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Britons spend 1 month of their lives looking for TV remote!

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sept 18 (ANI): Britons waste one month of their lives searching for the television remote control, a new study has found.

After studying 4,000 individuals, the researchers found that the average viewer loses it an average of 3.2 times a week and spends more than four minutes looking for it each time, reports The Scotsman.

That means each week Brits spend 15 minutes hunting for the device.

Kathryn Drought, of Sky, who led the study to launch the broadcaster’s Free Weekend Pass, said: “The remote control is such a well-used item in the nation’s homes.

“It’s one of those things we’re forever trying to find – normally down the back of the sofa.

“TV plays such a big part in our lives. It’s not surprising who is in control of the remote is such a hot household topic.”

Three in ten volunteers admitted hiding the remote from a partner or housemate, and 17 per cent have thrown it at someone in a fit of “remote rage”, the study found. (ANI)

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Naked women are acceptable on daytime TV in UK, rules watchdog

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 25 (ANI): Television watchdog Ofcom has ruled that a Channel 4 life-drawing programme, which features naked female models, is acceptable for lunchtime viewing.

The Channel 4 programme drew dozens of complains from its viewers over the content of ‘Life Class: Today’s Nude’, which had been broadcast daily at 12.30pm over a week in July.It was adult viewing, not for screening in the middle of the day,” the Telegraph quoted one viewer as saying, after tuning in to the programme in which artists guided students through various drawing techniques.

But Ofcom rejected the 37 complaints, and ruled that the channel did not breach broadcasting guidelines, and it even wrote to every complainant explaining that the nudity was justified.

“Life drawing is a well-known and respected form of art. In Ofcom’s view, although the images of nudity were broadcast for long periods of time, they were not presented in a sexualised manner and were clearly justified by the context, given the editorial purpose of the series,” the letter read.

The programme was broadcast during school term time, and was not aimed at children, the watchdog said, adding that each episode was prefaced by a warning about its content.

Clips from the show are still available on the Channel 4 website, but viewers must click a box to confirm they are over 16 before they can watch the footage.

Channel 4 declined to comment on Ofcom’s decision. (ANI)

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Carnivorous clock that tells time by killing bugs!

July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 3 (ANI): Two artists in London have come up with a bizarre invention in the form of a ‘carnivorous digital clock’, which catches bugs, then dissolves their bodies to create electrolytes to power itself.

A strip of sticky flypaper moves in a loop over the surface of the unit, much like a treadmill or moving sidewalk.

When an insect lands on the paper, it’s trapped and slowly moves toward its final destination, a drop-off into a bath full of carnivorous microbes that break down its body.

“As soon as there is a predatory robot in the room the scene becomes loaded with potential,” artist James Auger told New Scientist magazine.

“A fly buzzing around the window suddenly becomes an actor in a live game of life, as the viewer half wills it towards the robot and half hopes for it to escape,” he added.

Auger and his collaborative partner Jimmy Loizeau have also built a coffee table that catches and kills mice, and a light that lures buzzing moths to their dooms. (ANI)

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Super Car Club launched in Mumbai

June 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, June 22 (ANI): A mere glimpse of a well-designed and exotic car can “bring smile on the face of the viewer”. With these words as its inspiration, uxury sedan enthusiasts launched a ‘Super Car Club in Mumbai on Sunday.

Now people can watch some of the hot and fastest machines of the world like Ferrari, Audi, BMW, Lamborghini and Porsche under one roof.

“It gives an opportunity to car lovers and car owners to come and meet people who have similar thoughts and hobbies. It also provides a platform to enjoy and share opinion on cars,” said Dinesh Lal, a member of club.

This elite club is the brainchild of industrialist Gautam Singhania.

“I have spoken to the Ministry of Tourism that every year we have a Mumbai Super Car Parade, so many people from all over should come and see it as it happens in many countries of the world. I feel that when you see a super car no matter what mood you are in, it puts a smile on your face,” he said.

This nascent club is in talks with Superstar clubs across Europe and America to organise automotive related events. (ANI)

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Now, you can recommend places to click on Mars!

May 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Arizona State University (ASU) researchers and scientists have created a new feature for Google Earth 5.0, which would enable anyone, anywhere, to recommend places on Mars to photograph.

Google Earth 5.0 is the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.

The ASU team has created two new features for the application, one of which lets anyone, anywhere, recommend places on Mars to photograph with ASU’s THEMIS (Thermal Emission Imaging System) camera on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.

The second new feature shows the most recent infrared images of Mars sent back to Earth from the THEMIS camera.HEMIS is the Thermal Emission Imaging System, a multiband infrared and visual camera designed at ASU by Dr. Philip Christensen.

According to Dr. Christensen, “These two features, developed by our staff in cooperation with programmers at Google, will help everyone have a lot more fun exploring the Red Planet. It’s public engagement at its best.”

“We wanted to give the general public a way to suggest places on Mars for THEMIS to photograph,” he added.

“Using the new feature, people can recommend sites, and these recommendations go to mission scientists who will decide what areas THEMIS images. If a public suggestion matches what the researchers choose, we’ll notify the person who suggested the site and let them see the image as soon as we do,” he further added.

To suggest a place for THEMIS to photograph, viewers need two things: Google Earth 5.0 and a file that is updated each week giving the spacecraft’s Mars orbital ground track.

To get the orbital track, users should go to http://suggest.mars.asu.edu and follow the simple steps to register.

With the orbital track file downloaded, viewers start Google Earth and switch the globe to Mars (via the Planets toolbar button, which resembles the planet Saturn). Then, viewers open the orbital track file from within Google Earth.

Viewers can also just double-click on the orbital file once Google Earth has been set to Mars as its planet.

The places where THEMIS can take images during the coming week appear as stripes wrapped onto the Martian globe.

Viewers click on stripe segments to recommend places for THEMIS to photograph.

“Each viewer can make up to 10 imaging suggestions per week,” said Christian Yates, software engineer at the Mars Space Flight Facility. (ANI)

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LG launches two music centric phones – GM200 and KM335 – in India

April 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Superb fusion of music, style, design, and exclusive features, the GM200 and the KM335 are the two new phones that LG has recently launched in the Indian market. The LG GM200 and the LG KM335 are the music centric phones offering unique and unexampled audio experience.

Lets start with the LG GM200, the first Dolby Mobile with powerful bass extensions from LG. Offering high class music experience with rich surround sound, the GM200 features 2.1 Channel woofer stereo sound, with subwoofer and dual side speakers. The wireless FM radio feature, which facilitates listening songs without the hassles of a headset, is one of the remarkable features the phone. The GM200 phone also allows users to record their favorite songs from the FM and set them as ringtones.

The GM200 is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera, with video recording capabilities and video playback feature. The GM200 also features amazing profiling with auto ringtone level and ambient noise sensor. The other features of the phone include MP3 hot key, document viewer, Bluetooth connectivity, GPRS, 3.5mm jack, and 1GB of memory. The battery of the phone offers a talktime of upto 10 hours and a standby time of upto 600 hours. The LG GM200 is priced at Rs.8250.

The LG KM335 is the phone that amplifies music entertainment with its unique AM/FM radio feature and dual stereo speaker. The KM335 allows users to tune into their favorite radio station and keep themselves in touch with the latest music. The phone features shortcut hot keys for FM radio and MP3 player offering instant access to music features.

The LG KM335 features a 2.0 inch TFT LCD screen and a 3 megapixel camera with flash, capable of video recording at 15 fps, playback at 30 fps. The phone offers 90 MB of internal memory, which can be enhanced upto 8GB. The phone is powered by 1100mAh battery, capable of offering talktime of upto 9.5 hours and a standby time of upto 600 hours. Priced at Rs.9,250, the LG KM335 is available in three different colors champagne, wine and black.

The LG GM200 and the LG KM335 are the latest to join the ever-swelling LG lineup of the mobile phones in India. The LG GM200 and the LG KM335 are available at the LG retail outlets throughout the country.

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Vdopia launches VDO labs for video advertising research

March 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar 2 (ANI/Business Wire India): Vdopia, the largest Video Ad Network and Video Ad Platform focused on Indians across the globe, today announced launching of VDO Labs.

The research lab will focus exclusively on taking video advertising experience to the next level by creating innovations around video content.

VDO Labs is building revolutionary ad formats such as Skin Branding, Skin Branding with product placement, and Skin Branding with overlay.

Vdopia’s proprietary Dynamic Skin Branding technology allows the video player skin to change dynamically according to the targeting criteria specified by the advertiser. With this launch, advertisers can now target online video consumers with contextual, interactive advertising for every second of video watched.

In addition to the already successful pre roll ad format, Vdopia’s propietary ‘Dynamic Skin Branding’ ad format delivers continuous brand visibility, highly measurable viewer engagement and extended call to action opportunity for advertisers, without interrupting the video viewing experience of the user.

The innovative ad formats powered by VDO Labs are the most compelling interactive display advertising formats delivered in a customizable Flash ‘skin’ integrated around the video player.

So far, Vdopia has successfully executed the Dynamic Skin Branding ad format for India’s biggest brands like Tata Sky, Big TV, Godrej LCD and many others. This ad format has been the hottest advertising format for both performance and branding clients.

Online video advertising in India is set to grow at 300 per cent in 2009, according to Ernst and Young and has 85 per cent brand recall compared with 54 per cent for the same ad on the television. Vdopia is leading this revolution and is committed to increasing brand recall even further using its technology and innovations.

Chhavi Upadhyay, Chief Operating Officer of Vdopia said, “We have run controlled tests through certain campaigns on our network and our results indicate several fold increase in the campaign performance when these ad formats are shown together on a video, it is almost as if these formats resonate with each other providing advertisers tremendous value.”

Skin Branding delivers more effective monetization of online video content for publishers. The proprietary integrated ad and media player technology is immune to the negative effects of ‘banner blindness’ by delivering extended brand visibility and the advertising exposure is measurable for every second of ad viewed.

Skin Branding advertisements are served each time a new video or application starts and at specified intervals during long-form video content. Vdopia provides complete creative support to deliver the desired campaign objectives.

Saurabh Bhatia, Chief Business Officer of Vdopia said, “The fully customizable ‘skin’ also presents unlimited creative ability for advertisers to include interactive features and functionality such as promotional videos, animated expansion banners, games, contact forms, product downloads and purchases, plus basic click-throughs.” (ANI)

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Vdopia launches VDO labs for video advertising research

March 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar 2 (ANI/Business Wire India): Vdopia, the largest Video Ad Network and Video Ad Platform focused on Indians across the globe, today announced launching of VDO Labs.

The research lab will focus exclusively on taking video advertising experience to the next level by creating innovations around video content.

VDO Labs is building revolutionary ad formats such as Skin Branding, Skin Branding with product placement, and Skin Branding with overlay.

The innovative ad formats powered by VDO Labs are the most compelling interactive display advertising formats delivered in a customizable Flash ‘skin’ integrated around the video player.

Andrew Sachs may have ‘cheeky pop’ at Russell Brand on UK show ‘Countdown’

January 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, January 2 (ANI): Andrew Sachs may get back at prankster Russell Brand on British TV letters-and-numbers game show ‘Countdown.’

The 78-year-old had received four messages on his home phone from RJ Brand and DJ Jonathan Ross claiming the former had slept with his granddaughter.

The infamous October incident, in which Brand spoke of his prior sexual relationship with the goth-styled model while Ross passed lewd comments, had led to a record number of complaints and criticism resulting in the suspension of both presenters from their positions at the BBC Radio 2.

Now, the ‘Fawlty Towers’ actor may use the chance to settle scores with trouble-making duo, reports the Daily Star.

Fans are contemplating that the German-born Brit might intentionally spell out the words SACK + ROSS, DOPE + BRAND or PRANK + CALL – to have his revenge.

One viewer said: “It’s going to be must-see telly to find out if he has a dig at them. It’s going to be so tempting for him with all those letters to hand.” (ANI)

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On film, US black presidents abound

November 3, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

Los Angeles – Barack Obama is hoping to become the first African American president of the United States in Tuesday’s election, but plenty of black actors have blazed a path for him – at least in the alternative reality of Hollywood.

Fans of the hit thriller 24 can no doubt recall the ever-cool and assuring presence of President David Palmer, who was played by Dennis Haysbert.

But probably far fewer remember that Sammy Davis Jr also played a child who becomes president in the 1933 satire Rufus Jones for President.

Watching that would probably do little to assure voters that an African American is worthy of the country’s highest office. Davis Jr was only nine at the time and the 21-minute movie is packed with cringe-worthy stereotypes. The child-president is most often seen eating chicken and watermelon, playing dice and buying votes with pork chops.

A clip from the movie is currently making the rounds on YouTube, prompting some incredulous comments from viewers about the talents of its young star and the current political situation. “Amazing commentary on how far we’ve come as Americans,” said one viewer.

If Haysbert’s Palmer gave a reassuring view of a black man in the White House, other black presidents have had more in common with Rufus Jones.

Comedians like Chris Rock and Richard Pryor have often belittled the idea of having a black man as president. In one skit, Pryor played a president who wanted to install a member of the Black Panthers as director of the FBI, and almost punches a man who inadvertently insults his mother.

In the 2003 film Head of State, Mays Gilliam is a former community organizer who dresses in baggy jeans, talks in hip hop slang and hires various individuals such as a KKK member to endorse his opponent.

More ominously for Obama, Danny Glover will play a black president in the apocalyptic movie 2012. The upcoming film by Independence Day director Roland Emmerich has a black president elected in 2008, whose misfortune it is to be ruling just as the Mayan prophecy about the end of time comes to pass four years later.

If Obama were looking for a role model in Hollywood, he could find one in James Earl Jones, who makes a convincing leader in the 1972 film, The Man, when he gets the world’s most powerful job after the entire cabinet perishes in a series of freak accidents.

Another inspiration is Morgan Freeman in the 1998 Deep Impact, as he calms the nation and saves the planet from a hurtling asteroid. His feats in that film earned him second place in a poll of America’s favourite movie presidents, trailing only Harrison Ford in the movie Air Force One.

“It seems everybody is looking for a commander-in-chief who can come in and take command,” said Scott Robson, editor-in-chief of Moviephone, which conducted the poll mid-October. “Our readers voted with their hearts at a time when you have the economy going down the tubes, but in an ideal world it would be great to have a president who can kick some ass.” (dpa)

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