Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition  in which unnecessary body fat accumulates to the level that it may have an unfavorable effect on health that pave the way to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. A dimension which evaluates and compares weight and height is the Body mass index (BMI).  It classifies people as overweight i.e. pre-obese if their BMI ranges between 25 and 30 kg/m2, and classifies as obese when it is more than 30 kg/m2. Obesity increases the incidence of various diseases like, Heart problems, Obstructive sleep apnea, Type 2 diabetes Mellitus, Osteoarthritis, hypertension, etc. Causes Weight gain or obesity is the hallmark of a sedentary lifestyle and intake of too much food energy like fast and junk foods.  Gaining a weight is very easy...

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Cisco Wifi Camera | Cisco Best Cheapest Gadgets

Cisco is famous in network gadgets. But they are working on new ideas now a days. Cisco has great plans for its final users. They promise to deliver high quality products to its consumers. They said that we will capture more than 30% of market customers. One of the snippets taken from a recent interview at the recent Cisco Live! event at Las Vegas with Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President of Emerging Technologies at the network solutions giant, was that their mobile video camera Flip will soon have WiFi baked in before the end of the year. De Beer also hinted that they might just put in some FaceTime integration in there as well. FaceTime is Apple’s new video chat technology that is available on the recently released iPhone 4. The company...

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LUMIX DMC-G3 – Big Camera in a Small Package

Photography is a fun hobby which most people enjoy immensely but photography in older times meant carrying around huge cameras and hefty lenses. Also, a proper setup was required and it was not possible to capture instantaneous scenes. However, new times introduce new technologies. Panasonic just announced a brand new addition to the LUMIX G Series of Compact Cameras, the LUMIX DMC-G3; this is the smallest and lightest digital interchangeable lens camera with a viewfinder that they have ever made. This allows users enhance creative control. Body is made of aluminum and there are variety of colors to choose from like black, red and white. Featuring sixteen mega pixel sensors, it gives a true to life images and a high quality video. The LUMIX...

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WD My Passport Essential SE with 1TB

Western Digital has updated its portable hard drives, coinciding with the launch of the Scorpio Blue 1TB. The new model is called WD My Passport Essential SE, and its main innovation over previous Passport is its ability: two models of 750 GB and 1 TB of capacity. Maintaining the vast majority of characteristics: same size (15 × 80 × 126 mm), weight (180 grams) and USB 2.0 interface to connect the disk to the computer. As is customary in external hard drives for the vast majority of manufacturers, the new WD My Passport Essential are several additional software, such as to add a certain level of security to encrypt data, or programs for backup and synchronization information. For now only be available one color, gray titanium, but Western Digital...

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Latest Gadget Uncovered

Modern Phenomenon These days you are nobody until you have the latest gadget to boot. The younger generation is particularly enamored of the gadgets that flood the market and will do almost anything to get that desired piece of gear that gives them street recognition. Long gone are the days when latest gadgets were all about convenience. Now it is a status symbol that says something about your place in the world and your aspirations. Perhaps it is alarming to look at the pace at which the latest gadgets are coming onto the market. There seems to be limited breathing space before yet another new gadget is brought to bear. The shelf life of the latest gadget is severely limited and manufacturers are constantly fighting a losing battle to update...

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Latest Laptops on Offer – Computing with Modernity

Computing with Modernity The provision of the latest laptops seems like a sacred task for the market today. Consumers demand that they have the best quality of products that money can buy. Even those who are of limited means are joining the revolution. It really is not on to ignore the latest laptops if you want to remain part of the mobile computing revolution. One can argue as to whether this is a good thing or bad thing but the reality is that the laptop is here to stay and people had better get used to it. The latest laptops have becoming something of an obsession with the younger generation and the office class. If you use the underground train you can observe a number of people busy typing away on their laptops as if the limitations...

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Latest Laptops – Fashionable Portable Computers and Netbook

In order to carry out a useful review of the latest laptops, it is necessary to look at the different categories that they lie in. The growth in the market sector and the variety of providers means that this is not an easy task. Moreover it is not a strictly scientific process because there has to be some supposition and conjecture. Each laptop will have a unique selling point as well as failings which will determine which type of buyers will go for it. The latest laptops are just like portable computers and their development is still ongoing so we do not know what they will look in fifty year’s time. This constant development in technology is very much welcome given the stagnation in some other industries. That is why some consumers are getting...

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Samsung Galaxy S

Since the Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung’s most popular Android phone, has been released there has been a great deal of talk, from both phone reviewers and by members of the general public who have bought the phone about it being one of the best smartphones on the market. I have to admit that I do agree with this assertion, the Galaxy S is a fantastic handset. But what is it that makes the phone so good, and why is it better than other phones on the market? Here are some of the better features on Samsung’s flagship phone that will hopefully help you realize just why this is thought of as a very special mobile indeed. Firstly, the phone has a more than impressive camera. This has become something that is very important to mobile phone owners over the last decade and customers will no longer settle...

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Blackberry Smartphones

Anyone who knows anything about mobile phones will know about Blackberry. The mobiles, best known for their business features and their peerless email and messaging services, have become one of the most popular ranges of mobiles since their launch in 1999. The firm that develops the Blackberry, Research in Motion, a Canadian electronics company, is less well known but should none the less be applauded for their continuing development of impressive hardware and efficient software that has gathered an army of fans over the last decade. RIM first developed a Blackberry device at the end of the 20th century, releasing a two way pager that was known as the 850 and first stamping their mark on the world of communications. The first smartphone to...

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Without Own Payment Service, Isis Recasts Itself as ‘Delivery Engine’

The Isis joint venture has revealed more details of the new business model for its planned NFC rollouts, following its decision to abandon plans to launch its own payment network at the retail point of sale.Isis, which is made up of three of the four major U.S. mobile carriers,  AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, has recast its role as a “delivery engine” for banks and payment networks to provision and manage their applications on NFC phones. Isis said it will also serve as a distribution channel for merchants and consumer product companies for their digital coupons, loyalty programs and other offers, Isis chief marketing officer Ryan Hughes told NFC Times. For this, it would charge fees to the banks and payment service providers...

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Announcement Involving Google, Citi and MasterCard Expected This Week

  announcement by Citigroup and MasterCard Worldwide with Google of an NFC-based payment service is expected by the end of the week, sources told NFC Times.As NFC Times May 19 plans call for Citi to issue a prepaid MasterCard PayPass application to be loaded onto Google’s Nexus S and perhaps other Android phones. Google would provide the mobile wallet and is expected to offer other applications, such as mobile couponing. A report today said Google is planning to hold a “partner event” in New York City on Thursday. This happens to be Citi’s home base and is not far from MasterCard’s headquarters. The parties have declined to comment on the launch. But contrary to an MAy 24 by Bloomberg news service, Google is not planning to offer...

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Orange and Barclaycard Launch ‘Quick Tap’ NFC Payment Service

Orange UK and Barclaycard today announced their much-anticipated commercial launch of NFC, a mobile-payment service called “Quick Tap.”The service, announced earlier than expected, is only available with one NFC phone so far, the 2G Samsung S5230, known as the Tocco Lite in the United Kingdom. And the phone is currently only available in only 42 Orange UK shops. But it qualifies as one of the first NFC rollouts worldwide. Consumers will be able to tap their phone to pay for purchases up to £15 (US$24.35) at more than 50,000 stores in the United Kingdom, including McDonalds, Pret A Manger, EAT and Subway. Barclaycard’s payment application, supporting MasterCard PayPass, is stored on SIM cards issued by Orange. A Quick Tap app will...

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Chen One Pareesa Lawn collection 2011

Bringing high end designs, luxurious fabric and colorful palette, latest lawn collection by ChenOne contains supremacy of style and summer trends to allure fashionistas across world. ...

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Google Building an NFC Mobile Wallet; U.S. Banks are Interested

Google is building a mobile wallet nicknamed "Cream," which it plans to integrate with Android NFC phones that consumers could tap to pay in stores, sources told NFC Times. Among banks showing strong interest is U.S.-based Citigroup. At least one other major U.S. bank has expressed interest in Google’s NFC mobile-payment initiative, JPMorgan Chase, said a source, who added that MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc. have also been in talks with Google about possible participation in the Web giant’s plans to launch the wallet and enable a mobile-payment and advertising service on NFC smartphones. Among those phones is expected to be Google’s own Nexus S, said sources. If the parties go ahead with the plans, an announcement of a launch could come early this year, with some sources predicting...

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Google Mobile Wallet Payment Service Will Replace Plastic and Paper Money With Smartphones

With on-going tablet and smartphone fiasco, we have already witnessed a paradigm change in the way we do things. Google Inc has finally taken the wraps off its NFC based Wallet payment service which will allow US shoppers to use their phones to pay up at the check-out counter. The tech giant intends to prod consumers and merchants into a world where your smartphone would easily replace your both paper and plastic money. The service will be first made available in summer this year in New York and Sans Francisco and eventually reaching out to other regions. MasterCard, Citigroup, Sprint and transaction processing company First Data have joined hands with Google for this venture which seeks to compete with a similar service that will be soon...

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The shape of cars to come

A new Renault Captur concept car is displayed during the first media day of the 81st Geneva Car Show at the Palexpo in Geneva Visitors look at Italian carmaker Pagani's new Huayra sports car on the first media day of the 81st Geneva Car Show at the Palexpo in Geneva. A new Alfa Romeo 4C concept car is displayed during the first media day of the 81st Geneva International Motor Show at the Palexpo in Geneva. A visitor takes a picture of a the new Agera R sports car by Swedish carmaker Koenigsegg at the 81st Geneva Car Show. The new Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 at the 81st Geneva Motor Show at the Palexpo in Geneva The Wiesmann Spyder Design Study at the 81st Geneva Motor Show A battery-powered Renault DeZir concept car is displayed during...

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RIM Launches BlackBerry Style 9670 CDMA Smartphone

RIM the Makers of BlackBerry Smartphone announced the launch of the BlackBerry Style 9670 smartphone for the CDMA customers in India .The new smartphone comes in a elegant compact flip design along with dual high-resolution displays and a full-QWERTY keypad. One of its amazing feature is the powerful new BlackBerry 6 operating system.The smartphone also features a full-QWERTY BlackBerry keypad that makes messaging, email and real-time chats with BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) pretty easy. It also comes along with many advanced features, which includes a 5MP camera with flash and it also supports video recording, built in GPS for location based apps and geo tagging, Wi-Fi for faster connectivity to internet, extended data coverage and an expandable...

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Technology's Rock-stars !!!!

There’s a disconnect for many kids in America between the science and technology they study in school and the real world. Most kids know what an iPhone is but have no idea who Steve Jobs is. “I need scientists and engineers who would be what LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal are to their industry,” said Dean Kamen the inventor of the Segway personal transporter and founder of FIRST , an organization designed to help foster innovations by kids in science and technology. “You need to put world class pros in front of kids.” The tide of cool is starting to turn when it comes to science, technology, engineering and math, thanks to tech superstars like Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. And, seeing the names of Microsoft's Bill Gates,...

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