Did you know Trivia - China has overtaken the United States to be the world's largest Internet market by number of users, a research firm said on Thursday. The estimate by Beijing-based BDA was based on data from China Internet Network Information Center which indicated that the country's Internet users now totaled 210 million at end-2007.
"Based on these sources and the assumption that these markets have continued to grow in 2008 to date, at the same rates that they grew in 2007, we can conclude that China has by now comfortably surpassed the United States as the world`s largest Internet population," analyst Bin Liu said in a statement. |
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 09:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In Britain, researchers have developed a remote-controlled and almost silent miniature helicopter called “Microdrone”, that can capture images with both a video and an infra-red camera, thus helping the police to fight crime.
Almost 60cm (two feet) across, the tiny drone is armed to the hilt with crime-fighting technology, including a squirt-gun which can fire jets of a liquid called "SmartWater" , this can be then be identified by police. |
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 05:03 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - with more and more people working from home, there is a huge market for nerds or computer Geeks who can keep this army of home workers "on line". One very successful company is called the "Geek Squad" - They claim they can help with almost any gadget, from iPhones to home cinema systems (and if they can't, they are sure to know a geek who can).
"We joke that our agents read manuals for stuff they don't even own," says the company's founder, Robert Stephens. "But that's actually what keeps them up on Saturday nights when everyone else is going out on dates. That takes a special kind of person."
The standard Geek Squad uniform is, black trousers, white shirt, black clip-on tie, white socks, black shoes plus a badge - gold and plastic, like a Toy Town policeman and its woe betide any Geek who doesn't adhere to these standards. If caught by the boss wearing colored socks, the punishment is push-ups and for or a more serious offense it might necessitate the tie being cut. |
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 01:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A DNA study suggests that nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago.
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said. The women lived between 18,000 and 21,000 years ago, though not necessarily at exactly the same time.
The work was published this week by the journal PLoS One.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 11:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Chinese developed technology is being used for real-time monitoring of container shipments in the country's commercial hub of Shanghai. The e-tags are attached on the containers and will send warning signals if they are opened without authorization during the journey. If the pilot program is successful, it will be expanded so as to improve the fight against terrorism, stowaways and contamination of products.
Initially, 10,000 containers will be sealed with a special e-tag, which can be re-used on the shipping line between Shanghai and Savannah in the US state of Georgia.
China's container throughput reached a record 100 million TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) last year. And Shanghai handled 26.15 million TEUs, second only to Singapore across the world.
If an e-tag shows a container has not been opened on the jouney, it will help a cargo owner save the time he has to spend for Customs and quarantine checks at ports.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 05:01 PM |
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