London: Although pop-ups on a computer screen may only last a few seconds, they tend to set back our performance, say researchers. Helen Hodgetts and Dylan Jones, professor of psychology at Cardiff University, examined the cost of such interruptions in terms of the time taken to complete a simple seven-step computer task. “Our findings suggest [...]
December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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New Delhi : The Prime Minister has apologised in Parliament for the controversial remark by a Congress MP against former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Prime Minister said, “I was not in the House yesterday, but got to know that some untoward incident in the house in regard to Vajpayeeji …I apologise for that.” [...]
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London: A new database enabling visitors to search for spoken English ranging from people talking to their dogs to ministers addressing their congregation is being created at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory. Professor John Coleman and his team are one of four teams to win the ‘Digging into Data’ competition set up to encourage imaginative, [...]
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MARSEILLE: Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo turned on the style with Real Madrid on Tuesday as the Spanish giants advanced with ease to the Madrid knock-out round of the Champions League with a 3-1 victory at Marseille. A double from Ronaldo and a Raul Albiol goal ensured the nine-time European champions lead the way in their [...]
December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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After the poor attendance in Lok Sabha last week, some members in Rajya Sabha too bunked the session on Tuesday. When 6 MPs against whom questions were listed did not bother to show up for the Question Hour, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari was left to wonder if the virus had spread to [...]
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Mumbai: Bollywood actress Sameera Reddy goes hot and sexy for the latest issue of Maxim magazine. The Bollywood beauty has almost shown her assets during photo session for the magazine in a deep-neck black top. Sameera never looked so hot before this. For the December issue of ‘Maxim’ cover, Sameera has also given several hot [...]
December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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The first episode of NDTV Imagine’s new sensational reality show ‘Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka’ aired on Monday night. Bhopal’s Swati Singh was taken back to her past life by noted psychologist Dr. Trupti Jayin. Swati Singh got the explanation for her fear of height and air travel when she was taken back to past life [...]
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Mountain View: Google began adding real time results to its Internet search engine on Monday, channeling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries. “We are here today to announce Google real time search,” Google fellow Amit Singhal said at a press event held near the firm’s headquarters in Mountain [...]
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Beijing: Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday. However, the censors’ latest campaign against content that harms public morality appears to have encouraged Internet users to look for porn online. Within the first 24 hours, a hotline [...]
December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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New Delhi: The Question Hour in Lok Sabha went off smoothly on Monday with just five MPs, who had given notice to ask questions, remaining absent. Proceedings during Question Hour had collapsed Monday last week because of absentee members. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs GM Siddeshwara, Sudarshan Bhagat and Sumitra Mahajan, Congress MP from Andhra [...]
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