S Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu: related news

S.Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Saturday reported a suspected bird flu outbreak at a duck farm in Yesan city, south of Seoul, the first since the latest confirmed case about five months ago, local media reported.

A 4Q 2008 South Korea Mobile Operator Forecast Reveals the Hypercompetitive South...

A 4Q 2008 South Korea Mobile Operator Forecast Reveals the Hypercompetitive South Korea Mobile Operator Space has Resulted in Lower Margins for Korean Carriers DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b0c52f/4q_2008_south_kore) has announced the addition of IE Market Research Corp.'s new report "4Q 2008 South Korea Mobile Operator Forecast, 2008 - 2010" to their offering. The hypercompetitive South Korea mobile operator space has resulted in lower margins for Korean carriers, according to new mobile operator market research report by IEMR. "While top line metrics remained strong in Korea, Margins remain under pressure in Korea, hitting a new low of 27% of service revenues for 2Q08," said Koichi Miyazawa, Principal Research Associate.

Google uses searches to track flu's spread

A lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. That simple act has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends. Tests of the new Web tool from Google.org, the company's philanthropic unit, suggest that it may be able to detect regional outbreaks of the flu a week to 10 days before they are reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reports are slower because they rely on data collected and compiled from thousands of healthcare providers, labs, and other sources. Some public health experts say the Google data could help accelerate the response of doctors, hospitals, and public health officials to a nasty flu season, reducing the spread of the disease and, potentially, saving live

Predicting Flu Season With Google Flu Tracker

Google Flu Tracker uses search terms as an indicator of flu activity by state. People's searches for flu symptoms and information on flu is tracked by Google Flu Tracker and Trends database helping to understand when and how the next flu season will come.

Consumer Reports Unveils New Application For iPhone And iPod Touch

New App Helps Users with New Tech Gadgets Make Better Purchasing Decisions YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Consumer Reports released a new application for iPhone and iPod Touch users today. Available for free at iTunes, the ConsumerReports.org application features expert tips and buying advice aimed at helping shoppers make better purchasing decisions. Once downloaded onto an iPhone or iPod Touch, consumers will have instant access to consumer news, advice, and best buy information from the testers and editors at Consumer Reports. ConsumerReports.org for the iPhone and iPod Touch provides the latest news from the Consumer Reports' blogs in the following consumer product areas:

Lensbaby Introduces New Line of Lenses for Creative Photography

Lensbaby, LLC (formerly known as Lensbabies, LLC) is launching an entire new system of selective focus lenses. Three new Lensbaby lenses – The Composer, The Muse and The Control Freak, – make up the new line of products. Each features the new Lensbaby Optic Swap system. The new Muse and the new Control Freak replace the current Original, Lensbaby 2.0, and Lensbaby 3G lenses, which will be phased out immediately. With the Composer, Lensbaby introduces a completely new lens, based on a ball and socket configuration that delivers smooth selective focus photography with unparalleled ease of use and greater precision.

Concerns over eBay's New Fixed-Price Changes

eBay sellers who wanted to launch listings in the new 30-day Fixed-Price format on Tuesday were disappointed to learn that many listing tools did not yet support the new format - including eBay's own Turbo Lister. eBay made available a new version of the software with the new functionality at 4:15 pm Eastern, 13 hours after eBay launched the new format on the site. Sellers must upgrade to the new version of the software if they wish to use it to list in the new format.

Bird Flu Spawns Vaccines

Scientists managed to turn the deadly bird flu virus on itself, by creating a new vaccine, which can be used to prevent a flu pandemic from spreading in humans, pets and even wild birds. A means of delivering the new drug to birds inside their eggs has also been devised, which means that they can now be controlled and that, if the influenza were to spread, authorities could rest assured that containment measures actually work.

Marware offers new sport case for iPod nano 4G...

Marware has announced a new case for the iPod nano 4G, the Sport Grip Extreme. The Extreme is a silicone cover that protects the new Nano, while allowing full access to all of the iPod's controls. The case features a two-tone color design, which is available in three different patterns: red/black, pink/white and white/grey. Each case also comes with a clear film protector and a microfiber cleaning cloth.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 released

The OpenOffice.org Community is today announcing the general availability of OpenOffice.org Version 3. Right from the opening screen, OpenOffice.org 3 has a fresh new look, with a new start screen, new splash screen, new icons, and a host of usability improvements. The Writer word processor has a cool new slider control for zooming, allows multi-page display while editing, has powerful new multilingual support, and boasts improved notes capabilities. As well as conventional office documents, Writer can now edit wiki documents for the web. The Calc spreadsheet has been given another increase in capacity - now up to 1024 columns per sheet. It also has a powerful new equation solver, and a great new collaboration feature for multiple users. Draw can now cope with poster-size graphics (up to 3sq metres), and Impress supports multiple monitors

New Zealand cricket fans will have a new way of measuring the performances of players in domestic cricket competitions with the launch today of a new player ranking system for the 2008/09 season.

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) system was originally developed by the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) in England, and will be promoted in New Zealand by the New Zealand Cricket Players Association (NZCPA) in association with New Zealand Cricket (NZC). It is the newest benchmark in the game, for the first time allowing all aspects of a player’s game to be combined and giving him a ranking in relation to his peers.

New content for Age of Conan

This week Funcom updated the ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ live servers with the largest gameplay content addition since launch. By visiting the vast, new outdoor area of Ymir’s Pass players will now be able to find new quests to solve, new characters to meet, new monsters to slay and a dramatic new storyline to unravel. The update also includes a new dungeon – The Amphitheater – that holds one of the most epic and memorable monster encounters ever created for the game.

OtterBox iPhone 3G Defender Case

OtterBox is back, and with a new Apple iPhone comes a new OtterBox iPhone Defender case. I reviewed the first generation iPhone Defender early this year, and was very impressed. So impressed, it became my permanent iPhone case until I bought the new iPhone 3G in August. When I got my new iPhone 3G, it felt naked; vulnerable to drops and damage that my previous iPhone has been protected well from.

Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air

Steve Jobs just got through announcing new MacBook lines in Cupertino. The MacBook, the Pro, and the Air all got revved. The old line of plastic-body MacBooks drops in price by $100, to $999. The new MacBooks have a metal body and multi-touch trackpad, just like the new Pros. The Pro features two NVidia graphics chips. Quoting Jobs: "With the 9400M, you get 5 hours of battery life, with the 9600M GT you get four hours of battery life. You choose." In summary: "We're building both [MacBook and Pro] in a whole new way. From a slab of aluminum to a notebook. New graphics. New trackpad, the best we've ever built. And LED-backlit displays that are far brighter, instant on, far more environmentally responsible." They are shipping today and should be in stores tomorrow.

Google Tracks Flu Trends

Google has added another item to the list of trends you can track using search history - flu outbreak trends. Google's philanthropic group has developed Flu Trends that tracks flu outbreaks as they happen. The search firm claims there is a close relation between searches for flu-related topics and the number of people who exhibit flu symptoms. Will certainly not a one-to-one correlation, examining the data allows Google to develop patterns based on state and regional searches. Since Google's data is more timely, it can predict flu trends before the Centers for Disease Control, which sometimes takes two weeks to assimilate and publish its data.

Canon Kicks Out New Camera Models; 5D MkII Shoots Full HD Video

Canon has been relatively quiet on new releases recently, with cameras such as Nikon's D90 grabbing some attention. Canon set that straight today by announcing some new models, which included the revamped EOS 5D MkII. The new 5D is obviously aimed at the high end of the market with its 21.1 megapixel sensor and $2,699 price tag come November (body only). It also goes a step further than the D90 (which can record 720p video), by offering a 1080p video mode. If you want to get down to the nitty gritty, then dpreview has a nice preview article for you. Canon also announced some new compact models today, including another camera capable of full HD video, the SX1 IS. There were also new additions to the Powershot range, and the SX10 IS and G10. Obviously most will probably lust after the new 5D, but there might be something else amongst those

Google Can Predict the Flu

An anonymous reader mentions Google Flu Trends, a newly unveiled initiative of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm. The claim is that this Web service, which aggregates search data to track outbreaks of influenza, can spot disease trends up to 2 weeks before Centers for Disease Control data can. The NYTimes writeup begins: "What if Google knew before anyone else that a fast-spreading flu outbreak was putting you at heightened risk of getting sick? And what if it could alert you, your doctor and your local public health officials before the muscle aches and chills kicked in? That, in essence, is the promise of Google Flu Trends, a new Web tool... unveiled on Tuesday, right at the start of flu season in the US. Google Flu Trends is based on the simple idea that people who are feeling sick will tend to turn to the Web for information, typ

International Drug and Explosive Detection Firm IDenta Corp. Announces Five New Patent Applications -- Company's R&D Developing New Products That Will Generate Significant New Revenues

International Drug and Explosive Detection Firm IDenta Corp. Announces Five New Patent Applications -- Company's R&D Developing New Products That Will Generate Significant New Revenues

Google Tries to Show USA Flu Trends

We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for “flu” is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related search queries from each state and region are added together. We compared our query counts with data from a surveillance system managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and discovered that some search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening. By counting how often we see these search queries, we can estimate how much flu is circulating in various regions of the United States.>>

International Drug and Explosive Detection Firm IDenta Corp. Announces Five New Patent Applications -- Company's R&D Developing New Products That Will Generate Significant New Revenues

TMCNet: International Drug and Explosive Detection Firm IDenta Corp. Announces Five New Patent Applications -- Company's R&D Developing New Products That Will Generate Significant New Revenues

Updates: Process Monitor v2.0, ZoomIt v2.11, Sigcheck v1.54, Contig v1.55 | A new Mark's Blog post: The Case of the Sloooow System | New Vista Springboard webcast

Updates: Process Monitor v2.0, ZoomIt v2.11, Sigcheck v1.54, Contig v1.55 | A new Mark's Blog post: The Case of the Sloooow System | New Vista Springboard webcast

T-Mobile Unveils the New T-Mobile G1 in High-Tech Fashion With Star Studded Events in New York and Los Angeles

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, T-Mobile USA, Inc. brought together Hollywood's hottest stars and New York's elite tastemakers to celebrate the highly-anticipated launch of the new T-Mobile G1, the world's first Android(TM)-powered mobile phone in partnership with Google. At the exclusive, invite-only launch events, held in the hip SoHo neighborhood of New York on October 16 and at a private studio in the heart of Hollywood on October 17, celebrities such as Rosario Dawson, Mischa Barton and Anthony Anderson turned out to get the first look at the much-talked about device and socialize with friends at the hottest bash on both coasts. To celebrate the debut of the T-Mobile G1, T-Mobile created a special event that brought to life the device's unique technology and applications.

Fallas? new Adabot R700 robotic case packer available from ADM Packaging Technology

ADM Packaging Technology are providers of Fallas’ new Adabot R700 robotic case packer, which functions as a high-speed case packing system that handles complex products such as flexible bags with uneven features that include shredded cheese and mixed confectionary, which are a challenge for automatic case packing.

Pentax introduces new low-end DSLR and new lenses

We can thank Photokina for all of the new announcements in digital cameras recently; the biannual show is the largest in the photography/imaging industry, and a number of companies have saved major product announcements for it. Now, it's Pentax's turn to announce new gear, and the company's new DSLR and lenses don't disappoint.The new, low-cost D-SLR will sell as the K2000, and here's what it offers.

Telecom unveils details of new 3G network

Telecom New Zealand has announced a NZD574 million (USD347 million) plan to deploy a nationwide 850MHz W-CDMA network by June next year. The firm says the new system will be ready approximately a year before a similar network which is being deployed by rival operator Vodafone. ‘New Zealanders are demanding fast, ubiquitous and future-ready mobile technology at their fingertips – and with this advancement they will get it,’ said Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds. ‘Telecom’s new mobile network will be superior on every level: the best nationwide coverage, the fastest internet on your mobile, a wide range of world-leading handsets, as well as better content, music and business applications,’ he added. The W850 mobile broadband network, which will incorporate HSPA+ technology to boost data transfer speeds, will cover 97% of New Zealand’

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