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Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Promises Fix for Battery Bug on Nexus 5</strong></span></div> <div> Facing unexplained battery drain on Nexus 5? You are not alone. Many Nexus 5 users have complained on Googles upport forums that they are facing unexplained battery drain when they use apps related to camera. A Google executive confirmed the bug. The executive said that it was related to the Qualcomm chip which is used for camera functions in the phone. He promised the company will fix it with the next software update. (The Economic Times)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Tool to Prevent Smartphone Malware</strong></span></div> <div> Researchers have developed a new tool to detect and contain malware that attempts root exploits in Android devices to give hackers unfettered control of a user’s smartphone. The tool named Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC) developed by North Carolina State University researchers improves on previous techniques by targeting code written in the C programming language - which is often used to create root exploit malware, whereas the bulk of Android applications are written in Java. (Agency)</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-10', 'modified' => '2014-03-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists are developing gen-next smartphones that can be quickly transformed into the shape of an armband, a phone or a tablet to suit your needs. Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)', 'sortorder' => '2595', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2722', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (3 - 9 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Japan Researchers Testing Tiny Ear Computer</strong></span></div> <div> A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone. The device, known at the moment as the “Earclip-type Wearable PC” has a microchip and data storage, enabling users to load software, said engineer Kazuhiro Taniguchi ofHiroshima City University. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New software Helps Improve Your Web Search</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="AIDA" src="/userfiles/images/b1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Researchers have developed a new software that makes your web search easier by resolving the ambiguity of names within texts automatically. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany have developed a software that enables accurate disambiguation of named entities by analysing them with the help of Wikipedia. Their software, named AIDA, establishes connections between the mentions in the text and potential persons or places. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Free Wi-Fi from Space</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Free Wi-Fi from Space" src="/userfiles/images/b2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />A US company is planning to build an ‘Outernet’ — a global network of cube satellites broadcasting internet data to all the people on the planet — for free. The idea is to offer free internet access to all people, regardless of location, bypassing filtering or other means of censorship, according to the New York based non-profit organization, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). MDIF proposes that hundreds of cube satellites be built and launched to create a constellation of sorts in the sky, allowing anyone with a phone or computer to access Internet data sent to the satellites by several hundred ground stations.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid!</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid" src="/userfiles/images/b3.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />A tiny new hearing aid that is controlled by a smartphone app has been developed, eliminating the need for wearers to carry a pendant-like device. Hearing aid wearers need to carry a cumbersome pendant or other wireless device to change settings on their hearing aid, but the new app allows users to make those changes directly on the smartphone. The ReSound LiNX hearing aids can also be used to stream music, listen to GPS directions and talk on the phone through Bluetooth. There is also a ‘Find My Hearing Aid’ feature that helps the user locate their device if it has been misplaced. The batteries on the hearing aid will last about five days, a local newspaper reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Give You ‘Superhero’ Vision</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt=" ‘Superhero’ Vision" src="/userfiles/images/b4.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 67px;" />Suffering from bad eyesight? This app could give you ‘superhero’ vision! US Scientists have developed a revolutionary new app that can improve users’ eyesight by sharpening their vision and boosting ability to see in dim light. The new UltimEye app improves the users’ vision by training their brain to process patterns better. UltimEye asks users to complete tasks such as clicking on hard-to-see targets and can help them perform everyday work, ‘Mashable’ reported. The app is designed to help rewire the brain to process the information it receives from the eyes while keeping the user engaged with positive reinforcement such as a point system. California-based Carrot Neurotechnology, a company that creates tools that can improve vision, developed the app. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Wolf of Wall Street Most ‘Googled’ Movie Among Oscar Nominees</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Wolf of Wall Street" src="/userfiles/images/b5.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, directed by noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese, has topped search trends on Google among the films nominated for this year’s Oscar awards to be announced next month. Golden Globe winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who played male lead in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, was the most searched actor among filmstars nominated for the Best Actor category in the 86th Academy Awards. Among the Best Movie category, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ topped the search trends followed by ‘American Hustle’, ‘Gravity’, ‘12 Year a Slave and Captain Philips’. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-03', 'modified' => '2014-03-09', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan.', 'sortorder' => '2566', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2683', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (24 February - 2 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Self-charging Personal Electronics</strong></span></div> <div> Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone. Xudong Wang, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researcher Yanchao Mao and collaborators from Sun Yat-sen University in China, and the University of Minnesota Duluth developed the device, a mesoporous piezoelectric nanogenerator that takes advantage of a common piezoelectric polymer material called polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App may Help You Fix Abusive Boyfriend</strong></span></div> <div> Good news for victims ofdating violence or an abusive relationship! Researchers have developed a new smartphone app that warns young women of a dangerous partner by helping them examine their relationships and potential behavioural red flags. In an effort to connect more young women with safety information, researchers developed the “One Love My Plan” smartphone application, an interactive tool that helps college-age women in abusive relationships clarify their priorities and customise personal safety plans. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19bn</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn in cash and shares. It is the social networking giant’s biggest acquisition to date.WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges. In a statement announcing the deal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp’s services as “incredibly valuable”. WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>World’s Most Powerful Terahertz Laser Chip Developed</strong></span></div> <div> British researchers have built the world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip, an advance that may enable improved security scanning and medical imaging. Researchers from the University of Leeds claimed to have exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser. The new record more than doubles landmarks set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently by a team from Vienna last year. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New System Tells How Far Your Email has Travelled</strong></span></div> <div> A new system that uses GPS technology to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled before reaching an inbox has been developed. The system known as Email Miles, uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and internet tracking to determine where a message was sent and where it was received. It then calculates the total distance between the two and displays it on the screen alongside a map. Inventor Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a design lecturer, said he hoped that it would remind people how quickly they can communicate in a digital world, ‘The Times’ reported. The system also shows how indirect the route of many emails can be. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-25', 'modified' => '2014-03-02', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone.', 'sortorder' => '2526', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2635', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (17 - 23 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>India Telecoms Auction Raises $10bn </strong></span></div> <div> India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences. The amount far exceeded the government’s target of $1.8bn, and will be used to shrink its budget deficit. The government will get at least $3bn initially as companies have to pay up to a third of the winning price now, with the rest by 2026. The winners included Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Industries. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Android Extends Gains on Apple, Windows Phone is 3rd</strong></span></div> <div> The Google Android system extended its gains over Apple’s iPhoneglobally in the last quarter of 2013, and Windows Phone grabbed the number three market position, a survey showed Wednesday. The IDC survey found Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter, bolstered by a 40 percent jump in the number of handsets delivered. Apple got only a modest boost in the fourth quarter from the release of its new iPhones, with sales up 6.7 percent compared with a year earlier. That means its market shareslipped to 17.6 percent from 20.9 percent, according to IDC. The Microsoft Windows Phone platform saw a 46.7 percent year-over-year rise in sales, which pushed its market share to three percent.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Smartglasses that Help Surgeons See Cancerous Cells</strong></span></div> <div> If you think cancer removal surgery is but a one-time procedure, you’d be wrong. Doctors don’t always cut out all affected tissues in one go, but a new pair of high-tech eyewear could help make that happen. The device, developed by a Washington University research team led by Samuel Achilefu, can make cancer cells perfectly visible to surgeons as they operate. It’s loaded with custom software that makes cancerous cells glow blue (due to a molecular imaging agent that gives it color) to anyone wearing the headset. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Website Lets You Video Chat with Avatars of Dead People</strong></span></div> <div> A new website createsvirtual avatars of the dead so that their loved ones can video chat with them after they are gone. The website ‘Eterni.me’ is a startup by engineers, designers and business people, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT)’s Entrepreneurship Development Program. The team claims to have developed a means by which a person can be digitally reconstructed after their death. The service needs to be provided with a person’s chat logs, social-network information, photos, and e-mails, and it uses this information to reconstruct a person’s memories and mannerisms, ‘CNET’ reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>‘Business Microscope’ to Track Employees’ Every Move at Workplace</strong></span></div> <div> A Japanese company has developed a device that can track everything you do in the workplace — from how long you have been sitting idle to how often you visit the lavatory. Hitachi, the electronics maker, has created the device, called ‘Business Microscope’, which looks like a badge or ID card and contains chips and sensors to record an employee’s behaviour. It detects to whom you have spoken, how often, where and how energetically. The gadget also reads your colleagues’ badges and judges the distance between people talking, The Times reported. It tells bosses how often an employee leaves their seat, how far they walk and where they go. It would also be able to judge how often a person speaks in a meeting and report on how much they contribute to group sessions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-19', 'modified' => '2014-02-20', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences.', 'sortorder' => '2478', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2579', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (7 - 16 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>YouTube Starts Auditing Video Views</strong></span></div> <div> The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Wearable Device Turns Your Palm Into Touch Screen</strong></span></div> <div> A new gesture-based wearable transmitter that turns your palm into a touch interface has been developed by an Indian IT-start up. The ring-shaped transmitter called Fin is worn on the thumb and uses Bluetooth to communicate with different devices. The portable device enables users to control up to three devices such as smartphones, car radios and smart TVs using only swipes and taps, ‘Mashable’ reported. Until now, the device has five pre-programmed gestures. However, users will be able to create customised programmes on an app that will come with the device, in its final iteration. The device can control the volume on a TV, and even lets users text or dial a number without touching their phone. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook’s New App ‘Paper’ Aims to Provide Personalized News</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook stepped more directly onto the news media’s turf, rolling out a new iPhone app called Paper that enlists a handful of human editors to supplement its computers in recommending articles and blog posts on a dozen topics, including top news, food, parenting, the environment and gay rights. The app, which made its debut to rave reviews from tech news sites, offers users an easy way to browse their news feeds. But it also presents them with a series of minimagazines, each with a distinct tone and articles chosen by unidentified curators the company says have extensive expertise in their fields.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Samsung to Unveil Latest Galaxy S Smartphone in Late February</strong></span></div> <div> Samsung Electronics Co will unveil a new version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone this month, but expectations are low that features such as a bigger screen will lead to a sharp jump in sales given intensifying competition. Samsung sent out invitations on Tuesday for “Samsung unPacked 5” event on Feb. 24 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The S5 is widely expected to feature a bigger screen, an improved rear camera and biometric functions such as iris recognition or a fingerprint scanner. It may also come with an improved Galaxy Gear smartwatch.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-10', 'modified' => '2014-02-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.', 'sortorder' => '2423', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2538', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (27 January - 02 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Atomic Clock is World’s Most Accurate</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Atomic Clock" src="/userfiles/images/bt4%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;width: 100px; height: 115px;" />Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth. The ‘strontium lattice clock’ is 50 per cent more accurate than the previous record holder, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quantum logic clock. A research group led by a NIST physicist unveiled the experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability - key metrics for the performance of a clock. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Track Your Lost Wallet!</strong></span></div> <div> A new smartphone app that tracks the location of your lost wallet using a chip has been developed in the US. The makers claim that SmartWallit chip is a revolutionary device that prevents people from leaving their wallet behind or losing it. The device connects with your smartphone through bluetooth and works with an app which records the time and place the wallet was lost. In case the wallet goes out of range of the app, a warning message will flash on your smartphone screen, displaying the last location where the wallet was used.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Photo-Snapping Drone that Fits in Your Pocket</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Photo-Snapping Drone" src="/userfiles/images/bt5%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 87px;" />A flying multicopter that is powerful enough to carry a high quality action camera and folds easily in your pocket has been designed in the US. The Pocket Drone is equipped with an action camera for capturing aerial photos and video and a rechargeable battery allowing for flights of up to 20 minutes. The device which only weighs around 450 grams, folds up to the size of a small tablet. The creators claim that the drone is designed for easy use. It can be unpacked and launched within 20 seconds, and is controlled by an included remote or from any Android phone or tablet with a USB port, ‘Mashable’ reported. The Pocket Drone can be purchased for $445 without a controller or $495 for the full package.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Massive Data Theft Hits 40% of South Koreans</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Data Theft" src="/userfiles/images/bt6%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />The personal data of 20 million South Koreans -- or 40% of the country’s population -- has been stolen, sparking outrage as worried consumers scramble to replace compromised credit cards. Customer details appear to have been swiped by a worker at the Korea Credit Bureau, a company that offers risk management and fraud detection services. Clients of three Korean companies -- KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and Nonghyup Bank -- were hardest hit by the data theft. Crucial personal data like identification numbers, addresses and credit card numbers were all stolen.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Anti-Spying Blackphone Coming Soon </strong></span></div> <div> It’s a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It’s also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress friends and colleagues, according to its makers. The Blackphone is set to be released next month by the secure communications firm Silent Circle and the small Spanish-based manufacturer Geeksphone. Silent Circle developed a modified or “forked” version of Android called PrivatOS for the phone, which is set to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. The company declined to release detailed specifications or pricing ahead of the unveiling, but Janke said it will be sold around the world at prices lower than the iPhone 5S or Samsung Galaxy S4.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-27', 'modified' => '2014-01-27', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth', 'sortorder' => '2381', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2487', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (20 - 26 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Unveils ‘Smart Contact Lens’ </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 64px;" />Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Tiny Lenses That’ll Turn Your Phone into a Pro-Level Shooter</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB1%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 88px;" />Moment, a newly formed company is launching a Kickstarter funding to bring a telephoto and wide-angle lens to the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy lines. The lenses use a thin piece of metal (it’s less than half a millimeter) that adheres to the back of your phone. That plate acts as a mount for the lenses. The wide-angle (roughly equivalent to 18mm) and telephoto lens (roughly equivalent to 60mm) attach via a bayonet mount. According to Moment, the optics are fabricated using the same high-precision equipment and factory used for 4K cameras. The end result, according to Moment, is no distortion at the edges of images and minimal chromatic aberration in a tiny, pocketable package.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>US Intelligence Installs Spy Software on Thousands of Computers</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />The US intelligence agency has covertly installed software on nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing it to spy on them, and recruit them for possible cyber attacks, a news report said lastTuesday. Most were installed by the National Security Agency via network connections, but the agency has devised a way of reaching unconnected computers by means of radio waves, the New York Times reported, citing NSA documents, computer experts and officials. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Global PC Shipments Suffered Worst Decline in 2013</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Marking one of the worst years for the global PC industry, shipments fell by 10 per cent last year as hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets grabbed consumers’ attention, research firms Gartner and IDC said. PCs — which include desktops, notebooks and laptops — shipment levels in 2013 were similar to that achieved in 2009. According to Gartner’s preliminary data, worldwide PC shipments declined by 10 per cent to 315.96 million units in 2013 from 351.05 million units in 2012. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Apps Tries to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 82px;" />Keeping New Year’s resolutions can be difficult but new apps aim to help people get organized, track progress and stay focused to reach their goals. People aiming to improve their health can turn to fitness trackers such as MotionX-24/7 for the iPhone. The app tracks metrics such as steps taken, calories burned, sleep quality and duration and heart rate. Users can set daily activity and sleep goals and receive reminders to get active if they are idle for too long. Other activity tracker apps include Argus, free for the iPhone, and Moves, which sells for 99 cents and is available on iPhone and Android. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-21', 'modified' => '2014-01-21', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use.', 'sortorder' => '2329', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2389', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (30 December 2013 - 5 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Launches New Safety App for Windows Phone Users</strong></span></div> <div> Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release. Guardian users can call for help through an 'SOS' alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of crisis, it added. It took more than six months for a team of Microsoft employees in India to develop the safety app in the Microsoft Garage, the company said. Microsoft Garage is a global employee innovation initiative that gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>AMD Unveils Graphics Processor for Apple’s Mac Pro</strong></span></div> <div> Chipmaker AMD announced a dual AMD FirePro professional graphics solutions (GPUs) to boost the performance levels of the Apple's Mac Pro workstation. AMD’s FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release. These new AMD FirePro GPUs are built on the strength of AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next GPU design — an architecture conceived from the ground up to intelligently managing rendering and compute workloads. The dual AMD FirePro GPU options for Mac Pro feature up to 6GB of VRAM and up to 2048 stream processors per GPU, matched with top configurations capable of up to 7 teraflops of computing power.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-01', 'modified' => '2014-01-01', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. 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More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. From engine to seats, the vehicle is made completely from the tiny bricks, with the exception of a few structural parts including wheels, tires and gauges. The car is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneur Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida, a 20-year-old from Romania who Steve met on the internet. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Gen-next Video Games to See Through Walls</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb1%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Imagine playing a video game while moving freely throughout your house! A revolutionary new technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and obstructions could change the way video games are played, scientists say. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the new high-resolution, 3D motion tracking system dubbed “WiTrack,” which can pinpoint a person’s 3-D location to within 10 to 20 centimetres - about the width of an adult hand. Earlier this year, Katabi and her graduate student Fadel Adib unveiled WiVi, a system that detects humans through walls and can track the direction of their movement using WiFi signals. Based on this earlier work, Katabi and Adib developed WiTrack in collaboration with Rob Miller, a professor of computer science and engineering, and graduate student Zach Kabelac. In comparison to WiVi, WiTrack has significantly higher accuracy and can track both two-dimensional and three-dimensional movement using specialised radio waves, as opposed to WiFi signals. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Glass Eyewear Lets Winking Snap Pictures</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb2%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Google Glass on Tuesday announced updates to the software in its Internet-linked eyewear to allow users to snap pictures by winking. The new feature, which promises to escalate privacy concerns already being voiced about the high-tech gadget, came as one of an array of improvements. Notions put forth included Glass wearers someday paying for cab rides by winking at meters or buying something in a shop with a blink. Updates included letting owners lock eyewear so it can’t be used unless a person knows the right “handshake” of swipes and taps. The “Glassware” code powering the eyewear was also modified to upload video directly to Google-owned video-sharing venue YouTube. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Apps Predict, Provide Information about What Users Want</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb3%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 110px;" />New apps that listen to conversations or scan emails and calendars can predict and provide information such as websites, videos and maps to users before they ask for them or realize they want them. MindMeld for the iPad is a voice conferencing assistant that understands conversations, and depending on what people are talking about, will find a map of a city and tourist information if the chat is about a trip, or restaurants if it is about eating out. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Launches Video Ads</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 134px;" />Facebook is rolling out a feature Tuesday that will allow advertisers to play videos in users’ news feeds. The feature offers companies a new way to promote movies and products on smartphones and computers, and is being tested with a small group of Facebook users.”Rather than having to click or tap to play, videos will begin to play as they appear onscreen -- without sound,” Facebook said in a statement. When users tap the videos, the sound will turn on and the video will play in full-screen mode.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-24', 'modified' => '2013-12-24', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. 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Researchers from the University of California showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch New Smartphone</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Nokia" src="/userfiles/images/gf2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 86px;" />Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset. The Jolla smartphone is based on the former world No. 1 mobile phone maker’s old software and is faintly reminiscent of its recent models. The Jolla handset’s Sailfish platform has been developed from the MeeGo operating software, Nokia’s last open-source platform which it abandoned in 2011 when it switched over to using Microsoft’s Windows system. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Sony Files Patent for ‘SmartWig’</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartwig" src="/userfiles/images/gf3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 60px;" />Sony has filed a patent application for “SmartWig”, as firms jostle for the lead in the wearable technology sector. It says the SmartWig can be worn “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and communicate wirelessly with other external devices. According to the filing, the SmartWig can help navigate roads and collect information such as blood pressure. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-03', 'modified' => '2013-12-03', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro.', 'sortorder' => '2063', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2132', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs ( 11 - 17 November 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Celebrates Rorschach's Birthday </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/google(2).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 84px; width: 150px;" />Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while a pair of hand holds a piece of paper with the inkblot. Users are asked to share their interpretation of the inkblot onsocial media platforms such as Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter. Born in in Zurich, Switzerland, Rorschach loved of klecksography – the art of turning inkblots into known images. This later shaped his career as a psychiatrist. After years of conducting various tests, he wrote Psychodiagnostik – a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis – in 1921. Rorschach died when he was 37, suffering from a ruptured appendix.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Nissan to Unveil Electric Sports Car </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/nissaqn.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 86px; width: 150px;" />Nissan said Friday it would unveil a sporty concept electric vehicle at the Tokyo Motor Show as Japan's number-two automaker presses on with its bid to tap the burgeoning green-car market. The company, which has been selling its Leaf electric vehicle since late 2010, said it hoped its Nissan BladeGlider would help it reach a market of male drivers who still want performance and styling in an environmentally friendly car - a major hurdle to widespread commercial sales. The car, to be unveiled at the biennial Tokyo exhibition later this month, features an aerodynamic design that widens from the front to back with space for a driver in the middle and two passengers in the rear. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Makes IE 11 browser Work for Windows 7</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/ie11.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 113px; width: 150px;" />Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that it has made its latest browser,Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.The new browser had already been part of the Windows 8.1 upgrade the company released last month.The browser, available as a free download, improves the performance of websites that use JavaScript. Microsoft says the browser is 9 percent faster than Internet Explorer 10. It also enables better 3-D graphics rendering in websites, allowing users to manipulate 3-D objects on-screen.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Call of Duty: Ghosts Ships $1bn on Opening Day</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/cod.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 85px; width: 150px;" />Sales of the latest Call of Duty video game surpassed $1 billion during its first day in stores, video game-maker Activision Blizzard said Wednedsay, reaching that mark in record time. Call of Duty: Ghosts, the military-themed shooter video game released on Tuesday, is the 10th installment in the decade-old franchise. Last year, Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, reached the $1 billion mark in global sales after 15 days. In September, Activision rival Take-Two Interactive Software said Grand Theft Auto V set a record by reaching the $1 billion mark after just three days in stores.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-11-12', 'modified' => '2013-11-12', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. 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The survey released Wednesday found that in addition to the 15 per cent of adults who don't use the Internet on any device, another nine per cent say they only go online at their workplace. The report by the Pew Research Center found a whopping 92 per cent of these "offline adults" with no interest in using the Internet or email in the near future. <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech2.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Tweets Reveal Global News Readership Patterns: Study</strong><br /> <br /> Different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles - Americans and Brits are drawn to opinion and world news, while Brazilians go for sports, a twitter analysis has found. Researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles. While Americans and British readers like opinion and world news, Spaniards prefer local and national news, Brazilians are drawn to sports and arts, and Germans go for politics and economy. The researchers also found that German and Spanish readers are more likely to read national newspapers compared to British readers, who prefer foreign publications.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech3.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 93px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>BlackBerry Reports $1bn Quarterly Loss</strong></p> <p> BlackBerry reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with last week’s warning, days after accepting its largest shareholder’s tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it out of the public eye. BlackBerry, which had warned of poor results on September 20th, said its net loss for the second quarter ended on August 31st was $965 million, or $1.84 a share. Revenue fell 45 per cent to $1.6 billion from a year earlier. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech4.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Study Puts iPhone 5S Production Costs at $191</strong><br /> <br /> While the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the actual cost to make the phone hasn't changed very much, according to a new study. An IHS Inc. teardown of the new smartphone found that the components that make up a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5S cost $190.70. Manufacturing costs add another $8, bringing the total production cost to $198.70. 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Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Promises Fix for Battery Bug on Nexus 5</strong></span></div> <div> Facing unexplained battery drain on Nexus 5? You are not alone. Many Nexus 5 users have complained on Googles upport forums that they are facing unexplained battery drain when they use apps related to camera. A Google executive confirmed the bug. The executive said that it was related to the Qualcomm chip which is used for camera functions in the phone. He promised the company will fix it with the next software update. (The Economic Times)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Tool to Prevent Smartphone Malware</strong></span></div> <div> Researchers have developed a new tool to detect and contain malware that attempts root exploits in Android devices to give hackers unfettered control of a user’s smartphone. The tool named Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC) developed by North Carolina State University researchers improves on previous techniques by targeting code written in the C programming language - which is often used to create root exploit malware, whereas the bulk of Android applications are written in Java. (Agency)</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-10', 'modified' => '2014-03-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists are developing gen-next smartphones that can be quickly transformed into the shape of an armband, a phone or a tablet to suit your needs. Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)', 'sortorder' => '2595', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2722', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (3 - 9 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Japan Researchers Testing Tiny Ear Computer</strong></span></div> <div> A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone. The device, known at the moment as the “Earclip-type Wearable PC” has a microchip and data storage, enabling users to load software, said engineer Kazuhiro Taniguchi ofHiroshima City University. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New software Helps Improve Your Web Search</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="AIDA" src="/userfiles/images/b1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Researchers have developed a new software that makes your web search easier by resolving the ambiguity of names within texts automatically. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany have developed a software that enables accurate disambiguation of named entities by analysing them with the help of Wikipedia. Their software, named AIDA, establishes connections between the mentions in the text and potential persons or places. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Free Wi-Fi from Space</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Free Wi-Fi from Space" src="/userfiles/images/b2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />A US company is planning to build an ‘Outernet’ — a global network of cube satellites broadcasting internet data to all the people on the planet — for free. The idea is to offer free internet access to all people, regardless of location, bypassing filtering or other means of censorship, according to the New York based non-profit organization, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). MDIF proposes that hundreds of cube satellites be built and launched to create a constellation of sorts in the sky, allowing anyone with a phone or computer to access Internet data sent to the satellites by several hundred ground stations.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid!</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid" src="/userfiles/images/b3.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />A tiny new hearing aid that is controlled by a smartphone app has been developed, eliminating the need for wearers to carry a pendant-like device. Hearing aid wearers need to carry a cumbersome pendant or other wireless device to change settings on their hearing aid, but the new app allows users to make those changes directly on the smartphone. The ReSound LiNX hearing aids can also be used to stream music, listen to GPS directions and talk on the phone through Bluetooth. There is also a ‘Find My Hearing Aid’ feature that helps the user locate their device if it has been misplaced. The batteries on the hearing aid will last about five days, a local newspaper reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Give You ‘Superhero’ Vision</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt=" ‘Superhero’ Vision" src="/userfiles/images/b4.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 67px;" />Suffering from bad eyesight? This app could give you ‘superhero’ vision! US Scientists have developed a revolutionary new app that can improve users’ eyesight by sharpening their vision and boosting ability to see in dim light. The new UltimEye app improves the users’ vision by training their brain to process patterns better. UltimEye asks users to complete tasks such as clicking on hard-to-see targets and can help them perform everyday work, ‘Mashable’ reported. The app is designed to help rewire the brain to process the information it receives from the eyes while keeping the user engaged with positive reinforcement such as a point system. California-based Carrot Neurotechnology, a company that creates tools that can improve vision, developed the app. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Wolf of Wall Street Most ‘Googled’ Movie Among Oscar Nominees</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Wolf of Wall Street" src="/userfiles/images/b5.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, directed by noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese, has topped search trends on Google among the films nominated for this year’s Oscar awards to be announced next month. Golden Globe winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who played male lead in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, was the most searched actor among filmstars nominated for the Best Actor category in the 86th Academy Awards. Among the Best Movie category, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ topped the search trends followed by ‘American Hustle’, ‘Gravity’, ‘12 Year a Slave and Captain Philips’. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-03', 'modified' => '2014-03-09', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan.', 'sortorder' => '2566', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2683', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (24 February - 2 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Self-charging Personal Electronics</strong></span></div> <div> Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone. Xudong Wang, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researcher Yanchao Mao and collaborators from Sun Yat-sen University in China, and the University of Minnesota Duluth developed the device, a mesoporous piezoelectric nanogenerator that takes advantage of a common piezoelectric polymer material called polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App may Help You Fix Abusive Boyfriend</strong></span></div> <div> Good news for victims ofdating violence or an abusive relationship! Researchers have developed a new smartphone app that warns young women of a dangerous partner by helping them examine their relationships and potential behavioural red flags. In an effort to connect more young women with safety information, researchers developed the “One Love My Plan” smartphone application, an interactive tool that helps college-age women in abusive relationships clarify their priorities and customise personal safety plans. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19bn</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn in cash and shares. It is the social networking giant’s biggest acquisition to date.WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges. In a statement announcing the deal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp’s services as “incredibly valuable”. WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>World’s Most Powerful Terahertz Laser Chip Developed</strong></span></div> <div> British researchers have built the world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip, an advance that may enable improved security scanning and medical imaging. Researchers from the University of Leeds claimed to have exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser. The new record more than doubles landmarks set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently by a team from Vienna last year. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New System Tells How Far Your Email has Travelled</strong></span></div> <div> A new system that uses GPS technology to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled before reaching an inbox has been developed. The system known as Email Miles, uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and internet tracking to determine where a message was sent and where it was received. It then calculates the total distance between the two and displays it on the screen alongside a map. Inventor Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a design lecturer, said he hoped that it would remind people how quickly they can communicate in a digital world, ‘The Times’ reported. The system also shows how indirect the route of many emails can be. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-25', 'modified' => '2014-03-02', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone.', 'sortorder' => '2526', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2635', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (17 - 23 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>India Telecoms Auction Raises $10bn </strong></span></div> <div> India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences. The amount far exceeded the government’s target of $1.8bn, and will be used to shrink its budget deficit. The government will get at least $3bn initially as companies have to pay up to a third of the winning price now, with the rest by 2026. The winners included Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Industries. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Android Extends Gains on Apple, Windows Phone is 3rd</strong></span></div> <div> The Google Android system extended its gains over Apple’s iPhoneglobally in the last quarter of 2013, and Windows Phone grabbed the number three market position, a survey showed Wednesday. The IDC survey found Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter, bolstered by a 40 percent jump in the number of handsets delivered. Apple got only a modest boost in the fourth quarter from the release of its new iPhones, with sales up 6.7 percent compared with a year earlier. That means its market shareslipped to 17.6 percent from 20.9 percent, according to IDC. The Microsoft Windows Phone platform saw a 46.7 percent year-over-year rise in sales, which pushed its market share to three percent.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Smartglasses that Help Surgeons See Cancerous Cells</strong></span></div> <div> If you think cancer removal surgery is but a one-time procedure, you’d be wrong. Doctors don’t always cut out all affected tissues in one go, but a new pair of high-tech eyewear could help make that happen. The device, developed by a Washington University research team led by Samuel Achilefu, can make cancer cells perfectly visible to surgeons as they operate. It’s loaded with custom software that makes cancerous cells glow blue (due to a molecular imaging agent that gives it color) to anyone wearing the headset. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Website Lets You Video Chat with Avatars of Dead People</strong></span></div> <div> A new website createsvirtual avatars of the dead so that their loved ones can video chat with them after they are gone. The website ‘Eterni.me’ is a startup by engineers, designers and business people, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT)’s Entrepreneurship Development Program. The team claims to have developed a means by which a person can be digitally reconstructed after their death. The service needs to be provided with a person’s chat logs, social-network information, photos, and e-mails, and it uses this information to reconstruct a person’s memories and mannerisms, ‘CNET’ reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>‘Business Microscope’ to Track Employees’ Every Move at Workplace</strong></span></div> <div> A Japanese company has developed a device that can track everything you do in the workplace — from how long you have been sitting idle to how often you visit the lavatory. Hitachi, the electronics maker, has created the device, called ‘Business Microscope’, which looks like a badge or ID card and contains chips and sensors to record an employee’s behaviour. It detects to whom you have spoken, how often, where and how energetically. The gadget also reads your colleagues’ badges and judges the distance between people talking, The Times reported. It tells bosses how often an employee leaves their seat, how far they walk and where they go. It would also be able to judge how often a person speaks in a meeting and report on how much they contribute to group sessions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-19', 'modified' => '2014-02-20', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences.', 'sortorder' => '2478', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2579', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (7 - 16 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>YouTube Starts Auditing Video Views</strong></span></div> <div> The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Wearable Device Turns Your Palm Into Touch Screen</strong></span></div> <div> A new gesture-based wearable transmitter that turns your palm into a touch interface has been developed by an Indian IT-start up. The ring-shaped transmitter called Fin is worn on the thumb and uses Bluetooth to communicate with different devices. The portable device enables users to control up to three devices such as smartphones, car radios and smart TVs using only swipes and taps, ‘Mashable’ reported. Until now, the device has five pre-programmed gestures. However, users will be able to create customised programmes on an app that will come with the device, in its final iteration. The device can control the volume on a TV, and even lets users text or dial a number without touching their phone. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook’s New App ‘Paper’ Aims to Provide Personalized News</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook stepped more directly onto the news media’s turf, rolling out a new iPhone app called Paper that enlists a handful of human editors to supplement its computers in recommending articles and blog posts on a dozen topics, including top news, food, parenting, the environment and gay rights. The app, which made its debut to rave reviews from tech news sites, offers users an easy way to browse their news feeds. But it also presents them with a series of minimagazines, each with a distinct tone and articles chosen by unidentified curators the company says have extensive expertise in their fields.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Samsung to Unveil Latest Galaxy S Smartphone in Late February</strong></span></div> <div> Samsung Electronics Co will unveil a new version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone this month, but expectations are low that features such as a bigger screen will lead to a sharp jump in sales given intensifying competition. Samsung sent out invitations on Tuesday for “Samsung unPacked 5” event on Feb. 24 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The S5 is widely expected to feature a bigger screen, an improved rear camera and biometric functions such as iris recognition or a fingerprint scanner. It may also come with an improved Galaxy Gear smartwatch.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-10', 'modified' => '2014-02-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.', 'sortorder' => '2423', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2538', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (27 January - 02 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Atomic Clock is World’s Most Accurate</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Atomic Clock" src="/userfiles/images/bt4%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;width: 100px; height: 115px;" />Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth. The ‘strontium lattice clock’ is 50 per cent more accurate than the previous record holder, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quantum logic clock. A research group led by a NIST physicist unveiled the experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability - key metrics for the performance of a clock. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Track Your Lost Wallet!</strong></span></div> <div> A new smartphone app that tracks the location of your lost wallet using a chip has been developed in the US. The makers claim that SmartWallit chip is a revolutionary device that prevents people from leaving their wallet behind or losing it. The device connects with your smartphone through bluetooth and works with an app which records the time and place the wallet was lost. In case the wallet goes out of range of the app, a warning message will flash on your smartphone screen, displaying the last location where the wallet was used.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Photo-Snapping Drone that Fits in Your Pocket</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Photo-Snapping Drone" src="/userfiles/images/bt5%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 87px;" />A flying multicopter that is powerful enough to carry a high quality action camera and folds easily in your pocket has been designed in the US. The Pocket Drone is equipped with an action camera for capturing aerial photos and video and a rechargeable battery allowing for flights of up to 20 minutes. The device which only weighs around 450 grams, folds up to the size of a small tablet. The creators claim that the drone is designed for easy use. It can be unpacked and launched within 20 seconds, and is controlled by an included remote or from any Android phone or tablet with a USB port, ‘Mashable’ reported. The Pocket Drone can be purchased for $445 without a controller or $495 for the full package.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Massive Data Theft Hits 40% of South Koreans</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Data Theft" src="/userfiles/images/bt6%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />The personal data of 20 million South Koreans -- or 40% of the country’s population -- has been stolen, sparking outrage as worried consumers scramble to replace compromised credit cards. Customer details appear to have been swiped by a worker at the Korea Credit Bureau, a company that offers risk management and fraud detection services. Clients of three Korean companies -- KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and Nonghyup Bank -- were hardest hit by the data theft. Crucial personal data like identification numbers, addresses and credit card numbers were all stolen.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Anti-Spying Blackphone Coming Soon </strong></span></div> <div> It’s a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It’s also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress friends and colleagues, according to its makers. The Blackphone is set to be released next month by the secure communications firm Silent Circle and the small Spanish-based manufacturer Geeksphone. Silent Circle developed a modified or “forked” version of Android called PrivatOS for the phone, which is set to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. The company declined to release detailed specifications or pricing ahead of the unveiling, but Janke said it will be sold around the world at prices lower than the iPhone 5S or Samsung Galaxy S4.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-27', 'modified' => '2014-01-27', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth', 'sortorder' => '2381', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2487', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (20 - 26 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Unveils ‘Smart Contact Lens’ </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 64px;" />Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Tiny Lenses That’ll Turn Your Phone into a Pro-Level Shooter</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB1%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 88px;" />Moment, a newly formed company is launching a Kickstarter funding to bring a telephoto and wide-angle lens to the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy lines. The lenses use a thin piece of metal (it’s less than half a millimeter) that adheres to the back of your phone. That plate acts as a mount for the lenses. The wide-angle (roughly equivalent to 18mm) and telephoto lens (roughly equivalent to 60mm) attach via a bayonet mount. According to Moment, the optics are fabricated using the same high-precision equipment and factory used for 4K cameras. The end result, according to Moment, is no distortion at the edges of images and minimal chromatic aberration in a tiny, pocketable package.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>US Intelligence Installs Spy Software on Thousands of Computers</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />The US intelligence agency has covertly installed software on nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing it to spy on them, and recruit them for possible cyber attacks, a news report said lastTuesday. Most were installed by the National Security Agency via network connections, but the agency has devised a way of reaching unconnected computers by means of radio waves, the New York Times reported, citing NSA documents, computer experts and officials. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Global PC Shipments Suffered Worst Decline in 2013</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Marking one of the worst years for the global PC industry, shipments fell by 10 per cent last year as hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets grabbed consumers’ attention, research firms Gartner and IDC said. PCs — which include desktops, notebooks and laptops — shipment levels in 2013 were similar to that achieved in 2009. According to Gartner’s preliminary data, worldwide PC shipments declined by 10 per cent to 315.96 million units in 2013 from 351.05 million units in 2012. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Apps Tries to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 82px;" />Keeping New Year’s resolutions can be difficult but new apps aim to help people get organized, track progress and stay focused to reach their goals. People aiming to improve their health can turn to fitness trackers such as MotionX-24/7 for the iPhone. The app tracks metrics such as steps taken, calories burned, sleep quality and duration and heart rate. Users can set daily activity and sleep goals and receive reminders to get active if they are idle for too long. Other activity tracker apps include Argus, free for the iPhone, and Moves, which sells for 99 cents and is available on iPhone and Android. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-21', 'modified' => '2014-01-21', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use.', 'sortorder' => '2329', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2389', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (30 December 2013 - 5 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Launches New Safety App for Windows Phone Users</strong></span></div> <div> Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release. Guardian users can call for help through an 'SOS' alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of crisis, it added. It took more than six months for a team of Microsoft employees in India to develop the safety app in the Microsoft Garage, the company said. Microsoft Garage is a global employee innovation initiative that gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>AMD Unveils Graphics Processor for Apple’s Mac Pro</strong></span></div> <div> Chipmaker AMD announced a dual AMD FirePro professional graphics solutions (GPUs) to boost the performance levels of the Apple's Mac Pro workstation. AMD’s FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release. These new AMD FirePro GPUs are built on the strength of AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next GPU design — an architecture conceived from the ground up to intelligently managing rendering and compute workloads. The dual AMD FirePro GPU options for Mac Pro feature up to 6GB of VRAM and up to 2048 stream processors per GPU, matched with top configurations capable of up to 7 teraflops of computing power.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-01', 'modified' => '2014-01-01', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release.', 'sortorder' => '2231', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2351', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (23 - 29 December 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Car Made of Lego Bricks that Runs on Air</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 107px;" />An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. From engine to seats, the vehicle is made completely from the tiny bricks, with the exception of a few structural parts including wheels, tires and gauges. The car is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneur Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida, a 20-year-old from Romania who Steve met on the internet. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Gen-next Video Games to See Through Walls</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb1%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Imagine playing a video game while moving freely throughout your house! A revolutionary new technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and obstructions could change the way video games are played, scientists say. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the new high-resolution, 3D motion tracking system dubbed “WiTrack,” which can pinpoint a person’s 3-D location to within 10 to 20 centimetres - about the width of an adult hand. Earlier this year, Katabi and her graduate student Fadel Adib unveiled WiVi, a system that detects humans through walls and can track the direction of their movement using WiFi signals. Based on this earlier work, Katabi and Adib developed WiTrack in collaboration with Rob Miller, a professor of computer science and engineering, and graduate student Zach Kabelac. In comparison to WiVi, WiTrack has significantly higher accuracy and can track both two-dimensional and three-dimensional movement using specialised radio waves, as opposed to WiFi signals. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Glass Eyewear Lets Winking Snap Pictures</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb2%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Google Glass on Tuesday announced updates to the software in its Internet-linked eyewear to allow users to snap pictures by winking. The new feature, which promises to escalate privacy concerns already being voiced about the high-tech gadget, came as one of an array of improvements. Notions put forth included Glass wearers someday paying for cab rides by winking at meters or buying something in a shop with a blink. Updates included letting owners lock eyewear so it can’t be used unless a person knows the right “handshake” of swipes and taps. The “Glassware” code powering the eyewear was also modified to upload video directly to Google-owned video-sharing venue YouTube. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Apps Predict, Provide Information about What Users Want</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb3%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 110px;" />New apps that listen to conversations or scan emails and calendars can predict and provide information such as websites, videos and maps to users before they ask for them or realize they want them. MindMeld for the iPad is a voice conferencing assistant that understands conversations, and depending on what people are talking about, will find a map of a city and tourist information if the chat is about a trip, or restaurants if it is about eating out. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Launches Video Ads</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 134px;" />Facebook is rolling out a feature Tuesday that will allow advertisers to play videos in users’ news feeds. The feature offers companies a new way to promote movies and products on smartphones and computers, and is being tested with a small group of Facebook users.”Rather than having to click or tap to play, videos will begin to play as they appear onscreen -- without sound,” Facebook said in a statement. When users tap the videos, the sound will turn on and the video will play in full-screen mode.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-24', 'modified' => '2013-12-24', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. From engine to seats, the vehicle is made completely from the tiny bricks, with the exception of a few structural parts including wheels, tires and gauges.', 'sortorder' => '2193', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2219', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (2 - 8 December 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Smartphone App to Give Earthquake Warning</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartphone App" src="/userfiles/images/gf1%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;width: 100px; height: 99px;" />A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro. Researchers from the University of California showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch New Smartphone</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Nokia" src="/userfiles/images/gf2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 86px;" />Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset. The Jolla smartphone is based on the former world No. 1 mobile phone maker’s old software and is faintly reminiscent of its recent models. The Jolla handset’s Sailfish platform has been developed from the MeeGo operating software, Nokia’s last open-source platform which it abandoned in 2011 when it switched over to using Microsoft’s Windows system. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Sony Files Patent for ‘SmartWig’</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartwig" src="/userfiles/images/gf3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 60px;" />Sony has filed a patent application for “SmartWig”, as firms jostle for the lead in the wearable technology sector. It says the SmartWig can be worn “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and communicate wirelessly with other external devices. According to the filing, the SmartWig can help navigate roads and collect information such as blood pressure. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-03', 'modified' => '2013-12-03', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro.', 'sortorder' => '2063', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2132', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs ( 11 - 17 November 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Celebrates Rorschach's Birthday </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/google(2).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 84px; width: 150px;" />Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while a pair of hand holds a piece of paper with the inkblot. Users are asked to share their interpretation of the inkblot onsocial media platforms such as Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter. Born in in Zurich, Switzerland, Rorschach loved of klecksography – the art of turning inkblots into known images. This later shaped his career as a psychiatrist. After years of conducting various tests, he wrote Psychodiagnostik – a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis – in 1921. Rorschach died when he was 37, suffering from a ruptured appendix.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Nissan to Unveil Electric Sports Car </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/nissaqn.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 86px; width: 150px;" />Nissan said Friday it would unveil a sporty concept electric vehicle at the Tokyo Motor Show as Japan's number-two automaker presses on with its bid to tap the burgeoning green-car market. The company, which has been selling its Leaf electric vehicle since late 2010, said it hoped its Nissan BladeGlider would help it reach a market of male drivers who still want performance and styling in an environmentally friendly car - a major hurdle to widespread commercial sales. The car, to be unveiled at the biennial Tokyo exhibition later this month, features an aerodynamic design that widens from the front to back with space for a driver in the middle and two passengers in the rear. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Makes IE 11 browser Work for Windows 7</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/ie11.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 113px; width: 150px;" />Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that it has made its latest browser,Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.The new browser had already been part of the Windows 8.1 upgrade the company released last month.The browser, available as a free download, improves the performance of websites that use JavaScript. Microsoft says the browser is 9 percent faster than Internet Explorer 10. It also enables better 3-D graphics rendering in websites, allowing users to manipulate 3-D objects on-screen.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Call of Duty: Ghosts Ships $1bn on Opening Day</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/cod.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 85px; width: 150px;" />Sales of the latest Call of Duty video game surpassed $1 billion during its first day in stores, video game-maker Activision Blizzard said Wednedsay, reaching that mark in record time. Call of Duty: Ghosts, the military-themed shooter video game released on Tuesday, is the 10th installment in the decade-old franchise. Last year, Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, reached the $1 billion mark in global sales after 15 days. In September, Activision rival Take-Two Interactive Software said Grand Theft Auto V set a record by reaching the $1 billion mark after just three days in stores.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-11-12', 'modified' => '2013-11-12', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. 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The survey released Wednesday found that in addition to the 15 per cent of adults who don't use the Internet on any device, another nine per cent say they only go online at their workplace. The report by the Pew Research Center found a whopping 92 per cent of these "offline adults" with no interest in using the Internet or email in the near future. <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech2.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Tweets Reveal Global News Readership Patterns: Study</strong><br /> <br /> Different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles - Americans and Brits are drawn to opinion and world news, while Brazilians go for sports, a twitter analysis has found. Researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles. While Americans and British readers like opinion and world news, Spaniards prefer local and national news, Brazilians are drawn to sports and arts, and Germans go for politics and economy. The researchers also found that German and Spanish readers are more likely to read national newspapers compared to British readers, who prefer foreign publications.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech3.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 93px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>BlackBerry Reports $1bn Quarterly Loss</strong></p> <p> BlackBerry reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with last week’s warning, days after accepting its largest shareholder’s tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it out of the public eye. BlackBerry, which had warned of poor results on September 20th, said its net loss for the second quarter ended on August 31st was $965 million, or $1.84 a share. Revenue fell 45 per cent to $1.6 billion from a year earlier. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech4.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Study Puts iPhone 5S Production Costs at $191</strong><br /> <br /> While the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the actual cost to make the phone hasn't changed very much, according to a new study. An IHS Inc. teardown of the new smartphone found that the components that make up a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5S cost $190.70. Manufacturing costs add another $8, bringing the total production cost to $198.70. In comparison, the iPhone 5, which hit the market a year ago, cost $197 to make.</p> <p> <br /> <strong><img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech5.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 99px;" /><br /> <br /> Samsung to Launch Smartphone with Curved Display</strong></p> <p> Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, as the world's top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business. Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs, eventually allowing mobile and wearable gadgets to take on new forms that could radically change the high-end smartphone market.<br /> <br /> </p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-10-01', 'modified' => '2013-10-01', 'keywords' => 'Brands & Technology cover story news & articles, Brands & Technology news & articles from Brands & Technology, Brands & Technology headlines from nepal, Brands & Technology current and latest Brands & Technology news from nepal, Brands & Technology economic news from nepal, nepali Brands & Technolo', 'description' => 'Despite a seemingly unstoppable move to digital lifestyles, some 15 per cent of Americans don't use the Internet, and most are quite content to remain offline, a survey shows.', 'sortorder' => '1774', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Promises Fix for Battery Bug on Nexus 5</strong></span></div> <div> Facing unexplained battery drain on Nexus 5? You are not alone. Many Nexus 5 users have complained on Googles upport forums that they are facing unexplained battery drain when they use apps related to camera. A Google executive confirmed the bug. The executive said that it was related to the Qualcomm chip which is used for camera functions in the phone. He promised the company will fix it with the next software update. (The Economic Times)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Tool to Prevent Smartphone Malware</strong></span></div> <div> Researchers have developed a new tool to detect and contain malware that attempts root exploits in Android devices to give hackers unfettered control of a user’s smartphone. The tool named Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC) developed by North Carolina State University researchers improves on previous techniques by targeting code written in the C programming language - which is often used to create root exploit malware, whereas the bulk of Android applications are written in Java. (Agency)</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-10', 'modified' => '2014-03-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists are developing gen-next smartphones that can be quickly transformed into the shape of an armband, a phone or a tablet to suit your needs. Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)', 'sortorder' => '2595', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2722', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (3 - 9 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Japan Researchers Testing Tiny Ear Computer</strong></span></div> <div> A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone. The device, known at the moment as the “Earclip-type Wearable PC” has a microchip and data storage, enabling users to load software, said engineer Kazuhiro Taniguchi ofHiroshima City University. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New software Helps Improve Your Web Search</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="AIDA" src="/userfiles/images/b1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Researchers have developed a new software that makes your web search easier by resolving the ambiguity of names within texts automatically. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany have developed a software that enables accurate disambiguation of named entities by analysing them with the help of Wikipedia. Their software, named AIDA, establishes connections between the mentions in the text and potential persons or places. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Free Wi-Fi from Space</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Free Wi-Fi from Space" src="/userfiles/images/b2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />A US company is planning to build an ‘Outernet’ — a global network of cube satellites broadcasting internet data to all the people on the planet — for free. The idea is to offer free internet access to all people, regardless of location, bypassing filtering or other means of censorship, according to the New York based non-profit organization, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). MDIF proposes that hundreds of cube satellites be built and launched to create a constellation of sorts in the sky, allowing anyone with a phone or computer to access Internet data sent to the satellites by several hundred ground stations.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid!</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid" src="/userfiles/images/b3.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />A tiny new hearing aid that is controlled by a smartphone app has been developed, eliminating the need for wearers to carry a pendant-like device. Hearing aid wearers need to carry a cumbersome pendant or other wireless device to change settings on their hearing aid, but the new app allows users to make those changes directly on the smartphone. The ReSound LiNX hearing aids can also be used to stream music, listen to GPS directions and talk on the phone through Bluetooth. There is also a ‘Find My Hearing Aid’ feature that helps the user locate their device if it has been misplaced. The batteries on the hearing aid will last about five days, a local newspaper reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Give You ‘Superhero’ Vision</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt=" ‘Superhero’ Vision" src="/userfiles/images/b4.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 67px;" />Suffering from bad eyesight? This app could give you ‘superhero’ vision! US Scientists have developed a revolutionary new app that can improve users’ eyesight by sharpening their vision and boosting ability to see in dim light. The new UltimEye app improves the users’ vision by training their brain to process patterns better. UltimEye asks users to complete tasks such as clicking on hard-to-see targets and can help them perform everyday work, ‘Mashable’ reported. The app is designed to help rewire the brain to process the information it receives from the eyes while keeping the user engaged with positive reinforcement such as a point system. California-based Carrot Neurotechnology, a company that creates tools that can improve vision, developed the app. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Wolf of Wall Street Most ‘Googled’ Movie Among Oscar Nominees</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Wolf of Wall Street" src="/userfiles/images/b5.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, directed by noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese, has topped search trends on Google among the films nominated for this year’s Oscar awards to be announced next month. Golden Globe winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who played male lead in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, was the most searched actor among filmstars nominated for the Best Actor category in the 86th Academy Awards. Among the Best Movie category, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ topped the search trends followed by ‘American Hustle’, ‘Gravity’, ‘12 Year a Slave and Captain Philips’. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-03', 'modified' => '2014-03-09', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan.', 'sortorder' => '2566', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2683', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (24 February - 2 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Self-charging Personal Electronics</strong></span></div> <div> Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone. Xudong Wang, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researcher Yanchao Mao and collaborators from Sun Yat-sen University in China, and the University of Minnesota Duluth developed the device, a mesoporous piezoelectric nanogenerator that takes advantage of a common piezoelectric polymer material called polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App may Help You Fix Abusive Boyfriend</strong></span></div> <div> Good news for victims ofdating violence or an abusive relationship! Researchers have developed a new smartphone app that warns young women of a dangerous partner by helping them examine their relationships and potential behavioural red flags. In an effort to connect more young women with safety information, researchers developed the “One Love My Plan” smartphone application, an interactive tool that helps college-age women in abusive relationships clarify their priorities and customise personal safety plans. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19bn</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn in cash and shares. It is the social networking giant’s biggest acquisition to date.WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges. In a statement announcing the deal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp’s services as “incredibly valuable”. WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>World’s Most Powerful Terahertz Laser Chip Developed</strong></span></div> <div> British researchers have built the world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip, an advance that may enable improved security scanning and medical imaging. Researchers from the University of Leeds claimed to have exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser. The new record more than doubles landmarks set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently by a team from Vienna last year. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New System Tells How Far Your Email has Travelled</strong></span></div> <div> A new system that uses GPS technology to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled before reaching an inbox has been developed. The system known as Email Miles, uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and internet tracking to determine where a message was sent and where it was received. It then calculates the total distance between the two and displays it on the screen alongside a map. Inventor Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a design lecturer, said he hoped that it would remind people how quickly they can communicate in a digital world, ‘The Times’ reported. The system also shows how indirect the route of many emails can be. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-25', 'modified' => '2014-03-02', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone.', 'sortorder' => '2526', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2635', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (17 - 23 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>India Telecoms Auction Raises $10bn </strong></span></div> <div> India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences. The amount far exceeded the government’s target of $1.8bn, and will be used to shrink its budget deficit. The government will get at least $3bn initially as companies have to pay up to a third of the winning price now, with the rest by 2026. The winners included Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Industries. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Android Extends Gains on Apple, Windows Phone is 3rd</strong></span></div> <div> The Google Android system extended its gains over Apple’s iPhoneglobally in the last quarter of 2013, and Windows Phone grabbed the number three market position, a survey showed Wednesday. The IDC survey found Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter, bolstered by a 40 percent jump in the number of handsets delivered. Apple got only a modest boost in the fourth quarter from the release of its new iPhones, with sales up 6.7 percent compared with a year earlier. That means its market shareslipped to 17.6 percent from 20.9 percent, according to IDC. The Microsoft Windows Phone platform saw a 46.7 percent year-over-year rise in sales, which pushed its market share to three percent.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Smartglasses that Help Surgeons See Cancerous Cells</strong></span></div> <div> If you think cancer removal surgery is but a one-time procedure, you’d be wrong. Doctors don’t always cut out all affected tissues in one go, but a new pair of high-tech eyewear could help make that happen. The device, developed by a Washington University research team led by Samuel Achilefu, can make cancer cells perfectly visible to surgeons as they operate. It’s loaded with custom software that makes cancerous cells glow blue (due to a molecular imaging agent that gives it color) to anyone wearing the headset. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Website Lets You Video Chat with Avatars of Dead People</strong></span></div> <div> A new website createsvirtual avatars of the dead so that their loved ones can video chat with them after they are gone. The website ‘Eterni.me’ is a startup by engineers, designers and business people, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT)’s Entrepreneurship Development Program. The team claims to have developed a means by which a person can be digitally reconstructed after their death. The service needs to be provided with a person’s chat logs, social-network information, photos, and e-mails, and it uses this information to reconstruct a person’s memories and mannerisms, ‘CNET’ reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>‘Business Microscope’ to Track Employees’ Every Move at Workplace</strong></span></div> <div> A Japanese company has developed a device that can track everything you do in the workplace — from how long you have been sitting idle to how often you visit the lavatory. Hitachi, the electronics maker, has created the device, called ‘Business Microscope’, which looks like a badge or ID card and contains chips and sensors to record an employee’s behaviour. It detects to whom you have spoken, how often, where and how energetically. The gadget also reads your colleagues’ badges and judges the distance between people talking, The Times reported. It tells bosses how often an employee leaves their seat, how far they walk and where they go. It would also be able to judge how often a person speaks in a meeting and report on how much they contribute to group sessions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-19', 'modified' => '2014-02-20', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences.', 'sortorder' => '2478', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2579', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (7 - 16 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>YouTube Starts Auditing Video Views</strong></span></div> <div> The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Wearable Device Turns Your Palm Into Touch Screen</strong></span></div> <div> A new gesture-based wearable transmitter that turns your palm into a touch interface has been developed by an Indian IT-start up. The ring-shaped transmitter called Fin is worn on the thumb and uses Bluetooth to communicate with different devices. The portable device enables users to control up to three devices such as smartphones, car radios and smart TVs using only swipes and taps, ‘Mashable’ reported. Until now, the device has five pre-programmed gestures. However, users will be able to create customised programmes on an app that will come with the device, in its final iteration. The device can control the volume on a TV, and even lets users text or dial a number without touching their phone. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook’s New App ‘Paper’ Aims to Provide Personalized News</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook stepped more directly onto the news media’s turf, rolling out a new iPhone app called Paper that enlists a handful of human editors to supplement its computers in recommending articles and blog posts on a dozen topics, including top news, food, parenting, the environment and gay rights. The app, which made its debut to rave reviews from tech news sites, offers users an easy way to browse their news feeds. But it also presents them with a series of minimagazines, each with a distinct tone and articles chosen by unidentified curators the company says have extensive expertise in their fields.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Samsung to Unveil Latest Galaxy S Smartphone in Late February</strong></span></div> <div> Samsung Electronics Co will unveil a new version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone this month, but expectations are low that features such as a bigger screen will lead to a sharp jump in sales given intensifying competition. Samsung sent out invitations on Tuesday for “Samsung unPacked 5” event on Feb. 24 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The S5 is widely expected to feature a bigger screen, an improved rear camera and biometric functions such as iris recognition or a fingerprint scanner. It may also come with an improved Galaxy Gear smartwatch.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-10', 'modified' => '2014-02-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.', 'sortorder' => '2423', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2538', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (27 January - 02 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Atomic Clock is World’s Most Accurate</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Atomic Clock" src="/userfiles/images/bt4%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;width: 100px; height: 115px;" />Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth. The ‘strontium lattice clock’ is 50 per cent more accurate than the previous record holder, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quantum logic clock. A research group led by a NIST physicist unveiled the experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability - key metrics for the performance of a clock. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Track Your Lost Wallet!</strong></span></div> <div> A new smartphone app that tracks the location of your lost wallet using a chip has been developed in the US. The makers claim that SmartWallit chip is a revolutionary device that prevents people from leaving their wallet behind or losing it. The device connects with your smartphone through bluetooth and works with an app which records the time and place the wallet was lost. In case the wallet goes out of range of the app, a warning message will flash on your smartphone screen, displaying the last location where the wallet was used.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Photo-Snapping Drone that Fits in Your Pocket</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Photo-Snapping Drone" src="/userfiles/images/bt5%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 87px;" />A flying multicopter that is powerful enough to carry a high quality action camera and folds easily in your pocket has been designed in the US. The Pocket Drone is equipped with an action camera for capturing aerial photos and video and a rechargeable battery allowing for flights of up to 20 minutes. The device which only weighs around 450 grams, folds up to the size of a small tablet. The creators claim that the drone is designed for easy use. It can be unpacked and launched within 20 seconds, and is controlled by an included remote or from any Android phone or tablet with a USB port, ‘Mashable’ reported. The Pocket Drone can be purchased for $445 without a controller or $495 for the full package.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Massive Data Theft Hits 40% of South Koreans</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Data Theft" src="/userfiles/images/bt6%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />The personal data of 20 million South Koreans -- or 40% of the country’s population -- has been stolen, sparking outrage as worried consumers scramble to replace compromised credit cards. Customer details appear to have been swiped by a worker at the Korea Credit Bureau, a company that offers risk management and fraud detection services. Clients of three Korean companies -- KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and Nonghyup Bank -- were hardest hit by the data theft. Crucial personal data like identification numbers, addresses and credit card numbers were all stolen.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Anti-Spying Blackphone Coming Soon </strong></span></div> <div> It’s a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It’s also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress friends and colleagues, according to its makers. The Blackphone is set to be released next month by the secure communications firm Silent Circle and the small Spanish-based manufacturer Geeksphone. Silent Circle developed a modified or “forked” version of Android called PrivatOS for the phone, which is set to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. The company declined to release detailed specifications or pricing ahead of the unveiling, but Janke said it will be sold around the world at prices lower than the iPhone 5S or Samsung Galaxy S4.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-27', 'modified' => '2014-01-27', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth', 'sortorder' => '2381', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2487', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (20 - 26 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Unveils ‘Smart Contact Lens’ </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 64px;" />Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Tiny Lenses That’ll Turn Your Phone into a Pro-Level Shooter</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB1%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 88px;" />Moment, a newly formed company is launching a Kickstarter funding to bring a telephoto and wide-angle lens to the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy lines. The lenses use a thin piece of metal (it’s less than half a millimeter) that adheres to the back of your phone. That plate acts as a mount for the lenses. The wide-angle (roughly equivalent to 18mm) and telephoto lens (roughly equivalent to 60mm) attach via a bayonet mount. According to Moment, the optics are fabricated using the same high-precision equipment and factory used for 4K cameras. The end result, according to Moment, is no distortion at the edges of images and minimal chromatic aberration in a tiny, pocketable package.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>US Intelligence Installs Spy Software on Thousands of Computers</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />The US intelligence agency has covertly installed software on nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing it to spy on them, and recruit them for possible cyber attacks, a news report said lastTuesday. Most were installed by the National Security Agency via network connections, but the agency has devised a way of reaching unconnected computers by means of radio waves, the New York Times reported, citing NSA documents, computer experts and officials. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Global PC Shipments Suffered Worst Decline in 2013</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Marking one of the worst years for the global PC industry, shipments fell by 10 per cent last year as hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets grabbed consumers’ attention, research firms Gartner and IDC said. PCs — which include desktops, notebooks and laptops — shipment levels in 2013 were similar to that achieved in 2009. According to Gartner’s preliminary data, worldwide PC shipments declined by 10 per cent to 315.96 million units in 2013 from 351.05 million units in 2012. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Apps Tries to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 82px;" />Keeping New Year’s resolutions can be difficult but new apps aim to help people get organized, track progress and stay focused to reach their goals. People aiming to improve their health can turn to fitness trackers such as MotionX-24/7 for the iPhone. The app tracks metrics such as steps taken, calories burned, sleep quality and duration and heart rate. Users can set daily activity and sleep goals and receive reminders to get active if they are idle for too long. Other activity tracker apps include Argus, free for the iPhone, and Moves, which sells for 99 cents and is available on iPhone and Android. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-21', 'modified' => '2014-01-21', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use.', 'sortorder' => '2329', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2389', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (30 December 2013 - 5 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Launches New Safety App for Windows Phone Users</strong></span></div> <div> Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release. Guardian users can call for help through an 'SOS' alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of crisis, it added. It took more than six months for a team of Microsoft employees in India to develop the safety app in the Microsoft Garage, the company said. Microsoft Garage is a global employee innovation initiative that gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>AMD Unveils Graphics Processor for Apple’s Mac Pro</strong></span></div> <div> Chipmaker AMD announced a dual AMD FirePro professional graphics solutions (GPUs) to boost the performance levels of the Apple's Mac Pro workstation. AMD’s FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release. These new AMD FirePro GPUs are built on the strength of AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next GPU design — an architecture conceived from the ground up to intelligently managing rendering and compute workloads. The dual AMD FirePro GPU options for Mac Pro feature up to 6GB of VRAM and up to 2048 stream processors per GPU, matched with top configurations capable of up to 7 teraflops of computing power.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-01', 'modified' => '2014-01-01', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release.', 'sortorder' => '2231', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2351', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (23 - 29 December 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Car Made of Lego Bricks that Runs on Air</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 107px;" />An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. From engine to seats, the vehicle is made completely from the tiny bricks, with the exception of a few structural parts including wheels, tires and gauges. The car is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneur Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida, a 20-year-old from Romania who Steve met on the internet. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Gen-next Video Games to See Through Walls</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb1%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Imagine playing a video game while moving freely throughout your house! A revolutionary new technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and obstructions could change the way video games are played, scientists say. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the new high-resolution, 3D motion tracking system dubbed “WiTrack,” which can pinpoint a person’s 3-D location to within 10 to 20 centimetres - about the width of an adult hand. Earlier this year, Katabi and her graduate student Fadel Adib unveiled WiVi, a system that detects humans through walls and can track the direction of their movement using WiFi signals. Based on this earlier work, Katabi and Adib developed WiTrack in collaboration with Rob Miller, a professor of computer science and engineering, and graduate student Zach Kabelac. In comparison to WiVi, WiTrack has significantly higher accuracy and can track both two-dimensional and three-dimensional movement using specialised radio waves, as opposed to WiFi signals. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Glass Eyewear Lets Winking Snap Pictures</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb2%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Google Glass on Tuesday announced updates to the software in its Internet-linked eyewear to allow users to snap pictures by winking. The new feature, which promises to escalate privacy concerns already being voiced about the high-tech gadget, came as one of an array of improvements. Notions put forth included Glass wearers someday paying for cab rides by winking at meters or buying something in a shop with a blink. Updates included letting owners lock eyewear so it can’t be used unless a person knows the right “handshake” of swipes and taps. The “Glassware” code powering the eyewear was also modified to upload video directly to Google-owned video-sharing venue YouTube. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Apps Predict, Provide Information about What Users Want</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb3%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 110px;" />New apps that listen to conversations or scan emails and calendars can predict and provide information such as websites, videos and maps to users before they ask for them or realize they want them. MindMeld for the iPad is a voice conferencing assistant that understands conversations, and depending on what people are talking about, will find a map of a city and tourist information if the chat is about a trip, or restaurants if it is about eating out. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Launches Video Ads</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 134px;" />Facebook is rolling out a feature Tuesday that will allow advertisers to play videos in users’ news feeds. The feature offers companies a new way to promote movies and products on smartphones and computers, and is being tested with a small group of Facebook users.”Rather than having to click or tap to play, videos will begin to play as they appear onscreen -- without sound,” Facebook said in a statement. When users tap the videos, the sound will turn on and the video will play in full-screen mode.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-24', 'modified' => '2013-12-24', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. 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Researchers from the University of California showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch New Smartphone</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Nokia" src="/userfiles/images/gf2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 86px;" />Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset. The Jolla smartphone is based on the former world No. 1 mobile phone maker’s old software and is faintly reminiscent of its recent models. The Jolla handset’s Sailfish platform has been developed from the MeeGo operating software, Nokia’s last open-source platform which it abandoned in 2011 when it switched over to using Microsoft’s Windows system. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Sony Files Patent for ‘SmartWig’</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartwig" src="/userfiles/images/gf3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 60px;" />Sony has filed a patent application for “SmartWig”, as firms jostle for the lead in the wearable technology sector. It says the SmartWig can be worn “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and communicate wirelessly with other external devices. According to the filing, the SmartWig can help navigate roads and collect information such as blood pressure. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-03', 'modified' => '2013-12-03', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro.', 'sortorder' => '2063', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2132', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs ( 11 - 17 November 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Celebrates Rorschach's Birthday </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/google(2).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 84px; width: 150px;" />Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while a pair of hand holds a piece of paper with the inkblot. Users are asked to share their interpretation of the inkblot onsocial media platforms such as Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter. Born in in Zurich, Switzerland, Rorschach loved of klecksography – the art of turning inkblots into known images. This later shaped his career as a psychiatrist. After years of conducting various tests, he wrote Psychodiagnostik – a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis – in 1921. Rorschach died when he was 37, suffering from a ruptured appendix.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Nissan to Unveil Electric Sports Car </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/nissaqn.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 86px; width: 150px;" />Nissan said Friday it would unveil a sporty concept electric vehicle at the Tokyo Motor Show as Japan's number-two automaker presses on with its bid to tap the burgeoning green-car market. The company, which has been selling its Leaf electric vehicle since late 2010, said it hoped its Nissan BladeGlider would help it reach a market of male drivers who still want performance and styling in an environmentally friendly car - a major hurdle to widespread commercial sales. The car, to be unveiled at the biennial Tokyo exhibition later this month, features an aerodynamic design that widens from the front to back with space for a driver in the middle and two passengers in the rear. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Makes IE 11 browser Work for Windows 7</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/ie11.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 113px; width: 150px;" />Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that it has made its latest browser,Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.The new browser had already been part of the Windows 8.1 upgrade the company released last month.The browser, available as a free download, improves the performance of websites that use JavaScript. Microsoft says the browser is 9 percent faster than Internet Explorer 10. It also enables better 3-D graphics rendering in websites, allowing users to manipulate 3-D objects on-screen.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Call of Duty: Ghosts Ships $1bn on Opening Day</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/cod.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 85px; width: 150px;" />Sales of the latest Call of Duty video game surpassed $1 billion during its first day in stores, video game-maker Activision Blizzard said Wednedsay, reaching that mark in record time. Call of Duty: Ghosts, the military-themed shooter video game released on Tuesday, is the 10th installment in the decade-old franchise. Last year, Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, reached the $1 billion mark in global sales after 15 days. In September, Activision rival Take-Two Interactive Software said Grand Theft Auto V set a record by reaching the $1 billion mark after just three days in stores.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-11-12', 'modified' => '2013-11-12', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. 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The survey released Wednesday found that in addition to the 15 per cent of adults who don't use the Internet on any device, another nine per cent say they only go online at their workplace. The report by the Pew Research Center found a whopping 92 per cent of these "offline adults" with no interest in using the Internet or email in the near future. <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech2.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Tweets Reveal Global News Readership Patterns: Study</strong><br /> <br /> Different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles - Americans and Brits are drawn to opinion and world news, while Brazilians go for sports, a twitter analysis has found. Researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles. While Americans and British readers like opinion and world news, Spaniards prefer local and national news, Brazilians are drawn to sports and arts, and Germans go for politics and economy. The researchers also found that German and Spanish readers are more likely to read national newspapers compared to British readers, who prefer foreign publications.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech3.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 93px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>BlackBerry Reports $1bn Quarterly Loss</strong></p> <p> BlackBerry reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with last week’s warning, days after accepting its largest shareholder’s tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it out of the public eye. BlackBerry, which had warned of poor results on September 20th, said its net loss for the second quarter ended on August 31st was $965 million, or $1.84 a share. Revenue fell 45 per cent to $1.6 billion from a year earlier. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech4.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Study Puts iPhone 5S Production Costs at $191</strong><br /> <br /> While the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the actual cost to make the phone hasn't changed very much, according to a new study. An IHS Inc. teardown of the new smartphone found that the components that make up a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5S cost $190.70. Manufacturing costs add another $8, bringing the total production cost to $198.70. In comparison, the iPhone 5, which hit the market a year ago, cost $197 to make.</p> <p> <br /> <strong><img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech5.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 99px;" /><br /> <br /> Samsung to Launch Smartphone with Curved Display</strong></p> <p> Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, as the world's top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business. 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Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Promises Fix for Battery Bug on Nexus 5</strong></span></div> <div> Facing unexplained battery drain on Nexus 5? You are not alone. Many Nexus 5 users have complained on Googles upport forums that they are facing unexplained battery drain when they use apps related to camera. A Google executive confirmed the bug. The executive said that it was related to the Qualcomm chip which is used for camera functions in the phone. He promised the company will fix it with the next software update. (The Economic Times)</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Tool to Prevent Smartphone Malware</strong></span></div> <div> Researchers have developed a new tool to detect and contain malware that attempts root exploits in Android devices to give hackers unfettered control of a user’s smartphone. The tool named Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC) developed by North Carolina State University researchers improves on previous techniques by targeting code written in the C programming language - which is often used to create root exploit malware, whereas the bulk of Android applications are written in Java. (Agency)</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-10', 'modified' => '2014-03-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists are developing gen-next smartphones that can be quickly transformed into the shape of an armband, a phone or a tablet to suit your needs. Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have developed a prototype phone called the ‘Paddle’, a single gadget that can be deformed physically into different shapes. The phone is inspired by Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a device that consists eight square tiles that can be flipped and unfolded to form a variety of shapes. (Agency)', 'sortorder' => '2595', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2722', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (3 - 9 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Japan Researchers Testing Tiny Ear Computer</strong></span></div> <div> A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone. The device, known at the moment as the “Earclip-type Wearable PC” has a microchip and data storage, enabling users to load software, said engineer Kazuhiro Taniguchi ofHiroshima City University. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New software Helps Improve Your Web Search</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="AIDA" src="/userfiles/images/b1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Researchers have developed a new software that makes your web search easier by resolving the ambiguity of names within texts automatically. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany have developed a software that enables accurate disambiguation of named entities by analysing them with the help of Wikipedia. Their software, named AIDA, establishes connections between the mentions in the text and potential persons or places. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Free Wi-Fi from Space</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Free Wi-Fi from Space" src="/userfiles/images/b2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />A US company is planning to build an ‘Outernet’ — a global network of cube satellites broadcasting internet data to all the people on the planet — for free. The idea is to offer free internet access to all people, regardless of location, bypassing filtering or other means of censorship, according to the New York based non-profit organization, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). MDIF proposes that hundreds of cube satellites be built and launched to create a constellation of sorts in the sky, allowing anyone with a phone or computer to access Internet data sent to the satellites by several hundred ground stations.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid!</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartphone-Controlled Hearing Aid" src="/userfiles/images/b3.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />A tiny new hearing aid that is controlled by a smartphone app has been developed, eliminating the need for wearers to carry a pendant-like device. Hearing aid wearers need to carry a cumbersome pendant or other wireless device to change settings on their hearing aid, but the new app allows users to make those changes directly on the smartphone. The ReSound LiNX hearing aids can also be used to stream music, listen to GPS directions and talk on the phone through Bluetooth. There is also a ‘Find My Hearing Aid’ feature that helps the user locate their device if it has been misplaced. The batteries on the hearing aid will last about five days, a local newspaper reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Give You ‘Superhero’ Vision</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt=" ‘Superhero’ Vision" src="/userfiles/images/b4.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 67px;" />Suffering from bad eyesight? This app could give you ‘superhero’ vision! US Scientists have developed a revolutionary new app that can improve users’ eyesight by sharpening their vision and boosting ability to see in dim light. The new UltimEye app improves the users’ vision by training their brain to process patterns better. UltimEye asks users to complete tasks such as clicking on hard-to-see targets and can help them perform everyday work, ‘Mashable’ reported. The app is designed to help rewire the brain to process the information it receives from the eyes while keeping the user engaged with positive reinforcement such as a point system. California-based Carrot Neurotechnology, a company that creates tools that can improve vision, developed the app. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Wolf of Wall Street Most ‘Googled’ Movie Among Oscar Nominees</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Wolf of Wall Street" src="/userfiles/images/b5.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 100px;" />‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, directed by noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese, has topped search trends on Google among the films nominated for this year’s Oscar awards to be announced next month. Golden Globe winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who played male lead in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, was the most searched actor among filmstars nominated for the Best Actor category in the 86th Academy Awards. Among the Best Movie category, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ topped the search trends followed by ‘American Hustle’, ‘Gravity’, ‘12 Year a Slave and Captain Philips’. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-03-03', 'modified' => '2014-03-09', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan.', 'sortorder' => '2566', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2683', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (24 February - 2 March 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Soon, Self-charging Personal Electronics</strong></span></div> <div> Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone. Xudong Wang, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researcher Yanchao Mao and collaborators from Sun Yat-sen University in China, and the University of Minnesota Duluth developed the device, a mesoporous piezoelectric nanogenerator that takes advantage of a common piezoelectric polymer material called polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App may Help You Fix Abusive Boyfriend</strong></span></div> <div> Good news for victims ofdating violence or an abusive relationship! Researchers have developed a new smartphone app that warns young women of a dangerous partner by helping them examine their relationships and potential behavioural red flags. In an effort to connect more young women with safety information, researchers developed the “One Love My Plan” smartphone application, an interactive tool that helps college-age women in abusive relationships clarify their priorities and customise personal safety plans. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19bn</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn in cash and shares. It is the social networking giant’s biggest acquisition to date.WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges. In a statement announcing the deal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp’s services as “incredibly valuable”. WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>World’s Most Powerful Terahertz Laser Chip Developed</strong></span></div> <div> British researchers have built the world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip, an advance that may enable improved security scanning and medical imaging. Researchers from the University of Leeds claimed to have exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser. The new record more than doubles landmarks set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently by a team from Vienna last year. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New System Tells How Far Your Email has Travelled</strong></span></div> <div> A new system that uses GPS technology to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled before reaching an inbox has been developed. The system known as Email Miles, uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and internet tracking to determine where a message was sent and where it was received. It then calculates the total distance between the two and displays it on the screen alongside a map. Inventor Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a design lecturer, said he hoped that it would remind people how quickly they can communicate in a digital world, ‘The Times’ reported. The system also shows how indirect the route of many emails can be. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-25', 'modified' => '2014-03-02', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists have developed a new device that can charge your smartphoneon the go - without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phonehousing, the nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone.', 'sortorder' => '2526', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2635', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (17 - 23 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>India Telecoms Auction Raises $10bn </strong></span></div> <div> India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences. The amount far exceeded the government’s target of $1.8bn, and will be used to shrink its budget deficit. The government will get at least $3bn initially as companies have to pay up to a third of the winning price now, with the rest by 2026. The winners included Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Industries. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Android Extends Gains on Apple, Windows Phone is 3rd</strong></span></div> <div> The Google Android system extended its gains over Apple’s iPhoneglobally in the last quarter of 2013, and Windows Phone grabbed the number three market position, a survey showed Wednesday. The IDC survey found Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter, bolstered by a 40 percent jump in the number of handsets delivered. Apple got only a modest boost in the fourth quarter from the release of its new iPhones, with sales up 6.7 percent compared with a year earlier. That means its market shareslipped to 17.6 percent from 20.9 percent, according to IDC. The Microsoft Windows Phone platform saw a 46.7 percent year-over-year rise in sales, which pushed its market share to three percent.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Smartglasses that Help Surgeons See Cancerous Cells</strong></span></div> <div> If you think cancer removal surgery is but a one-time procedure, you’d be wrong. Doctors don’t always cut out all affected tissues in one go, but a new pair of high-tech eyewear could help make that happen. The device, developed by a Washington University research team led by Samuel Achilefu, can make cancer cells perfectly visible to surgeons as they operate. It’s loaded with custom software that makes cancerous cells glow blue (due to a molecular imaging agent that gives it color) to anyone wearing the headset. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Website Lets You Video Chat with Avatars of Dead People</strong></span></div> <div> A new website createsvirtual avatars of the dead so that their loved ones can video chat with them after they are gone. The website ‘Eterni.me’ is a startup by engineers, designers and business people, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT)’s Entrepreneurship Development Program. The team claims to have developed a means by which a person can be digitally reconstructed after their death. The service needs to be provided with a person’s chat logs, social-network information, photos, and e-mails, and it uses this information to reconstruct a person’s memories and mannerisms, ‘CNET’ reported. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>‘Business Microscope’ to Track Employees’ Every Move at Workplace</strong></span></div> <div> A Japanese company has developed a device that can track everything you do in the workplace — from how long you have been sitting idle to how often you visit the lavatory. Hitachi, the electronics maker, has created the device, called ‘Business Microscope’, which looks like a badge or ID card and contains chips and sensors to record an employee’s behaviour. It detects to whom you have spoken, how often, where and how energetically. The gadget also reads your colleagues’ badges and judges the distance between people talking, The Times reported. It tells bosses how often an employee leaves their seat, how far they walk and where they go. It would also be able to judge how often a person speaks in a meeting and report on how much they contribute to group sessions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-19', 'modified' => '2014-02-20', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'India’s mobile phone firms have bid almost $10bn (£6bn) in a key auction for the country’s second-generation (2G) telecoms licences.', 'sortorder' => '2478', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2579', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (7 - 16 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>YouTube Starts Auditing Video Views</strong></span></div> <div> The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Wearable Device Turns Your Palm Into Touch Screen</strong></span></div> <div> A new gesture-based wearable transmitter that turns your palm into a touch interface has been developed by an Indian IT-start up. The ring-shaped transmitter called Fin is worn on the thumb and uses Bluetooth to communicate with different devices. The portable device enables users to control up to three devices such as smartphones, car radios and smart TVs using only swipes and taps, ‘Mashable’ reported. Until now, the device has five pre-programmed gestures. However, users will be able to create customised programmes on an app that will come with the device, in its final iteration. The device can control the volume on a TV, and even lets users text or dial a number without touching their phone. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook’s New App ‘Paper’ Aims to Provide Personalized News</strong></span></div> <div> Facebook stepped more directly onto the news media’s turf, rolling out a new iPhone app called Paper that enlists a handful of human editors to supplement its computers in recommending articles and blog posts on a dozen topics, including top news, food, parenting, the environment and gay rights. The app, which made its debut to rave reviews from tech news sites, offers users an easy way to browse their news feeds. But it also presents them with a series of minimagazines, each with a distinct tone and articles chosen by unidentified curators the company says have extensive expertise in their fields.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Samsung to Unveil Latest Galaxy S Smartphone in Late February</strong></span></div> <div> Samsung Electronics Co will unveil a new version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone this month, but expectations are low that features such as a bigger screen will lead to a sharp jump in sales given intensifying competition. Samsung sent out invitations on Tuesday for “Samsung unPacked 5” event on Feb. 24 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The S5 is widely expected to feature a bigger screen, an improved rear camera and biometric functions such as iris recognition or a fingerprint scanner. It may also come with an improved Galaxy Gear smartwatch.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-02-10', 'modified' => '2014-02-10', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to “audit” the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that some viewers are using tools like “redirects” or “buying” views to boost their count. YouTube said it will now “periodically” validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.', 'sortorder' => '2423', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2538', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (27 January - 02 February 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Atomic Clock is World’s Most Accurate</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Atomic Clock" src="/userfiles/images/bt4%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;width: 100px; height: 115px;" />Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth. The ‘strontium lattice clock’ is 50 per cent more accurate than the previous record holder, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quantum logic clock. A research group led by a NIST physicist unveiled the experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability - key metrics for the performance of a clock. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New App can Track Your Lost Wallet!</strong></span></div> <div> A new smartphone app that tracks the location of your lost wallet using a chip has been developed in the US. The makers claim that SmartWallit chip is a revolutionary device that prevents people from leaving their wallet behind or losing it. The device connects with your smartphone through bluetooth and works with an app which records the time and place the wallet was lost. In case the wallet goes out of range of the app, a warning message will flash on your smartphone screen, displaying the last location where the wallet was used.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Photo-Snapping Drone that Fits in Your Pocket</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Photo-Snapping Drone" src="/userfiles/images/bt5%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 87px;" />A flying multicopter that is powerful enough to carry a high quality action camera and folds easily in your pocket has been designed in the US. The Pocket Drone is equipped with an action camera for capturing aerial photos and video and a rechargeable battery allowing for flights of up to 20 minutes. The device which only weighs around 450 grams, folds up to the size of a small tablet. The creators claim that the drone is designed for easy use. It can be unpacked and launched within 20 seconds, and is controlled by an included remote or from any Android phone or tablet with a USB port, ‘Mashable’ reported. The Pocket Drone can be purchased for $445 without a controller or $495 for the full package.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Massive Data Theft Hits 40% of South Koreans</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Data Theft" src="/userfiles/images/bt6%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 56px;" />The personal data of 20 million South Koreans -- or 40% of the country’s population -- has been stolen, sparking outrage as worried consumers scramble to replace compromised credit cards. Customer details appear to have been swiped by a worker at the Korea Credit Bureau, a company that offers risk management and fraud detection services. Clients of three Korean companies -- KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and Nonghyup Bank -- were hardest hit by the data theft. Crucial personal data like identification numbers, addresses and credit card numbers were all stolen.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Anti-Spying Blackphone Coming Soon </strong></span></div> <div> It’s a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It’s also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress friends and colleagues, according to its makers. The Blackphone is set to be released next month by the secure communications firm Silent Circle and the small Spanish-based manufacturer Geeksphone. Silent Circle developed a modified or “forked” version of Android called PrivatOS for the phone, which is set to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. The company declined to release detailed specifications or pricing ahead of the unveiling, but Janke said it will be sold around the world at prices lower than the iPhone 5S or Samsung Galaxy S4.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-27', 'modified' => '2014-01-27', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Scientists claim to have developed a new record-breaking atomic clock that is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth', 'sortorder' => '2381', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2487', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (20 - 26 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Unveils ‘Smart Contact Lens’ </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 64px;" />Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Tiny Lenses That’ll Turn Your Phone into a Pro-Level Shooter</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB1%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 88px;" />Moment, a newly formed company is launching a Kickstarter funding to bring a telephoto and wide-angle lens to the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy lines. The lenses use a thin piece of metal (it’s less than half a millimeter) that adheres to the back of your phone. That plate acts as a mount for the lenses. The wide-angle (roughly equivalent to 18mm) and telephoto lens (roughly equivalent to 60mm) attach via a bayonet mount. According to Moment, the optics are fabricated using the same high-precision equipment and factory used for 4K cameras. The end result, according to Moment, is no distortion at the edges of images and minimal chromatic aberration in a tiny, pocketable package.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>US Intelligence Installs Spy Software on Thousands of Computers</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />The US intelligence agency has covertly installed software on nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing it to spy on them, and recruit them for possible cyber attacks, a news report said lastTuesday. Most were installed by the National Security Agency via network connections, but the agency has devised a way of reaching unconnected computers by means of radio waves, the New York Times reported, citing NSA documents, computer experts and officials. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Global PC Shipments Suffered Worst Decline in 2013</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 75px;" />Marking one of the worst years for the global PC industry, shipments fell by 10 per cent last year as hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets grabbed consumers’ attention, research firms Gartner and IDC said. PCs — which include desktops, notebooks and laptops — shipment levels in 2013 were similar to that achieved in 2009. According to Gartner’s preliminary data, worldwide PC shipments declined by 10 per cent to 315.96 million units in 2013 from 351.05 million units in 2012. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Apps Tries to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/TB4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 100px; height: 82px;" />Keeping New Year’s resolutions can be difficult but new apps aim to help people get organized, track progress and stay focused to reach their goals. People aiming to improve their health can turn to fitness trackers such as MotionX-24/7 for the iPhone. The app tracks metrics such as steps taken, calories burned, sleep quality and duration and heart rate. Users can set daily activity and sleep goals and receive reminders to get active if they are idle for too long. Other activity tracker apps include Argus, free for the iPhone, and Moves, which sells for 99 cents and is available on iPhone and Android. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-21', 'modified' => '2014-01-21', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds. But it added that “a lot more work” needed to be done to get the technology ready for everyday use.', 'sortorder' => '2329', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2389', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (30 December 2013 - 5 January 2014)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Launches New Safety App for Windows Phone Users</strong></span></div> <div> Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release. Guardian users can call for help through an 'SOS' alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of crisis, it added. It took more than six months for a team of Microsoft employees in India to develop the safety app in the Microsoft Garage, the company said. Microsoft Garage is a global employee innovation initiative that gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>AMD Unveils Graphics Processor for Apple’s Mac Pro</strong></span></div> <div> Chipmaker AMD announced a dual AMD FirePro professional graphics solutions (GPUs) to boost the performance levels of the Apple's Mac Pro workstation. AMD’s FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release. These new AMD FirePro GPUs are built on the strength of AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next GPU design — an architecture conceived from the ground up to intelligently managing rendering and compute workloads. The dual AMD FirePro GPU options for Mac Pro feature up to 6GB of VRAM and up to 2048 stream processors per GPU, matched with top configurations capable of up to 7 teraflops of computing power.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2014-01-01', 'modified' => '2014-01-01', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release.', 'sortorder' => '2231', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2351', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (23 - 29 December 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Now, Car Made of Lego Bricks that Runs on Air</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 107px;" />An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. From engine to seats, the vehicle is made completely from the tiny bricks, with the exception of a few structural parts including wheels, tires and gauges. The car is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneur Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida, a 20-year-old from Romania who Steve met on the internet. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Gen-next Video Games to See Through Walls</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb1%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Imagine playing a video game while moving freely throughout your house! A revolutionary new technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and obstructions could change the way video games are played, scientists say. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the new high-resolution, 3D motion tracking system dubbed “WiTrack,” which can pinpoint a person’s 3-D location to within 10 to 20 centimetres - about the width of an adult hand. Earlier this year, Katabi and her graduate student Fadel Adib unveiled WiVi, a system that detects humans through walls and can track the direction of their movement using WiFi signals. Based on this earlier work, Katabi and Adib developed WiTrack in collaboration with Rob Miller, a professor of computer science and engineering, and graduate student Zach Kabelac. In comparison to WiVi, WiTrack has significantly higher accuracy and can track both two-dimensional and three-dimensional movement using specialised radio waves, as opposed to WiFi signals. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Glass Eyewear Lets Winking Snap Pictures</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb2%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 113px;" />Google Glass on Tuesday announced updates to the software in its Internet-linked eyewear to allow users to snap pictures by winking. The new feature, which promises to escalate privacy concerns already being voiced about the high-tech gadget, came as one of an array of improvements. Notions put forth included Glass wearers someday paying for cab rides by winking at meters or buying something in a shop with a blink. Updates included letting owners lock eyewear so it can’t be used unless a person knows the right “handshake” of swipes and taps. The “Glassware” code powering the eyewear was also modified to upload video directly to Google-owned video-sharing venue YouTube. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>New Apps Predict, Provide Information about What Users Want</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb3%20(Copy)(1).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 110px;" />New apps that listen to conversations or scan emails and calendars can predict and provide information such as websites, videos and maps to users before they ask for them or realize they want them. MindMeld for the iPad is a voice conferencing assistant that understands conversations, and depending on what people are talking about, will find a map of a city and tourist information if the chat is about a trip, or restaurants if it is about eating out. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Facebook Launches Video Ads</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/tb4%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 150px; height: 134px;" />Facebook is rolling out a feature Tuesday that will allow advertisers to play videos in users’ news feeds. The feature offers companies a new way to promote movies and products on smartphones and computers, and is being tested with a small group of Facebook users.”Rather than having to click or tap to play, videos will begin to play as they appear onscreen -- without sound,” Facebook said in a statement. When users tap the videos, the sound will turn on and the video will play in full-screen mode.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-24', 'modified' => '2013-12-24', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'An enterprising duo has built a working life-sized car out of Lego bricks that runs on air and can reach speeds up to 30 kilometres per hour. More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car. From engine to seats, the vehicle is made completely from the tiny bricks, with the exception of a few structural parts including wheels, tires and gauges.', 'sortorder' => '2193', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2219', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (2 - 8 December 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Smartphone App to Give Earthquake Warning</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartphone App" src="/userfiles/images/gf1%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;width: 100px; height: 99px;" />A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro. Researchers from the University of California showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch New Smartphone</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Nokia" src="/userfiles/images/gf2%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 86px;" />Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset. The Jolla smartphone is based on the former world No. 1 mobile phone maker’s old software and is faintly reminiscent of its recent models. The Jolla handset’s Sailfish platform has been developed from the MeeGo operating software, Nokia’s last open-source platform which it abandoned in 2011 when it switched over to using Microsoft’s Windows system. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Sony Files Patent for ‘SmartWig’</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="Smartwig" src="/userfiles/images/gf3%20(Copy).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 60px;" />Sony has filed a patent application for “SmartWig”, as firms jostle for the lead in the wearable technology sector. It says the SmartWig can be worn “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and communicate wirelessly with other external devices. According to the filing, the SmartWig can help navigate roads and collect information such as blood pressure. </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-12-03', 'modified' => '2013-12-03', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro.', 'sortorder' => '2063', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '2132', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs ( 11 - 17 November 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Google Celebrates Rorschach's Birthday </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/google(2).jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 84px; width: 150px;" />Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while a pair of hand holds a piece of paper with the inkblot. Users are asked to share their interpretation of the inkblot onsocial media platforms such as Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter. Born in in Zurich, Switzerland, Rorschach loved of klecksography – the art of turning inkblots into known images. This later shaped his career as a psychiatrist. After years of conducting various tests, he wrote Psychodiagnostik – a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis – in 1921. Rorschach died when he was 37, suffering from a ruptured appendix.</div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Nissan to Unveil Electric Sports Car </strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/nissaqn.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 86px; width: 150px;" />Nissan said Friday it would unveil a sporty concept electric vehicle at the Tokyo Motor Show as Japan's number-two automaker presses on with its bid to tap the burgeoning green-car market. The company, which has been selling its Leaf electric vehicle since late 2010, said it hoped its Nissan BladeGlider would help it reach a market of male drivers who still want performance and styling in an environmentally friendly car - a major hurdle to widespread commercial sales. The car, to be unveiled at the biennial Tokyo exhibition later this month, features an aerodynamic design that widens from the front to back with space for a driver in the middle and two passengers in the rear. </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Microsoft Makes IE 11 browser Work for Windows 7</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/ie11.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 113px; width: 150px;" />Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that it has made its latest browser,Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.The new browser had already been part of the Windows 8.1 upgrade the company released last month.The browser, available as a free download, improves the performance of websites that use JavaScript. Microsoft says the browser is 9 percent faster than Internet Explorer 10. It also enables better 3-D graphics rendering in websites, allowing users to manipulate 3-D objects on-screen.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Call of Duty: Ghosts Ships $1bn on Opening Day</strong></span></div> <div> <img alt="" src="/userfiles/images/cod.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; height: 85px; width: 150px;" />Sales of the latest Call of Duty video game surpassed $1 billion during its first day in stores, video game-maker Activision Blizzard said Wednedsay, reaching that mark in record time. Call of Duty: Ghosts, the military-themed shooter video game released on Tuesday, is the 10th installment in the decade-old franchise. Last year, Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, reached the $1 billion mark in global sales after 15 days. In September, Activision rival Take-Two Interactive Software said Grand Theft Auto V set a record by reaching the $1 billion mark after just three days in stores.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-11-12', 'modified' => '2013-11-12', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'. The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while a pair of hand holds a piece of paper with the inkblot.', 'sortorder' => '1979', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1913', 'article_category_id' => '199', 'title' => 'Tech Briefs (30 September - 3 October 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <strong><img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech1.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> 15% in US Shun Internet</strong><br /> <br /> Despite a seemingly unstoppable move to digital lifestyles, some 15 per cent of Americans don't use the Internet, and most are quite content to remain offline, a survey shows. The survey released Wednesday found that in addition to the 15 per cent of adults who don't use the Internet on any device, another nine per cent say they only go online at their workplace. The report by the Pew Research Center found a whopping 92 per cent of these "offline adults" with no interest in using the Internet or email in the near future. <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech2.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Tweets Reveal Global News Readership Patterns: Study</strong><br /> <br /> Different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles - Americans and Brits are drawn to opinion and world news, while Brazilians go for sports, a twitter analysis has found. Researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles. While Americans and British readers like opinion and world news, Spaniards prefer local and national news, Brazilians are drawn to sports and arts, and Germans go for politics and economy. The researchers also found that German and Spanish readers are more likely to read national newspapers compared to British readers, who prefer foreign publications.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech3.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 93px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>BlackBerry Reports $1bn Quarterly Loss</strong></p> <p> BlackBerry reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with last week’s warning, days after accepting its largest shareholder’s tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it out of the public eye. BlackBerry, which had warned of poor results on September 20th, said its net loss for the second quarter ended on August 31st was $965 million, or $1.84 a share. Revenue fell 45 per cent to $1.6 billion from a year earlier. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="tech" src="/userfiles/images/tech4.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Study Puts iPhone 5S Production Costs at $191</strong><br /> <br /> While the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the actual cost to make the phone hasn't changed very much, according to a new study. An IHS Inc. teardown of the new smartphone found that the components that make up a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5S cost $190.70. Manufacturing costs add another $8, bringing the total production cost to $198.70. 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| Currency | Unit |
Buy | Sell |
| U.S. Dollar | 1 | 121.23 | 121.83 |
| European Euro | 1 | 131.65 | 132.31 |
| UK Pound Sterling | 1 | 142.47 | 143.18 |
| Swiss Franc | 1 | 124.29 | 124.90 |
| Australian Dollar | 1 | 71.69 | 72.05 |
| Canadian Dollar | 1 | 83.90 | 84.32 |
| Japanese Yen | 10 | 10.94 | 11.00 |
| Chinese Yuan | 1 | 17.17 | 17.26 |
| Saudi Arabian Riyal | 1 | 32.27 | 32.43 |
| UAE Dirham | 1 | 33.01 | 33.17 |
| Malaysian Ringgit | 1 | 27.36 | 27.50 |
| South Korean Won | 100 | 9.77 | 9.82 |
Update: 2020-03-25 | Source: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)
| Fine Gold | 1 tola | 77000.00 |
| Tejabi Gold | 1 tola | 76700.00 |
| Silver | 1 tola | 720.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers' Association
| Petrol | 1 Liter | 106.00 |
| Diesel | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| Kerosene | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| LP Gas | 1 Cylinder | 1375.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
