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Dangers of Facebook

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Over the last few years, Facebook's growth has been phenomenal. The world's no. 1 social networking site also sometime back beat Google to become the most visited Web site in the US for an entire week at a stretch. However, the site has also lately being receiving lot of flak for its privacy policies. An expert in online privacy drew attention to the five dangers of sharing information on social networking site Facebook. Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online, said that marketing efforts by the company often results in a compromise on account holders' privacy. Goodchild noted five risks of using Facebook. They are<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">According to Facebook policy last updated on April 2010, "When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term General Information includes your and your friends' names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to "everyone." ... Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you should consider removing (or not making) the connection."</span> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">In March, private e-mail according to a Gawker report, private email addresses that many Facebook users wanted to keep hidden were revealed publicly on a multitude of Facebook profiles. The glitch was later resolved by Facebook.</span> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_364749296" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Recently, a Facebook event invitation was reportedly sent to some over 2,300 friends of Jim Breyer, Accel Partners venture capitalist who sits on Facebook's board of directors, asking "Would you like a Facebook phone number?" However, the message was actually a scam and the users who entered their passwords in response to the message in turn sent the whole thing to their friends lists too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">"This was a phishing scam and Jim's account appears to have been compromised," read a statement from Facebook as provided to venture industry news site </span> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_364749296" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></a></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">the popular social network patched a major security bug that allowed users to snoop on their friends' private chats, and view their pending friend requests. The exploit forced Facebook to temporarily disable chat.</span> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_364749296" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></a></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Earlier this week, 15 privacy and consumer protection organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the site manipulates privacy settings to make users' personal information available for commercial use. </span> </div></div></div>

Dangers of Facebook

Over the last few years, Facebook's growth has been phenomenal. The world's no. 1 social networking site also...

New year on twitter !!!!

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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Social-networking-site" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Social networking site</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Twitter was out of action for over an hour in Britain after it was overloaded with </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/New-Year-messages" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">New Year messages</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The site crashed around 3 p.m. Saturday. It coincided with midnight celebrations in Japan when revellers were sending a record 16,197</span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tweet-(musician)" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">tweets</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> per second, the Daily Mail reported Sunday. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The overload meant no one could post new messages or read existing ones. Instead, frustrated users were greeted with the error message: "Twitter is over capacity." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The site returned to working order but then stopped on several other occasions, prompting speculation that it was being hit by the arrival of New Year in different parts of the world. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The meltdown happened as the world welcomed in 2012, a year of historic importance for Britain, with the Olympics, the Paralympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee set to be defining moments. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Up to 250,000 people poured into Central London, some in Trafalgar Square and others watching the pyrotechnics centred on the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/London-Eye" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">London Eye</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, the Mail said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In Tokyo, people released helium balloons in front of the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tokyo" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Tokyo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Tower at midnight with notes attached listing their hopes for 2012. Many wished for a better year, following the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/earthquake" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">earthquake</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tsunami" style="background-color: white; color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">tsunami</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> of 2011, the newspaper added.</span> </div>

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<div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The families of experts battling to cool Japan's Fukushima plant are a worried lot, with a worker's daughter saying: "My father says he has accepted his fate much like a death sentence."</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Sun quoted a message that was sent by another nuclear worker to his wife that said: "Please continue to live well, I cannot be home for a while."</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/9b78d94a92fe0006" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/9b78d94a92fe0006" /></a>The Fukushima nuclear plant was badly damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. There have been explosions at three reactors while a fire engulfed a fourth reactor, sparking fears of a nuclear meltdown.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A group of experts have been working round the clock to cool the reactors and Thursday helicopters dumped water over them. Twenty people have been confirmed to have suffered from radiation exposure.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Sun reported that a poignant note was disclosed when there was a rise in the radiation level.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There are about 180 personnel working round the clock to cool the plant. Working in rotating teams of 50, they enter the radiation hotspots for only 15 minutes at a time to limit their exposure.</div><br />
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<a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/c3fc92a5629bd2d4" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/c3fc92a5629bd2d4" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"></span><br />
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Small amount of radioactive material, blowing from Japan's damaged nuclear power plants, is expected to reach California today but experts have said the radiation would be 'within safe limits' and poses no major risk, according to a media report.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Radioactive isotopes are being blown toward North America 'high in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean' and will reach California as soon as Friday, a report in the Los Angeles Times said.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The material should begin showing up on the (US) West Coast as early as Friday, though it could take up to an additional week for the 5,000-mile trip from Japan to Southern California," the report said.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/de58409fa663baf4" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/de58409fa663baf4" /></a>US network of sensors, known as the 'Radnet' operated by the Environmental Protection Agency and comprising 100 radiation monitors across the country, are monitoring the level of radiation that is flowing from Japan towards the US west coast.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The EPA said it was monitoring the situation closely. Its Radnet system had not yet detected radioactivity and it has added additional portable radiation monitors in Guam, Alaska and Hawaii.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">US President Barack Obama also assured Americans that there was no danger of radiation for the country.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I want to be very clear: We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the United States, whether it's the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, or US territories in the Pacific," Obama said in Washington today.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Let me repeat that: We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, or US territories in the Pacific. That is the judgment of our Nuclear Regulatory Commission and many other experts."<br />
The LA Times report said Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the US nuclear industry, "did not expect dangerous levels of radioactivity to hit the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska or US territories in the Pacific."</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The radioactive levels that reach the US could increase over time since emissions from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have grown since the disaster broke out last week, the report added.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/f57274b46b6f6656" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/f57274b46b6f6656" /></a>Experts have, however, said the particles would 'wash out of the atmosphere' before they reach the US.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/835c84a166154bea" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/835c84a166154bea" /></a>A specialist at nuclear watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists Edwin Lyman said the US was not at any serious risk.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We can never say never. My judgement is that there will probably be measurable radiation, but except for a few hot spots it is not something we should really worry about," the report quoted him as saying.</div><br />
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<h1 style="color: black; font-size: 2.5em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More smoke rises from Japan's crippled nuke-plant</h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Smoke billowed from a building at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant on Friday as emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to cooling systems and spray more water on the overheating reactors at the tsunami-ravaged facility.</span><br />
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/d6cb0c6224761c5a" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/d6cb0c6224761c5a" /></a>Four of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant's six reactors have seen fires, explosions or partial meltdowns in the week since the tsunami. While the reactor cores where energy is generated are a concern, Japanese and U.S. officials believe a critical danger are the pools used to store spent nuclear fuel: fuel rods in one pool were believed to be at least partially exposed and in danger of leaking radiation.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/5e36889dee2d9bf0" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/5e36889dee2d9bf0" /></a>Friday's smoke came from Unit 2, and its cause was not known, the nuclear safety agency said. An explosion had hit the building on Tuesday, possibly damaging a crucial cooling chamber that sits below the reactor core.<br />
More urgent, Japan's chief government spokesman said, was the adjacent Unit 3. Fuel rods there may have been partially exposed, and without enough water, the rods may heat further and possibly spew radiation. Frantic efforts were made Thursday to douse the unit with water, using helicopters and firetrucks, and authorities prepared to repeat the effort Friday.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/ceaa0bbc4a614ca0" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/ceaa0bbc4a614ca0" /></a>"Dealing with Unit 3 is our utmost priority," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.<br />
In the week since the massive earthquake and tsunami, Japan's government and the utility that runs Fukushima have struggled to contain the plant's cascading troubles.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Edano said on Friday that Tokyo is asking the U.S. government for help and the two are discussing the specifics. "We are coordinating with the U.S. government as to what the U.S. can provide and what people really need," Edano said.<br />
The U.S. and Japan, close allies, have offered differing assessments over the dangers at Fukushima in recent days.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jazcko said in Washington Thursday that it could take days and "possibly weeks" to get the complex under control. He defended the U.S. decision to recommend a 50-mile (80-kilometer) evacuation zone for its citizens, wider than the 30-mile (50-kilometer) band Japan has ordered.<br />
Crucial to the effort to regain control over the Fukushima plant is laying a new power line to the plant, allowing operators to restore cooling systems to the reactors. The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., missed a deadline late Thursday but said Friday workers hoped to complete the effort, first reconnecting Unit 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/3fa9fdc78d3b9e42" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/3fa9fdc78d3b9e42" /></a></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also Friday, the Group of Seven major industrialized countries agreed to support Japan — whose infrastructure and industries were badly battered by the disasters — by intervening in currency markets. The group did not say what it would do but the efforts would likely focus on weakening the Japanese yen, which has risen this week. A strong yen could make Japanese exports less competitive, crimping any recovery.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The quake and unfolding nuclear crisis have led to power shortages in Japan, forced auto and other factories to close, sending shockwaves through global manufacturing and trade, and triggered a plunge in Japanese stock prices.</div></div><div><h1 style="color: black; font-size: 2.5em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Japan disaster dead, missing toll tops 16,600: police</h1></div><div><br />
</div><div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The number of people confirmed dead in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan has hit 6,539, surpassing the toll from the massive tremor in Kobe in 1995, police said on Friday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_horizontal/article-images/RTR2JTM1.jpg.crop_display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_horizontal/article-images/RTR2JTM1.jpg.crop_display.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The number of people unaccounted for rose slightly to 10,354, putting the combined total of dead and missing at 16,893, the National Police Agency said in its latest update. A total of 2,513 people were injured.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In January 1995, a 7.2-magnitude quake struck the western Japanese port city of Kobe, killing 6,434 people.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/ff87cdcaf14902e2" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/ff87cdcaf14902e2" /></a><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_vertical/article-images/heli.jpg.crop_display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_vertical/article-images/heli.jpg.crop_display.jpg" width="174" /></a>The March 11 quake is now Japan's deadliest natural disaster since the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed more than 142,000 people.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The toll from the disaster one week ago has increased steadily in recent days, and reports suggest it could eventually be much higher.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The mayor of the coastal town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture said late Wednesday that the number of missing there was likely to hit 10,000, Kyodo News reported.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Saturday, public broadcaster NHK reported that around 10,000 people were unaccounted for in the port town of Minamisanriku in the same prefecture.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amid a mass rescue effort there were grim updates indicating severe loss of life along the battered east coast of Honshu island, where the monster waves destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes and other buildings.</div></div><div><br />
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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/f50b75fdf24dffca" /></a>The 9.0-magnitude tremor and killer tsunami which struck on March 11 are feared to have caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to the world's third-largest economy, although the full impact is still far from clear.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/70ebba469d4c6402" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/70ebba469d4c6402" /></a>The four worst affected prefectures account for about six to seven per cent of the Japanese economy, Barclays Capital analysts estimate.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The calamity has already taken a heavy toll on the industrial sector, with corporate titans such as Toyota and Sony suspending factory output.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The economy will undoubtedly contract sharply in the near term due to shocks to both supply and demand," said Morgan Stanley economist Takehiro Sato.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But history suggests that the economic impact of natural disasters such as major quakes is usually temporary and mitigated by reconstruction efforts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/c37d3d850a1a8ab4" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/c37d3d850a1a8ab4" /></a></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"In the near term, damage to Japan's nuclear power plants, transport system, and infrastructure will disrupt energy, water, and other production inputs, crippling activity across both the industrial and service sectors," analysts at Moody's Analytics wrote in a research note.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The situation in Japan will improve in the third quarter, when reconstruction efforts financed by emergency public spending will help lift growth," they added.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But the fear of a major disaster at a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant which released radiation into the atmosphere after a series of explosions has taken the Japanese economy into uncharted territory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/4ec218cc2a4e5240" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/4ec218cc2a4e5240" /></a></div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Given the uncertain probabilities associated with a calamitous nuclear event, the markets have responded with a push of the panic button," said David Zervos, head of global fixed income strategy at broker Jefferies and Co.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tokyo stocks suffered the biggest two-day sell-off for 24 years on Monday and Tuesday, plunging 16 per cent, although they have since showed signs of stabilising as the central bank pumped massive funds in the financial system.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The fear is that a full-blown nuclear catastrophe would have long-lasting effects on the economy, particularly consumer sentiment and food exports.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/7e052a19e2cb2736" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/7e052a19e2cb2736" /></a>Electricity blackouts could also lead to prolonged disruption to production of cars, flat-screen televisions and electronic gadgets key to Japanese growth.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The big uncertainty about this disaster is that roughly 10 percent of electricity generation capacity (both nuclear and coal) may be off line for a few months, until oil- and gas-fired plants can ramp up," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at US consultancy firm IHS.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"In the near-term, this could have major negative ramifications for the Japanese industrial sectors," he warned.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_horizontal/article-images/Forex%20Tokyo.jpg.crop_display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_horizontal/article-images/Forex%20Tokyo.jpg.crop_display.jpg" width="320" /></a>Another major concern is the strength of the yen, which has hit a record high against the dollar - a move Tokyo has blamed on speculators betting that Japanese firms will repatriate funds from overseas to help fund reconstruction.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A stronger currency can have a severe impact on Japan's key export sector.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Damage to roads, bridges, sea and air ports as well as power plants suggests the economic damage from the quake is likely to be several tens of trillions of yen (hundreds of billion of dollars), said analysts at Morgan Stanley.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the wake of the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 which levelled much of the Japanese port city of Kobe, industrial output quickly bounced back after an initial slump, while massive stimulus spending helped to support the economy.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The latest disaster comes with Japan's economy already in the doldrums, struggling to recover from the 1990s "lost decade" and the global economic slump sparked by the 2007-2008 crisis.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/8dc76649e1fc01f0" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/8dc76649e1fc01f0" /></a>The initial shock of the latest disaster "might pull the economy back into recession territory," warned analysts at Standard and Poor's.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/8115b97b881315d0" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/8115b97b881315d0" /></a>Japan's economy contracted by an annualised 1.3 per cent in the final quarter of 2010 and Credit Agricole economist Susumu Kato said growth was now likely to shrink for three straight quarters, falling into a "temporal recession."</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"As consumers become even more careful and increase precautionary saving for rainy days, that will sharply weigh on private consumption in those quarters," Kato said.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But reconstruction activities from the July-September quarter will result in a return to positive growth thereafter, he added.</div><div style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/8eedf397222ffc74" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/8eedf397222ffc74" /></a>Repairing the damage inflicted by the earthquake is expected to set back Japan's efforts to reduce what is the industrialised world's biggest debt, at around 200 per cent of gross domestic product, and may require tax increases.</div></div><div><br />
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Nokia, Microsoft to attack Google, Apple

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market as the Finnish cellphone maker attempts to regain its leading position in the sector.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/52b31cde103a468a" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/52b31cde103a468a" /></a></div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/f5cd41852d83c93a" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/f5cd41852d83c93a" /></a><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/7712eff1de675b96" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/7712eff1de675b96" /></a>Nokia said it would use Windows Phone as the software platform for its smartphones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop's overhaul of the world's biggest cellphone maker.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">"Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to deliver an ecosystem with unrivalled global reach and scale. It's now a three-horse race," Elop said ahead of an investor day in London.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/7b6fca10b15cfd3a" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/7b6fca10b15cfd3a" /></a></div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Investors were not convinced by Elop's eagerly anticipated strategy announcement and shares in Nokia tumbled more than 11 per cent as the market reacted to Nokia' saying that 2011 and 2012 would be 'transition years' as it built up the partnership.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Friday's deal marks a major breakthrough for Microsoft after years of struggling to establish itself in wireless. Its Windows Phone had a mere two per cent market share in the last quarter.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is widely recognised by industry experts as a leading edge technology but has not yet gained success among consumers.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">"This is a partnership born out of both parties' fear of marginalisation at the hands of Apple and Google but there is no silver bullet," said analyst Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Nokia has rapidly lost share in the higher-margin smartphone market to Apple's iPhone, and products based on Google's Android platform, which claimed the top spot from the company last quarter.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">"This is a very frank admission that Nokia's platform strategy has failed and underlines the seriousness of Nokia's position. Such a move would have been unthinkable just 12 months ago," Blaber added.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">In a bid to stem Nokia's losses, Chairman Jorma Ollila brought Elop in from Microsoft last September. The 47-year-old is the first non-Finn to head the company.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Nokia said in a statement it would stick with its current management team, with only one senior executive to leave. There had been speculation of a wider cull at the company.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Nokia also said it would use Microsoft's Bing search engine across its cellphones, potentially opening up a huge market for Microsoft as it seeks to build up its challenge to Google as the world's leading search engine.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Analysts said the Finnish company, which invested billions of dollars in building up mobile internet services under its previous CEO, had effectively admitted defeat in its services strategy by joining forces with Microsoft.</div></div>

Nokia, Microsoft to attack Google, Apple

Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market as the Finnish cellphone maker attempt...

Samsung beats Apple to second tablet computer

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Samsung launched a second tablet computer on Sunday, with a bigger screen and more processing power than the original Galaxy Tab that is seen as the only real rival to Apple's iPad.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/16632459c3873aec" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/16632459c3873aec" /></a><a href="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/084afbb4e9e97c84" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a04.yimg.com/nimage/084afbb4e9e97c84" /></a>The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is intended to be a multimedia hub for afficionados of games, electronic books and social media, with a 10.1 inch (25.7 centimetre) screen, dual surround-sound speakers, and front- and rear-facing cameras.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">The tablet, with two core processors to better handle media, is based on the latest Google Android platform, Honeycomb - which has been optimised for tablets.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">It will be sold by Vodafone in more than 20 countries before being released to other carriers.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Samsung, now the world's second-biggest phone maker after Nokia, also launched a new premium smartphone, the ultra-slim Galaxy S II, designed around hubs for social networking, reading, games and music.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/641fbb16aa5cd6f8" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/641fbb16aa5cd6f8" /></a></div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">South Korean electronics giant Samsung, whose telecoms division accounted for nearly half its profit last quarter, has sold around 10 million Galaxy S smartphones since its June 2010 debut, and 2 million Galaxy tablets.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">It still has a long way to catch up with Apple, which sold more than 7 million iPads and 16.2 million iPhones last quarter alone, but is gaining ground on Nokia, which announced a crucial tie-up with Microsoft on Friday.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">"If I were (chief executive) Stephen Elop heading up Nokia, I would be looking over my shoulder at Samsung and feeling extremely nervous," said Ben Wood, lead analyst at telecoms research firm CCS Insight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/9362e77434bfbbae" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/9362e77434bfbbae" /></a></div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Samsung also announced a range of enterprise services compatible with its two new devices, to address some of the security concerns that have held Android phones back from a serious challenge to Research in Motion's.</div></div>

Samsung beats Apple to second tablet computer

Samsung launched a second tablet computer on Sunday, with a bigger screen and more processing power than the original Galaxy Tab that is se...

Video shows Apple CEO in pain

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">A new video of Jobs, reportedly affected with terminal pancreatic cancer, shows how painful it has become for him to take even a few steps.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Video footage and photographs have emerged online that show Jobs walking from a cafe in Palo Alto with his wife Laurene on February 8.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">As his wife gets in at the driver's side of the car, Jobs moves unsteadily towards the passenger side door. At one stage, his left foot crosses over in front of his right, forcing him to step widely to regain his balance. Opening the car door and lowering his tall frame into the seat seems to be an apparently painful process. Jobs also momentarily appears to rest against the door, says media reports.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">The video was first published on US website RadarOnline.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Jobs, 55, stepped away from the Apple administration on medical leave. The company has so far refused to provide any details on his health, or comment on the recent reports, or say when he might return from leave.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">In 2004, Jobs had surgery for a neuroendocrine tumour on his pancreas. He also had a liver transplant in 2009.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/fc03ca85500086fc" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/fc03ca85500086fc" /></a>The National Enquirer earlier said Jobs was receiving treatment at the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tim Cook is running Apple's day-to-day operations while Jobs is on leave.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Jobs has been seen in recent weeks in the Apple campus in Cupertino, California.</div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">Jobs last week attended a meeting with Obama along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/dbba92fb679cb05c" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thm-a02.yimg.com/nimage/dbba92fb679cb05c" /></a></div><div id="p-tag" style="color: #464646; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;">A physician named Samuel Jacobson had said: "Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks."</div></div>

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