VMware moves closer to customers with new solutions

At the top of VMware’s priorities for Korea, a nation becoming actively engaged in cloud computing, are plans for buttressing the firm’s localization initiative and moving closer to the business of its customers.“We need to get closer to the business of our customers and need to move up much closer, more to the consulting at the business level and become more vertically aligned so that our solutio

July 13, 2011

Half of Americans watch videos during work

 About half of American adults watch online videos unrelated to work while on the job, a U.S. survey showed. Men watch twice as often as women.The study showed that 25 percent watch news clips and 15 percent view viral videos. Other popular choices were sports (11 percent) and television shows (9 percent). Some are bold enough to view full-length feature films (4 percent) and even pornography (3 p

July 13, 2011

Secondhand smoking linked to behavioral disorders in children

A new research revealed that children from households with smokers are more likely to develop behavioral disorders and learning problems than those from smoke-free homes.The findings were released in the journal “Pediatrics.”It was traditionally thought that secondhand smoke causes health problems for children including respiratory difficulties. A woman lights a cigarette for a photograph in New Y

July 13, 2011

Korea clears way for ‘Angry Birds’ to take on ‘StarCraft’

Apple Inc. customers in South Korea who couldn’t download Rovio Mobile Ltd.’s best-selling “Angry Birds” on their iPhones will soon be able to find out why flinging vindictive fowl at green hogs can be addictive. Korea scrapped rules yesterday requiring developers to have mobile games rated by the government, said Yi Ki-jeong, a manager at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Seoul. The

July 12, 2011

Opposites attract? No!

The long-held theory of romance that opposites attract may be wrong a new study suggests.Researchers at University of California, Berkeley found similarity rules when people find themselves drawn to potential romantic partners, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported. In what they refer to as “matching hypothesis,” men and women fall for the potential partners of their own or similar league and desirabilit

July 12, 2011

Samsung smartphones set for space experiments

Astronomers are to conduct various space experiments with Samsung Electronics’ Nexus S Android smartphones carried by the space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis docked the International Space Station on Sunday after it was launched Friday as the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program. (Yonhap News)Samsung smart phones are to perform various tasks ranging from measuring and inspecting ISS along with a

July 12, 2011

‘GPS is allowed to find cheating husband’: U.S. court

A man shows a GPS devise as his classmate. (MCT) ‘GPS is allowed to find cheating husband’: U.S. court　A New Jersey court has approved of a woman’s use of GPS to track down her suspicious husband.　The woman hired a private investigator to follow her husband to find out whether he was having an affair. But when her husband, Kenneth Villanova, kept managing to avoid the investigator, he told her to

July 11, 2011

Radiation therapy: significance of proton therapy

Pyo Hong-ryullRadiation therapy, together with surgery and chemotherapy, has become one of the three most commonly used methods for treating cancer today. Since the discovery of X-ray, many improvements ― such as the linear accelerator (LINAC), 3-Dimensional conformal radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) ― have been seen in the field of radiotherapy. Proton therapy can be

July 7, 2011

Heart disease is No. 1 killer, can sneak up on women: report

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Heart disease can sneak up on women in ways that standard cardiac tests can miss.It’s part of a puzzling gender gap: Women tend to have different heart attack symptoms than men. They’re more likely to die in the year after a first heart attack.In fact, more than 40 percent of women still don’t realize that heart disease is the No. 1 female killer. One in 30 women’s deaths in 2007

July 7, 2011

Iceland's Hekla volcano shows signs of activity

A cloud of ashes billows from the Puyehue volcano near Osorno, 870 km south of Santiago, on June 15. (AFP-Yonhap News)REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Scientists are monitoring unusual underground activity that could signal an eruption at the Hekla volcano in southern Iceland.University of Iceland geophysicist Pall Einarsson said Wednesday that magma appears to be moving deep beneath the volcano. He say

July 7, 2011

Ovulating? Urine test more precise than calendar: study

MCTSTOCKHOLM  (AFP) - Women trying to conceive are better served by a urine test to determine if they are ovulating than the more commonly used calendar method, the makers of the test said at a Stockholm conference Tuesday.“The calendar method is good to help women to start to understand how their cycle works, but if women are really trying to conceive ... it‘s not really the best method to use,”

July 6, 2011

Reading books aloud may disrupt learning

(MCT)Having children reading books aloud may not be an effective way of educating them. In fact, it may hinder students from acquiring new vocabulary, said researchers from New Zealand.When children under age 6 learn reading via sound, they tend to create a “cognitive footprint” which results in a long-term disadvantage. Phonics students also found it hard to identify real words from words that ar

July 6, 2011