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Rumored LG KC910 8 MP Camera Phone Becomes Official

LG has launched its much awaited KC910 phone in the market on Thursday. It is a very thin and slim phone with just 14 mm thickness and other attractive features. The newly launched phone supports an 8 mega pixel camera with a Xenon flash. The cam is provided for efficient and beautiful photography. It contains Schneider-Kreuznach lens, which offers ISO sensitivity of up to 1600. It can also record moving-images at up to 120fps in QVGA resolution. It also supports enhanced features such as face detection, smile and blink detection and image stabilizer.

Motorola launches new camera phone

Motorola launched a new camera phone Motozine ZN5 in India on Wednesday. The hand set is incorporated with high quality camera designed by Kodak. The ultra-fast 5-megapixel supports auto-focus, a Xenon flash, 4GB of optional external memory and optimised settings for low-light environments. It will combine the Motorola’s ModeShift Technology and KODAK ‘Imaging Technology’ to offer cutting edge mobile features. It is specilly designed to attract youth and social networking user groups. It comes with Kodak Easyshare software and easy access to the Kodak Gallery1 to easily share and experience high quality images.

It comes with a good storage space of 2-GB memory card. TV can also be seen using a TV-out cable.

Ancient mummy discovered in Peruvian city

Ancient mummy opened: Scythian cavalier had bone diseaseLondon, August 28 : The mummified remains of a woman, who died 500 years before the Incas, about 600-800 AD, have emerged from the rubble of an ancient tomb beneath the bustling streets of Lima, the capital of Peru.

According to a report in the Telegraph, archaeologists working at the Huaca Pucllana site in the Miraflores neighbourhood of Lima unearthed the mummy along with the remains of another two adults and a child.

Huaca Pucllana contains the ruins of an ancient plaza, a partially excavated mound of rocks, bricks and dirt.

BigAdda.com launches its mobile version - MobileAdda

Now you can socialize with your friends and search for new even through your mobile, as BigAdda.com, a well known socializing site announced the launch of its mobile version, ‘MobileAdda’ on 25th August. This new launch will help Big Adda.com to widen its reach to around 300 million mobile users, by making it available across all operators and networks on national level. The much awaited movie ‘Rock On’ has also entered in tie up with Big Adda.

The advertisement of its mobile version will soon be telecast and broadcast on TV, Radio and Net and mobile as well. The advertising process on television has already started. Shivanandan Pare, CEO, Bigadda, informed that the total campaign would cost approximately $1 million (Rs 4.2 crore).

Now, computer bugs in space!

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander scoops up soil sample for lab analysisLondon, August 28 : NASA has confirmed that a computer virus made its way into space, through a laptop carried to the International Space Station (ISS) in July this year.

According to a report by the BBC, the worm, known as Gammima. AG, was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.

Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.

When glaciers melt, bacteria move in to boost soil efficiency

Global warming not sole reason behind massive Antarctic ice shelf’s collapseLondon, August 28 : A new study has determined that after mountain glaciers melt, primitive bacteria start to invade the soil immediately, enriching it with nutrients, cementing the ground, and preventing landslides.

Researchers, who have studied the process in the Peruvian Andes, carried out the study.

A few studies have looked at the types of plants that colonize mountain valleys that were previously covered in ice.

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