London, Nov 1 : If you’re a phone freak and love James Bond, then here’s the perfect handset for you: Sony Ericsson has launched ‘C902 Cyber-Shot’.
The limited edition Titanium silver version of the phone, used by Daniel Craig in the latest 007 thriller ‘Quantum of Solace, will be up for grabs in a few weeks.
The phone has a cool five megapixel digital camera and is one of the slimmest in the market, reports The Sun.
Washington, November 1 : A new American study has shown that people’s personalities actually govern their voting choices.
John Mayer, professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire, says that people’s preferences like social stability or social change divide them into liberals and conservatives.
Lahore, Nov 1 : Pakistani investigators have stated that members of the banned Harkatul Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) were involved in the Marriott Hotel suicide attack on September 20 that killed more than 70 people.
Pakistan’s Samaa TV quoted investigators as saying that the suspects arrested after the suicide attack in Islamabad belonged to the HUJI’s Saifullah group.
London, Nov 1 : Amnesty International has stated that Pakistan should declare the dismissal of judges in 2007 as illegal, while suggesting Islamabad to take more measures to set right its poor human rights record.
Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director, Sam Zarifi said, “The new civilian government which replaced Musharraf has taken some steps to improve on Pakistan’s poor human rights record, but it could and should do more, starting immediately with declaring the 2007 dismissal of judges illegal.”
London, Nov 1 : England captain Kevin Pietersen has already agreed to join the mega-bucks Indian Premier League.
The England skipper, currently playing in the Stanford Super Series, just needs the green light from the English cricket board.
English cricket’s governing body had hoped the lure of 600,000 pound for winning in Antigua would see players resist the call of Twenty20 in the sub-continent, The Sun reported.
London, November 1 : A Chinese research team has moved a step closer to realising flat speakers that will be much cheaper than the existing ones, for they have found that sheets made of carbon nanotubes behave like a loudspeaker when zapped with a varying electric current.
Shoushan Fan and his colleagues at Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University have become the research team to study the acoustic properties of nanotubes.
For their study, the researchers created a think sheet by roughly aligning many 10-nanometer-diameter carbon nanotubes.