Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet

Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet

The Internet giant Amazon announced it's news tablet - Kindle Fire - yesterday morning, at an event. The long-awaited Amazon tablet is finally here, or at least will be when it ships out to consumers in early November.

cnet - Overall, the design and features place it between the traditional Kindle and iPad on the tablet spectrum, more like the Nook Color than anything else. Amazon's main advantage here is tight integration with its outstanding suite of cloud-based digital media services: 11,000 shows and movies streaming for free for Amazon Prime subscribers, 100,000 movies and TV shows to rent or purchase through Amazon Instant, and a full digital music store with cloud storage.

On the other hand, there are still quite a few question marks. It's unclear whether there will be offline support for Amazon's video services, which is important if you, say, want to watch a movie on a plane. Amazon also didn't mention any details about third-party video services like Netfilx, Hulu Plus, and MLB.TV - all of which are available on the iPad.

Kindle Fire Tablet

Here are the Kindle Fire features:

- 7-inch IPS display, 1024x600-pixel resolution at 169 dpi, Gorilla Glass

- Dual-core processor

- 512MB RAM

- 8GB internal memory

- Weights 14.6 ounces (414 grams)

- Built-in Wi-Fi

- Amazon claims "up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off"

- Tightly integrated with Amazon services like Amazon Instant Video and Cloud Drive

- Features new "cloud-accelerated" browser named Silk

- 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime

- $199, ships November 15, available for preorder today

It's obvious that Amazon is trying to get one of the lead positions in the tablet market.

Apple is going to have one serious opponent in Amazon's face.

Amazon is really trying to differentiate itself, and potentially get a leg up on Apple is by pulling a trick or two from the same playbook.

The new tablet represents a total package of what users can get on other platforms if they were to add all of the company's apps together.

Yet Amazon's also trying to create a custom user experience by including its own application store and Web browser called Silk. The Web browser is one of the key areas where Amazon can differentiate itself from Apple and other rivals, making use of its Elastic Compute Cloud technology to speed up browsing for tablet users by pre-loading some content ahead of when a user visits that page.

For the past several months Apple's begun offering something identical as part of its iCloud service, letting users re-download digital content they've purchased from its stores and sync things up between devices. There again, Amazon's competing with that strategy using its Whispersync technology, which can sync up downloads, bookmarks, notes highlights, and a user's place in books and video content.

Amazon Kindle Fire

Just last week, the company signed a streaming deal with 20th Century Fox to bring its programming to Amazon's streaming video service, one that Fire users will have out of the box. All told, that adds up to 17 million songs, 1 million books, and 100,000 movies and TV shows.The Fire also represents the first device from Amazon itself offering magazines in full-color.

Where Amazon continues to be different, however, is how it's approaching its presence on other platforms.

While users must buy an Apple product to get Apple's software, Amazon continues to offer its software and experience on other platforms, including other Android tablets.
The Fire is the company's first effort to really make that experience its own.

Watch the Kindle Fire TV Commercial:

Mariah Carey - Changed by the Twins

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon

The R&B superstar Mariah Carey has revealed that she learned all about womanhood, after giving birth to her twins, Monroe and Moroccan on April 30th.


Mariah said that she learnt what is to be "a woman", since becoming a mother.


The singer gave birth to twins Monroe and Moroccan Scott on April 30.


The arrival of the babies has had a profound effect on Nick Cannon as well and he admits his priorities in life have shifted now he is a father.
He says he has seen a change in his wife Mariah Carey since she gave birth to their twins, daughter Monroe and son Moroccan Scott.


Nick said: "She really knows what being a woman is about now. This whole journey has been eye opening, she'll tell you that."


One thing the "America's Got Talent" presenter is acutely aware of is that he is now a role model for his daughter Monroe and son Moroccan Scott.


Nick Cannon is so excited about fatherhood. He added to People: "It's just the beginning, so I'm expecting it to change a little more, I'm growing every day and I know that I have to be an example for two lives."


Nick, 30, also revealed he is going to be incorporating his new family in his stand-up comedy routines.
He said: "It's going to be all about the kids. I'll be conscious of what I do, but I still gotta be a little edgy."


Mariah Carey and her husband Nick Cannon really adore their kids and give them all the love they can.


Expect pictures of the twins soon!

Internet Addiction - More Powerful Than Drugs

Internet Addiction

Young people are spending much more time infront of the computer screen, than outside.

Younsters prefer to stay at home and browse the Internet. They don't anymore like to go out and take a walk in the park or play some sport.

Is Internet becoming more powerful addiction than the drugs?

Look at the answers in the article - they're based on statistical researches and young people's opinion.

The Effects of Internet Addiction

From 2002 until today the number of young people, using drug and tobacco products is reducing, the expense of increasing addiction to the Internet and electronic games, a survey of Brussels Free University. 

For the past nine years, declining by six per cent of young people who smoke every day - from 18,7 percent to 12,7 percent. In 2002, eight out of every 100 youths said they smoked marijuana at least once a week and recently gave a similar response to 4,9 per cent of respondents. When ecstasy users also experience a change - from 5,3% nine years ago to 2,7 percent last year. 

According to sociologist Damien Fravres, these data can be explained by increased parental control over young people who have come out less at night. So basically they are spending more time in their rooms, sitting at the computer. The survey reported that while in 2002 only seven percent of young people said they spend at least four hours daily in front of the computer, the latest data show an increase of nearly double those responses - 13%. 

The survey was conducted among 12 000 young people aged between 12 and 20 years.

Are We Being Held in Chains by the Internet?

Yes, I think that computers and Internet are very useful. But we should not overdo anything.

It's true that most of the youths are spending they time in Internet social network, than going outside with friends and talk face to face.

YouTube to Become a Television

YouTube Logo

The popular video site YouTube can become a full competitor to television.
Google is ready to spend over half a billion dollars to become more popular than TV.


Internet giant's plans for a TV broadcast through YouTube as a minimum include the creation of a complete alternative to standard TV.


According to two different sources, Google will spend between 500 and 600 million dollars, which is considerably more than the stated initial investment of $ 100 million to obtain professional video content.


Google not only negotiate with independent content providers who already work with YouTube, but operators of cable channels and even the companies for which the video is a secondary business.


It is argued that the Internet giant will spend tens of millions of dollars to conclude individual transactions. In this market, Google will compete with "veterans" in the industry at the conclusion of transactions.

NASA Releases Historical Sound Bites as Ringtones

NASA Logo

NASA has released a collection of famous sounds and commentaries that can be used as ringtones or as computer notification noises.


NASA has been going through its audio archives and come up with a selection of what it’s calling “historic and interesting sounds” that can be used as ringtones or computer notification noises.


Imagine that, every time your phone rings, you could have Neil Armstrong piping up with the immortal line: “One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”


“NASA has been making historic sounds for over 50 years” NASA App project manager Jerry Colen said in a press release. “Now we’re making some of these memorable sounds easy to find and use.”


The sounds have been arranged into four categories: Shuttle and Station, Apollo and Mercury, Current Missions, Beeps and Bytes. In total, 36 clips are available for download.


Lines you might recognize include “The Eagle has landed” and “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” There’s also a clip from JFK’s historic moon speech.


The sounds have been made available in MP3 and M4R formats.


You can check out the sounds here.

Particles Travel Faster Than Light

Neutron, illustration

Physicists reported that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos can travel faster than light, a finding that - if verified - would blast a hole in Einstein's theory of relativity.


Physicists have found that tiny particles called neutrinos are making a 454-mile (730-kilometer) underground trip faster than they should — more quickly, in fact, than light could do. If the results are confirmed, they could throw much of modern physics into upheaval.


In experiments conducted between the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and a laboratory in Italy, the tiny particles were clocked at 300,006 kilometres per second, about six km/sec faster that the speed of light, the researchers said.


"This result comes as a complete surprise" said physicist Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the experiment, known as OPERA. "We wanted to measure the speed of neutrinos, but we didn't expect to find anything special."


Results from the CERN laboratory in Switzerland seem to break this cardinal rule of physics, calling into question one of the most trusted laws discovered by Albert Einstein.

Speed of Light, illustration

Scientists spent nearly six months "checking, testing, controlling and rechecking everything" before making an announcement.


Researchers involved in the experiments were cautious in describing its implications, and called on physicists around the world to scrutinise their data, to be made available online overnight.


But the findings, they said, could potentially reshape our understanding of the physical world.


"If this measurement is confirmed, it might change our view of physics" said CERN research director Sergio Bertolucci, a view echoed by several independent physicist contacted by AFP.


In the experiments, scientists blasted a beam producing billions upon billions of neutrinos from CERN, which straddles the French-Swiss border near Geneva, to the Gran Sasso Laboratory 730 kilometres away in Italy.


Neutrinos are electrically neutral particles so small that only recently were they found to have mass.


"The neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier that the 2.3 milliseconds taken by light" Ereditato told AFP.


Under Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, however, a physical object cannot travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.


Newton's theory of gravity, still explains the movement of planets well enough to send missions into space, even if Einstein's theories proved that it was not quitecorrect.


Theoretical physicists are sure to begin searching for new explanations to account for the unsuspected quickness of neutrinos.


It could be that "the particles have found a shortcut in another dimension" besides the four - three in space, plus time - we know about.


"Or it could simply mean that the speed of light is not the speed limit we thought it was."

Ne-Yo is Engaged, Expecting His Second Baby

Monyetta Shaw and Ne-Yo

It's wedding bells and baby booties for the R&B star Ne-Yo. The "Closer" singer is engaged to his longtime girlfriend Monyetta Shaw. The happy couple are expecting their second child together.

Ne-Yo (31), whose real name is Shaffer Chimere Smith, became a first-time dad in November 2010, when Shaw gave birth to daughter Madilyn Grace.

The baby announcement was kept under wraps for most of Shaw's pregnancy. A source told that the baby is expected as early as October, which is just two weeks away.

Despite being busy with her pregnancy, Monyetta has also been working on a new boutique in Atlanta called "Emerlyn & Ester", set to open soon in the city's upscale Buckhead District.

Ne-Yo was over the moon when Madilyn was born last fall. "She's healthy and happy. Feels like I'm in luv for the first time" he tweeted. "Welcoming that lil' girl to the world last night defined for me what 'willing to kill and die for' truly means. My world, my life, all hers."

Not a long time ago, RnB singer Ne-Yo and Pitbull performed "Give Me Everything" at the VMAs.

He was very exited for his first performance ath the VMAs. "This is my first time performing at the VMAs, so this is going to be big" he promised. "This was the show where, before I made it, where I was like, 'When I make it, yeah, I definitely got to do that one.' And I'm here. I'm happy. I'm definitely beyond happy. I'm gonna maintain; very ecstatic to be here."

Watch Pitbull, Ne-Yo and Nayer perform "Give Me Everything" at the MTV Video Music Awards:

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Cholera outbreak in Uzbekistan

Cholera bacteria

Cholera outbreak in Uzbekistan. Is it for real or it's just another rumor?
The government denyes the Cholera epidemy. But may that cost the health of their nation?


Uznews - Through its media service, Jahon, the Uzbek foreign ministry appears to be denying claims that Uzbekistan is experiencing an outbreak of cholera. The ministry of health in Uzbekistan and the state epidemiological surveillance unit are also refuting reports of a cholera outbreak and are doing nothing to prevent the spread of the disease.


“If we announce a cholera diagnosis, then we immediately have to organise quarantine, and nobody wants that” said one doctor in the Tinchlik village hospital in Yangiyul district, Tashkent. "Quarantine", he says, "means that villages and towns where cholera has been identified have to be ‘shut down’, and clean drinking water has to be supplied, which is an extremely costly operation for the district authorities, especially in villages like Tinchlik."


Hardly surprising to find cholera.


“We haven’t had clean water for 20 years. The old water pipes have crumbled but nobody has ever replaced them” said Akramkhodzh Mukhiddinov, member of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan (PAU) and also a resident of Tinchlik. 


Mukhiddinov claims that many people who have their own transport bring drinking water from Yangiyul or Tashkent, but most people take water from waterways running through the area.


“People take water from the irrigation channels, then boil it and drink it. There is no alternative when there is no clean mains water” says Mukhiddinov. He claims that people most at risk of contracting cholera are those who take water from the Boz-Su river. “A 45-year-old man, who drank water from this river, died recently in our village” Mukhiddinov says.


The human rights campaigner believes that, given the living conditions in Tinchlik and its neighbouring settlements, it would be amazing if an outbreak of cholera did not happen here.


Health ministry denies the outbreak.


Meanwhile, Uzbekistan’s health ministry and foreign affairs ministry are categorically denying reports of a cholera outbreak.


“When you present them with concrete facts about people dying from an illness, the symptoms of which are extremely similar to those of cholera, ministry of health civil servants don’t respond, claiming that they have heard of no such instances.” One Tashkent journalist remarked.


Uzbekistan’s state epidemiological service also denies the outbreak of cholera.


“We are currently running a campaign to vaccinate children against measles and German measles, but have heard nothing about cholera. If there were cases, we would have made statements about this” said one employee of the state epidemiological surveillance service in Chilanzar district, Tashkent.


“The symptoms of cholera – vomiting and diarrhoea – are similar to those of other intestinal illnesses, and it is possible that people are mistaken about what is actually wrong” an employee of the epidemiological surveillance unit speculated. When asked about cholera, the source asked us not to use his name.

Uzbekistan flag

So, what is really happening in Uzbekistan?


Despite official denials, many doctors are saying confidentially that there are cases of cholera now in Uzbekistan. They do not hide the fact that people have died from an intestinal illness, the name of which doctors will not spell out to their relatives.


“I am convinced my husband died of cholera after he swam in the Boz-Su river” says Mukhabbat, a 30-year-old Tashkent resident.


The outbreak of cholera would appear to be confirmed, at least, by events in Yangiyul district and in Yangiyul hospital, where, in mid-August, dozens of people arrived each day with symptoms of this disease – not only vomiting and diarrhoea but also severe dehydration. Previously, the Almazarsk district of Tashkent had experienced cholera-like illness, also linked to water from the Boz-Su river.


“It is very easy to explain why information about a cholera outbreak is being hushed up, and you can see this in the text of the foreign ministry’s statement” said one Tashkent doctor, who also asked to not to be named.


“As a member of the World Health Organisation, Uzbekistan has to update the European regional office of this body round-the-clock, but if it did inform WHO about these circumstances, WHO would send out a special commission which would see for itself the terrible living conditions of those people who have contracted cholera” he said.


“Will our government allow that to happen?” an Uznews source asks, adding that as winter approaches, the cholera bacteria will become less active, and the cover-up may therefore outlast the outbreak.

Windows 8 Preview

Microsoft Windows 8

Microsoft introduced the first official shots and test new versions of Windows 8. They make clear that Windows 8 is both radically different from previous versions of the platform, but it also carries its spirit. What are the most interesting innovations in Windows 8?


1. Interface. It is double. The first one looks like Windows 7, with only slight differences. The other, however, is made similarly to the Windows Phone 7 and it's called "Tiles". A tile is each icon that gives you access to various applications or functions and it's updated in real time. For instance, the plate for Outlook will display the sender and the title of the newly arrived messages.


2. Touch Optimization. Each element of Windows 8 is optimized for touch screen. Icons and menus are larger, more simple. Even the "Welcome" screen is very simple.


3. Windows Explorer. It is still present but with a completely different interface. Files again are displayed as tiles, but the functions themselves are the same.


4. Programs for Windows 8 will have two modes - a standard interface and Metro interface. Metro is the name of the new interface tiles, which are considered better for tablets. In addition, you will be able to "Snap" in two applications on one screen. For example, you can watch a movie, but leave a small bar off with updates from Twitter and Facebook.


5. The control panel also has undergone changes as well as Windows Task Manager. They are primarily visual.


6. Microsoft ensures that Windows 8 works much more efficiently than Windows 7, without compromising the vision. The company even proved it by presenting Windows 8 at a 3-year-old first-generation netbook. Windows 7 will feel very difficult to operate such a device, but not Windows 8.


7. Windows 8 runs significantly faster than other versions of Windows. The average PC or tablet will be able to boot in less than 10 seconds.


8. At the same time Windows 8 has full compatibility for all other Windows programs and devices.


Here are some of the great interface features:

- Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps.

- Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps.

- Fluid, natural switching between running apps.

- Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows.

- Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC.

- Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10.


View the official Windows 8 preview video:

Britney Spears and Jason Trawick Are Not Married

Jason Trawick and Britney Spears

Oops, the media did it again! Not a long time ago, there were rumors that Jason Trawick and Britney Spears are getting married. Well, that may not be true.


Hollywood.com - Turns out everything is not always as it seems. When Britney Spears' boyfriend and former agent, Jason Trawick, was spotted meeting with high-end jeweler Pascal Mouaward in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, engagement reports started infiltrating the web. Online sites were claiming that he must be collaborating with Pascal to create an engagement ring for the pop star, but recent reports have confirmed that this is not the case and we shouldn't expect a wedding in Britney's near future. At least for the time being.


A rep for Spears said in a statement that, "There is no truth to that report with regards to engagement rings. However, Jason was there to discuss other matters with Pascal, but nothing relating to him personally." It's probably for the best. If he was actually thinking about proposing then his plan was ruined when people decided to go blabbing about it all over the internet. Give the guy a break - it's hard enough proposing without the entire public eye holding its breath waiting for you to do it. Maybe he was picking out something for her next birthday or their anniversary (they started dating in 2009), or if you want to look at it as the glass is half empty...maybe he was getting something for another woman, which would make all this hype especially awkward. But let's not start even more rumors. That's how this whole mess got started in the first place.


Do you remember when KnowTheWorldNews posted about Britney and Jason getting married? Well, looks like it was a misuderstanding.

Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber

The dinosaur feathers encased in amber

CNN - Dinosaur feathers discovered in 80-million-year-old amber provide new clues about dinosaurs.

Paleontologists made this discovery of feather specimens near Grassy Lake in southwestern Alberta, Canada, and described the results in the journal Science.

Researchers don't know which feathers were actually from birds that flew and which might have been from theropod dinosaurs, but the filament structures resembles those seen in other non-avian fossils.

There appear to be two types in the sample: those resembling the feathers of modern birds, and "protofeathers" which are similar to the hair-like structures found in a halo around dinosaur specimens from China in early Cretaceous rock. Those simpler feathers in the amber, which differ from what modern birds have, may have came from small, meat-eating dinosaurs.

"Sort of finding a dinosaur trapped in the amber itself, it’s the best we can do" said Ryan McKellar, a paleontology graduate student of the University of Alberta and lead author of the study.

Although the feather fragments themselves are tiny - ranging from only 2 to 8 millimeters in length - they are preserved in 3D in extraordinary detail, scientists say.

Even some of the pigment remains, so we know what color feathers may have covered these prehistoric creatures. The dinosaur-looking ones display a pale to dark brown color, while the bird-like feathers have a wide range of appearances: There are white downy feathers, as well as flattened, veined feathers of black, brown, and lots of shades in between.

The dinosaur-looking feathers resemble mammal hair-fur and would be useful for things like insulation, and perhaps camouflage and display. The bird-like feathers are even more specifically formed: Some fragments have structural adaptations for flight, and others show characteristics of being able to pick up water, so they could carry water back to their nests or dive better.

How do feather fragments get so well preserved?

About 80 million years ago, these feathers likely blew into some tree resin and, over time, it hardened into an intermediate stage called copal, which then turned to amber. The resin hardens as its volatile component dissipates, and what's left behind is similar to plastic in structure.

The amber used in jewelry today is usually about 17 million to 40 million years old; more than 65 million years old is too brittle for decorative purposes, meaning there probably aren't dinosaur feathers in your mother's amber necklace.

But insects do often get trapped in amber; in fact, McKellar and colleagues found a feather fragment trapped in a spider web in one of the pieces of amber. That's right, there were spiders making spider webs 80 million years ago.

Ian Somerhalder about to propose marriage to Nina Dobrev

Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder

One bird spoke to KnowTheWolrdNews.Blogspot.Com and told them that Ian Somerhalder is going to propose marriage to Nina Dobrev. But the answer we all want to know is - will Nina accept the proposal?


A few months ago "The Vampire Diaries" couple confirmed their relationship and now it looks like they have plans to get married.


American tabloid broke the news that actress Nina Dobrev will soon receive a proposal of marriage.


According to our information the boyfriend of our girl and her counterpart from the series “The Vampire Diaries” Ian Somerhalder is crazy about her and no patience, they become family.


Ian recently said: "Before thig goes any further, please don't start "DoSomer" or "SomerBrev" crap". That's funny way of showing that the romance between the super cute couple Dobrev and Somerhalder is serious.


The relationship of 22-year-old Nina Dobrev and 32-year-old Ian is now a year, although recently they have been denied to be more than friends. Their love was revealed by French photographers who managed to snap embraced during their vacation in Paris. After a long time trying to keep their relation secret, they confirmed that they are dating.


Actually, there is no official statement about the Ian-Nina marriage, it's only a rumor.
But who knows, something might be going on. Plus, most of the rumors are proven to be truth.


The vampires, Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder are so cute together that we wish they are happy. No matter if there is wedding or not.

14 Killed From Suicide Bombing in Pakistan

Map of Pakistan

A suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan left 14 people dead and 20 others injured Wednesday, police said.


Wednesday's blast took place in the city of Quetta, a militant hotspot close to the Afghan border.


Abdullah Afridi, a senior police official in the city of Quetta, said a suicide bomber tried to enter in the residence of a senior official of the Frontier Corps - a paramilitary force - and blew himself up when the soldiers fired at him.


Police officer Hamid Shakil says the target was a group of Frontier Corps soldiers standing outside a government building in the city. City commissioner Quetta Nasim Lehri says there were soldiers among the 14 people killed.


Quetta is the capital of Balochistan province, which has been a hotbed for militancy.


Recently, Pakistan's military announced it apprehended three al-Qaeda leaders from the suburbs of Quetta with the help of paramilitary forces.


The military said the Frontier Corps helped nab the three al-Qaeda leaders.


Islamist militants are waging war against the Western-allied Pakistani state. Several thousand people have been killed since 2007.