A study conducted by a mobile-phone warranty firm revealed that Apple’s iPhone has substantially less failures as compared to the failure rate of handsets from BlackBerry and Palm.
The SquareTrade study covered cell phone failure rates from over 15,000 new phones within a period of 12 months.
The team found that iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent, as against 11.9 percent for BlackBerry smartphones.
Palm’s Treos range suffered the worst, with a failure rate of 16.2 percent during the same period.
Researchers say that heart transplant patients’ survival chances improve if the sex of the donor and patient is the same. The study, presented at a New Orleans meeting of the American Heart Assn. articulates that the survival rate goes up by as much as 25 % if the sex of both the donor and the recipient is the same. Although men and women's hearts are anatomically identical, researchers feel it could be due to differences in size or immune systems between the sexes.
The much awaited promo of Aditya Chopra’s ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ is ready to hit worldwide cinemas this Friday (November 14). 
China's drug regulator, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), ordered the withdrawal of a hemorrhoid medicine over concerns that it might cause liver problems.
The researchers at the University of North Carolina articulate that cell phone text messaging could be used to reduce kids' chances of becoming fat later in life. Their study suggests that helping kids self monitor their calorie intake and modify it themselves could be important for the long-term success of weight loss and weight control.
Asus has made announcement about the launching of its latest Asus Eee PC 904HA in order to strengthen its ‘Eee PC’ range in the Indian market.
