if Google can remove malicious applications from your devices they can also planted their own malicious applications. Now, that is a dangerous possibility. Your Android based devices are totally under Google's control.
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Kaspersky PURE jauh melebihi perlindungan PC biasa. Hal itu membuat PC ente sangat kebal terhadap ancaman cyber apapun. Ente boleh percaya Kaspersky PURE untuk melindungi integriti dan privasi semua aset digital ente. Kaspersky PURE menjaga komputer ente dalam keadaan murni dan memberi ente ketenangan fikiran.
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Perkelahian digital pencemaran
Kaspersky PURE, terus kandungan berbahaya dan spam di teluk, sementara membiarkan ente mengatur akses kepada aplikasi ente, email dan Internet. alat keselamatan Tambahan memadam data-trail, jadi tidak perlu lagi takut serangan hacker.
Melindungi aset digital
Kaspersky PURE mencegah foto, muzik, dokumen, video, dll agar tak hilang, dicuri atau rosak. Advanced cadangan peralatan dan teknologi terkini bermakna bahawa anda memutuskan siapa yang ente berkongsi data peribadi ente dengan dengan siapapun.
Perlindungan identiti digital
Kaspersky PURE memiliki segala yang diperlukan untuk melindungi identiti digital. Dengan built-in keyboard virtual, yang terbaru dalam teknologi anti-phishing dan sistem pengurusan password yang aman, ia memangg, tak mengecewakan ente!
Memastikan selamat untuk keluarga kandungan Kaspersky PURE menempatkan ente bertanggung jawab atas yang menggunakan PC, atau pada rangkaian rumah ente dan apa yang boleh mereka lihat dan lakukan, baik online dan off. Detil sistem pelaporan maklumat yang lengkap membuat ente dan keluarga ente dalam Centralizes pengurusan keselamatan .
Kaspersky PURE membolehkan ente untuk menyemak rangkaian ente atas keselamatan status, secara automatik men-download dan roll keluar update dari PC yang dicalonkan, peristiwa masuk dan menetapkan scan dan backup dari setiap titik pada rangkaian rumah.
Memberikan perlindungan
Kaspersky PURE adalah satu-stop-kedai untuk perlindungan rangkaian asal. Ini mengandungi semua yang ente perlukan untuk menguruskan masalah ente, atas keselamatan dan untuk tetap malware-tidak,tanpa harus menjadi seorang ahli IT.
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Kaspersky PURE adalah cara revolusi baru untuk memastikan bahawa PC ente tetap dalam keadaan prima. ciri-ciri dan fungsi yang unik telah secara khusus dikembangkan untuk menjadi mudah bagi pengguna rumah untuk memasang dan menggunakan, sambil memberikan perlindungan yang luar biasa:
Kaspersky PURE telah SEMUA KIS 2010, atas dan dipercayai kefungsian, ditambah ciri-ciri baru yang menarik
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Ku Pusat Kawalan berpusat membolehkan pengurusan tugas, laporan dan update, dll, dari NEW PC rangkaian!
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Gambar Shredder menggunakan teknologi multi-pass untuk membuat data unrestorable dihapuskan, bahkan dengan NEW perisian yang canggih!
Data Backup & Restore menjamin data ente,atas integriti. Atur jadwal, memulihkan mata dan media backup pilih BARU!
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Melindungi komputer ente dari ancaman internet hari ini.
Kaspersky kristal membuat dunia digital ente jelas, malware blocking, kandungan yang tidak wajar dan spam. Peralatan Terperinci membantu mencegah pencurian data peribadi anda apabila menggunakan perkhidmatan Internet banking dan belanja online.
Kumpulan paling lengkap fungsi anti-virus.
Kaspersky kristal - penyelesaian universal untuk perlindungan komputer rumah kompleks. Ente tidak perlu TI-pakar untuk menggunakannya untuk menguruskan keselamatan rangkaian rumah ente dan melindunginya terhadap program berbahaya.
Backup dan menyulitkan maklumat penting.
Dengan alat sandaran user-friendly yang membentuk kristal Kaspersky, ente boleh mengelakkan kehilangan dokumen-dokumen, foto, rakaman audio dan filem kegemaran dalam kes kerusakan atau kecurian. Advanced teknologi penyulitan data memungkinkan untuk mengelakkan pendedahan data rahsia ente dengan hacker.
Multilevel perlindungan data peribadi.
Virtual keyboard dan teknologi anti-phishing mencegah pencurian username dan password untuk perkhidmatan online. Built-in password program pengurusan menghasilkan diandalkan, tahan terhadap cracking password dan secara automatik mengisi borang pendaftaran dan kebenaran untuk laman web dan aplikasi.
Internet keselamatan bagi seluruh keluarga.
Menggunakan Kaspersky kristal, ente boleh menentukan masa, tempoh dan sifat setiap pengguna rangkaian rumah ente. Juga, ente boleh menyekat akses kepada laman web dengan kandungan yang tidak wajar dan untuk menapis data yang dihantar melalui program instant messaging.
Pengurusan terpusat perlindungan untuk beberapa komputer.
Kaspersky kristal membolehkan ente untuk menguruskan sistem untuk melindungi rangkaian rumah ente dari salah satu komputer yang akan dipasang. Ente boleh mengimbas objek data sandaran dan untuk memantau dan menyekat penggunaan komputer dan internet oleh pengguna lain.
Fungsi Dasar
Kaspersky kristal mempunyai tahap perlindungan yang sebelum itu tidak disediakan untuk semua maklumat yang dibuat dan disimpan dalam bentuk digital - dokumen, foto, muzik dan fail video, serta data peribadi. Dengan Kaspersky pusat kristal ente boleh menguruskan keselamatan beberapa komputer di rangkaian asal ente.
Pusat Kawalan Kaspersky kristal membolehkan kita untuk menyelesaikan masalah untuk melindungi beberapa komputer di rangkaian asal ente - untuk melaksanakan anti-virus scan, backup, menguruskan akses internet dan program menggunakan Parental Control dan banyak lagi.
Dengan Password Manager, ente boleh menghasilkan dan selamat menyimpan password yang kuat yang unik untuk perkhidmatan dalam talian dan aplikasi yang memerlukan pengesahan. Dalam hal ini, ente tidak perlu mengingat atau merakam login dan password - kristal Kaspersky menyelitkan data ke dalam bidang yang sesuai secara automatik.
ciri-ciri kawalan orang tua tidak hanya memungkinkan kita untuk menyekat akses yang anak-anak untuk halaman kandungan yang meragukan, tetapi juga menetapkan masa menggunakan internet dan komputer anak dan mencegah pemindahan data peribadi melalui program mesej segera (MSN, ICQ).
Kaspersky kristal mengandungi peralatan khusus untuk mengamankan pemindahan fail dari komputer ente. Tidak seperti kaedah standard jualan, boleh membolehkan penyerang untuk memulihkan fail yang dipadam dan mendapat akses kepada maklumat sulit apabila menggunakan ireversibel penghapusan data,ente boleh yakin bahawa maklumat ente tidak akan jatuh ke tangan yang salah.
Backup dan ciri pemulihan data ente dalam bahkan dalam kerusakan atau kecurian. Kaspersky kristal secara automatik membuat salinan sandaran data yang ente tentukan sesuai dengan jadual yang ditetapkan - secara tempatan atau pada media target ente (hard disk luaran, FTP-server, dll).
Tingkat perlindungan tambahan maklumat menyediakan alat-alat penyulitan data yang membolehkan ente membuat fail yang dilindungi kata laluan-kontena. Tanpa mengetahui password untuk mengakses kandungan pada file Terenkripsi tidak mungkin.
Dalam hal ente tidak pasti tentang program atau laman web, ente boleh menjalankan mereka dalam mod khusus, dengan menggunakan alat persekitaran yang selamat. Dalam hal ini, pelancaran berlangsung di ruangan virtual terpencil yang membolehkan ente untuk melindungi komputer ente dari kesan berbahaya mungkin.
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What Jorge Larrionda saw
Frank Lampard never scored in last night England-Germany WC 2010 game. See below, the ball dropped before the line.
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150 million Bangladeshi guzzled tainted groundwater
Hanufa Bibi stoops in a worn sari and mismatched flip-flops to work the hand pump on her backyard well. Spurts of clear water wash grains of rice from her hands, but she can never get them clean.
Thick black warts tattoo her palms and fingers, the result of drinking arsenic-laced well water for years. It's a legacy that new research has linked to one in five deaths among those exposed in Bangladesh — an impoverished country where up to half of its 150 million people have guzzled tainted groundwater.
The World Health Organization has called it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history," as countless new wells continue to be dug here daily without testing the water for toxins.
"The magnitude of the arsenic problem is 50 times worse than Chernobyl," said Richard Wilson, president of the nonprofit Arsenic Foundation and a physics professor emeritus at Harvard University who was not involved in the study. "But it doesn't have 50 times the attention paid to it."
The issue surfaced about two decades ago, after some 10 million shallow hand-pump wells like Bibi's were sunk across the country in the 1970s with money from international donors.
The wells were meant to provide clean drinking water to help prevent deadly waterborne diseases, such as cholera. But they unintentionally tapped into arsenic deposits in the ground, releasing the odorless, colorless and tasteless toxin into water used for drinking and cooking. Arsenic has been linked to cancers, liver ailments, skin diseases, heart problems and other health issues.
The new research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and published online June 19 in The Lancet medical journal, is the first to examine how drinking arsenic-contaminated water over time shaves years off lives.
For the nearly 12,000 people followed over 10 years in the country's Araihazar region east of the capital, researchers found that even low doses of arsenic in drinking water could increase the chances of early death. The study also found that damage on all levels appears to be permanent.
"It's similar to tobacco smoking. Once you smoke for 20 years and then you stop smoking, your risk of getting tobacco-induced cancer over the next decade will still be high," co-author Habibul Ahsan from the University of Chicago's Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention said by phone. "Even if, say, for some miracle all the individuals are provided arsenic-free water from tomorrow, these people will also be at a higher risk of dying for many years to come."
More than 75 percent of those studied drank arsenic-contaminated water above WHO's recommended safe limits. About a quarter of deaths from chronic illnesses and a fifth of the total 407 adult deaths were attributed to arsenic.
About half of the 10,000 people living in Bibi's tropical village, which was not part of the study, are drinking arsenic. Victims get sick slowly, and it takes years to develop tiny black or white dots peppering the skin. Most people exposed never develop these classic symptoms at all.
All the tubewells in Chandipur village are contaminated. Red paint once coated every pump's handle as a warning of the danger lurking inside, but the color and message have long faded. None of the tiny palm-shaded shacks have indoor plumbing, and some villagers like Bibi use the well water to avoid walking long distances in the heat to draw foul-tasting surface water from stagnant ponds used for bathing or watering livestock.
"I knew before marriage that there was arsenic in the tubewell, but I decided to take it," says Bibi, who's been drinking the water nearly 20 years. "The water quality of this tubewell is much better than others."
Arsenic poisoning affects some 70 countries, including the U.S., Chile, Vietnam and Cambodia. But the biggest problem by far is in Bangladesh, a country roughly the size of Iowa with about half the U.S. population crammed into it.
It is one of the world's poorest nations, where half the people live on just $1 a day. Few can afford to dig deep wells that draw safe water from aquifers below arsenic-contaminated layers. Filters are expensive or difficult to maintain, and there has been no concerted effort to harness rainwater for daily use. The number of new wells doubled every five years during the study.
Some argue that the international community must help fix the problem created by the wells they first dug.
"They've known about it for at least 20 years, so we expected them to be much more aggressive on this issue," said Dr. Mahmuder Rahman, a retired professor at Dhaka National Medical College and Hospital, who has worked for years on the arsenic issue. "They've got a moral responsibility to do it. Time is running out."
In March, the United Nations and Bangladesh's government announced a plan to provide safe drinking water to all by next year. But the report identified only about 20 million people still drinking high levels of arsenic. It did not address the tens of millions more exposed to lower concentrations.
It also said more research was needed to determine whether arsenic is entering the food chain through rice irrigated with tainted water, and how the poison affects pregnancies and children.
Back in Bibi's village, she digs at her burning hands and the soles of her feet with a razor blade, ripping at the blackened calluses until they bleed. She complains of fevers and constant fatigue, and the 40-year-old's face sags as she shuffles into her small house like a woman twice her age.
She has never seen a doctor. She's more concerned about the damage the arsenic has done to her family's social standing. Her two teenage daughters were recently forced to marry men considered beneath them because of the stigma surrounding the arsenic-infected family.
She worries that if her husband cannot make good on the dowry he promised, the girls will be sent back home forever damaged, like another young woman in the village blighted by arsenic.
"People don't want to eat anything from my hands. They are afraid," Bibi says softly, looking down in shame, her head covered by the red flowered sari. "No one wants to touch me."
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Thick black warts tattoo her palms and fingers, the result of drinking arsenic-laced well water for years. It's a legacy that new research has linked to one in five deaths among those exposed in Bangladesh — an impoverished country where up to half of its 150 million people have guzzled tainted groundwater.
The World Health Organization has called it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history," as countless new wells continue to be dug here daily without testing the water for toxins.
"The magnitude of the arsenic problem is 50 times worse than Chernobyl," said Richard Wilson, president of the nonprofit Arsenic Foundation and a physics professor emeritus at Harvard University who was not involved in the study. "But it doesn't have 50 times the attention paid to it."
The issue surfaced about two decades ago, after some 10 million shallow hand-pump wells like Bibi's were sunk across the country in the 1970s with money from international donors.
The wells were meant to provide clean drinking water to help prevent deadly waterborne diseases, such as cholera. But they unintentionally tapped into arsenic deposits in the ground, releasing the odorless, colorless and tasteless toxin into water used for drinking and cooking. Arsenic has been linked to cancers, liver ailments, skin diseases, heart problems and other health issues.
The new research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and published online June 19 in The Lancet medical journal, is the first to examine how drinking arsenic-contaminated water over time shaves years off lives.
For the nearly 12,000 people followed over 10 years in the country's Araihazar region east of the capital, researchers found that even low doses of arsenic in drinking water could increase the chances of early death. The study also found that damage on all levels appears to be permanent.
"It's similar to tobacco smoking. Once you smoke for 20 years and then you stop smoking, your risk of getting tobacco-induced cancer over the next decade will still be high," co-author Habibul Ahsan from the University of Chicago's Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention said by phone. "Even if, say, for some miracle all the individuals are provided arsenic-free water from tomorrow, these people will also be at a higher risk of dying for many years to come."
More than 75 percent of those studied drank arsenic-contaminated water above WHO's recommended safe limits. About a quarter of deaths from chronic illnesses and a fifth of the total 407 adult deaths were attributed to arsenic.
About half of the 10,000 people living in Bibi's tropical village, which was not part of the study, are drinking arsenic. Victims get sick slowly, and it takes years to develop tiny black or white dots peppering the skin. Most people exposed never develop these classic symptoms at all.
All the tubewells in Chandipur village are contaminated. Red paint once coated every pump's handle as a warning of the danger lurking inside, but the color and message have long faded. None of the tiny palm-shaded shacks have indoor plumbing, and some villagers like Bibi use the well water to avoid walking long distances in the heat to draw foul-tasting surface water from stagnant ponds used for bathing or watering livestock.
"I knew before marriage that there was arsenic in the tubewell, but I decided to take it," says Bibi, who's been drinking the water nearly 20 years. "The water quality of this tubewell is much better than others."
Arsenic poisoning affects some 70 countries, including the U.S., Chile, Vietnam and Cambodia. But the biggest problem by far is in Bangladesh, a country roughly the size of Iowa with about half the U.S. population crammed into it.
It is one of the world's poorest nations, where half the people live on just $1 a day. Few can afford to dig deep wells that draw safe water from aquifers below arsenic-contaminated layers. Filters are expensive or difficult to maintain, and there has been no concerted effort to harness rainwater for daily use. The number of new wells doubled every five years during the study.
Some argue that the international community must help fix the problem created by the wells they first dug.
"They've known about it for at least 20 years, so we expected them to be much more aggressive on this issue," said Dr. Mahmuder Rahman, a retired professor at Dhaka National Medical College and Hospital, who has worked for years on the arsenic issue. "They've got a moral responsibility to do it. Time is running out."
In March, the United Nations and Bangladesh's government announced a plan to provide safe drinking water to all by next year. But the report identified only about 20 million people still drinking high levels of arsenic. It did not address the tens of millions more exposed to lower concentrations.
It also said more research was needed to determine whether arsenic is entering the food chain through rice irrigated with tainted water, and how the poison affects pregnancies and children.
Back in Bibi's village, she digs at her burning hands and the soles of her feet with a razor blade, ripping at the blackened calluses until they bleed. She complains of fevers and constant fatigue, and the 40-year-old's face sags as she shuffles into her small house like a woman twice her age.
She has never seen a doctor. She's more concerned about the damage the arsenic has done to her family's social standing. Her two teenage daughters were recently forced to marry men considered beneath them because of the stigma surrounding the arsenic-infected family.
She worries that if her husband cannot make good on the dowry he promised, the girls will be sent back home forever damaged, like another young woman in the village blighted by arsenic.
"People don't want to eat anything from my hands. They are afraid," Bibi says softly, looking down in shame, her head covered by the red flowered sari. "No one wants to touch me."
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Jorge Larrionda help Germany humiliate England
Germany inflicted England's record World Cup finals defeat on Sunday after a 4-1 victory in their Last 16 match that was overshadowed by one of the worst refereeing mistakes in the tournament's history.Photo: The England's goal that never was.
Germany's superior movement and ruthless finishing made them worthy winners on an afternoon when England's defending was shockingly sub-standard and their talisman, Wayne Rooney, once again failed to deliver on the game's biggest stage.
But there is no saying what would have happened if England had not been denied a goal that would have levelled the match at 2-2 just before half-time, when a Frank Lampard shot bounced off the underside of the bar and landed a yard over the goal-line. With all the available technologies, FIFA still opts for visual judgement from the referee.
Matthew Upson had just headed England back into the match after Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski had given Germany a two-goal advantage.
Two second-half goals for Thomas Mueller enabled the Germans to run up their most convincing win against their biggest rivals, but they were both scored on the counter-attack as England sought an equaliser they should not have been obliged to chase.
Referee Jorge Larrionda's misjudgement was all the more inexplicable because he was well-placed to see the incident. Yet, after looking across at his linesman, he waved play on.
England coach Fabio Capello said that the Lampard moment was the turning point.
"The Lampard incident was one of the most important in the match," said Capello.
"The referee made one of the biggest mistakes, but Germany are a great team, we were caught out on the counter-attack.
"This is football. Little things make all the difference."
The controversy over the incident will rumble on but England will also have to ask themselves some hard questions after what was, at times, a shambolic display.
Klose was delighted with his team's efforts.
"We were aggressive from the first minute, unlike in the Ghana game (which Germany won 1-0). The win was highly deserved," said Klose.
"We have always said our goal is the semi-finals at least. That's what we want to reach."
England's vulnerability at the back had been exposed early on and, after goalkeeper David James had denied Mueller, Klose exploited it to get on the end of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's upfield punt to give Germany the lead.
John Terry allowed the ball to fly over his head and Klose outmuscled and outpaced Upson before flicking the ball past James with the outside of his boot.
Mueller did the damage for Germany's second. Taking Klose's first-time pass, the Bayern Munich midfielder broke into the box before switching the ball to Podolski, who beat James at his near post from a tight angle.
Neuer pulled off a superb reflex save at close range to prevent Lampard finishing off James Milner's low cross just before Upson gave England a lifeline.
Germany's goalkeeper had been impressive up to then but his lack of experience showed when he charged off his line and got nowhere near the cross from Steven Gerrard that the West Ham defender nodded in.
Lampard himself came agonisingly close to an equaliser seven minutes after the restart, hammering a free-kick from nearly 40 yards against the bar with Neuer struggling to cover.
Germany centreback Arne Friedrich, who had already been booked, was fortunate to stay on the pitch after a cynical body check on Rooney.
The resulting free-kick was blocked by the German wall and Germany immediately swept upfield to claim their third goal.
Bastian Schweinsteiger did most of the leg work through the inside left channel before switching the ball to Mueller who beat James at his near post with a fiercely struck drive from 12 yards.
The fourth was virtually a carbon copy, although this time it was Mesut Ozil who wreaked havoc after latching on to a punted clearance towards the left touchline.
The Werder Bremen star powered away from Gareth Barry with ease before cutting in to the box to present Mueller with the simplest of a tap-ins.
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Vuvuzela can spread germs
Vuvuzelas aren't just buzzing loud and annoying but they can spread germs too, a South African clinic has warned.The clinic urged fans to keep their lips on their own horns to avoid catching colds.
"A fan instrument such as the much-loved vuvuzela can unfortunately blow spittle and germs from infected individuals on to other people in crowded areas and may be a health risk for infectious illnesses such as flu," Netcare Travel Clinics doctor Pete Vincent said.
He also warned that sharing vuvuzelas can spread germs, while blowing too hard can damage the throat.
The warning comes after a woman in Cape Town ruptured her throat during a trumpet-blowing competition.
The din from the tuneless plastic trumpets have become the defining sound of South Africa's World Cup, leaving television networks hunting for ways to tune out the constant buzz from their broadcasts.
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xxx Porn Domain
The company that oversees web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead today for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated .The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the internet on behalf of the US government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net.
It has in recent years repeatedly rejected a request by US company ICM Registry to sign off on the .xxx domain.
But members of ICANN's board have argued that in order to maintain neutrality in dealing with domain name assignations, it should create .xxx and allow websites with sexually explicit content to start using the suffix on a voluntary basis.
"If expedited due diligence results are successful, then staff will proceed into contract negotiations with ICM [over .xxx]," ICANN's general counsel John Jeffrey told delegates at a week-long ICANN meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
Online pornography is a vast industry. Figures collated by Internet Pornography Statistics suggest more than $US3000 ($3460) is spent on internet pornography every second, with "sex" the number one search term in the world, accounting for 25 per cent of all internet searches.
With an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on the internet, .xxx could become one of the largest domain name repositories, as big if not bigger than .com.
But some members of the adult entertainment industry oppose .xxx, saying it will invite censorship and harm their business. Members of the American religious right also oppose its creation on moral grounds.
ICANN is expected to make a formal announcement on its decision on Friday.
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Convert all kinds of videos to mobile videos or audios (mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi, amr audio) which are used by cell-phone, PDA, PSP, iPod;
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High compatibility and high efficiency for Importing RMVB or RM video/audio;
Convert various videos to MPEG videos compatible with standard DVD/SVCD/VCD;
Burn the converted videos to DVD/SVCD/VCD;
Rip DVD to popular videos of all sorts;
Extract audio from various of videos and convert which to all kinds of audios (mp3, ac3, ogg, wav, aac);
RIP CD to audios of all sorts directly;
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used in many Sega Saturn console games, Sega FILM/CPK .
Multimedia formats used in Westwood Studios games, Westwood Studios VQA/AUD
Used in Quake II, Id Cinematic (.cin).
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Rape-aXe - Anti-rape female condoms
South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.Read also Nation of rapist - South Africa.
"She looked at me and said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. "I promised her I'd do something to help people like her one day."
Forty years later, Rape-aXe was born.
Ehlers is distributing the female condoms in the various South African cities where the World Cup soccer games are taking place.
The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man's penis during penetration, Ehlers said.
Once it lodges, only a doctor can remove it -- a procedure Ehlers hopes will be done with authorities on standby to make an arrest.
"It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it's on," she said. "If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter... however, it doesn't break the skin, and there's no danger of fluid exposure."
Ehlers said she sold her house and car to launch the project, and she planned to distribute 30,000 free devices under supervision during the World Cup period.
"I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe," she said.
After the trial period, they'll be available for about $2 a piece. She hopes the women will report back to her.
"The ideal situation would be for a woman to wear this when she's going out on some kind of blind date ... or to an area she's not comfortable with," she said.
The mother of two daughters said she visited prisons and talked to convicted rapists to find out whether such a device would have made them rethink their actions.
Some said it would have, Ehlers said.
Critics say the female condom is not a long-term solution and makes women vulnerable to more violence from men trapped by the device.
It's also a form of "enslavement," said Victoria Kajja, a fellow for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the east African country of Uganda. "The fears surrounding the victim, the act of wearing the condom in anticipation of being assaulted all represent enslavement that no woman should be subjected to."
Kajja said the device constantly reminds women of their vulnerability.
"It not only presents the victim with a false sense of security, but psychological trauma," she added. "It also does not help with the psychological problems that manifest after assaults."
However, its one advantage is it allows justice to be served, she said.
Various rights organizations that work in South Africa declined to comment, including Human Rights Watch and Care International.
South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, Human Rights Watch says on its website. A 2009 report by the nation's Medical Research Council found that 28 percent of men surveyed had raped a woman or girl, with one in 20 saying they had raped in the past year, according to Human Rights Watch.
In most African countries, rape convictions are not common. Affected women don't get immediate access to medical care, and DNA tests to provide evidence are unaffordable.
"Women and girls who experience these violations are denied justice, factors that contribute to the normalization of rape and violence in South African society," Human Rights Watch says.
Women take drastic measures to prevent rape in South Africa, Ehlers said, with some wearing extra tight biker shorts and others inserting razor blades wrapped in sponges in their private parts.
Critics have accused her of developing a medieval device to fight rape.
"Yes, my device may be a medieval, but it's for a medieval deed that has been around for decades," she said. "I believe something's got to be done ... and this will make some men rethink before they assault a woman."
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Google released Android Froyo
Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated -- that’s nearly two devices every second, used for the first time by people from New York to New Zealand.Android started with one simple idea: Provide a powerful, open mobile platform to drive faster innovation for the benefit of consumers. This idea has come to life around the world. Today, there are 60 compatible Android devices, delivered via a global partnership network of 21 OEMs and 59 carriers in 49 countries. The volume and variety of Android devices continues to exceed even our most optimistic expectations. In some instances, Android devices are selling faster than they can be manufactured.
With that, Google announced that they are open-sourcing the new 2.2 version of Android, which they called Froyo, to their partners who manufacture Android devices around the world. Customers will enjoy great new features and improved browser performance. And developers will benefit from new tools such as Android cloud-to-device messaging (which makes it easier for mobile applications to sync data).
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Bring the vuvuzela noise to your home page
What's the latest buzz or controversy about the FIFA World Cup 2010? It's more of a buzzing sound, and it's coming from thousands of soccer enthusiasts blowing on their vuvuzelas.
These plastic stadium horns are wildly popular in South Africa and are used to motivate the soccer team. It's a similar phenomenon to team chants or songs. While a single vuvuzela sounds like an "elephant trumpeting," several hundred vuvuzelas sound like a swarm of angry bees.
This deafening drone has become the unofficial soundtrack to the 2010 World Cup. Since FIFA decided not to ban the horns, they have also become the center of a worldwide controversy.
For those who can stand the sound, there's a site called Vuvuzela Time that brings the noise of a World Cup match right to your web browser. Not only can you search Google to the tune of South Africa's most famous sound, but you can also open your favorite pages and check your email as if you had brought your laptop to a World Cup match. Just type in "http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/" followed by the URL of the website you'd like to vuvuzela-ize into your browser.
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These plastic stadium horns are wildly popular in South Africa and are used to motivate the soccer team. It's a similar phenomenon to team chants or songs. While a single vuvuzela sounds like an "elephant trumpeting," several hundred vuvuzelas sound like a swarm of angry bees.
This deafening drone has become the unofficial soundtrack to the 2010 World Cup. Since FIFA decided not to ban the horns, they have also become the center of a worldwide controversy.
For those who can stand the sound, there's a site called Vuvuzela Time that brings the noise of a World Cup match right to your web browser. Not only can you search Google to the tune of South Africa's most famous sound, but you can also open your favorite pages and check your email as if you had brought your laptop to a World Cup match. Just type in "http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/" followed by the URL of the website you'd like to vuvuzela-ize into your browser.
For example: http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.blogtactic.com will give you BlogTactic on vuvuzelas.
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Improved Gmail for iPad
If you've been using the web-based version of Gmail on the iPad, you may have noticed that yesterday you started to have a big, full screen compose window for writing messages. Instead of splitting the screen between your inbox and the compose view, Google has updated the interface to hide the inbox messages on the side and make more of the text you're working on visible at once.
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Human Communication redefined by Google Voice
What is possible when you combine your regular phone service with the latest web technology. It’s even more amazing to think about how far communication has come over the last couple hundred years. To put things in context, Google has created this infographic to visualize some recent history of human communication and how Google Voice uses the web to help people communicate in more ways than ever before.
Google Voice anyone?
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Boehringer Ingelheim - Female Viagra rejected
A "pink pill" to boost women's sex drive remains elusive after a decade of searching by some of the world's biggest drugmakers. Forget about the pink pill or the blue pill, just eat pork to spice up your sex life.
A panel of health experts on Friday rejected the latest offering submitted for federal approval: an antidepressant drug that failed to increase sexual desire in two studies.
The Food and Drug Administration's panel of reproductive advisers voted unanimously that the benefits of the pill from Boehringer Ingelheim did not outweigh side effects, including fatigue, depression and fainting spells.
"I am convinced that women's sexual health is important and that many women suffer from sexual dysfunction, but I'm not convinced of a clinically meaningful benefit for this drug," said panelist Paula Hillard, a gynecologist from Stanford University School of Medicine.
The FDA will make its own decision on the drug in coming months, though it usually follows the advice of its panelists.
The drug flibanerin, which acts on serotonin and other brain chemicals, was originally studied as a depression therapy, but then repurposed as a libido pill after women reported unusually high levels of sexual satisfaction.
Despite a modest uptick in sexually satisfying events reported in the studies, panelists said the drug's benefits were not strong enough to warrant approval as a daily pill for women.
The attempt to trigger sexual interest through brain chemistry is the drug industry's latest approach to find a female equivalent to the blockbuster success of Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra.
Since that drug's 1998 launch, more than two dozen experimental therapies have been studied for so-called "female sexual dysfunction," a market worth an estimated $2 billion.
Initially, Pfizer tested Viagra on women, hoping that the drug's ability to increase blood flow to the genitals would increase libido. When that didn't work, drugmakers turned to hormones, including testosterone.
In 2004, an FDA panel rejected Procter & Gamble's testosterone patch, Intrinsa, due to unknown risks from long-term use. Two years earlier a massive government study found that hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women increased heart disease and breast cancer, raising concerns about the safety of all hormones.
Decision Resources analyst Alasdair Milton says that after years of disappointing results, the search for "female Viagra" may be winding down.
"In this day and age, are you really going to spend a significant amount of money developing these compounds if you're not going to get a return on your investment?" Milton asked.
But experts who have watched the drug industry's dogged pursuit of a female dysfunction drug are not convinced the end is in sight.
Dr. Leonore Tiefer, a psychiatry professor at New York University who runs a private sex therapy practice, said drug companies may target narrower groups of women to find an effective therapy, but won't give up the search anytime soon.
"I don't see that there's any incentive for the companies to stop, the market is just too big," said Tiefer.
Drug companies frequently cite a 1999 survey in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found 43 percent of U.S. women had some type of sexual dysfunction, though more rigorous, in-depth surveys have put the figure closer to 10 percent.
The field of potential competitors in the market has narrowed considerably over the years. Currently the only company with a drug in late-stage development is BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc., a small specialty drugmaker developing a testosterone gel called LibiGel.
According to company executives, more than 1.8 million women received prescriptions for men's testosterone gel last year, suggesting a significant market. While currently marketed testosterone gels are designed to treat low hormone levels in men, doctors are free to prescribe them for alternate uses.
"That shows you doctors are willing to write prescriptions for testosterone off-label and women are willing to take it," said BioSante Chief Financial Officer Phil Donenberg.
But FDA approval of the company's LibiGel is far from certain. After lengthy discussions with the agency, the company has agreed to track over 3,000 women for more than a year to detect potential side effects.
Even if the gel turns out to be safe, Emory University Professor Kim Wallen said it's unlikely to prove effective.
"There have probably now been 50 studies on different kinds of testosterone regimens, and they all produce minimal or no effect" on sexual desire, according to Wallen. "This is a case where the pharmaceutical industry is looking in the wrong place."
Wallen still believes there could be pharmaceutical solutions to low sexual desire, possibly with other hormones like estrogen.
But he says the industry's search for a magic pill oversimplifies the problem. Sexuality is influenced by so many factors – including physical health, quality of relationships and lifestyle – that it's unrealistic to assume a drug could address millions of different cases of low libido.
"There are lots of reasons that people, both men and women, experience low sexual desire," Wallen said. "And to lump every individual into this group as potentially being amenable to drug therapy seems ill-advised."
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A panel of health experts on Friday rejected the latest offering submitted for federal approval: an antidepressant drug that failed to increase sexual desire in two studies.
The Food and Drug Administration's panel of reproductive advisers voted unanimously that the benefits of the pill from Boehringer Ingelheim did not outweigh side effects, including fatigue, depression and fainting spells.
"I am convinced that women's sexual health is important and that many women suffer from sexual dysfunction, but I'm not convinced of a clinically meaningful benefit for this drug," said panelist Paula Hillard, a gynecologist from Stanford University School of Medicine.
The FDA will make its own decision on the drug in coming months, though it usually follows the advice of its panelists.
The drug flibanerin, which acts on serotonin and other brain chemicals, was originally studied as a depression therapy, but then repurposed as a libido pill after women reported unusually high levels of sexual satisfaction.
Despite a modest uptick in sexually satisfying events reported in the studies, panelists said the drug's benefits were not strong enough to warrant approval as a daily pill for women.
The attempt to trigger sexual interest through brain chemistry is the drug industry's latest approach to find a female equivalent to the blockbuster success of Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra.
Since that drug's 1998 launch, more than two dozen experimental therapies have been studied for so-called "female sexual dysfunction," a market worth an estimated $2 billion.
Initially, Pfizer tested Viagra on women, hoping that the drug's ability to increase blood flow to the genitals would increase libido. When that didn't work, drugmakers turned to hormones, including testosterone.
In 2004, an FDA panel rejected Procter & Gamble's testosterone patch, Intrinsa, due to unknown risks from long-term use. Two years earlier a massive government study found that hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women increased heart disease and breast cancer, raising concerns about the safety of all hormones.
Decision Resources analyst Alasdair Milton says that after years of disappointing results, the search for "female Viagra" may be winding down.
"In this day and age, are you really going to spend a significant amount of money developing these compounds if you're not going to get a return on your investment?" Milton asked.
But experts who have watched the drug industry's dogged pursuit of a female dysfunction drug are not convinced the end is in sight.
Dr. Leonore Tiefer, a psychiatry professor at New York University who runs a private sex therapy practice, said drug companies may target narrower groups of women to find an effective therapy, but won't give up the search anytime soon.
"I don't see that there's any incentive for the companies to stop, the market is just too big," said Tiefer.
Drug companies frequently cite a 1999 survey in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found 43 percent of U.S. women had some type of sexual dysfunction, though more rigorous, in-depth surveys have put the figure closer to 10 percent.
The field of potential competitors in the market has narrowed considerably over the years. Currently the only company with a drug in late-stage development is BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc., a small specialty drugmaker developing a testosterone gel called LibiGel.
According to company executives, more than 1.8 million women received prescriptions for men's testosterone gel last year, suggesting a significant market. While currently marketed testosterone gels are designed to treat low hormone levels in men, doctors are free to prescribe them for alternate uses.
"That shows you doctors are willing to write prescriptions for testosterone off-label and women are willing to take it," said BioSante Chief Financial Officer Phil Donenberg.
But FDA approval of the company's LibiGel is far from certain. After lengthy discussions with the agency, the company has agreed to track over 3,000 women for more than a year to detect potential side effects.
Even if the gel turns out to be safe, Emory University Professor Kim Wallen said it's unlikely to prove effective.
"There have probably now been 50 studies on different kinds of testosterone regimens, and they all produce minimal or no effect" on sexual desire, according to Wallen. "This is a case where the pharmaceutical industry is looking in the wrong place."
Wallen still believes there could be pharmaceutical solutions to low sexual desire, possibly with other hormones like estrogen.
But he says the industry's search for a magic pill oversimplifies the problem. Sexuality is influenced by so many factors – including physical health, quality of relationships and lifestyle – that it's unrealistic to assume a drug could address millions of different cases of low libido.
"There are lots of reasons that people, both men and women, experience low sexual desire," Wallen said. "And to lump every individual into this group as potentially being amenable to drug therapy seems ill-advised."
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Facebook free forever
Millions of Facebook addicts worldwide worry that someday soon they'll have to pay to use the site.
If you go to Facebook.com and search for the terms "Facebook free" or "Facebook charge," you'll find hundreds of groups with names like, "If 1 Million People Join Before 9th July 2010 Facebook Will Stay Free!" or "If Facebook Charges A Fee We Will Discontinue Using It." Some of these groups have dozens of users, others have thousands.
During a recent press conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said while Facebook users do care about privacy, the question of whether or not Facebook will eventually charge for its service is actually a much bigger concern among the site's 500 million users. Read FaceBook Statistics 2010.
But are these fears justified?
No! Facebook will never charge you to be a member and use the site.
Don't take it from me. Here's Facebook spokesman Larry Yu on the issue:
"We have absolutely no plans to charge for the basic service of using Facebook."
He continues: "Last year we saw a similar rumor circulating that Facebook was going to begin charging $1.99 to use the site, but this year we're hearing that fee increased to $14.99 with the spread of this rumor. We look forward to hearing what Facebook might be rumored to cost for use next year." Read How to make money online with Facebook.
If you press Facebook employees on this, they will tell you the reason they will never charge for access is that putting up a paywall runs counter to the company's mission to make the world more open and connected.
But even if you don't buy that idealistic hoopla, you should understand Facebook has a deep profit motive to never charge you for access.
Why?
Because Facebook makes its money bringing together as big of an audience as possible and then selling that audience's attention to advertisers. It's a business that works. Facebook should bring in as much as $2 billion in revenue this year. That's more than twice as much as Facebook brought in last year. If Facebook started charging users, its membership would start shrinking fast -- and so would its revenues.
So while Facebook may charge you for certain bonus features, such as gifts for your friends, or credits to play games like Farmville, it will never charge for basic access to the site.
Why then do people worry Facebook might start charging soon? Probably because Facebook users feel like they're getting something valuable for free, and everybody knows there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Just remember: The fact that you keep coming back to Facebook makes it easier for Facebook to sell more ads -- and make more money.
Your lunch isn't free, it's sponsored.
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If you go to Facebook.com and search for the terms "Facebook free" or "Facebook charge," you'll find hundreds of groups with names like, "If 1 Million People Join Before 9th July 2010 Facebook Will Stay Free!" or "If Facebook Charges A Fee We Will Discontinue Using It." Some of these groups have dozens of users, others have thousands.
During a recent press conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said while Facebook users do care about privacy, the question of whether or not Facebook will eventually charge for its service is actually a much bigger concern among the site's 500 million users. Read FaceBook Statistics 2010.
But are these fears justified?
No! Facebook will never charge you to be a member and use the site.
Don't take it from me. Here's Facebook spokesman Larry Yu on the issue:
"We have absolutely no plans to charge for the basic service of using Facebook."
He continues: "Last year we saw a similar rumor circulating that Facebook was going to begin charging $1.99 to use the site, but this year we're hearing that fee increased to $14.99 with the spread of this rumor. We look forward to hearing what Facebook might be rumored to cost for use next year." Read How to make money online with Facebook.
If you press Facebook employees on this, they will tell you the reason they will never charge for access is that putting up a paywall runs counter to the company's mission to make the world more open and connected.
But even if you don't buy that idealistic hoopla, you should understand Facebook has a deep profit motive to never charge you for access.
Why?
Because Facebook makes its money bringing together as big of an audience as possible and then selling that audience's attention to advertisers. It's a business that works. Facebook should bring in as much as $2 billion in revenue this year. That's more than twice as much as Facebook brought in last year. If Facebook started charging users, its membership would start shrinking fast -- and so would its revenues.
So while Facebook may charge you for certain bonus features, such as gifts for your friends, or credits to play games like Farmville, it will never charge for basic access to the site.
Why then do people worry Facebook might start charging soon? Probably because Facebook users feel like they're getting something valuable for free, and everybody knows there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Just remember: The fact that you keep coming back to Facebook makes it easier for Facebook to sell more ads -- and make more money.
Your lunch isn't free, it's sponsored.
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* Facebook banned in Bangladesh
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Toshiba dual-screen Libretto W100 tablet
Toshiba unveiled the Libretto W100 at a lavish event in Tokyo that also marked a quarter century since it launched the world's first laptop in 1985, though its personal computer division made an 8.8 billion yen ($110 million) loss in the year to March 2010.
The company expects its PC division to break even in the year to March 2011.
The new touch-screen gadget, which also faces potential competition from Sony Corp will not shake up the e-book reader market at this point, because the company has yet to draw up any agreements with content providers.
But executives were keen to emphasize that the Libretto, which they expect to retail for about 120,000 yen ($US1,320) in Japan, compared with $US489 for the larger of Amazon's Kindle devices, or $US499 for the cheapest iPad, offers more than a passive "consumption" experience.
"Apple's iPad is probably creating a new market in terms of consuming information, browsing and reading books," Masahiko Fukakushi, president and CEO of Toshiba's digital products and network unit, told reporters.
"But when it comes to creation or production ... what we have been doing still has a lot of value. We want to continue to do both."
Toshiba is the world's fourth biggest notebook PC vendor after HP, Acer and Dell. Industry-wide shipments of notebook computers jumped 43 percent in the January-March quarter, their highest year-on-year growth in eight years, according to industry tracker Gartner.
Toshiba is targeting global PC shipments of 25 million units in the year to March 2011.
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The company expects its PC division to break even in the year to March 2011.
The new touch-screen gadget, which also faces potential competition from Sony Corp will not shake up the e-book reader market at this point, because the company has yet to draw up any agreements with content providers.
But executives were keen to emphasize that the Libretto, which they expect to retail for about 120,000 yen ($US1,320) in Japan, compared with $US489 for the larger of Amazon's Kindle devices, or $US499 for the cheapest iPad, offers more than a passive "consumption" experience.
"Apple's iPad is probably creating a new market in terms of consuming information, browsing and reading books," Masahiko Fukakushi, president and CEO of Toshiba's digital products and network unit, told reporters.
"But when it comes to creation or production ... what we have been doing still has a lot of value. We want to continue to do both."
Toshiba is the world's fourth biggest notebook PC vendor after HP, Acer and Dell. Industry-wide shipments of notebook computers jumped 43 percent in the January-March quarter, their highest year-on-year growth in eight years, according to industry tracker Gartner.
Toshiba is targeting global PC shipments of 25 million units in the year to March 2011.
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TUNE UP UTILITIES 2010
TUNE UP UTILITIES 2010.Adalah software tweak yang dapat memacu kinerja computer kita menjadi lebih ringan,cepat dan lugas…(“xixixiii..kaya acara berita..”).
-> Defragment windows lebih cepat
-> Registry clener, atau membuang registry yang tak terpakai/error,agar performance windows jadi lebih baik.
รจ Mengatur Shutdown & Start up windows lebih cepat…
Dan masih banyak lagi fungsi lain nya, yang bisa ente lihat sebagai berikut :
Gimana ente tertarik???
-> Untuk KEY TUNE UP 2010 Agar menjadi Full versions : -> DISINI <-
Ok,Semoga Berman’faat. :)
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