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The <strong>World's Largest Chocolate Bar Billboard</strong> consists of 42 plastic blocks which look like chocolate blocks.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><em>The Guinness world record for the Largest rotating three-sided billboard (advertisement) was set by the advertisement board attached to the walls of the Janianhua Mansion of the Chongqing Financial Real Estate company in Chongqing, China, which has a total surface area of 5,748 m² (61,871 ft²).<br />
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<em>Guinness World Records also recognized </em></span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">the Most brands advertising on one single billboard world record:1,233, achieved by Discovery Exhibition Organizers (U.A.E) in Festival City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.<br />
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It is placed along the outer surface of the factory, which makes chocolate and other products, with the intention of catching the eye of train passengers on the JR Tokaido Line and the Hankyu Kyoto Line running nearby. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><br />
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Marlow & Sons, an eaterie in the city's trendy Williamsburg neighborhood, wants clients to be able to remember their meals forever by purchasing items such as bags made from the hide of cows and other animals served up from the kitchen.<br />
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"We want something people could enjoy beyond their dinner," Kate Huling, wife of the owner, told. "They come in, they eat, they leave and usually think of something else. So the bags really preserve and honor that animal."<br />
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Belts, wallet and hats and sweaters using wool and rabbit fur will also be on offer once the animal in question has been eaten.<br />
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The idea will be a boon for struggling local tanneries and the New York fashion industry, Huling said.</span></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-90991030304508829942011-02-09T23:59:00.000-08:002011-02-10T07:46:15.838-08:00Japanese high school team sets world record<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/transport/img/112107b_lowest_car_Okayama_Sanyo_High_School.jpg" /><br />
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The previous Guinness world record for the<strong>Lowest roadworthy car</strong> measures 48.26 cm (19 in) from the ground to roof an is called "The Flatmobile". It was created by Perry Watkins (UK) in Aylesbury, England.<br />
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The students then decided to develop a car that measures around 45 centimeters in height -- about 2.5 centimeters lower than the record -- by using their ingenuity, such as cutting off the upper part of the steering wheel.</span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-88689702734019199272011-02-08T20:10:00.000-08:002011-02-09T07:34:43.279-08:00Wildlife now dogged by man's best friend?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Wildlife now dogged by man" src="http://www.geo.tv/2-7-2011/eng/2-7-2011_78069_l.jpg" /><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;"> Man's best friend may be a formidable enemy to wildlife, a Utah State University biologist says in a newly published paper that tracks the harmful effects of loose dogs on other animals.<br />
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Based on a mix of existing research and their own case studies, Julie Young of Utah State and four other scientists conclude that feral and free-roaming dogs may be wreaking havoc on wildlife, especially imperiled species, by preying on or harassing them and by transmitting diseases.<br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">"Dogs occur where humans occur, but we have tended to overlook their impact on wildlife mostly because we think of them as our companions," said Young, co-author of "Is Wildlife Going to the Dogs?" newly published in the journal BioScience.<br />
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Young cited examples from Idaho, where research showed the presence of dogs diminishing some deer populations, and in Colorado, where a study showed that wildlife like bobcats are shunning trails where people hike with pet dogs.<br />
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On the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona, packs of feral dogs are chasing livestock, decimating populations of small mammals such as rabbits and acting as a disease vector for rabies among people and other animals, she said.<br />
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Loose dogs also were the suspected culprits in a distemper outbreak linked to a catastrophic die-off of endangered black-footed ferrets in northwestern Wyoming in the 1980s.<br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">The company, which organizes hunting expeditions, insists there are elephants in the area of Zimbabwe it sent the hunter, identified only as Waldemar I, the newspaper said.<br />
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"From what I know, (the hunter) should have seen elephant excrement there," it quoted the company owner as saying.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">A Polish hunter who dreamed of shooting an elephant has sued a German-based travel company after it sent him to a part of Africa where he said there were no elephants to be found, a newspaper reported.<br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">Even though the company organized a second trip for the luckless hunter during which he managed to kill a male elephant, the man still filed for damages worth $130,000 over his first expedition.<br />
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A court is due to rule on his claim on February 15, the paper said.</span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-56715002144673143292011-02-05T22:42:00.000-08:002011-02-06T03:04:44.421-08:00Best selling two-seat sports car: World record<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/transport/img/112103-1b_Mazda_MX-5_worlds_best_selling_two-seat_sports_car.jpg" /><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Nearly 45 percent – more than 388,000 units – of those were sold in the United States since the car launched in 1989,” writes Mazda</span></em></span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-40418286506560472342011-02-04T05:22:00.000-08:002011-02-04T06:51:13.455-08:00Space telescope spots odd new solar system<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The solar system discovery, published in the journal Nature, is mystifying astronomers for the time being and illustrates just how much variety is possible in the universe. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">And an orbiting space telescope has pointed scientists to more than 1,200 other possible exoplanets -- planets outside our own solar system -- the space agency NASA said on Wednesday.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The team at NASA and a range of universities has named the system Kepler-11, after the orbiting Kepler space telescope that spotted it.<br />
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"One of the most striking features about the Kepler-11 system is how close the orbits of the planets are to one another," they wrote in their report.<br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">And they are bigger and puffier than the rocky inner planets of our solar system, Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury, the scientists said. However, they are some of the smallest exoplanets ever seen.<br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">They are much more closely packed ... than any other planetary systems known, including our own," said Jack Lissauer, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.<br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The star resembles Earth's own sun. But five of the planets orbiting it are packed into a space equivalent to the distance between Mercury and Venus in our own solar system.</span></span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-38331380410721077082011-02-03T01:15:00.000-08:002011-02-03T17:54:37.987-08:00Unique and creative beds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Unique and creative beds" src="http://www.geo.tv/2-2-2011/eng/2-2-2011_77894_l.jpg" /><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">The craftsmen have engineered some unique and creative beds, which also are an addition to the beauty of a house. Some of the most unusual beds designed for people who love to sleep.<br />
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Zipper Bed: Letto Zip bed makes daily bed-making process faster and easier.<br />
Spaceship Bed: This bed will bring the drama of space dogfights to your bedroom.<br />
Floating Bed: Cool bed designed by Ego Paris for use in swimming pools.<br />
Yin Yang Bed: Creative bunk bed created by Italian designer Alessio Pappa.<br />
Suspended Bed: Innovative bed with suspended mattress designed by Max Longin.</span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-60157173596907439532011-02-02T05:20:00.000-08:002011-02-02T07:17:53.740-08:00World's oldest woman dies at 114<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="World" src="http://www.geo.tv/2-1-2011/eng/2-1-2011_77866_l.jpg" /><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">The oldest person in the world physically left the planet. Eunice G. Sanborn aged 114 ceased to breathe this Monday morning of January 31st, 2011. </span><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> <em>The Guinness world record for the <strong>Earliest robot babysitter</strong> was set by The Papero Childcare robot which has been specially adapted with two (stereoscopic) camera "eyes" to recognize surroundings and faces, eight microphone "ears" to detect and recognize speech.</em></span></strong></span></div></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-65843575174138981262011-01-31T01:46:00.000-08:002011-01-31T06:49:09.670-08:00Plant sniffs out bombs to combat terrorism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Plant sniffs out bombs to combat terrorism" src="http://www.geo.tv/1-29-2011/eng/1-29-2011_77759_l.jpg" /><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The ring tone could be heard from inside the reptile for several days afterwards. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">The Nile crocodile named Gena, who will turn 15 next month, swallowed the phone when a visitor tried to take a picture of him in late December. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">Eduard Manukyan, a representative of the aquarium in Ukraine's eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk, said that "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">He moves around, goes into water but has not eaten for a month,".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">Gena's condition was worsening by the day but staff fear an operation to extract the phone may be too dangerous, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">Manukyan said.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px;">"Now we will be trying to warm up the water and air to speed up digestion," </span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-8922066405285336772011-01-25T03:34:00.000-08:002011-01-25T07:24:34.886-08:00In Tennessee a new species is found<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Giant crayfish found in Tennessee is new species" src="http://www.geo.tv/1-24-2011/eng/1-24-2011_77571_l.jpg" /><br />
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<em>Guinness World Records recognized </em></span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">other similar world records, like the Largest mambo dance, set by 3,868 people danced to Pérez Prado's Mambo No. 5 for five minutes at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain.<br />
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Guinness World Records also recognized the largest salsa dance, set by 451 couples at the Caracas Hilton Hotel, in Caracas, Venezuela.</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><br />
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Andrew Shelton, Marketing Director at Virgin Holidays said: "What better way to raise a smile on a cold January morning than to see a huge number of beautiful burlesque dancers? We're passionate about offering the best holidays in the world at the best possible prices, and it's official, we've literally taken off everything we can, including our clothes!" </span></span></span></div><div><br />
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The latest findings show that bio—active compounds in blueberries — called anthocyanins — offer protection against hypertension.<br />
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Compared with people who did not eat blueberries, those eating at least one serving a week — the equivalent of a couple of handfuls — reduced their risk of developing the condition by 10 percent.<br />
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The superfood has already been found to fight hardening of the arteries, which can cause a heart attack or stroke, as well as helping to guard against diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s.<br />
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Anthocyanins belong to the family of compounds called flavonoids and are also found in blackcurrants, raspberries, aubergines and blood orange juice.<br />
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The research, carried out by the University of East Anglia and Harvard University, is the first large study to investigate the effect of different flavonoids on hypertension.<br />
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The scientists studied 134,000 women and 47,000 men over a period of 14 years. None of the participants had hypertension at the start of the study.<br />
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Subjects were asked to complete health questionnaires every two years and their dietary intake was assessed every four years. Incidence of newly diagnosed hypertension during the 14—year period was then related to consumption of various flavonoids.<br />
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During the study, 35,000 participants developed hypertension.<br />
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The dietary information identified tea as the main contributor of flavonoids, with apples, orange juice, blueberries, red wine and strawberries also providing important amounts.<br />
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Aedin Cassidy of the University of East Anglia said: “Our findings are exciting and suggest that an achievable dietary intake of anthocyanins may contribute to the prevention of hypertension.”</span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-27636957894716785782011-01-20T23:43:00.000-08:002011-01-22T05:32:27.062-08:00Most cups of tea made in one hour: World record<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/drinks/img/112069_Olly_Murs_world_record_tea_cups.jpg" /><br />
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Olly said: "It is such a great feeling to have set a new world record with Alex. I've always loved tea and this just takes the biscuit!"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><em><br />
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The Guinness world record for the largest tea bag was made by Lancashire Tea, weighing 60 kg (132.2 lb) and was displayed at ASDA in Preston, United Kingdom.<br />
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The Largest tea bag, </span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><em>weighing 60 kg (132.2 lb),</em></span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">according to Guinness World Records was made by Lancashire Tea, and was displayed at ASDA in Preston, United Kingdom</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">.</span></span></strong></span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-76879566344313033792011-01-20T23:38:00.000-08:002011-01-22T05:32:47.629-08:002010, the warmest year so far: UN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="2010, the warmest year so far: UN" src="http://www.geo.tv/1-20-2011/eng/1-20-2011_77479_l.jpg" /><br />
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The trend also helped to melt Arctic sea ice cover to a record low for December last month, the WMO said in a statement.<br />
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Last year "ranked as the warmest year on record, together with 2005 and 1998," the WMO added, confirming preliminary findings released at the global climate conference early December that were based on a 10-month period.<br />
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"The 2010 data confirm the Earth's significant long-term warming trend," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said. "The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998."<br />
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In 2010, the global average temperature was 0.53 degrees Celsius (0.95 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1961 to 1990 mean that is used as a yardstick for climate measurements, according to the WMO, basing itself on a broad set of US and British-collected data.<br />
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That exceeded 2005 levels by 0.01 C (0.02 F) and was 0.02 C (0.05 F) above the 1998 mark, but within a margin of error that made the difference between the three years statistically insignificant, according to the WMO.<br />
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"Arctic sea ice cover in December 2010 was the lowest on record" for the month, the WMO also found.<br />
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Sea ice around the northern polar region shrank to an average monthly extent of 12 million square kilometres, 1.35 million square kilometres below the 1979 to 2000 December average, according to the UN weather agency.<br />
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"There's no good news with respect to that -- the Arctic ice continues to be extremely low," Jarraud told journalists.<br />
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Over the past decade, global temperatures have been the highest-ever recorded for a 10-year period since the beginning of instrument-based climate measurements in the mid-19th century.<br />
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Last month, even before the year was over, Jarraud confirmed that 2001 to 2010 set a new record as the warmest decade ever.</span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-24198590756071857032011-01-19T21:46:00.000-08:002011-01-20T06:16:20.558-08:00Windows 7 fastest growing smartphone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Windows 7 fastest growing smartphone: report" src="http://www.geo.tv/1-18-2011/eng/1-18-2011_77402_l.jpg" /><br />
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It is thought that telecoms markets in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America will see intensified competition that will lead to lower prices, slower growth and indeed lower margins.<br />
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It is noted by Ovum analyst Angel Dobardziev that the “land grab phase” which occurred in the last decade will begin to wind down in 2011. Although it is noted that there are areas of Africa and Asia that still contain potential customers, they are predominantly in rural areas that are hard to reach, and so are not attractive to service providers.<br />
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“For service providers all of this will mean that 20-30 percent subscriber and revenue growth rates will become increasingly rare, and single digit or low double digit growth will be the norm, particularly in regions such as Eastern Europe and Latin America,” said Dobardziev.<br />
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“Competition will intensify as players increasingly focus on winning market share from each other.”<br />
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Furthermore smartphones will increase their proliferation across emerging markets, with significant reductions in device price points expected combined with the increasing capabilities of mid range devices.<br />
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“This will be great for users, who will enjoy bigger, better, and faster devices services and services – mostly at lower prices. To deliver this and retain their margins, operators will increase their cost efficiency efforts.”<br />
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Meanwhile broadband access is forecast to become much more prominent in emerging markets during 2011, with the expectation that will become the fastest and most promising growth engine, amid the rapidly growing coverage of 3G and to a lesser extent wireline, cable, WiMAX, and in some instances fibre, according to Dobardziev.<br />
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“There will be parallels with the mobile land grab in the intensity of the battle, but the explosion of data traffic that will ensue will pose a new set of network and financial challenges to telcos – and a massive opportunity for equipment vendors.”</span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-10323200052130889522011-01-19T21:36:00.000-08:002011-01-20T06:16:28.844-08:00Sharks are colour-blind: study<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Sharks are colour-blind: study" src="http://www.geo.tv/1-18-2011/eng/1-18-2011_77403_l.jpg" /><br />
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Researchers in Australia, using a technique called micro-spectrophotometry, looked at the retinal cells of 17 species of shark caught off Queensland and Western Australia. <br />
In all 17 species, the commonest kind of light receptors were "rod" cells, which are highly sensitive to light and allow night vision but cannot tell colours apart, they found. <br />
Yet the sharks lacked cone cells, which respond individually to light at specific wavelengths. In human eyes, a variety of cone cells helps us to distinguish between colours. <br />
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In 10 of the 17 shark species, no cone cells were found at all. Cone cells were found in the other seven species, but they were all of a single type, sensitive to wavelengths of around 530 nanometres, which is green. <br />
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This retinal system means sharks are able to tell between shades of grey but, most probably, not between colours, say the investigators. <br />
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Monochromatic vision is very rare among land species, because colour vision is a tool for survival in terrestrial habitats. <br />
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But it is less important in the marine environment, where colours are progressively filtered out at depth and survival depends on distinguishing contrasts, to determine whether a shape in the gloom is prey or predator. <br />
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Previous research has found that whales, dolphins and seals also possess green-sensitive cone cells, which suggests that these marine mammals and sharks arrived at the same visual design in parallel, says the paper. <br />
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The study, published in English in the German journal Naturwissenschaften, could help prevent shark attacks on humans and develop fishing gear that could reduce accidental catches of sharks by long-line trawlers. </span></div></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-77723910686145803432011-01-18T03:33:00.000-08:002011-01-18T06:56:45.307-08:00Fastest tap dancer-world record set by Tony Adams<img src="http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/entertainment/img/TonyAdams.jpg" /><br />
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</i>Tony’s record-setting shoes are old-style tap shoes with screw-on metal plates, whereas modern tap dance shoes have the plates riveted to the sole.<i> </i><br />
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</i> Tony’s 82-year-old mother, Mary Adams, watched her son break the record on television.<br />
“I’m very proud of him but I really can’t understand what all the fuss is about,” she says. “He was a much better dancer when he was younger.” <i><br />
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</i><b>Tony Adams</b> has been invited to tell his remarkable record-breaking tale to various groups at functions around the country where the high-energy speed tapping has been captivating audiences.<br />
He has also attracted the sponsorship of Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts Group and Sydney-based Scorpio Music to assist him promote New Zealand dance overseas. <i><br />
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</i><b>Tony Adams</b> smashed the Guinness World Record of 512 tap beats a minute, previously held in England, with a staggering 602 beats. </span></b></span></div>tempting boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516240147252502745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944983101847870485.post-8532481743019001392011-01-18T03:32:00.001-08:002011-01-18T06:56:54.471-08:00NASA unveils weird airplane concepts for 2025<img alt="NASA unveils weird airplane concepts for 2025" src="http://www.geo.tv/1-18-2011/eng/1-18-2011_77363_l.jpg" /><br />
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NASA must have realized that it’s been a while since we had some new pictures of crazy futuristic flying vehicles to look at. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration has released three pictures of concept aircraft that could theoretically hit the skies in 2025.<br />
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The concepts come from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and The Boeing Company, which were awarded contracts to study and design the future aircraft.<br />
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NASA intends for all three of these designs to produce less noise, cleaner exhaust, and consume lower amounts of fuel than modern aircraft. They also have to fly at least 85 percent of the speed of sound, have a range of 7,000 miles, and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 lbs of cargo. Below are the initial designs by each company.</td></tr>
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