Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac has arrived

Today a new version of Skype has appeared. This time it’s a 5.0 Beta version for Macs. As the version number indicates, it’s the same set of features as 5.0 PC version contains, but with a few Mac-only customizations. Apart from the smaller ones like simplified search and optimized single-windowed user interface you can now integrate your Mac address book into Skype. 5.0 Beta supports offline message delivery as well by the way. But there is some more.

One of the biggest updates in Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac is group video calling. That said, however, all users have to run version 5.0 Mac or PC.

Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac is already available from official website, it’s a 19.1 MB download. Skype officials urge you to upgrade even though it’s a Beta and I’m sure there are some other reasons other that end-user experience. It’s all your choice anyway.

Researchers from McGill University conducted research that looked at the influence of the GPS system of the human brain.Apparently, an avid user of GPS has the risk of suffering from problems with memory and orientation space.
Veronique Bohbot, an associate professor at the Douglas Mental Health University and McGill University, along with a number of McGill researchers found that those who frequently use GPS to show the potential damage in the brain region that controls memory.
The human brain is generally done using two methods of navigation. First, it is a spatial navigation strategy in which the building or certain signs of the brain used to help us know the direction or where we are.

Application for measuring the happiness in I-phone

Are you  feeling happy?  are you happy and what causes it? To answer this question, there is a unique iPhone application that can answer it.

Track Your Happiness, that's the name of the application. It works by way of contacting the user's iPhone at random times throughout the day to ask about their feelings and what was done while answering every question. Users also have the option to determine when and how often they contacted.
Reported by Mashable and quoted on Saturday (11/13/2010) Researchers at Harvard University uses this application to track a person's mood. As a result, the study found a correlation between contemplation with the feeling unhappy.
Based on the study sample of 2250 adults, 46.9 percent of participants said it is reflected when the iPhone rang to check what is being contemplated. And most of the participants who were admitted to the center feel reflect unhappiness.
Track Your Happiness is currently used for scientific research and medical purposes to help uncover the causes of the emergence of a sense of happiness experienced by a person.

China give a punishment to Spreader message on Twitter

Chinese authorities sentenced a woman to confine him in a labor camp for a year. The mistake is unique, he proved to spread a provocative message through Twitter page, which it invites people to destroy Japan's pavilion at a leading exhibition in the city of Shanghai.

Similarly, human rights activists said the agency, Amnesty International (AI), as quoted by the Associated Press, 19 November 2010 Thursday night local time. According to AI, convict named Chen Jianping.
The 46-year-old woman was found guilty of spreading a message written by people at Twitter last month. Its contents, invite Chinese citizens to Japan's rampage through the pavilion in the prestigious exhibition "Shanghai Expo." At that time, the relationship was tenuous Japan and China on the issue of maritime borders between the two countries, which lasted a long time.

Twitter says has "a lot of money in the bank"

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said the popular microblogging company was not running low on capital, amid media reports that the company is considering raising a large round of funding.

Williams told an industry gathering in San Francisco on Wednesday that Twitter has "a lot of money in the bank." He declined to comment on whether the company was in discussions with investment firms about funding.

San Francisco-based Twitter has 175 million users and is one of the most popular Internet social networking services. The company, which allows its users to broadcast short, 140-character messages, or Tweets, to groups of "followers," has only recently started efforts to generate revenue through special ads that appear in certain parts of its service.

Williams, speaking at the Web 2.0 conference on Wednesday, said the company's initial efforts at generating advertising revenue had exceeded the company's expectations, though he declined to provide financial details.

India and RIM closer to deal on corporate email: report

India and Research In Motion have moved closer to agreement on lawful access and monitoring of highly secure corporate email on BlackBerry devices, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed interior ministry official.

RIM later issued a statement calling the report "inaccurate and misleading" and repeated that it deals with lawful access demands in a consistent manner around the world.

India has threatened to shut off RIM's encrypted email and instant messaging services unless it gains access to them, in a campaign driven by fears that unmonitored communication puts the country's security at risk.

The Mint paper said a series of meetings took place last week between RIM executives and officials from the Indian interior ministry and intelligence agency, and more were scheduled.

"They have in principle agreed to provide us recorded data from their servers," the paper quoted an interior ministry official as saying.

"Now they have assured us that they will discuss the issue first among themselves and find a way to meet our demands. Later, they would be providing live access to BES," the official told the paper, referring to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, through which secure corporate email is routed.

In its statement, RIM said its talks with India remain productive and consistent with its four principles for access requests:

- that they be legal

- that BlackBerry is not singled out

- that its enterprise security architecture is not changed

- that any deal is not specific to that country.