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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), on Tuesday terming the use of Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications DECT 6.0 cordless phones illegal, announced to step up its efforts to eradicate the sale and use of this device. 

Our technical team has found that the strong signals of DECT 6.0, interfere with the signals of mobile phone operators, that’s why we have banned the cordless in the country and sought law enforcing agency’s help in eliminating use of this particular device, said PTA official.

DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) is an advanced remote phone innovation, which has made cordless telephones considerably more regular in both organizations and homes.In Pakistan likewise, a substantial number of buyers are embracing this new innovation because of its straightforwardness, voice quality and wide scope zone. But these devices are having a high range of frequency which causes interference in sensitive areas and cause hurdles in communications. For this reason PTA has taken steps to avoid these issues.

He's a cameraman and a personal assistant. He reads bedtime stories to your kids and can connect you with family and friends on different parts of the planet. And at 11 inches tall, he'll be priced similar to an iPad.

He's Jibo the social robot, the brainchild of MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal, who has been working full-time, and secretively, on the company since she took professional leave from MIT last November.

Venture-backed Jibo Inc., headquartered in Weston, was unveiled Wednesday corresponding with the launch of an online crowdfunding campaign where customers can pre-order the robot for $499 and have it shipped to them in late 2015.

Breazeal, who has spent more than a decade researching social robots, isn't restrained when she talks about plans for Jibo, billed as "the world's first family robot." She envisions Jibo being used by people all over the world, in homes and institutions ranging from hospitals to senior living facilities.

"The way you have smartphones and tablets everywhere, you're going to see Jibos everywhere," she said in an interview.

Photographer, storyteller, messenger and more

At 6 pounds in weight and 11 inches in height, the robot is capable of many tasks. It acts as an "on-demand cameraman," picking up on cues like movement, speech commands and smiles to know when someone's posing for a picture. Breazeal says that's important for any parent who wants to be in a photo with their family as opposed to constantly being the designated photographer.

Jibo is also connected to a mobile app for iOS and Android. Users can ask Jibo to take voicemails or remind them of things they need to do. "Since he recognizes you and each member of your household, and can interact with natural social cues, Jibo can deliver the right messages to the right people at the right time," according to a company release.

The robot includes a "see-and-track camera" that makes eye contact with people in a room. For example, a person can video chat with their family and click on a family member's face, telling Jibo to turn its camera and focus on that person.

Because Jibo's target demographic is households and institutions, Breazeal said it was important for the social robot to be warm and anthropomorphic, which is why the robot is referred to by the company as a "he" and features a congenial voice.

"It's about the people," said Breazeal, also the founder and director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. "The first technology that can really forge that relationship with the family is going to forever have a competitive advantage against anything else that comes in the house."

See video above of Cynthia Breazeal talking about why Jibo's voice is male and other aspects of the robot.

Company history

Founded in late 2012, Jibo Inc. is backed by about $5 million in funding from investors including CRV, formerly known as Charles River Ventures, with offices in Cambridge and Silicon Valley, and Cambridge-based Fairhaven Capital.

Jibo Inc. is aiming to raise another $100,000 from the online crowdfunding campaign and also wants to use the campaign as a way to finalize the official retail price. Breazeal said the retail price will be similar to a high-end tablet.

The robot is also available for professional developers who aim to create new applications for the robot. The developer package can be pre-ordered on MyJibo.com for $599.

The company is based in Weston, has offices in San Francisco, and its total headcount is about 10. Weston is home to the "robot secret-sauce team," as Breazeal likes to call it, which includes luminaries from iRobot, Disney and Symantec who have been working on Jibo for several months.

San Francisco is home to Jibo's vice president of engineering, Andy Atkins, who was formerly the director of engineering at Netflix, and several speech specialists are also based there.

The company's team of employees has helped make Jibo more than just a robot, Breazeal said. Jibo is meant to be a useful, artificially intelligent assistant in busy households, but also meant for people — ranging from children to the elderly — who might need a bit more companionship, or an "emotional connection," she said.

"There are areas where social support and feeling like you have support of presence really make a big difference for people," she said. "Data alone and information alone isn't enough."

 

Report by : http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/bio/18391/Sara%20Castellanos

Courtesy : http://www.bizjournals.com/

One of the fastest growing areas of the camcorder market is models that use removable flash memory cards to store video footage. While camcorders have long included flash memory card slots for saving still photos, it’s only recently that they’ve started using flash memory cards to replace tape, DVD and hard drives as the main storage medium in a camcorder.

SD/SDHC Cards

Every camcorder manufacturer except Sony uses Secure Digital (SD)and its close cousin Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) for their flash memory card-based camcorders. Some flash memory card makers such as Sandisk have begun marketing select SD and SDHC cards as “video” cards. But just because it calls itself a video card doesn’t mean it’s the right one for your camcorder. There are key differences you’ll have to be aware of.

SD/SDHC Card Capacities

SD cards are only available up to 2GB capacities, while SDHC cards are available in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. The higher the capacity, the more video the card can store. If you’re purchasing a standard definition camcorder, you can get away with purchasing an SD card. If you’re considering a high definition camcorder that uses flash memory cards, you will need to purchase an SDHC card.

See this Beginners Guide to HD Camcorders for the difference between standard and high definition camcorders.

Compatibility

While there may be a few hidden exceptions, the overwhelming majority of camcorders on the market accept both SD and SDHC memory cards. If your camcorder says it’s compatible with SDHC cards, it can also accept SD cards. However, if it only accepts SD cards, it cannot accept SDHC cards.

Even if your camcorder accepts SDHC cards, it may not support all cards. Lower cost camcorders may not support higher capacity (16GB, 32GB) SDHC cards. You’ll have to dig around in the fine print to be sure that higher capacities cards are supported.

Speed

Speed matters. Especially when you’re capturing live audio and video using your digital camcorder, digital camera or digital audio recorder. As the demands of high definition video and audio increase,flash memory is stepping in as the de-facto solution for those who need high speed memory. High speed SD cards boast fast write times that ensure that no data is lost and that audio and video can be captured with minimal latency.

Choosing reliable, high speed SD cards is an obvious necessity. But the plurality of manufacturers offering SD cards makes it difficult to tell which is the fastest, or at least fast enough. The SD Association addresses this issue by maintaining a number of standards that help consumers choose SD cards based on speed.

Currently, the SD Association recognizes two Speed Classes: “Speed Class” and “UHS Speed Class.” Speed Class applies to SD, miniSD, microSD, SDHC, miniSDHC, microSDHC, SDXC and microSDXC cards. These are denoted by a class number within a C-shaped logo. The higher the class number, the faster the card. In order to bear the SD Speed Class logo, card manufacturers have to adhere to the minimum standards set out by the SD Association.

Class 2 is the slowest SD card speed. Class 2 has a write speed of about 2 Mb/s and is suitable for standard definition video recording. Class 4 and Class 6 have write speeds of about 4 Mb/s and 6 Mb/s, respectively, and can be used for HD video recording. These three classes of SD cards are designed to operate under the normal bus interface.

Class 10 SD cards have write speeds of 10 Mb/s and up and are designed to operate under the high speed bus interface.

Beyond Class 10 is the UHS Speed Class. UHS stands for ultra high speed and includes cards that have speeds up to 312 Mb/s. The UHS speed class logo includes a number contained within a U-shape. Currently, there is only one UHS speed class: UHS Speed Class 1, which is designed for the UHS bus interface. Cards in this class will usually be noted as SDHC UHS-I or SDXC UHS-I.

Note that in order to read/write to a SDHC UHS-I or SDXC UHS-I card, you’ll have to have a device that is capable of using both SDHC/SDXC and UHS-I cards. Note that you can use normal Speed Class cards in a device that supports UHS class cards.

What Speed Do You Need?

To help you find the right speed, SD/SDHC cards are broken down into four classes: Class 2, Class 4, Class 6 and Class 10. Class 2 cards offer a minimum sustained data rate of 2 megabytes per second (MBps), Class 4 of 4MBps and Class 6 of 6MBps and Class 10 of 10MBps. Depending on which manufacturer is selling the card, the speed class will either be prominently displayed or buried in the specs. Either way, look for it.

For standard definition camcorders, an SD/SDHC card with a Class 2 speed is all you would need. It’s fast enough to handle the highest quality standard definition video you can record. For high definition camcorders, you’re safest going with a Class 6 card. While you may be tempted to spring for a Class 10 card, you'll be paying for performance you don't need in a digital camcorder.

SDXC Cards

SDHC cards will be on the market for a while yet, but a successor has already arrived. The SDXC card looks like your average SD/SDHC card, but will eventually boast capacities as high as 2TB and data speeds as high as 300MBps. It will take years to hit those performance specs, of course, but it's fun imagining what type of camcorder would need such a high-powered card. To learn more about SDXC cards, see our buying guide here.

Regardless of fascinating, lightweight and very handy Tablets are, but they have lot of limitations to do than a traditional Laptop.

Here we see the limitations to a Tablet that you will still want to buy a Laptop but not a Tablet.

Laptops are cheaper

Cost is another issue with the Tablets? Due to compact technology Tablets are high prices than a laptop with latest accessories configurations.

Laptops are more robust

When kept in a bag there are chances of screen damage to a tablet but the lid over laptop take a good care of you laptop Screen.

 

Laptops offer a wider range of Games

Laptops offer a high graphical Videos Games which can be run from a DVD or Online but tablets offer only few traditional and single player games.

 

Laptops have more storage space

Even you can’t upgrade the storage capacity of iPAD2 over its designed 16GB.

 

Laptops have more type of ports for different connections

Can you bear this? Some tablets have even no USB ports!!! But with laptops you can connect a variety of external devices with various ports already provided, Even Some laptops are offering USB 3.0.

 

Laptops have faster Speeds

Yes I am going to talk about the main thing that an Electronic device is fighting for… That is Speed or Processor Speed. With Tablets you can do one or hardly two jobs at a time, but with a laptop run many task at a time, check emails, listen to songs, downloading files in background, opened and working of document files too with no compromise of speed and your work.

 

Laptops can be upgraded

With laptop running out of Storage space? Just upgrade the hard disk? It performs slow when you high graphical games? Upgrade the RAM! But what will you do with a tablet when you have no any option to upgrade things like?

 

Laptops are Really Portable PC

You can do the entire things with a laptop as with your Desktop PC, You can work with the most familiar and every day used Documents program, MS Office, though you would have few latest software with tablets to work with documents but those will be new and you will have to be accustomed with before working on that.

 

Laptops can support any type of files e.g. documents media files, games etc but you will always have limitations when doing same on tablets

Which tablet to Choose???

 

When buying a Tablet you are always confused that which platform tablet you should have! Either it should be Apple, Google Android, Blackberry or something else. Each platform has their specific and limited applications.

Charging Your Mobile Phones

With a laptop you need a USB cable to connect with your Mobile and charge it but with a Tablet you need to carry chargers and adapters for both tablet and Mobile.

 

 

Source : http://www.networkpcworld.com

Did you just drop your cellphone in water? Or maybe you'd like to know what to do if that happens! This week on Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News' Becky Worley shows us first aid techniques for rescuing a drowned smartphone.

To test them out, Becky took a BlackBerry, a Droid, and an iPhone, and dropped all three into room temperature water for 60 seconds. Then she went through the following steps:

Step 1: Do NOT turn on the phone

Why do water and smartphones not mix? Because the water shorts out your smartphone's electrical circuits. So whatever you do, don't turn it on to check to see if it still works.

Step 2: Pull out the battery and SIM card

You want to remove anything removable: Pull out the battery, the SIM card and the memory card, if your phone has one. As long as that battery's in there it's providing power to your phone, and that's what you need to stop immediately.

Some phones, like the iPhone, don't have a removable battery. Unfortunately, you'll just have to skip this step and hope for the best if you dunk one of them.

Step 3: Freshwater rinse

Did you drop your phone in salt water? The salt can corrode your device. So after you pull out the battery and SIM card, immerse your phone in fresh water to rinse out the salt.

Step 4: Dry your phone using compressed air

If you have a compressed air can handy -- the kind that's used to clean computers or keyboards -- run it full-blast all over your phone, with the back cover taken off if you can. A vacuum cleaner also works, even though it's pulling the air in the other direction. As long as it's blowing cool air over those circuits to dry them out, it's all good.

Don't stick your phone in the oven, even on low. The heat can warp your phone's circuits, and melt its internal components. You shouldn't use a blow dryer either, unless it has a heatless setting. A fan might help, but a microwave is out of the question.

Step 5: Cover your phone with uncooked rice

The premise of our experiment was to test if putting a wet phone into a sealed container of rice would actually dry it out, and bring it back form the dead. See, the idea behind the rice is that the dry grains will absorb moisture. So get a sealable plastic container, and fill it with enough rice to cover your smartphone. (A plastic zipper bag will work too, in a pinch.) Then bury your phone in the rice, along with its battery and other parts. You'll want to wait at least 24 hours for the rice to do its job -- Becky waited for 48 hours, in her test.

What would work better than rice? Silica gel, the stuff in those packets that keep new clothes or shoes dry. But most of us don't have a shoebox full of the stuff laying around, so rice will probably have to do. It may get pieces of rice into the crevices and cavities in your smartphone, but this is an emergency, and time is of the essence.

Should you use white or brown rice? It doesn't matter, so long as it's hard and dry and uncooked. You can even use rice from boxed meals like Rice-a-Roni. Just don't add in the seasoning packet, unless you want your phone to smell like mixed vegetables.

Step 6: Turn your phone back on

After you've waited at least 24 hours, it's time for the moment of truth. Reassemble your phone, charge it and try to power it on.

The results of our experiment weren't encouraging: the BlackBerry that Becky tested did restart, with no seeming long-term damage. But the iPhone and the Droid were dead. After two days in the rice and a full battery charge, neither phone came back to life.

One in three may be slim odds. But since water damage isn't covered by most warranties, it can't hurt to try.

Android trend is increasing with the passage of time, to cope up with this, cellular companies in Pakistan are launching android based phones in Pakistan. Earlier Zong took initiative by launching Zong IDEOS at affordable price. This time Ufone launches variety of phones which are basically android based high-end handsets yet low priced!

Android OS phones are the new big thing in the handset arena and have created a storm in the global telecom community. Keeping in line with the strong tradition of market leadership in the handset arena, Ufone presents three state of the art Android OS based handsets the Image, Verve & IDEOS for its valued customers.

These devices have arrived in great fashion at the lowest and most competitive prices and have further been strengthened with amazing 30 MB GPRS/EDGE bonus buckets every month for 6 to 18months for customers to make the most of their Android Experience with hundreds of thousands of free Applications, Games & Utilities that can be downloaded from the free-to-subscribe Android Market.

Mr. Akbar Khan Chief Marketing Officer Ufone said

Ufone has once again taken a giant leap to bring a smile to our valued customers. The launch of these handsets is sure to start a new trend and allow Ufone customers to enjoy the latest in technology. The amazing prices and features of the Android OS is sure to get an amazing response. The Android OS is a global success and we wish to share the same success and pleasure of this OS with the people of Pakistan.

Ufone android specifications:

Ufone IMAGE:

• Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) OS
• 5 MP Auto Focus Camera with LED flash
• 3.8” full touch screen supporting auto rotation
• G-sensor
• 720p HD video capture and playback
• WIFI with portable hotspot support
• GPS/AGPS
• Google Software Suite
• Web browsing with Flash support
• 512 MB RAM + 4GB Memory
• Price: Price: Rs. 24,999

Ufone VERVE:

• Android™ 2.1 OS
• 3.2” full touch screen
• 3.2 MP Camera
• Google applications
• G-Sensor
• Optical Trackpad
• FM Radio
• GPS/AGPS
• Price: Rs. 15,499

Ufone IDEOS:

• Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) OS
• 2.8” full touch screen
• Micro SD Card support upto 16 GB
• G-Sensor
• GPS/AGPS
• Google Software Suite
• Price: Rs. 11,999

Free GPRS Details:

• Free 30 MB GPRS, Every month for 18 months with Ufone IMAGE
• Free 30 MB GPRS, Every month for 15 months with Ufone VERVE
• Free 30 MB GPRS, Every month for 6 months with Ufone IDEOS

 

May 31, 2011 -- The expert panel that evaluates cancer risks today said that cell phones might possibly cause brain cancer.

The announcement comes from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Like the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society relies on IARC for evaluation of cancer risks.

"After reviewing all the evidence available, the IARC working group classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans," panel chairman Jonathan Samet, MD, chair of preventive medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine, said at a news teleconference. "We reached this conclusion based on a review of human evidence showing increased risk of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, in association with wireless phone use."

In finding cell phones to be "possibly carcinogenic," the IARC means that heavy cell phone use might -- or might not -- cause a specific form of brain cancer called glioma. The finding means that research is urgently needed to find out whether cell phones actually cause cancer, and how they might do it.

The IARC estimates that some 5 billion people worldwide have mobile phones. Lifetime exposure to the magnetic fields created by the phones -- particularly when they are held tightly against the head -- rapidly is increasing.

Children are at particular risk, not only because their skulls are thinner but also because their lifetime exposure to cell phones likely will be greater than the exposure of current adults.

Putting Possible Cancer Risk in Perspective

It's important to put the possible risk into context. Kurt Straif, MD, PhD, MPH, head of the IARC Monographs Program, notes that the IARC currently lists some 240 agents as "possibly carcinogenic," including dry cleaning fluid and some commonly used pesticides.

While the IARC doesn't make recommendations to consumers, Straif noted that there are precautions people can take.

"Some of the highest exposures come from using mobile phones for voice calls. If you text, or use hands-free devices, you lower exposure by at least [10-fold]," Straif said at the news conference. "So this is left to consumers to consider whether this level of evidence is enough for them to take such precautions."

Otis W. Brawley, MD, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, notes that the IARC is a highly credible group. But Brawley echoes Straif's advice: People who are worried can reduce their risk.

"On the other hand, if someone is of the opinion that the absence of strong scientific evidence on the harms of cell phone use is reassuring, they may take different actions, and it would be hard to criticize that," Brawley says in a news release.

John Walls, vice president for public affairs at CTIA, the trade group representing the wireless communications industry, notes that the IARC findings do not mean cell phones cause cancer -- and that the limited evidence on which the findings are based are far from conclusive.

"Based on previous assessments of the scientific evidence, the Federal Communications Commission has concluded that '[t]here’s no scientific evidence that proves that wireless phone usage can lead to cancer.' The Food and Drug Administration has also stated that '[t]he weight of scientific evidence has not linked cell phones with any health problems,'" Walls notes in a news release.

Samet and colleagues will publish a summary of their findings in the July 1 issue of The Lancet, which is still in press.

 

Courtesy : http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20110531/expert-panel-cell-phones-might-cause-brain-cancer?ecd=wnl_nal_060111

Mobile phone users may be at increased risk from brain cancer and should use texting and free-hands devices to reduce exposure, the World Health Organisation's cancer experts said.

Radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by such devices are "possibly carcinogenic to humans," the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced at the end of an eight-day meeting in Lyon, France.

Experts "reached this classification based on review of the human evidence coming from epidemiological studies" pointing to an increased incidence of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, said Jonathan Samet, president of the work group.

Two studies in particular, the largest conducted over the last decade, showed a higher risk "in those that had the most intensive use of such phones," he said in a telephone news conference.

Some individuals tracked in the studies had used their phones for an average of 30 minutes per day over a period of 10 years.

"We simply don't know what might happen as people use their phones over longer time periods, possibly over a lifetime," Samet said.

There are about five billion mobile phones registered in the world. The number of phones and the average time spent using them have both climbed steadily in recent years.

The CTIA-The Wireless Association dismissed the report saying the UN agency "conducts numerous reviews and in the past has given the same score to, for example, pickled vegetables and coffee."

This classification "does not mean cell phones cause cancer," the industry association said in a statement, noting that "limited evidence from statistical studies can be found even though bias and other data flaws may be the basis for the results."

The IARC cautioned that current scientific evidence showed only a possible link, not a proven one, between wireless devices and cancers.

"There is some evidence of increased risk of glioma" and another form of non-malignant tumour called acoustic neuroma, said Kurt Straif, the scientist in charge of editing the IARC reports on potentially carcinogenic agents.

"But it is not at the moment clearly established that the use of mobile phones does in fact cause cancer in humans," he said.

The IARC does not issue formal recommendations, but experts pointed to a number of ways consumers can reduce risk.

"What probably entails some of the highest exposure is using your mobile for voice calls," Straif said.

"If you use it for texting, or as a hands-free set for voice calls, this is clearly lowering the exposure by at least an order of magnitude," or by tenfold, he said.

A year ago the IARC concluded that there was no link between cell phones and brain cancer, but that earlier report was criticised as based on data that was out of date.

The new review, conducted by a panel of 31 scientists from 14 countries, was reached on the basis of a "full consensus," said Robert Baan, in charge of the written report, yet to be released.

"This is the first scientific evaluation of all the literature published on the topic with regard to increased risk of cancer," he said.

But the panel stressed the need for more research, pointing to incomplete data, evolving technology and changing consumer habits.

"There's an improvement in the technology in terms of lower emissions but at the same time we see increased use, so it is hard to know how the two balance out," Baan noted.

The IARC ranks potentially cancer-causing elements as carcinogenic, probably carcinogenic, possibly carcinogenic or "probably not carcinogenic". It can also determine that a material is "not classifiable".

Cigarettes, sunbeds and asbestos, for example, fall in "Group 1", the top threat category.

Cell phones now join glass wool and gasoline exhaust in Group 2B as "possibly carcinogenic".

Industry groups reacted cautiously, pointing to other common consumer items -- including coffee and vegetables pickled in chemicals -- that are included in the same category.

"In France, the health ministry already applies a precautionary approach to cell phones because it considers that no danger has been established, that doubts remain and, thus, that more research is needed," the French Federation of Telecoms said in a statement.

Some consumer advocacy groups said the new classification was overdue.

"As of today, no one can say the risk does not exist, and now everyone -- politicians, telecoms, employers, consumers and parents -- have to take this into account," said Janine Le Calvez, head of PRIARTEM, a consumer advocacy group concerned with cell phone safety.

Courtesy: SamaTV

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