ore. Celebrates fifth birthday : App Store full of zombies 5:22 AM / Posted by Megaan / comments (0) New research suggests that Apple's App Store is populated by many zombie programs which get next-to-no downloads. However Apple has said that 90% of all apps in the market - which is marking its five-year birthday - are downloaded at least once a month. Apple boss Tim Cook supposed the store had "fundamentally changed the world". Speaking to app developers at the firm's recent developer's discussion, the chief executive said: "Customers love the buying knowledge and they love your incredible apps and they have now downloaded 50 billion apps. It defines zombies as apps which never come out in Apple's master-list of the most downloaded apps wide-reaching a chart which runs to over 300,000 places. Labels: 5th birthdy, zombies India’s Initial navigation satellite Launches Successfully 11:48 PM / Posted by Megaan / comments (0) A thick bright blueish white light streaked up from the ground as the PSLV rocket zoomed up and disappeared into chunky dark clouds, on its voyage to ferry India's first navigational satellite into its space orbit on Monday night. India launches its initial fanatical navigation satellite from Sriharikota. The first midnight launch of PSLV rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, some 80 km from Chennai, was confirmed a success within few minutes by the scientists of ISRO. India's old warhorse in space, PSLV, was on its most recent mission on Monday night to control the country's initial regional navigational satellite into space. This success also lands India into a special group of nations that own satellites which help navigation on the ground. The 1,425-kg IRNSS 1A satellite has a navigational payload and a ranging payload, which mutually give the users accurate information that helps vehicles find the way correctly. Labels: Navigation Satlite, PSLV, Sriharikota Blackberry shares thrust after $84m first-quarter loss 2:33 AM / Posted by Megaan / comments (0) Shares in smart phone maker Blackberry have dived after it reported an $84m loss for the three months to 1 June. The figure was better than the $518m loss for the similar period last year, but much worse than analysts' forecasts. Shipments of new smartphones increased, but Blackberry, which used to be called study in Motion, did not release how many new handsets running the BB10 operating system were sold in the quarter. Chief executive Thorstein Heins supposed the company was continuing to focus on the global roll-out of BB10 and was sure it would be a hit with customers. Analysts had been mainly keen to see the numbers for the new Z10 handset, as it was the foremost full quarter that the model had been on sale in the United States. Blackberry has been battling stiff competition in the smart phone sector, and has struggled to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung. Labels: Blackberry, Shares, smart phone Voyager-1 spaceship surfs Solar System's edge 11:45 PM / Posted by Megaan / comments (1) Ed Stone cannot say when the Voyager-1 spaceship will leave the Solar System, but he believes the instant is close. It could be any day, except it could also be several more years. The newest data from this extraordinary probe suggests it is surfing right on the very edge of our Sun's domain. Launched way back in 1977, the probe has now travelled so far from home that its steady chatter of data takes 17 hours to arrive at the US space agency's receiving system. The particles streaming away from our star have condensed to a drip at its present position, 18.5 billion km from Earth. Particles soaring towards it from interstellar space, by contrast, have jumped clearly in the past year. It all points to a forthcoming departure, which would make Voyager the first man-made object to cross into the space between the stars. Labels: solar system, Voyager-1 spaceship Drayson Racing electric car makes novel world speed record 11:50 PM / Posted by Megaan / comments (1) Drayson Racing Technologies has broken the world land speed record for a frivolous electric car. Its Lola B12 69/EV vehicle smacks a high speed of 204.2mph at a racetrack at RAF Evington in Yorkshire. Chief executive Lord Drayson, who was behind the wheel, supposed the attainment was designed to emphasize electronic vehicle technology's potential. Drayson Racing was founded in 2007 by self-declared car nut Paul Drayson, who was then a minister in the Labour management. Drayson Racing is not the only electric vehicle-maker eager to use motorsport to spur on acceptance of the technology. The firm intends to go through the vehicle into next year's Le Mans 24 races saying the contest would act as a "challenging test bed" for technologies that could eventually find their way into road cars. Labels: Drayson Racing Technologies, firm Sony: Huge waterproof Xperia Z Ultra phone

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Sony has announced a waterproof Android Smartphone with a 6.4in display. The firm is headfirst the Xperia Z Ultra as being the slimmest large-screened handset on the marketplace. It can also allow sketches or comments written using a standard pencil or metal-tipped pen in addition to an elective stylus. Sony already offers a 5in handset of its own, the unique Xperia Z, which it unveiled in January. 

The firm supposed it intends for the device to face Samsung's dominance of the jumbo-sized handset sector. According to a study by consultants Transparency Market Research, Samsung accounted for 70% of the overall "super phone and phablet" market in 2012 thanks to the popularity of models with the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2.

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