If the harassment at the airport with a series of checks was not enough the European Commission Regulation has asked all European Union airports to use virtual digital scanners by 2010. This scanner is a virtual strip search machines, which creates a 3D image of a naked body. Such a scanner has been opposed as it is next to a strip search. 

Washington, Oct 3 : Researchers at Queen’s University, Canada, are developing a new robotic tracking system that will be used to enable repairs of orbiting satellites.

This system will service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations.

Currently, when the high-flying celestial objects malfunction – or simply run out of fuel – they become “space junk” cluttering the cosmos.

Washington, October 3 : Researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, have identified a measurable sound quality that distinguishes the superior quality violins made by eighteenth-century Italian instrument-makers Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu from cheap, factory-made instruments.

Research leader George Bissinger spent ten years painstakingly measuring the acoustics of violins rated from "bad" to "excellent" by professional musicians, and observed that the ''excellent'' old Italian violins in his sample showed a significantly stronger acoustic response in the lower octaves than did the ''bad'' violins.

The instruments rated merely “good” had intermediate values, the researcher said.

Beijing - Skype, the online text message and voice service, acknowledged Friday that its Chinese partner had been archiving politically sensitive text messages.

Skype president Josh Silverman said the company was unaware that the internet chat of users in China, especially political discussions, was being stored on computer servers by Chinese mobile firm TOM Online, a unit of Hong Kong-based TOM Group Ltd.

In a statement, Silverman said the US company owned by auction giant eBay was "very concerned" about the monitoring and storage as well as a security breach that was discovered by Canadian researchers.

A leading electronic equipment and mobile phone manufacture, Samsung Telecommunications would import high end phones from abroad to satisfy its requirements in India. 

The company currently imports about 25 percent mobile phones from its various facilities in different countries. The company has also doubled the capacity of its manufacturing facility at Noida with $24 million investment. 

The company would export mobile phones to various countries of South East Asia and West Asia from its Noida facility.

Washington, October 3 : Computers that can be folded up to be put in the pocket and televisions sets that can be bended to view may soon be a reality, thanks to the efforts of researchers from Sony and the Max Planck Institute.

Published in the New Journal of Physics, a study conducted by the researchers heralds the beginning of a technological revolution for screen displays.

It demonstrates, for the first time, the possibility of bendable optically assessed organic light emitting displays, based on red or IR-A light upconversion.