Skype shares 8 percent of all International Calls

More and more people are using Skype for making international phone calls. According to TeleGeography, a communications research firm, in 2008 about 8% of international calls were made through Skype, the internet-based telephone service. So, only five years after its launch, Skype has emerged as the largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world.

In 2008 Skype users spent 33 billion minutes in international calls, which is approximately 41% increase than previous year, TeleGeography reports. On the other hand, overall cross-border telephone traffic also grew by …

First Flight of Transition – The Flying Car

A flying car is no more a concept. Terrafugia, Inc., a Massachusetts based company has successfully flown it’s Transition® Roadable Aircraft Proof of Concept or simple words the “flying car”, at the Plattsburgh International Airport in Plattsburgh, N.Y. With this, Terrafugia proved that their “flying car” is no for a concept design, but a real product that will soon become available commercially.
Transition® is a two-seat aircraft designed to take off and land at local airports and drive on any road. …

Professional Data Recovery Services

Due to various reasons you may suffer a hard drive failure or computer crash. If you regularly keep backup copies of your important files then it may not bother you much. But, in either case you will get into serious trouble. So, what you will do? In our view, you must take help from a professional data recovery service.

Data recovery is a delicate and sometimes sensitive process, where data from a damaged, failed or corrupted storage media such as hard disk drives are salvaged through different …

Microsoft gets 10,000th Patent

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has just recorded its 10,000th U.S. patent, which is related to technology used in its Surface computing platform. The U.S. Patent No. 7,479,950 covers a new technology that lets users to place objects on the computer’s tablelike display and have them associated with the data or media stored on the computer’s hard drive.

For example, a group of photos from a particular vacation could be associated with a souvenir from the trip. Placing the souvenir on a Microsoft Surface computer might initiate …

Bill Gates releases Mosquitoes at tech conference

Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference. Why? Because Gates wanted to make a point about malaria. Gates performed the surprise stunt on Wednesday at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference in Long Beach, California.

“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some. Here, I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected,” Gates said while releasing the mosquitoes in presence of some of the top …

Beautiful Body – A Gift of Technology

Every women in this world want to look beautiful and feel beautiful. There may be different definitions of beauty. But, the truth is that physical beauty is still given much importance. Take a look at the beauty pageants or beauty related reality shows on television. What you will see? Those with a perfect body always have an extra advantage. And the fact is that today’s modern women are always ready to try all possible ways to get and maintain a perfect body. A perfect body improves self-confidence, gives the strength to face the world….

AVG acquires ID theft prevention specialist Sana Security

Antivirus and Internet Security company AVG Technologies on Tuesday announced that it has acquired identity-theft prevention software maker Sana Security Inc. The transaction marks another successful milestone for AVG, as it continues to improve Internet security coverage for individuals and small businesses and expand its global footprint. Amsterdam-based AVG did not disclosed the amount involved in the deal but confirmed that the acquisition provides AVG with its first Silicon Valley office.

“AVG’s acquisition of Sana is one of the most exciting accomplishments in identity …

IBM to build Smart Computers that functions like Human Brain

IBM, together with researchers from the top universities such as Stanford, Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell, Columbia and California-Merced will work on a new intelligent system that will mimic brains. The project is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists.

The objective of the project, according to IBM, is to make the technology ubiquitous in the future. It will try to make cognitive computing a reality and the resulting technology is expected to integrate …