Humor Can Soothe Dementia Patients

Humor can reduce agitated behavior in patients with dementia (dementia) by 20 percent. Nervous behaviors such as wandering, screaming and repetitive behavior. Unfortunately nurses dementia patients often forget the influence of this humor to therapy patients. Many studies have shown positive effects for healthy laugh. Scientific evidence has shown laughter can lower blood pressure and increase tolerance to pain. Research conducted by researchers from New South Wales in Australia shows that humor can reduce agitated behavior in dementia patients as much as 20 percent. A total of 400 residents of nursing homes that most of the experience...

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Apple to Announce New iPhone

  Finally, it’s here. After months of speculation about timing, shape and sizes, Apple sent out media invites Tuesday for a special event on Apple’s campus next week. The invitation was sparse, with the headline simply saying: “Let’s talk iPhone.” The event is Oct. 4 and will be at Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Calif. The invitation says it will begin with a “breakfast and coffee bar at 9 a.m.,” followed by an “executive presentation at 10 a.m.” According to sources and rumors sprinkled all over the Web, the event will be held to announce the next generation iPhone 5. The next generation iPhone is expected to...

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Really Frequent Drinking Can Damage Kidneys Soda?

Really Frequent Drinking Can Damage Kidneys Soda? Become soda craze many people that it tastes good and refreshing. But did you know that drinking soda craze can damage the kidneys?If the kidneys are functioning properly, about 200 liters of blood is filtered through these organs and the kidneys each day will spend about 2 liters of urine. Functioning kidneys produce hormones that control the production of new red blood cells and helps to regulate blood pressure.Small filters in the kidneys called nephrons separates waste products from the blood and restore electrolytes such as phosphorus, sodium and potassium back into the blood stream...

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Facebook iPad App Still Snagged in Negotiations

screenshot via TechCrunch Images of the Facebook iPad application were leaked to TechCrunch earlier this year. It was almost ready to make its long-awaited debut. In June, I reported that the Facebook iPad application had been in the works for almost a year and was essentially complete. According to people briefed on Facebook’s plans at the time, the app was scheduled to be available in the Apple iTunes store a couple of weeks later. It never appeared. No big announcement. No shiny new iPad application. Just silence. The app, it turns out, had become the hostage of a tense negotiation between Facebook and Apple executives for a...

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Google's Biggest Threat Is Google

Google faces antitrust inquiries and competition from all corners. But its biggest threat is Google itself, Larry Page, its chief executive and co-founder, said Tuesday.There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions, Mr. Page said in a rare public appearance at Google™s Zeitgeist conference in Paradise Valley, Ariz. There are only companies that have good fast decisions. As companies get bigger, they slow down decision making, and that's a big problem.It's a problem he has tried to address since he took over as chief executive from Eric E. Schmidt in April.He's in there doing that, forcing the choice and forcing the resolution, Mr. Schmidt, now Google's chairman, said at the conference.Mr. Page is also working on integrating all of Google's products and improving their user...

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Seamless Acquires Menupages in Race for Restaurants

As they compete to appeal to their couch-bound clientele, online food ordering services have been in a race to add restaurants to their databases as quickly as possible. Seamless, one of the leaders in the market, has added a big pile all at once by acquiring Menupages for an undisclosed amount, in a deal it is announcing Monday. (GrubHub is its main rival.) Seamless currently offers a single service: the ability to order food through a Web site or a mobile app. By acquiring Menupages, the company hopes to bring in customers who are looking for general restaurant information, rather than just those who are hoping to start eating within 45 minutes. Menupages has a database of over 35,000 menus, and a system for transcribing and updating this information, according to Jonathan Zabusky, the...

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Why Need Systems Security on Mobile Phones?

The penetration of mobile users who sped by quickly, making the security system in this gadget is absolutely necessary. A number of antivirus vendors had already started to pay attention to this.In the arena of discussion 'How Secure Is Your Android Phone' that was held in Aldevco Octagon House on Wednesday (21/09/2011) night, Jason Mok, Consumer Sales Manager of Symantec explained several reasons why cell phones have extra security."We have users that use mobile phones for browsing and access to Facebook's more than that using a computer," Jason said to the participants who attended the discussion.Jason also claims that the amount of malware that attack mobile phones continues to increase, especially for mobile phones based on Android that the number of users continues to increase rapidly."That's...

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Twitter can now post photos via SMS

Twitter seems to attempt to meet the needs of users who have not used a smartphone. Microblogging site that allows posting of photos now by sending short messages (SMS).Previously, Twitter is already allowing updates via SMS. Users also can receive Twitter updates via SMS without having to open a Twitter account. However, this facility has not been able to send pictures without the aid of mobile Twitter application.Nevertheless, the interest of users is large enough. Since Twitter supports updates via SMS to the user, as reported by Reuters on Thursday (09/22/2011), about 4 billion SMS sent and received each month Twitter.Innovation also continues to accommodate the photo posting services via SMS. It's just that this facility is only available for 6 countries by cooperating with nine different...

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Google Doodle Honors Jim Henson and Friendly Monsters

Saturday marks what would have been the 75th birthday of Jim Henson, the puppet pioneer and beloved conductor of many a fuzzy childhood friend, from Big Bird to the Cookie Monster. In his honor, today’s Google Doodle, which represents the company logo on the search engine’s home page, is an interactive puppet show, designed by Google and the Jim Henson Company. Here’s a video from those two companies describing their collaboration on the doodle, as well as the prolific puppeteer’s creative process. Mr. Henson was one of the driving creative forces behind two of television’s most iconic children’s programs. The first, “Sesame...

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Yahoo Review Will Take Months

Yahoo’s co-founders and its chairman have acknowledged that it would take “months, not weeksâ€� to complete a strategic review of company’s business, implying that any decision about reviving or selling the Web portal could take some time. The message, from the co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, along with Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s chairman, came in an e-mail to employees on Friday that was intended to dispel a myriad of reports in the media about Yahoo’s future. Yahoo has been buffeted in recent weeks by technologythe firing of its chief executive, Carol A. Bartz, after a rocky two and a half year tenure during which she failed to turn around the struggling company. “While we will move with a sense of urgency, this process will take time,â€� the memo said. “Months, not weeks....

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Meg Whitman’s Other Problem: The Economy

Mike Nelson/European Pressphoto AgencyMeg Whitman said weaknesses in the sales of printer cartridges is a concern. As much as any damage caused by Léo Apotheker’s inability to successfully communicate or execute his decisions during his 11-month tenure atop Hewlett-Packard, new chief executive Meg Whitman is concerned about what has happened to H.P.’s competitive environment. “The pace of change has acceleratedâ€� around H.P., Ms. Whitman said in an interview Thursday evening. “We have to anticipate, and anticipate and anticipate the trends.â€� These include the shift from PCs to tablets like the Apple iPad and the rise of low-cost...

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A World's Smallest Camera, Measuring 1 Inch

A world's smallest camera successfully created. Despite its size no bigger than a fingertip, but he could operate like a normal-sized camera.This camera only has a size of 1 inch and weighs 28 grams. But do not underestimate the size because he can take a picture of 2 megapixels and can record video.Manufacturing pembesutnya the Hammacher Schlememr membanderol mini gadget is priced at USD 99.95. Fred Berns, general manager of the factory, based in New York, said, "This is a remarkable tool and we hope he can popular on the market".The resulting image from the camera shots are JPEG format with a resolution of 1600 x 1200. Quoted from dailymail...

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Yahoo Wants People to Share

Yahoo is making its news more social.A new service introduced on Thursday will let users see and share which Yahoo news articles they and their Facebook friends have read.By showing what are essentially recommendations, Yahoo is hoping that people will click on more articles. Friends are more likely to have common interests and would therefore have similar reading tastes, the theory goes.“You’ll be able to discover content through the lens of your friends,” said Blake Irving, who leads Yahoo’s products.The new service was timed to Facebook’s F8 conference in San Francisco on Thursday, where Facebook unveiled its latest enhancements. Yahoo’s new service comes as the company struggles to revive its business, despite having more than 600 million users globally. Advertising revenue...

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Warby Parker Raises Money to Sell Prescription Glasses Online

technology/22bits-glasses/22bits-glasses-blog480.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="261" />Noel CamardoWarby Parker has surprised skeptics by building a business that sells stylish prescription eyeglasses online.Now it has raised $12 million in venture capital, bringing its total to $13.5 million, to help it expand and manage the demand for the glasses. The money came from Tiger Global, the Menlo Talent Fund and existing investors including Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital and First Round Capital.The start-up, which is based in New York and opened last year, technology/17glasses.html">taps into two trends in e-commerce. It eliminates the middleman...

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Tech Talk Podcast: Browsing by Texting

Smartphones and tablets have changed the way people get information from the Web, but not everyone has, wants or can afford an expensive mobile device. But what if you could use a basic feature available on almost every cellphone to get information from Web sites just by sending simple text messages? Stefan Gromoll, a former astrophysicist and now a co-founder of the company Dotgo, explains just how to do that with the technology he helped develop.While hacktivist collectives like Anonymous seem to be getting the most attention, regular old black-hat hackers continue to quietly steal money and take over computers around the world. David Perry, the global director of education at Trend Micro, reveals details of the recent exploits of a Russian hacker with the handle Soldier who managed to...

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Google Says It Plays Fair

In written testimony to a Senate antitrust panel where he will testify Wednesday afternoon, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, describes the search giant as a company facing fierce competition on many fronts, a relentless innovator in a dynamic industry and a creation of the open Internet so consumers can easily switch to competing services. Google generates wealth for itself, he writes, but even more in total for small businesses across America. And he portrays the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust investigation of Google, begun earlier this year, as largely the result of complaints by disgruntled competitors. Google is cooperating with the wide-ranging F.T.C. inquiry, Mr. Schmidt writes, and adds “we hope it will be conducted in a focused and fair manner so that we can continue...

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One in Three Texters Would Rather Text Than Talk

My 3-year-old told my husband the other day to send me a text message. She intuitively understood that I prefer to see his words on my screen than hear his voice. Texts are discreet. Texts are pithy.A sampling of marital chatter: “Still at playground;” “Detergent finished;” and regrettably, “Working much longer?”Texts avoid conflict. He could have picked up the phone and yelled: “Maybe if you weren’t working all the time you could remember to buy some laundry detergent.”Apparently I am not alone. Nearly three out of four Americans send text messages on the phone and among those who do, 31 percent prefer texting to talking, according to a study released Monday by the Pew Research Center.Those numbers are even more pronounced for younger people. Cellphone owners between the...

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GrubHub Raises Another $50 Million, Acquires Dotmenu

GrubHub, a service that allows users to order takeout or delivery food from their computers or through mobile applications, has raised $50 million in venture capital. The company, which raised a previous round of $20 million six months ago, will also announce Tuesday that it has acquired Dotmenu, another online food delivery network.technology/20bits-grubhub/20bits-grubhub-articleInline.jpg" alt="GrubHub says it has handled $200 million in delivery and pickup orders since 2004." width="190" height="209" />Todd Heisler/The New York TimesGrubHub says it has handled $200 million in delivery and pickup orders since 2004.GrubHub has established...

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Without Jobs, Apple Shares Hit All-Time High

Chris Hondros/Getty Images Timothy D. Cook took over Apple a month ago.At the end of regular trading Monday, Apple shares closed at $411.63, up 2.78 percent, with a new record-high market valuation of $381.62 billion. It is now clearly the most valuable company on the stock market, displacing Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $358.34 billion.Mind you, Apple’s stock growth comes just one month after Steven P. Jobs, the Apple co-founder and former chief executive, resigned from the company  because of health problems. Timothy D. Cook, the company’s chief operating officer, took over the chief’s position.The...

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How to Create Automated Changed Blog Description

Okay, we see immediately wrote tutorial step by step.1. Log in to your blogspot account.2. Click Design> Edit Html> Check the expand widget templates.3. Find the code below, to facilitate use ctrl + f then type in "descriptionwrapper" without the quotes. <div class='descriptionwrapper'> <p class='description'><span><data:description/></span></p> </div>4. Then replace the code below: <div class='descriptionwrapper'> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'><p class='description'><span><data:description/></span></p>...

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Huawei Launches Commercial Network LTE TDD / FDD

Competition among vendors and communications technology increasingly fierce. Huawei presents the latest episode of breakthrough with the launch of a commercial telecommunications network convergence LTE TDD / FDD claimed first in the world.By utilizing innovative solutions SingleRAN LTE, the LTE TDD / FDD Huawei touted to increase mobile Internet access with download speeds of 134Mb / s and upload 124.8Mb / s."As a leader of information and communications technology ecosystem continues to grow, the world's telecom operators are always looking for new ways to have the network they can be more flexible, efficient and effective in providing...

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Blogger Releases iPhone Application

Blogger finally released an application for an operating system IOS. This is the first official application issued by the blog service.This application is of course welcomed by the bloggers because with this application they are permitted to publish blog posts directly from their mobile phone.The services provided by this application is not a full service, in which the user can not edit the template or HTML, as well as manage the comments through the application. Only the main activities are displayed by this application which store (save), edit (edit) and publish posts, including uploading photos and adding location information.This application...

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Sony Changes Gaming Policy to Thwart Future Lawsuits

technology/bits-sonytos/bits-sonytos-blog480-v2.jpg" alt="Sony PlayStation Network terms of service agreement" />screenshot via Sony Section 15 of the Sony PlayStation Network forbids class-action lawsuits by users.Sony quietly updated its PlayStation Network terms of service agreement on Thursday, adding a new section that will prevent users from joining future class-action lawsuits against the company.The update, which has been titled “Section 15,” was buried in the company’s 10,869-word agreement and was not publicly announced by Sony.The new section requires users to agree that they will not join any class-action suits against Sony in...

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7 Facts Behind the Popularity Angry Birds

Angry Birds popular games that are crazy about a lot of people turned out to save the facts are interesting to observe.The game itself is contributing a lot of money for pembesutnya, Rovio. Reported that the company has just received funding of USD 42 million.Here are exposed some facts behind the success of Angry Birds by Mashable, Monday (09/12/2011):1. Angry Birds has been downloaded 300 million times and so far there are three game series which the issuance of which is: Angry Birds, Birds Angry Angry Birds Seasons and the Rio.2. Who would have thought that the players Angry Birds spend a total of 200 million minutes per day.3. The most...

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Plenty of Chatter About a New iPhone

technology/bits-iphone5/bits-iphone5-blog480.jpg" alt="iPhone 5 case" />photo via bgr.com Cases for an unusual iPhone model appeared briefly on the Case-Mate Web site Thursday.We’re just weeks away from the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 5, according to an Apple employee who asked not to be named because he was not allowed to speak publicly for the company.As the excitement for Apple’s latest product revs up, chatter about the phone is starting to fly around the Web at warp speeds.On Thursday the technology blog Boy Genius Report posted images of a new iPhone case from the site of a company called Case-Mate. The images were visible...

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Wow, Computers Can Live Without Electricity

In the arena of IDF 2011 Intel demonstrated how a computer can work without using electric current, but only utilizing ultra violet rays.This demonstration shows the efficiency deliberately displayed by the processor power consumption in the future.In a demonstration at the Moscone Center West, San Francisco on Tuesday (13/09/2011), the processors 'no name' is seen only gets power supply from a small battery storage of solar power."In addition to saving power, this processor also has a sleek design, so the impact on the shape of a thin notebook," said Paul Otellini, President and Chief Executive Officer, Intel Corporation.Unfortunately, Intel...

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PayPal Prepares to Expand Offline

PayPal is a step closer to moving offline.The Internet payment service provided details on Wednesday on how it plans to handle payments in brick-and-mortar stores.Offline payments are a big opportunity for PayPal, which is owned by eBay. But a number of companies are already making inroads, including Square, a start-up in San Francisco that is trying to replace cash registers and credit card terminals by letting consumer make purchases with their mobile phones.PayPal’s plan is to make tools available to merchants so that they can use existing credit card terminals to accept payments through PayPal. Several payment methods will be possible, although they will ultimately depend on the kinds of terminals merchants have.In one option, shoppers could enter their telephone number and four digit...

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Smart computers Tell Pain

Has it occurred that the computer could tell the pain? If it could talk, perhaps this device will inform us. Did you know, it turns out this can indeed happen.Researchers in the United States (U.S.) conducted a test. The result, computers can not talk when someone is sick because it has been specially trained to do so.Reported by Reuters and was quoted on Wednesday (14/09/2011), scientists at Stanford University in California, the U.S. used the learning software for classifying the data generated from the results of brain scans and detects when a person feels sick."The question we are trying to answer is, can we use an imaging tool to objectively...

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Trendspotting at TechCrunch Disrupt

Entrepreneurial zeal is the inevitable theme at technology conferences like TechCrunch Disrupt, which ends its three-day run in San Francisco on Wednesday. Start-up founders and those who wanted to be overdosed on self-promotion, salesmanship and name-dropping while Silicon Valley celebrities pontificated on stage.However, a few minithemes emerged during the event. Although not the kind that generally make headlines, they are nonetheless worth noting.BooksBooks, at least those made with paper and ink, may be in decline. But they still retain a certain appeal with Silicon Valley’s elite.Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, two of PayPal’s co-founders, mentioned on stage that they were writing a book together called “The Blueprint” that will detail how to get the United States back on the...

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A Flash Sale Site for Modern Design

Do people want yet another flash sale site? The founders of Fab.com think the answer is yes.Fab sells design goods — widely defined as everything from handmade dining room tables to art to dishes — in limited-time sales.Design junkies have plenty of other options, like Gilt Home and One Kings Lane. But Fab is aimed at a younger, more modern set of shoppers, say its founders, Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer.Though it might seem like retailers would be getting flash sale fatigue because of all the options, Fab has become a new retail outlet and marketing vehicle for small designers that do not sell widely, the founders said. Unlike most...

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At TechCrunch Conference, Talk of a Bubble

This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco sometimes felt more like an episode of “E! True Hollywood Story” than a high-priced technology gathering.Although attendees discussed newly announced start-ups and venture funds, the conversations in the conference halls were often discussions of TechCrunch’s founder, Michael Arrington, who appeared on stage. AOL, the parent company of TechCrunch, had announced that Mr. Arrington was no longer employed by the company, though it was financing his venture fund.The gossip quickly moved to a more fruitfully economic discussion: the talk of a technology bubble 2.0.Curiously, the answer to the question of whether a new tech bubble existed was not determined by wealth or status, but rather age. People I spoke with who had...

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From Media Decoder: Mashable Expands

Mashable, the popular Web site for information about technology and social media, said Monday that it was expanding coverage to include new sections for entertainment, United States news and world news, and that it was hiring a veteran technology editor to oversee all of its editorial content. More …...

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Sprint App Shuts Down Driver’s Phone

Smartphones have led to more distracted driving. They’re also helping to mitigate it with a host of new apps aimed at shutting down a driver’s device.Add Sprint to the list of companies offering such an app. On Monday, Sprint announced that it is offering “Sprint Drive First” for Android phones (and coming soon for BlackBerry and other operating systems). The app automatically disables the phone when it is traveling more than 10 miles an hour, which the phone determines using GPS.The app then sends a message to an incoming caller or texter indicating that the person they’re trying to contact is behind the wheel. Sprint is advertising the app as something parents might want to buy for teenage drivers, but it says it hopes the audience will be broader than that. The app, which costs...

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Carol Bartz Resigns From Yahoo Board

Carol A. Bartz, who was fired as chief executive of Yahoo last week, has cut her final tie to the company by resigning from its board. Her decision follows the usual script. But the outcome was far from inevitable.Last week, Ms. Bartz, who is known for her pugnacious style, was technology/carol-bartz-yahoos-chief-executive-is-fired.html?_r=1&ref=carolbartz">fired by phone after a rocky two-year tenure trying to revive Yahoo. She did not take the firing well.In an interview with Fortune, Ms. Bartz described Yahoo’s board members as “doofuses” and indicated that she may hang on to her seat. Never mind that her employment contract spelled out that she had to resign.Yahoo took the unusual step the day the interview was published of issuing a statement saying “Ms. Bartz is obligated...

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Google Warns Users in Iran About Security Issue

Google took the unusual step of warning Gmail users in Iran to “secure their accounts,” a week after an unidentified hacker generated technology/internet/hackers-impersonate-google-to-snoop-on-users-in-iran.html?_r=1">fake Web site verification certificates that may have allowed the Iranian state to monitor communications by its citizens, including dissidents.On Google’s security blog late Thursday, Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering, said the company was “directly contacting possibly affected users.” He noted that users of the Google Chrome browser were unaffected by the malicious attack but urged “all users in Iran to take concrete steps to secure their accounts.”The company spelled out five separate steps, beginning with changing passwords and verifying account recovery...

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On 9/11, the Seeds of the Infinite Grapevine

technology/09bits-911/09bits-911-blog480.jpg" alt="Downtown Manhattan, Sept. 12, 2001." width="480" height="312" />Joshua Brustein/The New York TimesDowntown Manhattan, Sept. 12, 2001.One of the last times I remember actually waiting for film to be developed was in mid-September 2001. I was a college student living in downtown Manhattan, and had taken dozens of photographs from the roof of my dorm, where I watched the World Trade Center collapse, and then from ground zero and Union Square, where I spent most of the next day. When I ran out of film, I dropped it off at a storefront on Waverly Street and waited.If I had been in the same situation...

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Senator Introduces Online Security Bill

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to protect citizens’ personal information from online data breaches. The bill would also punish companies that are careless with customers’ information. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut has been pressing for online privacy legislation.“The goal of the proposed law is essentially to hold accountable the companies and entities that store personal information and personal data and to deter data breaches,” Senator Blumenthal said in a phone interview. ”While looking at past data breaches, I’ve been struck with how...

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Finding an Instant Date Nearby, With an App

There are online dating services, and then there are location-based social services like Foursquare. A new application called Blendr combines the two, letting users cut to the chase and find someone to meet nearby, right now.technology/07bits-blendr/07bits-blendr-articleInline.jpg" alt="Blendr was created by the man behind Grindr, a popular app that helps gay men locate others near them." width="190" height="287" />Blendr was created by the man behind Grindr, a popular app that helps gay men locate others near them.After firing up the application, which is free and available for Apple iOS devices and on Facebook, users create a simple profile...

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Tech Talk Podcast: Promoting Hollywood

Movie marketing has evolved far beyond lobby posters and trailer clips to elaborate campaigns that sometimes start even more the film itself begins shooting. In this week’s Tech Talk podcast Jason Yim, the president and executive creative director of Trigger, a digital-marketing company, discusses some of the sites and apps his company has created for different Hollywood movies.Although the Internet is often thought of as a free and open place to roam, parts of it are less traveled and secretive. Pedro Rafael Rosado shines a light on this area known as the “dark Web.”This week’s technology headlines include the latest legal twist in the proposed mega-merger between AT&T and T-Mobile;two Mexican citizens accused of using Twitter to spread false information face harsh consequences;...

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Serendipity Books, R.I.P.

Who doesn’t love buying online? It offers a bigger selection for less money, ordered from the privacy of your home and delivered there too. But if e-commerce is great for consumers, it is more  problematic for citizens. The sales tax that people pay in physical stores helps pay for the upkeep of their communities. The physical stores also provide employment; these workers can afford in turn to buy things and thus keep the economy afloat. Few such benefits flow from e-commerce.Daniel StreitfeldThe bookseller Peter B. Howard, shortly before his death.California, with a colossal hole in its budget and 12 percent unemployment, is confronting...

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